It’s one of those numbers that I’ll wonder about occasionally during a normal baseball season. But for some reason during this year, I don’t think I’d thought about it once.
And then I read Doug Gray’s recap of Sunday’s Reds win over the Twins, which included a note that the Reds’ 2020 .212 team batting average was the lowest for any major league team in 110 years.
Excuse me?
How could a team make the playoffs with a team batting average that low? But guess what? Four other teams that made the playoffs had team batting averages under .