There’s been a lot of attention lately on the dearth of runs being scored in baseball, and not just by Detroit Tigers fans. Naturally, the list of possible culprits is as long as your arm: a deadened baseball, the season always starting slow for hitters, teams are getting ever better at baseball’s version of combined arms, coordinating pitching and defensive positioning, and so on.
So, I decided to gather a whole bunch of data going back to 1995, throw them into graphs, play with the axes and scales a bit, and see if I could find anything interesting, insightful, or unusual.