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Related: About this forumYoung Guardians poised for postseason history?
mlb.com / 9-19-22
The Guardians might do what no team has done before.
Not only are they the youngest team in the Majors, but their average age (which has hovered around 26 since Opening Day) is younger than every Triple-A club, as well. It took until Saturday -- when third baseman José Ramírez turned 30 -- for the team to have a position player other than a catcher be over 29 years old.
When you add up the number of plate appearances by hitters who are at least 30 years old with the number of batters faced by pitchers that age, no team has had a lower total than Cleveland has this year AND made the postseason in the expansion era (since 1961).
Heres a list of the teams who have had the fewest plate appearances plus batters faced by 30-and-over players (none of these teams made the postseason
yet).
1967: Kansas City Athletics (62-99): 297
1969: Oakland Athletics (88-74): 557
1978: St. Louis Cardinals (69-93): 580
1982: Minnesota Twins (60-102): 611
1971: Milwaukee Brewers (69-92): 629
2022: Cleveland Guardians (79-67): 631
https://www.mlb.com/guardians/news/guardians-youth-movement-key-to-2022-success
luvs2sing
(2,234 posts)🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 For the rest of the season.
Auggie
(31,798 posts)I'm good with that.
Guardians are in a hellacious stretch of 18 games in 17 days. They're 10 and 2 after 12, and they've done it missing two of their starters. Francona and staff have done an amazing job.
Civale tonight, followed by McKenzie and Bieber.
luvs2sing
(2,234 posts)Just a little nervous about Civale tonight.