trivial occurrences 2014

Not exactly trivial, but

@JonHeymanCBS
national league had no one w/ 300 total bases for 1st time since 1942. stanton led w/ 299. enos slaughter led in '42 w/292

are walks rising along w/ strikeouts? that plus injuries to sluggers/stars (Cutch, Goldschmidt, Stanton) would explain that partly.

Kind of surprising that the NL got through the '60s without that happening...although with Mays and Aaron and a few others, maybe not. (Closest either league got in the '60s was Zolio Versalles' 308 in '65; Billy Williams led the NL with 321 in '68.)

It seems like a freak occurrence to me, with Cutch, Stanton, Rizzo, and Goldschmidt all injured for part of the year, leaving a catcher with doubles power as the best healthy offensive player.

Plus Tulowitzki--although, pro-rated, he only works out to around 340 total bases. I thought he was clipping along at a faster pace than that.

@Retrosheet
Players born on Tuesdays have 46,624 home runs, all-time MLB.
Fri - 41,975
Mon - 39,909
Sun - 38,989
Thu - 37,272
Wed - 37,007
Sat - 36,778

they are full of grace iirc

this explains why i never made the mlb, born on a weds, damn