The Stats Geek

Today the Stats Geek tells us something that we already know, "BAY CARRIES TOO MUCH OF THE LOAD FOR THE PIRATES."

This slugging/on-base machine has scored more than one of every six runs the Pirates have put on the scoreboard this year.

Bay has 90, third in the National League and sixth in baseball, and is 41 ahead of the closest active Pirate, Jose Castillo, with 49. Matt Lawton had 53 before his trade to the Cubs three weeks ago.

Looking around for a player who has plated a greater share of his team's runs, I found only Derrek Lee, the Cubs' Triple Crown threat. Going into last night's games, Lee had scored 17.4 percent of the Cubs' runs and Bay had scored 17.2 percent of the Pirates'.

Those are some pretty staggering numbers. Of course, they're even more staggering when you take into account (as O'Neill does) that Bay is sixth in the league in runs scored while playing on a team that's 27th (and damn close to 29th, only 12 runs in fact). The rest of the article is mostly pointing out some more stats that kind of get ignored but fully illustrate just how good of a season Jason Bay is having (hint: it earns him comparisons to Giles and Kiner).