How many players on your favorite baseball team are on twitter? Baseball-reference.com made official twitter lists for each team. The average number of players on twitter per team is seven.
Baseball teams with the most current players on twitter:
The Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays have 13 apiece.
Baseball teams with the least number of players on twitter:
The Brewers have two players. The Chicago Cubs have a mere one player, Edwin Jackson @EJ36 with his first year on the Cubs. What’s happening with the Cubs? One player? Yipes.
The American League outnumbers the National League 118-92.
Interestingly, the East divisions in both the NL and AL have the most players. It must be that East Coast media that hypes up players to join twitter. The West and Central divisions all have roughly the same number of players.
I was thinking about pulling the OPS for all the batters and displaying if the players on twitter are above the MLB median for OPS. Perhaps I could pull the WAR stats as well. What other stats could be included in the next infographic on baseball and twitter? Some ideas:
- Number of years per player in pro ball
- OPS
- Number of tweets (just because a player is on twitter, doesn’t mean the player tweets)
- Number of @replies (which players are the most active in responding to others)
- Followers
- Which player is followed the most by other MLB players? (that would be really interesting to see which player is followed most by his peers)
If you have any ideas for what stats I should pull for the next MLB-twitter infographic, please leave your suggestions in the comments. Thanks!
It would also be nice to have a graph of the Klout scores of MLB players on twitter.
just one for the Cubs? one? And the Brewers have two, then a bunch with four. The Cubs and Brewers are so lame. Who is the lone Cub? There’s definitely an ESPN effect in the AL East. That’s very interesting.
I’d like to see a chart with number of followers and number of tweets. It’d be sorta interesting to see OPS. I’d simply like to know who the most active tweeters are.
The source stats per team:
9: Atlanta Braves
5: Miami Marlins
5: New York Mets
10: Philadelphia Phillies
12: Washington Nationals
1: Chicago Cubs
6: Cincinnati Reds
2: Milwaukee Brewers
9: Pittsburgh Pirates
8: St. Louis Cardinals
6: Arizona Diamondbacks
4: Colorado Rockies
5: Los Angeles Dodgers
5: San Diego Padres
5: San Francisco Giants
5: Baltimore Orioles
13: Boston Red Sox
12: New York Yankees
13: Tampa Bay Rays
12: Toronto Blue Jays
4: Chicago White Sox
11: Cleveland Indians
4: Detroit Tigers
5: Kansas City Royals
7: Minnesota Twins
4: Houston Astros
10: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
8: Oakland Athletics
4: Seattle Mariners
6: Texas Rangers
Brewers have waaaaayyyyyy more than 2. This data is horribly flawed.