I am a stat guy.

At least when it comes to baseball. Heck, I work with stats everyday in baseball. Tonight while working at the Marlins v. San Francisco Giants game I came across the most pointless stat in all of baseball.

PO/9.

Let me translate that for those of you who don't know the baseball shorthand.

That's putouts (fancy word for 'outs') per nine innings. To finish a nine inning game one team needs to record 27 outs.

The program that we get our stats from, StatsPass, actually has that as a stat category. Not too shocking that all 30 teams are averaging 27.00 outs per nine innings!

If somebody can find me an example of a nine inning baseball game where a team recorded more than 27 outs, please let me know where I can find it.