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Thanks for the b-ref tutorial. It's a great site, but a bit of a labyrinth at times.
The numbers are interesting. Just looking at IS% doesn't quite tell the whole story. You have to look at IR, IS, and IS% in context. Last year, the Nationals had the worst IS% in both leagues at 38%, but they had the lowest number of inherited runners at 120. That's a pretty remarkable number actually, as it is 56 runners better than the next best team, Pittsburgh, which had 176 inherited runners. Cleveland had the very worst total at 308 and Seattle ranked fourth with 273 inherited runners. Seattle was also second in the raw IS category with 90 inherited runners scored.
What these numbers don't tell you is how these numbers came to be. One has to dig deeper to figure that out.