2021 Affiliate Record Tracker

[MadThinker88]

Hello everyone and welcome to the 2021 Affiliate Record Tracker by Organization. Over the past few years I have started and updated a discussion thread with this info & will try again this year. Again, I will only report on FULL SEASON minor league teams (A thru AAA). That way there is a consistent measurement of 4 affiliates for each organization.

While winning is secondary to developing players in the minors, winning is important in its own right as it develops a culture of success, helps to focus players and hopefully produce post-season appearances in the minors (which results in more learning opportunities & development of the players).

For this report I will list all 30 teams. In the future I will narrow the reporting (top 10, bottom 5, noting teams in the division if not already listed).
Updates with be bi-weekly thru the end of May before switching to weekly sometime in June thru the end of the season.

Here is the 1st report (with games ending 5/9/21). Enjoy

Rank	Franchise	…….W	......L	…..Pct	"+ / -"
1	Cleveland Indians	18	4	0.8182	14​
2	Texas Rangers	17	5	0.7727	12​
3	New York Yankees	18	6	0.7500	12​
4	San Francisco Giants	15	7	0.6818	8​
5	San Diego Padres	14	7	0.6667	7​
6	Tampa Bay Rays	15	8	0.6522	7​
7	Minnesota Twins	15	9	0.6250	6​
8	Cincinnati Reds	14	9	0.6087	5​
9	Kansas City Royals	13	9	0.5909	4​
10	Atlanta Braves	14	10	0.5833	4​
11	Seattle Mariners	12	9	0.5714	3​
12	Baltimore Orioles	13	10	0.5652	3​
13	Milwaukee Brewers	13	10	0.5652	3​
14	Philadelphia Phillies	13	11	0.5417	2​
15	Miami Marlins	12	12	0.5000	0​
16	Boston Red Sox	12	12	0.5000	0​
17	Detroit Tigers	11	11	0.5000	0​
18	Arizona Diamondbacks	11	11	0.5000	0​
19	Chicago Cubs	10	11	0.4762	-1​
20	Pittsburgh Pirates	10	12	0.4545	-2​
21	Houston Astros	9	12	0.4286	-3​
22	Oakland Athletics	9	13	0.4091	-4​
23	Toronto Blue Jays	9	15	0.3750	-6​
24	Chicago White Sox	8	16	0.3333	-8​
25	Los Angeles Angels	7	14	0.3333	-7​
26	New York Mets	7	15	0.3182	-8​
27	Los Angeles Dodgers	6	15	0.2857	-9​
28	Colorado Rockies	6	16	0.2727	-10​
29	St. Louis Cardinals	5	19	0.2083	-14​
30	Washington Nationals	3	21	0.1250	-18​

Highest number of games played: 24 (9 different teams)
Lowest number of games played: 21 (4 different teams)

 

[sportscoach]

Anyway to do team stats as well or would that be a bit too much? Lol

 

[MadThinker88]

Anyway to do team stats as well or would that be a bit too much? Lol

I am not going to rank and sort the various team stats (at least for free)..
If you want to look at team stats, the team/ org names are links to the Baseball Reference page.


That said, putting this post together I now realize it calls up from my original tracker in 2018.
I will work on updating the links for future ease of reference.

 

[Gson]

Anyway to do team stats as well or would that be a bit too much? Lol

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/affiliate.cgi?id=CLE&year=2021

Drill down..

 

[MadThinker88]

Here is an interim report (gms thru 5/16/21)

top 10

Rank	Franchise	…….W	......L	…..Pct	"+ / -"
1	Seattle Mariners	29	15	.6591	14
2	Cleveland Indians	30	16	.6522	14
3	New York Yankees	31	17	.6458	14
4	Baltimore Orioles	29	19	.6042	10
5	San Francisco Giants	27	18	.6000	9
6	Texas Rangers	26	18	.5909	8
7	Kansas City Royals	27	19	.5870	8
8	Pittsburgh Pirates	27	19	.5870	8
9	Tampa Bay Rays	27	20	.5745	7
10	Boston Red Sox	26	22	.5417	4

bottom 5

Rank	Franchise	…….W	......L	…..Pct	"+ / -"
26	Los Angeles Dodgers	17	28	.3778	-11
27	Colorado Rockies	17	29	.3696	-12
28	St. Louis Cardinals	16	32	.3333	-16
29	New York Mets	15	31	.3261	-16
30	Washington Nationals	12	36	.2500	-24

Others in AL Central

Rank	Franchise	…….W	......L	…..Pct	"+ / -"
14	Minnesota Twins	25	23	.5208	2
19	Chicago White Sox	23	25	.4792	-2
24	Detroit Tigers	20	26	.4348	-6

Highest number of games played: 48 (11 different teams)
Lowest number of games played: 43 (Houston)

 

[MadThinker88]

Baseball America posted an article 5/18/21 (appears to be free content) regarding minor league organizations & individual teams
Linking it here so people can review it. It covered games thru Monday 5/17/21

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories ... -the-rear/

As part of their table they included on the organization and team level a few other data points: runs scored/ runs against/ run differential.
CLE affiliates have the lowest runs allowed by a wide margin (nearly 30 runs fewer then next lowest).

After the games on Tuesday night 5/18, CLE is back in 1st for winning percentage and now 1st in run diff (+106)

 

[MadThinker88]

Update time for the games completed thru 5/23/21

top 10

Rank	Franchise	W​	L​	Pct​	"+ / -"
1​	New York Yankees	48​	24​	0.6667​	24​
2​	Seattle Mariners	43​	25​	0.6324​	18​
3​	Kansas City Royals	43​	25​	0.6324​	18​
4​	Cleveland Indians	44​	26​	0.6286​	18​
5​	Texas Rangers	42​	27​	0.6087​	15​
6​	Miami Marlins	42​	30​	0.5833​	12​
7​	San Francisco Giants	40​	30​	0.5714​	10​
8​	Pittsburgh Pirates	40​	30​	0.5714​	10​
9​	Baltimore Orioles	41​	31​	0.5694​	10​
10​	Boston Red Sox	41​	31​	0.5694​	10​

Bottom 5

26​	Los Angeles Angels	28​	41​	0.4058​	-13​
27​	Colorado Rockies	27​	42​	0.3913​	-15​
28​	New York Mets	26​	44​	0.3714​	-18​
29​	St. Louis Cardinals	23​	48​	0.3239​	-25​
30​	Washington Nationals	20​	52​	0.2778​	-32​

Others in AL Central

13​	Detroit Tigers	37​	33​	0.5286​	4​
17​	Minnesota Twins	34​	38​	0.4722​	-4​
25​	Chicago White Sox	30​	42​	0.4167​	-12​

Notes & Tidbits:
Team names are now linked directly to 2021 affiliate stat record (Baseball Reference)
Only 1 team with a .500 record: Toronto
13 teams with above .500 records
10 teams tied with most games played (72)
2 teams (Houston & San Diego) tied with the fewest games played (66)

Greatest Run Diff: NY Yankees at +140
Only 3 teams have a +100 or higher run diff: NY Yankees, Seattle (+119) & Cleveland (+100)

Worst Run Diff: Washington at -177
Only 2 teams have a -100 or worse run diff: Washington & St. Louis (-135)

EDIT: Moving forward I am also tracking the run differential & WHIP for each organization & will add that to the update tables..

In terms of WHIP, only 1 club (Tampa) has a team WHIP under 1.2 (at 1.139).
6 other have a team WHIP under 1.3: Texas 1.22, San Fran 1.228, CLE 1.241, Cinci 1.26, Miami 1.264 & Pitts 1.287

Seattle 1.304 & NY Yankees 1.305 are the next.

4 clubs have a team WHIP over 1.5: ChiSox 1.505, LA Angels 1.543, Colorado 1.561 & St. Louis 1.609

Washington with its horrible record & worst run diff has a WHIP of 1.488


Its interesting that Miami has the 6th best winning mark, 6th best WHIP and is 12 games over .500 but has a -5 run diff. I will need to watch that moving forward.

 

[MadThinker88]

Update time for the games completed thru 6/6/21

top 10

Rank	Franchise	W​	L​	Pct​	"+ / -"	Run diff​	WHIP​
1​	New York Yankees	76​	39​	0.6609​	37​	207​	1.296​
2​	Kansas City Royals	71​	43​	0.6228​	28​	127​	1.345​
3​	Baltimore Orioles	70​	44​	0.6140​	26​	130​	1.311​
4​	Tampa Bay Rays	69​	49​	0.5847​	20​	163​	1.158​
5​	Texas Rangers	67​	49​	0.5776​	18​	76​	1.221​
6​	San Francisco Giants	67​	51​	0.5678​	16​	79​	1.309​
7​	Pittsburgh Pirates	67​	51​	0.5678​	16​	66​	1.267​
8​	Miami Marlins	68​	52​	0.5667​	16​	-5​	1.266​
9​	Milwaukee Brewers	66​	52​	0.5593​	14​	66​	1.401​
10​	Seattle Mariners	64​	51​	0.5565​	13​	137​	1.353​

Bottom 5

26​	Chicago White Sox	50​	67​	0.4274​	-17​	-135​	1.5​
27​	Los Angeles Angels	47​	68​	0.4087​	-21​	-101​	1.438​
28​	New York Mets	46​	70​	0.3966​	-24​	-87​	1.453​
29​	Washington Nationals	43​	75​	0.3644​	-32​	-182​	1.416​
30​	St. Louis Cardinals	40​	79​	0.3361​	-39​	-242​	1.657​

Others in AL Central

12​	Detroit Tigers	62​	55​	0.5299​	7​	48​	1.331​
14​	Minnesota Twins	62​	58​	0.5167​	4​	-26​	1.373​
15​	Cleveland Indians	59​	57​	0.5086​	2​	13​	1.358​

Other tibits:
Most games played: 120 by Miami, Boston, Minnesota & Atlanta
Least games played: 113 by Houston
Top 15 teams have records at or above .500

Best run differential: +207 by NY Yankees. A total of 5 teams have a run differential at +100 or better
Worst run differential: -242 by St. Louis Cardinals. A total of 5 teams have a differential at -100 or worse.

Best Record with negative run differential: #8 Miami 68-52 and a run diff of -5
Worst Record with a positive run differential: #18 Cincinnati 57-61 and a run diff of +26

Best Team WHIP: #4 Tampa 1.158 (only team under 1.21)
Worst Team WHIP: #30 St. Louis 1.657 (only team over 1.47)

 

[Martyinnewyork]

Thanks MAD for all your work on these things! Man, we’ve had a rough three weeks since killing the Washington affiliates early on!

 

[MadThinker88]

Update time for the games completed thru 6/13/21

top 10

Rank	Franchise	W​	L​	Pct​	+ / -	Run diff​	WHIP​
1​	New York Yankees	91​	48​	0.6547​	43​	222​	1.288​
2​	Tampa Bay Rays	85​	55​	0.6071​	30​	197​	1.144​
3​	Kansas City Royals	82​	54​	0.6029​	28​	135​	1.368​
4​	Baltimore Orioles	81​	55​	0.5956​	26​	161​	1.303​
5​	Pittsburgh Pirates	83​	59​	0.5845​	24​	92​	1.294​
6​	San Francisco Giants	79​	61​	0.5643​	18​	85​	1.33​
7​	Seattle Mariners	79​	61​	0.5643​	18​	145​	1.33​
8​	Boston Red Sox	81​	63​	0.5625​	18​	70​	1.355​
9​	Texas Rangers	78​	62​	0.5571​	16​	61​	1.255​
10​	Miami Marlins	77​	66​	0.5385​	11​	-54​	1.297​

bottom 5

26​	Chicago White Sox	59​	82​	0.4184​	-23​	-167​	1.51​
27​	Chicago Cubs	56​	82​	0.4058​	-26​	-90​	1.375​
28​	Washington Nationals	55​	86​	0.3901​	-31​	-166​	1.373​
29​	New York Mets	52​	88​	0.3714​	-36​	-157​	1.48​
30​	St. Louis Cardinals	53​	90​	0.3706​	-37​	-245​	1.638​

Others in AL Central

11​	Detroit Tigers	75​	65​	0.5357​	10​	63​	1.324​
14​	Minnesota Twins	74​	70​	0.5139​	4​	-18​	1.352​
16​	Cleveland Indians	71​	68​	0.5108​	3​	14​	1.369​

Other notes & tibbits:
Most games played: 144 by Boston, Minnesota & Atlanta
Least games played: 136 by Kansas City & Baltimore
Top 16 teams have records at or above .500

Best run differential: +222 by NY Yankees. A total of 5 teams have a run differential at +100 or better
Worst run differential: -245 by St. Louis Cardinals. A total of 6 teams have a differential at -100 or worse.

Best Record with negative run differential: #10 Miami 77-66 and a run diff of -54
Worst Record with a positive run differential: #18 Cincinnati 67-75 and a run diff of +12

Best Team WHIP: #2 Tampa 1.144 (only team under 1.25)
Worst Team WHIP: #30 St. Louis 1.638 (only team over 1.49)

other teams right around CLE #16 in the standings (if not already listed):

12​

Milwaukee Brewers

76​

66​

0.5352​

10​

65​

1.391​

13​	Los Angeles Dodgers	73​	67​	0.5214​	6​	93​	1.404​
15​	Atlanta Braves	74​	70​	0.5139​	4​	13​	1.35​
17​	San Diego Padres	68​	72​	0.4857​	-4​	-62​	1.423​
18​	Cincinnati Reds	67​	75​	0.4718​	-8​	12​	1.382​
19​	Toronto Blue Jays	66​	74​	0.4714​	-8​	-1​	1.377​
20​	Houston Astros	65​	73​	0.4710​	-8​	-17​	1.482​

 

[MadThinker88]

Update time for the games completed thru 6/20/21

top 10

Rank

Franchise

W​

L​

Pct​

+ / -

Run diff​

WHIP​

1​	New York Yankees	108​	55​	0.6626​	53​	252​	1.286​
2​	Kansas City Royals	96​	61​	0.6115​	35​	163​	1.36​
3​	Tampa Bay Rays	98​	64​	0.6049​	34​	218​	1.146​
4​	Pittsburgh Pirates	98​	68​	0.5904​	30​	115​	1.298​
5​	Boston Red Sox	98​	69​	0.5868​	29​	96​	1.341​
6​	Baltimore Orioles	90​	70​	0.5625​	20​	132​	1.32​
7​	Seattle Mariners	90​	71​	0.5590​	19​	140​	1.377​
8​	San Francisco Giants	91​	72​	0.5583​	19​	87​	1.347​
9​	Miami Marlins	91​	75​	0.5482​	16​	-53​	1.306​
10​	Cleveland Indians	88​	75​	0.5399​	13​	50​	1.356​

bottom 5

26​	Colorado Rockies	69​	95​	0.4207​	-26​	-157​	1.47​
27​	Chicago Cubs	64​	97​	0.3975​	-33​	-123​	1.391​
28​	Washington Nationals	63​	102​	0.3818​	-39​	-214​	1.38​
29​	St. Louis Cardinals	62​	105​	0.3713​	-43​	-277​	1.628​
30​	New York Mets	59​	103​	0.3642​	-44​	-167​	1.478​

others in AL Central

12​

Minnesota Twins

89​

78​

0.5329​

11​

29​

1.339​

16​

Detroit Tigers

82​

82​

0.5000​

0​

37​

1.355​

25​

Chicago White Sox

70​

94​

0.4268​

-24​

-168​

1.479​

Most games played: 167 by Boston, Minnesota, Philadelphia & St. Louis
Least games played: 157 by Kansas City
Top 16 teams have records at or above .500

Best run differential: +252 by NY Yankees. A total of 7 teams have a run differential at +100 or better. Two teams at +200 or better (NY Yankees and Tampa Bay at 218).
Worst run differential: -277 by St. Louis Cardinals. A total of 8 teams have a differential at -100 or worse. Two teams at -200 or worse (St. Louis & Washington at -214).

Best Record with negative run differential: #9 Miami 91-75 and a run diff of -53
Worst Record with a positive run differential: #18 Cincinnati 79-86 and a run diff of +5

Best Team WHIP: #3 Tampa 1.146 (only team under 1.275)
Worst Team WHIP: #29 St. Louis 1.628 (only team over 1.50)

 

[MadThinker88]

Hmmm... I guess BA like to periodically update its items...

 

[sportscoach]

Hmmm... I guess BA like to periodically update its items...

You need to sue them for copyright infringement since you started a of this! Lol

Did they do an update on team stats or was it
only just the records

 

[MadThinker88]

You need to sue them for copyright infringement since you started a of this! Lol

Did they do an update on team stats or was it
only just the records

I only noticed their Twitter post this evening after getting home from work..
No idea what else they did or did not do.

 

[MadThinker88]

Update time for the games completed thru 6/27/21

top 10

Rank	Franchise	W​	L​	Pct​	+ / -	Run diff​	WHIP​	Gms​
1​	New York Yankees	125​	61​	0.6720​	64​	334​	1.285​	186​
2​	Tampa Bay Rays	115​	70​	0.6216​	45​	265​	1.149​	185​
3​	Kansas City Royals	110​	72​	0.6044​	38​	190​	1.366​	182​
4​	Pittsburgh Pirates	112​	78​	0.5895​	34​	134​	1.288​	190​
5​	San Francisco Giants	109​	79​	0.5798​	30​	118​	1.353​	188​
6​	Baltimore Orioles	104​	80​	0.5652​	24​	157​	1.306​	184​
7​	Seattle Mariners	103​	82​	0.5568​	21​	149​	1.396​	185​
8​	Boston Red Sox	105​	86​	0.5497​	19​	56​	1.372​	191​
9​	Minnesota Twins	103​	88​	0.5393​	15​	58​	1.332​	191​
10​	Texas Rangers	101​	87​	0.5372​	14​	69​	1.304​	188​

bottom 5

26​	Colorado Rockies	82​	108​	0.4316​	-26​	-143​	1.464​	190​
27​	Chicago Cubs	74​	111​	0.4000​	-37​	-151​	1.402​	185​
28​	Washington Nationals	74​	115​	0.3915​	-41​	-231​	1.402​	189​
29​	New York Mets	69​	117​	0.3710​	-48​	-174​	1.471​	186​
30​	St. Louis Cardinals	70​	121​	0.3665​	-51​	-309​	1.629​	191​

Others in AL Central

11/12​

Cleveland Indians

100​

88​

0.5319​

12​

38​

1.36​

188​

17​

Detroit Tigers

93​

94​

0.4973​

-1​

28​

1.373​

187​

25​

Chicago White Sox

82​

106​

0.4362​

-24​

-162​

1.46​

188​

News & Tidbits
Most games played: 191 by Boston, Minnesota, Philadelphia & St. Louis
Least games played: 182 by Kansas City
Top 16 teams have records at or above .500

The affiliates of the LA Dodgers have the same record as the affiliates of the Cleveland Indians with a greater run diff but a worse WHIP.

11/12​

Los Angeles Dodgers

100​

88​

0.5319​

12​

133​

1.384​

188​

Best run differential: +334 by NY Yankees. A total of 8 teams have a run differential at +100 or better. Two teams at +200 or better (NY Yankees and Tampa Bay at 265).
Worst run differential: -309 by St. Louis Cardinals. A total of 9 teams have a differential at -100 or worse. Two teams at -200 or worse (St. Louis & Washington at -231).

Best Record with negative run differential: #13 Miami 99-91 and a run diff of -99
Worst Record with a positive run differential: #18 Cincinnati 91-98 and a run diff of +15

Best Team WHIP: #2 Tampa 1.149 (only team under 1.285)
Worst Team WHIP: #30 St. Louis 1.629 (only team over 1.52)