Boy, that’s an incendiary headline, isn’t it? And yet, it’s what the advanced stats say. Now, let’s be clear: the Giants have scored fewer runs than every other team in the league (that’s bad). But when you look at offensive performance by position and handwave away the team’s staggering inability to get a hit with runners in scoring position as fluky and unsustainable, they aren’t as terrible? It’s something, at least.
Note: there are two numbers for each position. The first is the team’s rank according to Baseball Reference’s Batting Runs stat, and the second is according to the team’s rank by wRC+ on Fangraphs.