![]() Me? I’m just sad that at one point I wrote, “Yackety sacked, he’ll be back,” but now. His walk rate (8.5 percent) and fly ball rate (a sky high, pun sorta intended, 54 percent) made him difficult to trust in anything but a mop-up role, and the Braves have plenty of mop-up options already. With that said, despite striking out nearly a third of batters faced for Gwinnett this year, Rios didn’t really do much to make him an exciting call-up. The Braves have done this sort of solid for various guys in their organization through the years, so one here isn’t too surprising. For various reasons, guys like the newly-acquired Ben Heller, Dereck Rodriguez, and Danny Young have been used to plug relief availability holes, so this move is less a whittling away of potentially-needed depth and more just giving a guy a chance to parlay some minor league performance into a more-likely major league opportunity, and if all goes well, stick on a roster. He did not make the club out of Spring Training and instead went to Triple-A Gwinnett, where he compiled a 1.46 ERA, 2.74 FIP, and 4.47 xFIP in 21 appearances spanning 24 2⁄ 3 innings.īecause Rios was never added to Atlanta’s 40-man roster, he never really got a shot to enter into the bullpen shuffle. Rios signed with the Braves on a minor league deal all the way back in January, and spent part of the spring representing Puerto Rico in the World Baseball Classic. Not much in the league is so closely equalized, but it seems as though wins relative to weighted average age is.The Oakland A’s have acquired minor league right-handed pitcher Yacksel Rios from the Atlanta Braves organization for cash considerations.- Oakland A's Communications June 18, 2023 The biggest takeaways are the Reds, who jump up four spots, and the Pirates, who drop by three. Moving onto the National League, there’s a lot more movement, although much of it is just by a spot up or down. Especially in the American League, the top of the standings stays exactly the same, with the Rays and Orioles doing great work with relatively young rosters at 26.9 and 27.3 years old. We see a little more movement in this metric when we go to the league standings, but still, not a lot of change. MLB standings: League standings ordered by wins per average age of roster National League CentralĪnd finally, yet another division which falls exactly to form. Pretty funny considering youth has been used as an excuse within the clubhouse for Oli Marmol’s struggles. The Reds come out on top here, with the Cardinals still falling in second. And of course, it’s the miserable NL Central. National League Eastįinally, a division that mixes it up a little. Moving onto the National League, we have yet another team that falls exactly to form. Part of that has to do with the ages being weighted by at-bats. Something interesting revealed itself here that I wasn’t necessarily expecting: There’s an equilibrium of sorts with roster ages and how teams perform that leads to very little change when you look at how teams rank within their divisions this way. American League CentralĪnd now a third division exactly to form, making the entire American League exactly true to form in this metric when looked through the lens of divisional standings. It also features one of just four teams in the league that falls below 1.0 in this metric. American League EastĪnother division that falls exactly to form in this metric is the AL Central. This division falls exactly to form with how the division is ordered today. We’ll start with the American League and make our way to the National League.įirst off, in the AL East, the Tampa Bay Rays and Baltimore Orioles have significant youth yet still are winning plenty of games. ![]() Let’s take a look! MLB standings: Divisional standings ordered by wins per average age of roster So I thought it would be fun to take a look at things in terms of wins in relation to the age of the roster.įor this, I used the weighted age of team batters per Baseball Reference and the wins as of the morning of June 16th. ![]() These days, MLB standings are mostly falling to form with less jockeying around as the season chugs along into June. Proven MLB superstars, or youthful players with their ceilings yet to come? That’s the question for every MLB general manager, among other things (like how much to pay the guys!). Looking at which teams are using youth to their advantage, we find an interesting story in the details.
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