ILB Counting Stats - "It adds up over time.." watchlist etc.

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-career-milestones-to-watch-for-in-2022

Truthfully, not the most exciting list...Cabrera's 3,000th will make him the seventh 500/3,000 guy. Last five seasons: .264/.335/.401, 99 OPS+, -1.1 WAR.

Posnanski posted about Dusty Baker today:

There has been shockingly little talk about this, but sometime in the next couple of weeks — in this 75th anniversary season of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier — Dusty Baker is going to win his 2,000th game as a big-league manager.

He'll be the 12th manager to do so. However much you think that's worth, much rarer than 3,000 hits (Cabrera will be #33) or 500 HR (Cabrera was #28). Almost as rare as 3,000 hits/500 HR--Cabrera will be the seventh.

If he's sitting on 1,999 wins, I hope Dusty doesn't remove himself from the game.

ayoooo :)

it would pretty amazing to get ejected in that scenario, though. and then immediately fired

Which reminds me: James thinks that Maddon's IBB the other day will probably cost him his job before the year's out.

It's beyond the pail--and unless the Angels rally to have a good season, it WILL cost him his job. There are things you just can't do, lines you just can't cross. That's just f'ing stupid. You just can't do stuff THAT stupid and keep your job

("The pail," yes--he never corrects typos in questions or answers.)

typos and corrections, those are things you just can't do, lines you just can't cross.

Man, I'd love to send that in to him, but he'd probably kick me off the site for good.

What I found interesting about James's comment, by the way, wasn't the IBB itself--don't really have any opinion on that--but the tactical idea that ownership would have something they keep in reserve in case they want to use it later.

that IBB was indeed terrible, and i don't really like maddon, but jeez ownership doesn't need ~reasons~

just ask rick renteria, whom the cubs fired after one season because maddon was available

tigers postponed tonight, doubleheader tomorrow. if miggy doesn't do it tomorrow it is boone's farm's fault

(xpost) I know what you're saying, but it's probably harder (from a public-relations standpoint), at least-short term, to fire a sainted manager like Maddon than Renteria.

That Dusty Baker column quotes extensively from the Al Campanis Nightline interview. God...beyond the pail, to coin a phrase. To get fired as quickly as he did in 1987 (within 48 hours) took some doing, and he was up to it. That he was who he was--Jackie Robinson's DP partner in Montreal, the scout who signed Roberto Clemente--makes it all that much sadder.

I’ve lost track who we’re talking about here.

Kershaw can overtake Don Sutton today as the Dodgers' leader in career strikeouts.

https://www.mlb.com/news/each-mlb-team-s-all-time-strikeout-leader

Teams you probably can't guess: Rockies, Brewers, Marlins. (And the Rangers have a weird one.)

2,000 for Dusty Baker.

https://www.mlb.com/news/managers-with-2000-career-wins

San Diego Padres third baseman Manny Machado tallied his 1,500th hit with a first-inning RBI single at Wrigley Field on Wednesday. At 29 years old, Machado becomes the 17th player in MLB history with 1,500 hits and 250 or more home runs before turning 30 years old.

now i have to know the worst player out of the other 16 who reached 1500/250 before 30

Are team wins a counting stat? Yes, they are!

With the win, the Yankees are just the sixth team since 1947 to win 46 of their first 62 games. They join the 2001 Mariners (49-13), the 1998 Yankees (47-15), '84 Tigers (46-16), '55 Dodgers (46-16) and the '53 Yankees (46-16) -- each of those teams except Seattle won the World Series.

(mlb.com)

Freddie Freeman and 3,000 hits:

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/can-freddie-freeman-re-open-the-3000-hit-club/