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Squeaking By The Badies & Doing It Well

Posted by Steve Lombardi on June 11, 2010

Via Baseball-Reference.com's Situational Records tool, here are teams from 2002 through 2009 with 10+ "one run" wins in a season against teams with a W% of .450 or less, ranked by W% in such games:

Rk Tm Year G W L W-L% 6 RS RA pythW-L%
1 SFG 2008 12 11 1 .917 37 27 .640
2 BAL 2006 11 10 1 .909 60 51 .574
3 OAK 2002 17 15 2 .882 82 69 .578
4 MIL 2008 13 11 2 .846 43 34 .606
5 LAA 2008 12 10 2 .833 55 47 .571
6 SDP 2004 22 18 4 .818 90 76 .577
7 OAK 2004 21 17 4 .810 81 68 .579
8 ANA 2002 18 14 4 .778 77 67 .563
9 HOU 2004 17 13 4 .765 61 52 .573
10 PHI 2008 21 16 5 .762 85 74 .563
11 LAD 2004 19 14 5 .737 88 79 .549
12 CIN 2002 19 14 5 .737 73 64 .560
13 FLA 2004 15 11 4 .733 61 54 .556
14 WSN 2008 14 10 4 .714 64 58 .545
15 FLA 2003 14 10 4 .714 57 51 .551
16 ATL 2004 17 12 5 .706 61 54 .556
17 MIN 2002 20 14 6 .700 88 80 .543
18 ARI 2005 16 11 5 .688 72 66 .540
19 CLE 2004 19 13 6 .684 98 91 .534
20 BOS 2003 15 10 5 .667 76 71 .531
21 PIT 2002 18 12 6 .667 70 64 .541
22 LAD 2003 18 12 6 .667 48 42 .561
23 CHW 2004 21 14 7 .667 107 100 .531
24 CHW 2005 21 14 7 .667 78 71 .543
25 NYY 2003 20 12 7 .632 87 82 .527
26 NYM 2004 19 12 7 .632 63 58 .538
27 TEX 2004 16 10 6 .625 95 91 .520
28 FLA 2008 16 10 6 .625 78 74 .524
29 TOR 2002 16 10 6 .625 65 61 .529
30 STL 2004 18 11 7 .611 57 53 .533
31 MIN 2003 18 11 7 .611 86 82 .522
32 BOS 2006 18 11 7 .611 81 77 .523
33 MIN 2004 23 14 9 .609 88 83 .527
34 NYY 2002 20 12 8 .600 63 59 .530
35 OAK 2003 17 10 7 .588 61 58 .523
36 PHI 2009 17 10 7 .588 81 78 .517
37 TEX 2005 17 10 7 .588 74 71 .519
38 ARI 2007 19 11 8 .579 68 65 .521
39 HOU 2007 21 12 9 .571 76 73 .518
40 SDP 2005 18 10 8 .556 65 63 .514
41 CLE 2007 26 13 13 .500 92 92 .500
42 CLE 2005 21 10 11 .476 83 84 .495
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 6/11/2010.

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It's interesting how many teams from 2004 made this cut.

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6 Responses to “Squeaking By The Badies & Doing It Well”

  1. Andy Says:
    June 11th, 2010 at 10:42 am

    Badies?

  2. Frank Clingenpeel Says:
    June 11th, 2010 at 11:45 am

    Yeah...I was assuming he meant "Baddies" too, although I dislike the negativity of the term. Yes, a .450 W-L percentage is nothing to write home about; but even the worst of teams {read that "Washington Nationals"} are better than your average Saturday-morning softball leaguers.

  3. Frank Clingenpeel Says:
    June 11th, 2010 at 11:52 am

    I am wondering what a study of the reverse -- 10 one-run LOSSES against opponents with a .550+ won-loss percentage would turn up.

  4. Steve Lombardi Says:
    June 11th, 2010 at 2:31 pm

    Badies, Baddies...hey, I could from the Dizzy Dean school of blogging.. 😉

  5. Frank Clingenpeel Says:
    June 11th, 2010 at 3:29 pm

    Slud right in there, did ya?

  6. Steve Lombardi Says:
    June 11th, 2010 at 10:03 pm

    🙂

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