One of them has to be Ozzie.
― clemenza, Thursday, 26 January 2017 02:02 (seven years ago) link
Yes: .337/.328.
― clemenza, Thursday, 26 January 2017 02:03 (seven years ago) link
Billy Hamilton 1888-1901 .344/.455/.432Roger Bresnahan 1897-1915 .279/.386/.377Johnny Evers 1902-1929 .270/.356/.334Ray Schalk 1912-1929 .253/.340/.316Rick Ferrell 1929-1947 .281/.378/.363Luke Appling 1930-1950 .310/.399/.398Richie Ashburn 1948-1962 .308/.396/.382Ozzie Smith 1978-1996 .262/.337/.328
― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 January 2017 03:20 (seven years ago) link
hmmm only 2.5 deadballers really
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 January 2017 03:42 (seven years ago) link
I remember during the first baseball strike as a hid, ESPN had on tv an old-timers game in DC and Luke Appling hit a home run and I think he was like 70 years old.
― earlnash, Thursday, 26 January 2017 09:46 (seven years ago) link
I knew Richie Ashburn hit a lot of singles, but I don't think I ever realized just how good he was--led the league in walks four times (high of 125), stole a fair number of bases in a station-to-station decade, a lot of triples, good defense. Must have been next among '50s CF after Mays, Mantle, and Aaron.
― clemenza, Thursday, 26 January 2017 12:45 (seven years ago) link
Snider, I meant to say.
name the two hall-of-fame pitchers who won world series games in stadiums that also hosted a super bowl
― mookieproof, Friday, 27 January 2017 18:23 (seven years ago) link
one has to be the lefty from Brooklyn
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 January 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link
or maybe the righty from Van Nuys
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 January 2017 18:27 (seven years ago) link
one is indeed the righty from van nuys, in the la coliseum in 1959
weird that you didn't tell me to not mention football, though -- are you okay
― mookieproof, Friday, 27 January 2017 18:30 (seven years ago) link
i thought about it ;)
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 January 2017 18:33 (seven years ago) link
i thought the other park was in Florida, but that does not seem to be the case
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 January 2017 18:36 (seven years ago) link
btw the other (besides drysdale) is bert blyleven
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 16:50 (seven years ago) link
guess which two i missed
(not the interim from the '60s)
http://www.amazinavenue.com/2017/2/27/14719378/new-york-mets-trivia-managers
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 February 2017 15:35 (seven years ago) link
first auto-IBB: yadier molina, with mike montgomery pitching
― Karl Malone, Monday, 3 April 2017 04:10 (seven years ago) link
The Yankees' first 12 batters of the game either walked or struck out. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, they are the first team in the expansion era (since 1961) with a strikeout, walk or hit by pitch in each of their first 12 plate appearances of a game.
carlos 'true outcomes' martinez
― mookieproof, Saturday, 15 April 2017 19:32 (seven years ago) link
A most unimpressive 8/15.
http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/mlb-baseball-trivia-quiz-random-players
― clemenza, Sunday, 28 May 2017 23:04 (seven years ago) link
I got 12/15. I did not know the guy on the Rays, missed on the Hunley/Hollingsworth and I got Shannon Stewart of the Twins wrong.
― earlnash, Monday, 29 May 2017 00:37 (seven years ago) link
Stewart was one of the few I was 100% sure of.
― clemenza, Monday, 29 May 2017 00:56 (seven years ago) link
What 2 MLB parks are tied for hosting the most all-time "cycles"? The answer is hi-larious.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 June 2017 13:44 (six years ago) link
it's Fenway and Coors.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
ELIAS: The Dodgers have held leads at some point in their last 44 games. That's an MLB record. Previous high: 1906 Cubs (43 straight).— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) July 20, 2017
― mookieproof, Thursday, 20 July 2017 15:27 (six years ago) link
jaime garcia will soon make a start for his third different team in one season, something no pitcher has done since 2007.
who was that pitcher?
― mookieproof, Monday, 31 July 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link
i don't know but i just saw that LAD trivia you posted and that is incredible
― Karl Malone, Monday, 31 July 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
(the answer to the above question is the benighted Byung-hyun Kim)
but also
According to the Patrik Eliáš Sports Bureau, Jon Lester joined John Smoltz as the only pitchers since 1900 to hit a HR and record his 2000th strikeout in the same game.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 02:08 (six years ago) link
According to @EliasSports, Jaime García is the 1st pitcher to make 3 straight app. as a starter for 3 diff. teams since Gus Weyhing in 1895.— Yankees PR Dept. (@YankeesPR) August 4, 2017
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 August 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
martin perez is the first rangers pitcher to fan four times in a game
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
Rich Hill's loss was only 40th time since 1920 a pitcher had a 90+ gamescore and lost. Warren Spahn did it 3 times: https://t.co/xqxGaLQjKa— Ted Berg (@OGTedBerg) August 24, 2017
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 August 2017 15:49 (six years ago) link
Chad Green is the first pitcher in @MLB history to have seven strikeouts while facing no more than eight batters in a game.— Bryan Hoch (@BryanHoch) August 30, 2017
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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