Quote Originally Posted by the_real_MSU_is_us View Post
This is true in a vacuum, but you've got to remember this season had the tighter strike zones and ALL offenses saw a benefit to it, and pitching staffs saw the ERA go up. You've got to look at the relative stats, how we finished in the SEC.

SEC only stats:

2023: 9th in BA, 3rd in SLG, 10th in OBP, 10th in runs scored.

2021: 7th in BA, 8th in SLG, 6th in OBP, T5th in runs scored.

The '21 team was good at scoring runs because that '21 team had DUDES on it, and they nutted up when they needed to. The secret State sauce left with TA and Rowdy and Lemonis never learned the recipe
That's a Fair point. But if we're going to use relative stats, you have to look across all games because all the zones were tighter and all the balls were juiced, not just during in sec games.

2023: 114 in BA; 45 in SLG; 54 in OBP; 71 in runs per game

2021: 89 in BA; 81 in SLG; 84 in OBP; 37 in runs per game

Outside of runs, 2023 has the better relative line by a good bit. The anomaly is the runs scored, a stat you would expect to track obp and slugging, otherwise knows as OPS. Maybe the 2021 team was just more clutch or did little things better to move runners.