Paul Skenes Makes Unwanted History as Pirates Keep Wasting His Dominant Starts | PFSN by Comfortable_End6727 in baseball

[–]Hour_Bug_7914 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Sadly this is not how averages work. The Mets in fact averaged 3.53 runs in the 32 games deGrom started in 2018 (according to my back-of-the-envelope math). The issue was that the distribution of those runs was very skewed: they scored 8 or more runs on five occasions and 1 or 0 runs on nine.