https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2017/9/6/16265112/will-middlebrooks-rangers-triple-doubleheaders-first-player-in-history
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 September 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link
Gary Sanchez second-fastest to 50 HR in his career, tied with Mark McGwire (161 G), behind Rudy York (153 G).
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 September 2017 11:43 (seven years ago) link
jacoby ellsbury now holds the record for most times reaching base due to catcher's interference, with 30
― na (NA), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 21:27 (seven years ago) link
more info: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/baseball-has-a-new-all-time-record/
I was down at the Jays-Orioles game last night, and I saw Mark Trumbo lose a routine fly ball in the lights and overrun it by a factor of 2.715--I believe that's a record.
http://www.mlb.com/gameday/orioles-vs-blue-jays/2017/09/11/492246#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=492246
― clemenza, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 22:43 (seven years ago) link
Maybe you can't link directly to MLB videos...It's in last night's video clips for the Jays-Orioles game.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 22:44 (seven years ago) link
New @SABRbioproject: Jamie Moyer, ageless wonder who faced nearly 9% of all batters in @MLB history https://t.co/3ZvfR0ADO0 @moyerfoundation pic.twitter.com/Bg3p81hX4n— SABR (@sabr) September 15, 2017
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 September 2017 01:28 (seven years ago) link
I haven't verified this yet, if anyone would care to:
Travis d'Arnaud hit his 13th homer of the season last night.
The most hitters on one team with at least 13 home runs, in NL history:
9 by the 2017 Mets and the 2005 Reds8 by the 1957 and 2006 Reds, 2016 and 2017 Cards, 2004 Phillies, 2009 Rockies, 2016 Nats and 2017 Brewers
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 19:56 (seven years ago) link
i guess that can happen when half the team is hurt and the other half traded away
the brewers need two more from jonathan villar to join the mets with nine. the astros have 10. both of their contingents are all still with the team tho
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 22:00 (seven years ago) link
Clayton Kershaw, Career:IP: 1923.0H: 1416BB: 507WHIP: *exactly* 1.000000000000000000000— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) September 25, 2017
― na (NA), Monday, 25 September 2017 01:00 (seven years ago) link
Matt Olson stuff from Jonah Keri:
-- Olson has now hit 46 home runs this season in 135 games -- 23 with Triple-A Nashville, 23 with the A's.-- Olson is the first rookie in major league history to swat 15 homers over a 21-game span.-- Olson has hit 12 homers in his past 17 games, eight in his past 11, and five in his past six.-- Stats Inc. recently offered up a terrific comparison of all-time sluggers. Here are the all-time leaders in fewest at-bats per home run, minimum 150 plate appearances:
Babe Ruth 11.8Cody Bellinger 11.5Mark McGwire 10.7Matt Olson 7.78Rhys Hoskins 7.77
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 September 2017 19:57 (seven years ago) link
this is the third season since WW2 with no in-season managerial changes.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 September 2017 12:08 (six years ago) link
Guest: I wonder what the most career hits is for a player to have > 50% XBHs? Right now, Stanton has 955 career hits, 477 singles, 478 XBH, which seems insane to me. Instagraph? Jeff Sullivan: Stanton is in second place all-time! From 2 through 5, it goes Giancarlo Stanton, Russell Branyan, Chris Carter, and Khris Davis
But while Stanton is second at 955, Mark McGwire is first, all the way up at 1,626
McGwire finished with 52% extra-base hits, mostly because, by the end, he could hardly leg out a single
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 September 2017 20:29 (six years ago) link
For the first time ever, the four most-populated U.S. cities — New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston — are represented in the American League and National League Championship Series.
― na (NA), Friday, 13 October 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
Unprompted, non-topical fun fact: Yankees center fielders have averaged 5.2 fWAR per season since 1925. That's a baseline of Carlos Correa's 2017 WAR, over a span of 93 seasons.— Ben Lindbergh (@BenLindbergh) December 4, 2017
insane
― mookieproof, Monday, 4 December 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/allow-me-to-present-an-incredible-baseball-coincidence
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
for some reason earlier today i was wondering about how often the ball is hit to each position over the course of a season. i figured the stat would be pretty easy to find, but my googling failed. so i tried to do it myself using fangraphs defensive data, specifically their "BIZ" stat (Ballz in Zone, which is supposed to measure how often a ball is hit into the "zone" that a player fields, which is different from the number of plays actually made.)
Position BIZ %1B 6239 10.1%2B 10662 17.3%3B 10021 16.3%SS 11293 18.4%LF 6742 11.0%CF 9367 15.2%RF 7157 11.6%TOTAL 61481 100.0%
big caveat: BIZ doesn't seem to include the zone of the pitcher or catcher ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Karl Malone, Monday, 11 December 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
(^that's for 2017)
Please direct all Zone-related questions to these three guys.
http://www.shorescripts.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/stalker-7.jpg
(Sorry--that word has been permanently hijacked for me.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 02:42 (six years ago) link
clemenza for some reason i think you'll be especially excited about this:
earlier today alfred posted a link to oyez.org, which is a database of all sorts of useful supreme court information written concisely and using plain-language. there are biographies of each SC Justice (https://www.oyez.org/justices). bizarrely, each one includes a baseball quiz(?????) at the end, in this style:
https://i.imgur.com/4aJatTn.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/eqnbsOw.png
the baseball quiz is included for EVERY SINGLE JUSTICE.https://i.imgur.com/P0gF4uy.png
i can't imagine the amount of work that went into comparing every single SC Justice to a baseball figure, but it might be appreciated here at least.
― and in my opinionation, the sun is gonna surely shine♪♫ (Karl Malone), Sunday, 4 March 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
That's hilarious, thanks. Just got Clarence Thomas wrong. Correct answer: Lou Pinella, because they both "provided some punch to their respective franchises" (uh, okay), and because controversy has followed them. I intuitively guessed Joe Pepitone, because in Ball Four he put a piece of popcorn under his foreskin.
― clemenza, Sunday, 4 March 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
My own question: the two HOF pitchers who each won a Cy Young but never got a single Cy Young vote in any other season.
― clemenza, Sunday, 13 May 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
Eckersley and Drysdale?
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 13 May 2018 14:45 (six years ago) link
Drysdale's one of them (half of his prime coinciding with a teammate's...). With the other guy, it's not really a meaningful measure--a lot of his career is pre-CYA.
― clemenza, Sunday, 13 May 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
Think I found it - Dean Chance
― timellison, Monday, 14 May 2018 04:51 (six years ago) link
Chance is one of a number of pitchers who won a Cy but never got Cy votes in any other season--think I spotted at least 10. I was looking for the two HOF'ers, though.
― clemenza, Monday, 14 May 2018 05:15 (six years ago) link
Early Wynn
― timellison, Monday, 14 May 2018 05:36 (six years ago) link
Speaking of whom, some awesome home movie footage of him warming up in his last year (starts at 1:17):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FHafsz-p-k
― timellison, Monday, 14 May 2018 05:41 (six years ago) link
Yes--Early, part of the original Jays' broadcast crew. (He probably would have received Cy Young votes in '52 and '54 if the award had been around...Hard to say; there was only one award for both leagues, and he didn't receive any votes in '56 for a season that was better than either of those.)
― clemenza, Monday, 14 May 2018 12:23 (six years ago) link
i have a bit of baseball trivia in my own neighborhood, maybe mentioned here before: the owner of a pizza joint we sometimes grabs a couple pies from (and who's usually still behind the counter most nights) is one of a dozen or so people in MLB history whose sole career hit was a home run. I believe he went 1-4 total across a few games during his cup of coffee.
https://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/st-louis-cardinals-san-francisco-giants-doug-clarey-one-done-092215
― omar little, Monday, 14 May 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
Keith McDonald had 3 hits, all homers, in his 8 game career: http://www.baseballroundtable.com/keith-mcdonald-2018-paciorek-award-winner-made-a-career-out-of-going-yard/
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 14 May 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link
yeah but how is his pizza
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 02:57 (six years ago) link
six players in (known) history have played with more than 700 different teammates. edwin jackson is now second, with 763. name any of the other five and guess the leader:
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 June 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
A few guesses: Bartolo, Julio Franco, Ted Lyons, Phil Neikro.
― clemenza, Friday, 29 June 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
for longevity and multiple teams, Rickey Henderson comes to mind
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 June 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
rickey is indeed one of them. (and also one of edwin jackson's teammates). none of clemenza's are.
i would never have gotten the number one guy, but the others are known guys who played fairly recently. one of them is canadian
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 June 2018 19:09 (six years ago) link
is octavio dotel one of them?
― challops trap house (Will M.), Friday, 29 June 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
Orosco?
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 June 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
steve pearce maybe as of today?
― challops trap house (Will M.), Friday, 29 June 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
i rmeember thinking "i hope pearce plays for the red sox one day so he can be a trivia question about players who have played for the entire AL east" and sure enough! dunno how to look it up but i wonder if any other players have played for every team in a division...
― challops trap house (Will M.), Friday, 29 June 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
steve pearce *is* about to complete his AL East collection in just six years, which is sort of impressive
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 June 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
eric hinske was close, but never got to baltimore
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 June 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
not orosco either, although two of them (besides rickey) did play for the mets
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 June 2018 19:53 (six years ago) link
was dotel one of them tho? i feel REAL good abt that one
― challops trap house (Will M.), Friday, 29 June 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
(also i have no other guesses if colon isn't in there)
― challops trap house (Will M.), Friday, 29 June 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
dotel is a good try; he's in the high 600s
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 June 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link
As far as I can tell, new Boston 1B/OF Steve Pearce will be just the 5th player to play for every team in a division, with Kelly Johnson (AL East), C. Izturis (NL Central), Mark McLemore (AL West), Steve Finley (NL West).— Tyler Kepner (@TylerKepner) June 29, 2018
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 June 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
Also Matt Herges in the NL West. (Thanks to Rob Morse of the Yankees' PR dept. for the correction.) https://t.co/KYOKvl5qnm— Tyler Kepner (@TylerKepner) June 29, 2018
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 June 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link
1. Terry Mulholland 791 (11 teams)2. Edwin Jackson 763 (13 teams)3. Matt Stairs 725 (12 teams)4. Rickey Henderson 725 (9 teams, not counting the A’s four times)5. Carlos Beltrán 719 (7 teams)6. LaTroy Hawkins 703 (11 teams)
(Octavio Dotel 654 (13 teams))
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 June 2018 23:05 (six years ago) link
whoa, weird to see Beltran in there
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 30 June 2018 00:31 (six years ago) link