Young Guardians poised for postseason history? [View all]
mlb.com / 9-19-22
The Guardians might do what no team has done before.
Not only are they the youngest team in the Majors, but their average age (which has hovered around 26 since Opening Day) is younger than every Triple-A club, as well. It took until Saturday -- when third baseman José Ramírez turned 30 -- for the team to have a position player other than a catcher be over 29 years old.
When you add up the number of plate appearances by hitters who are at least 30 years old with the number of batters faced by pitchers that age, no team has had a lower total than Cleveland has this year AND made the postseason in the expansion era (since 1961).
Here’s a list of the teams who have had the fewest plate appearances plus batters faced by 30-and-over players (none of these teams made the postseason … yet).
1967: Kansas City Athletics (62-99): 297
1969: Oakland Athletics (88-74): 557
1978: St. Louis Cardinals (69-93): 580
1982: Minnesota Twins (60-102): 611
1971: Milwaukee Brewers (69-92): 629
2022: Cleveland Guardians (79-67): 631
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