Now that the 2025 Major League Baseball season is well behind us, and the sting from the Detroit Tigers’ final-game marathon against the Seattle Mariners has begun to subside, I thought it would be a fine idea to look back at some Tigers statistics from, as the saying goes, a “thirty-thousand-feet-up view.” Stats are from Baseball Reference and Baseball Savant.

You can go deep down the rabbit hole unpacking each one, following the trail from wOBA, to xwOBA, to the magical xwOBACON. What is xwOBACON? And can we get eggs and hash browns with that?

(Expected Weighted On-Base Average on Contact) is a measure from Statcast that considers a player’s offensive production only when they make contact, removing strikeouts, walks, and hit-by-pitches to assess the quality of batted balls, indicating

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