Thursday’s column addressing the abundance of offense in baseball today inspired a significant amount of reader mail, most of it making salient points. I wanted to follow up on a couple of issues. A couple of people pointed out that I contradicted myself, claiming that there wasn’t enough evidence to say there was a "problem"…
While everyone was talking about Florida’s hot start–prior to their five-game losing streak–no one noticed that the Phillies were getting phlattened, to the tune of 7-16. The culprit? The Phillies are dead last in the National League with 82 runs scored. That’s an average of 3.6 runs a game, a number that seems respectable until…