The Tampa Bay Devil Rays went 61-101 in 2006, a .377 winning percentage — the worst record in baseball. They scored 689 runs and allowed 856, a run differential of -167. The offence ranked the worst in MLB for runs scored, while their 5.09 staff ERA was 28th of 30. Their 90 team wRC+ was 10% below league average — 28th of 30 in MLB. Carl Crawford led the position players at 3.7 WAR, and Scott Kazmir the rotation at a 3.24 ERA.
The 2006 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 5th in the AL East, 36 games back. They were as far as 36 games back on September 29. Their best month was June at 14-13, their worst Sept/Oct at 8-20. The longest runs were a 4-game winning streak from May 18 to May 21 and a 9-game losing streak from September 10 to September 19. They were 41-40 at home and 20-61 on the road, 17-22 in one-run games and 34-63 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 19-6 at the Yankees on July 29; the heaviest defeat, 16-1 against the Yankees on September 25.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
11
14
.440
120
151
-31
May
10
18
.357
100
138
-38
June
14
13
.519
129
127
+2
July
9
17
.346
124
156
-32
August
9
19
.321
106
136
-30
Sept/Oct
8
20
.286
110
148
-38
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
41-40
.506
Road
20-61
.247
One-run games
17-22
.436
Extra innings
5-7
.417
Within the division
26-48
.351
Against .500+ clubs
34-63
.351
Decided by 5+ runs
12-26
.316
Last 10
3-7
.300
American League East standings, 2006
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League East, 2006. Games back of the best record in the division.
The players whose season belongs to this club, by position and then by dbWAR. A player traded mid-season is listed with the club he played most of his games for, so a deadline arrival may appear on his other club’s page instead.
Each rectangle is a player, sized by his share of the team's hits; darker means a larger share. Top 30 contributors. Select a different statistic above, or click a player for his page.
Day and night divide the home schedule, and so do weekend and weekday. The road line is a different question.
Split
Games
Avg
Med
Low
High
All home
81
16,938
15,001
7,147
40,199
Night
62
16,215
13,785
7,147
40,199
Day
19
19,297
18,525
9,517
31,583
Weekend
39
20,214
19,058
9,463
34,787
Weekday
42
13,895
11,668
7,147
40,199
On the road
81
28,627
26,508
7,416
54,485
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
10
19,717
May
13
14,049
Jun
12
15,527
Jul
14
20,661
Aug
16
15,281
Sep
16
17,005
By season
Announced gate — tickets distributed, which is the figure every reference publishes and is not the same as people through the turnstile. A game the feed reports no gate for is left out rather than counted as empty. Seasons before attendance was carried into the lake are absent from the trend rather than shown as zero.
Game time
First pitch to final out across 162 completed games, 2006.
Regulation
2:46
150 games
All games
2:48
Extra innings
3:18
12 of them
Longest
4:09
2006-07-22, 9 inn
Shortest
2:12
2006-05-13
By situation
Regulation and extra innings divide the season, and so do home and road. Day and night overlap both.
Split
Games
Avg
Med
Fastest
Longest
All
162
2:48
2:47
2:01
4:09
Regulation
150
2:46
2:45
2:01
4:09
Extra innings
12
3:18
3:14
2:46
4:00
Home
81
2:49
2:47
2:12
4:09
Road
81
2:48
2:46
2:01
4:00
Day
45
2:45
2:45
2:01
3:38
Night
117
2:49
2:47
2:12
4:09
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
10
2:48
May
13
2:42
Jun
12
2:45
Jul
14
2:54
Aug
16
2:57
Sep
16
2:45
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 166 minutes this season.
Elapsed time from first pitch to final out. The feed does not itemise delays, so a rain delay is inside these numbers with no way to subtract it. Games called early are excluded — five innings in ninety-three minutes is not a short game — but they still count in attendance, because the crowd turned up.
Record versus run differential
Tampa Bay Devil Rays are 61-101, a .377 win rate, while their -167 run differential implies .402. That is about 4 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
