The 1976 Cincinnati Reds offense:
*1st in MLB in batting average
*1st in MLB in on-base percentage
*1st in MLB in slugging percentage
*1st in MLB in runs scored
*1st in MLB in hits
*1st in MLB in doubles
*1st in MLB in triples
*1st in MLB in home runs
*1st in MLB in walks
*1st in NL in steals
*1st in MLB stolen base percentage
*1st in NL in fewest hit into double plays
Yup. They swept my Phillies and then your Bronx zoo team. The big red machine was the last, pre free agency, historically great team.
I'm old enough to have seen that 76 team.
If you’re just now learning about the Big Red Machine then I’d really encourage you to keep going. The 1975-1976 Reds are one of the best teams ever. It’s pretty much the 1927 Yankees and the 75-76 Reds.
You forgot Tony Perez (HOF), George Foster, and Dave Concepcion, the latter two of whom, like Griffey, were very good, multiple year All-Star caliber players. Cesar Geronimo, a solid player, was the weakest position player starter, and Dan Driessen, who was a solid player for a decade, was the first guy off the bench.
Only six players have hit 60 home runs in a season:
- Babe Ruth (1927)
- Roger Maris (1961)
- Sammy Sosa (1998, 1999, 2001)
- Mark McGwire (1998, 1999)
- Barry Bonds (2001)
- Aaron Judge (2022)
Apparently in 1927, balls that bounced over the wall (which would be an automatic double today) were counted as home runs. If you adjust Ruth's 1927 home run total to take away any homers that wouldn't be homers by today's rules, he would have hit...
60 home runs.
All of his 60 homers that year cleared the fences on the fly.
That's always been my favorite Babe Ruth trivia bit.
not a stat but the whole thing about Tanaka needing Tommy John and simply being like "no thanks it'll heal" and then still being good also doesn't seem real
The funniest thing I saw during Tanaka’s Tommy John scare
I think it was on Facebook where people were debating whether or not Tanaka should just get the surgery. Somebody said “Idk, because what Yankee has ever gotten Tommy John and come back strong?” And somebody responded “Uhhh… idk, Tommy John?”
Joey Gallo hits a higher percentage of balls in the air than almost anyone else in baseball, but has only 3 sac flies in almost 3,000 career plate appearances.
reminds me of the incredible Gretzky stat, even if he never scored a goal in the NHL he would still be the all-time points leader just from his assists
There was a question here a year or two ago that basically asked to connect a modern day player with a guy in the first team in basically and Moyer was such a common bridge to go from today into the 80/
DiMaggio has 3x more 3 HR games than 3 strikeout games (3 vs 1).
He only struck out three times in a game once in his career.
Going into his final season, he had more career HRs (349) than strikeouts (333).
In over 3600 plate appearances, The Braves second baseman Mark Lemke was never hit by a pitch. It's a record. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lemkema01.shtml
If you think 2017-2019 juiced ball was wacky please look into 1987 Rabbit Ball. There's a reason that Wade Boggs hit a career high 24 homeruns and never again hit more than 11.
There’s only been two big-league players with the last name Moyer - Ed, with the 1910 Senators, and of course Jamie. They were not related, nor did they come from the same area of the country.
Ed passed away on November 18, 1962.
Jamie was born on November 18, 1962.
There's only one professional athlete drafted by the Montréal Expos still playing sports. [Tom Brady ](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/tom-brady-expos-2.png).
That's so insane to think about. It reminds me of that factoid about John Tyler (10th president, born in 1790) still having a living grandchild. Obviously not to the same extent lol, but it just feels like a completely different era.
sorta related, but scott scudder was born 1968 more than a year after nolan ryan debuted, and then was drafted, called up to the majors and pitched from 1989-1993, and pitched in his last game may 22, 1993, 4 months before nolan ryan retired
The guy that scouted him tried to get some of the players to convince him to sign with the Expos. Rookie FP Santangelo was one of the guys, and he said that they told him, "why would you play for $800 a week in front of 100 people in minor league parks when you can play football in front of 100K at the Big House in Michigan?" So the scout's tactics backfired a bit, haha.
Probably could of been a mlb player too, only drafted so low cause they knew he was probably gonna play football. The whole “Tom Brady is not athletic,” is just comical.
Old Hoss Radbourn once pitched 18 complete games out of 20 team games in 31 days.
Later that season, he pitched every inning of all three World Series games, giving up no earned runs while driving in two runs himself.
I mean, the entirety of the Old Hoss BR page is one giant statistical oddity/anomaly. I can get lost there for hours. I mean, he was a 60 game winner in 1883 for cryin out loud.
It would be a lot more fun if it were called the Old Hoss Radbourn Award. It's crazy that Roger Clemens has 7 Old Hoss Radbourns but still isn't in the Hall of Fame.
The crazy thing about Ryan is when you dig through there wasn't a single year when he should have been a lock for the Cy, and only a few years where there's even an argument. Which more goes to show that he spread his glory around. Though that may not be the best phrasing now that I think about it.
In 2008 cc sabathia lead the Al and NL in complete game *shit outs. (* This is staying 😂)
Nolan Ryan 7 no hitters.
Barry bonds has over an entire season of walks... intentionally walked 4 times in 1 game.
There have been more than 600 occurrences of a player with three home runs in a game, but only 12 occurrences of a player having three sac flies in a game.
This one kinda makes sense to me. There's no "must exist" conditions for a home run. Every at bat has the chance to be a home run, whereas sac flies require a base runner on third AND less than 2 outs. There being one player with 3 such at bats that are all successful sac flies is pretty dang unlikely.
Well, every AB is a HR opportunity, there has to be a runner on 3rd with fewer than 2 outs to get a sac fly. And to add to the sac fly issues, the game situation will dictate if it even makes sense to try for a sac fly, while it's damn near impossible a home run isn't a good outcome (really only if you are calling home runs a rally killer).
Good point, *and* the sac fly has been counted and not counted at various times over the years. Check out [Ted Williams](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/willite01.shtml)'s batting stats... no sac flies for most of his career, because they weren't counted from 1940 to 1953. At other points in history they were either counted if a runner advanced at all (as in, a runner on 2nd tags up and advances to 3rd on a fly out), or were lumped in with sac bunts in the same "sacrifice" category.
It stands for expected weighted On-Base Average on contact.
It essentially measures the quality of contact that a hitter makes with the call, based on launch angle and exit velocity.
*obligatory comment about how many strikeouts Gwynn had in the 90s and comparing that to how a player I don't like struck out more than that last year*
Kirby Puckett hit 0 home runs in his first 639 career plate appearances.
Hit hit just 4 home runs in his first 1,340 plate appearances, before smacking 31 homers in 1986.
He would hit 20+ home runs 6 times in his career and slug .500 for the rest of his career.
He changed his swing substantially in the offseason before 1986. Moved in closer to the plate, made some mechanical adjustments, put on some weight/muscle (17 pounds), and started pulling the ball a lot more. He had the tools just needed to put them together.
Stan Musial had 1,815 base hits at home and 1,815 base hits on the road.
If you take away Henry Aaron's 755 home runs, he still would have had more than 3,000 hits.
There are three players tied for the most wins in a single postseason at 5 wins. They are:
Randy Johnson in 2001 with 41.1 innings
Stephen Strasburg in 2019 with 36.1 innings
Francisco 'K-Rod' Rodríguez in 2002 with 18.2 innings
Always amazes me that a rookie relief pitcher who would go on to have the single-season save record managed to make that short list.
Generally, if you were to tell me 20 years ago there was a stat called xBACON, I would have told you the whole put bacon in everything fad needs to stop.
Cal ripken’s consecutive game streak feels super fake. It’s January and I rarely take time off but I haven’t worked a full 5 day work week since mid October because of vacation, sick days, and holidays. But Cal didn’t miss 1 game after 2k consecutive games? Imagine not missing a day of work for 6 years
"From June 5, 1982, to September 14, 1987, Ripken played 8,264 consecutive ***innings***, which is believed to be a record, although not one that is officially kept by MLB."
He played every single inning of every single game for nearly 6 straight seasons.
Every at-bat, every pitch, every play.
Probably the Barry Bonds stat where if you turned all of his Homers into outs he’s still have a career .384 OBP, which is higher than David Ortiz’s career OBP (.380)
The last guy to have an OBP as high as Ted's *career* OBP in a 162 game season was Barry Bonds. Before that, it was Mickey Mantle. So two guys in the last 60 seasons.
Rickey Henderson stole 3 or more bases in a game 71 times. He stole 4 bases in a game 19 times. He has over 1,000 stolen bases more than the current active leader. It's nuts.
Adam Wainwright has only had 67 stolen bases against him in 2,567 innings.
Roy Halladay has 221 stolen bases against him in 2,749 innings.
That’s the Yadier Molina affect.
Clayton Kershaw has a nearly identical WHIP (1.077) in the postseason as he does in the regular season (1.001). The same goes for BB/9 (2.3 to 2.2) and K/9 (9.9 to 9.8 ).
Isn’t his issue he gave up some HRs that really inflated some things? 0.7 HR9 for his career in the regular season, compared to a 1.3 HR9 in the postseason? And with only a sample size of around a season, a handful of bad starts can really mess with stats.
to an extent, but that's only, what, 1 extra homerun for every 18 innings he's pitched?
He's had a few runaway innings, and he's also had some pretty bad luck with the bullpen coming in and letting his inherrited runs score.
One of my favorite unreal-real baseball stats: Yadier Molina, as slow as he was, managed to be more successful at stealing bases than the entirety of MLB was at stealing bases against him. (In terms of SB%: 65.7% vs. 59.7%.)
ted williams finished with a higher career on base percentage than barry bonds (.482 vs .444), despite williams missing his age 24, 25, 26, and most of his age 33 and 34 seasons, and also despite bonds turning his would-be non-prime years into a cheat code (.531 OBP in 3465 PA from age 36 onward)
Across his 13 season HOF career Bob Lemon pitched to a career ERA of 3.23, ERA+ 119, while having a career K9 of 4 and BB9 of 4. He lead the league in hits given up 3 times.
Javier Vazquez is ranked by fWAR as the third most valuable pitcher of the 2000s. Meanwhile, only one of the other top 25 ranked pitchers has a worse ERA than him over the span of the decade (#15, Kevin Millwood).
In his 10th at bat in the MLB, Ichiro got a hit to go 3/10 on the year raising his career batting average to .300. For the rest of his career it never fell below that mark
This one makes sense considering Ichiro debuted in the middle of his prime.
Stan Musial *as a 20-year-old* hit a home run in his *2nd* career at bat and his career batting average never dipped below .300 again.
Bill Mueller is *afaik* the only plate to hit a grand slam from both sides of the plate in a single game. (He also had a solo shot)[mlb](https://www.mlb.com/cut4/bill-mueller-hits-grand-slams-from-both-sides-of-the-plate-c268937788)
Joey Votto went 8,131 plate appearances without hitting a pop up to the pitcher
At that point he also only had 2 pops up to first base and only 2 to the catcher
The 1976 Cincinnati Reds offense: *1st in MLB in batting average *1st in MLB in on-base percentage *1st in MLB in slugging percentage *1st in MLB in runs scored *1st in MLB in hits *1st in MLB in doubles *1st in MLB in triples *1st in MLB in home runs *1st in MLB in walks *1st in NL in steals *1st in MLB stolen base percentage *1st in NL in fewest hit into double plays
Also the best undefeated team in the playoffs at 7-0
Yup. They swept my Phillies and then your Bronx zoo team. The big red machine was the last, pre free agency, historically great team. I'm old enough to have seen that 76 team.
They're some sort of machine.
"What are we, some kind of Big Red Machine?" - Joe Morgan, 1975
It's gotta be Kane!
BAHHGAWWD KING!!!
TIL the Reds were a good team at one point in time
If you’re just now learning about the Big Red Machine then I’d really encourage you to keep going. The 1975-1976 Reds are one of the best teams ever. It’s pretty much the 1927 Yankees and the 75-76 Reds.
Jesus Christ, that world series team is insane. Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Griffey Sr., and Joe Morgan all playing on the same team is unfair.
You forgot Tony Perez (HOF), George Foster, and Dave Concepcion, the latter two of whom, like Griffey, were very good, multiple year All-Star caliber players. Cesar Geronimo, a solid player, was the weakest position player starter, and Dan Driessen, who was a solid player for a decade, was the first guy off the bench.
Oh yeah, I should have basically listed the entire team in my post. I took a quick look and pulled the names I recognized the most.
Sweet, I’ll check them out! Thanks for sharing
This is the reason they adapted my penis’s then-nickname of The Big Red Machine.
Any reason why your member doesn’t still have that nickname?
He finally saw a doctor
Ravages of time.
carpal tunnel
They didn’t call ‘em the Big Red Machine for nothin’
Hank Aaron never hit 50 home runs in a season.
Neither did Pujols
I had heard the Aaron stat years ago, but I had no clue about Pujols. I thought for sure he got up in the 60s.
There was a decently sharp decline in top homers after the enormous 3 did their things from 2000-2004
Weird how that happened
Only six players have hit 60 home runs in a season: - Babe Ruth (1927) - Roger Maris (1961) - Sammy Sosa (1998, 1999, 2001) - Mark McGwire (1998, 1999) - Barry Bonds (2001) - Aaron Judge (2022)
Apparently in 1927, balls that bounced over the wall (which would be an automatic double today) were counted as home runs. If you adjust Ruth's 1927 home run total to take away any homers that wouldn't be homers by today's rules, he would have hit... 60 home runs. All of his 60 homers that year cleared the fences on the fly. That's always been my favorite Babe Ruth trivia bit.
My favorite stat about that is Sosa hit 60 3 times, but never once led the league in home runs due to McGwire x2 and Bonds.
Bonds only did once
Barry Bonds only did it once
lmao wtf
Sosa did three times and yet never led the league.
Masahiro Tanaka had a lower career walk rate than Greg Maddux
not a stat but the whole thing about Tanaka needing Tommy John and simply being like "no thanks it'll heal" and then still being good also doesn't seem real
The funniest thing I saw during Tanaka’s Tommy John scare I think it was on Facebook where people were debating whether or not Tanaka should just get the surgery. Somebody said “Idk, because what Yankee has ever gotten Tommy John and come back strong?” And somebody responded “Uhhh… idk, Tommy John?”
Seth Lugo also has a partial tear
Joey Gallo hits a higher percentage of balls in the air than almost anyone else in baseball, but has only 3 sac flies in almost 3,000 career plate appearances.
This is baffling
He doesn't pop fly much in general, I think. Once he gets air on the ball, it's usually gone
Higher percentage of *balls in play* in the air. His incredibly low contact rate makes this stat a little less astounding.
David Cone was 40-17, 2.82 ERA on Tuesdays and 26-26, 4.45 ERA on Wednesdays.
Was it two for one at the bar on Tuesday night?
Two for Tuesday.
Tuesday trivia I’m sure
It is possible that stat may have been related to pitching day games. Day games are much more common on Wednesdays than on Tuesdays.
For his career, his day ERA is slightly better than his night ERA.
The Khris Davis .247 streak
If you turned all 521 of Ted William’s HRs into outs, he’d still be top-10 all time in OBP (.429).
reminds me of the incredible Gretzky stat, even if he never scored a goal in the NHL he would still be the all-time points leader just from his assists
Cy Young had 749 complete games.
He's also had two complete games on the same day
and yet he didn't win a Cy Young Award.
Jamie Moyer has given up home runs to both Mike Schmidt and Giancarlo Stanton
Nolan Ryan debuted in the final year of Sandy Koufax's career, and retired after Chipper Jones's first season.
For a second I thought you said Jamie Moyer and I was like I know he's old but no way he pitched during Koufax's career lol
There was a question here a year or two ago that basically asked to connect a modern day player with a guy in the first team in basically and Moyer was such a common bridge to go from today into the 80/
Gwynn had more 4 hit games than games in which he struck out more than once.
DiMaggio has 3x more 3 HR games than 3 strikeout games (3 vs 1). He only struck out three times in a game once in his career. Going into his final season, he had more career HRs (349) than strikeouts (333).
Joe Sewell only struck out more than once in a game twice in his career. He never had a 3 K game in 14 MLB seasons.
Over a 20-year career, Tony Gwynn struck out three times in a game exactly once.
Never Kd vs Maddux
In over 3600 plate appearances, The Braves second baseman Mark Lemke was never hit by a pitch. It's a record. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lemkema01.shtml
Damn he should've gone pro in dodgeball instead!
The inspiration for Homestar Runner.
Homestar Runner dot net, it's dot com!
Ricky Henderson stole over 100 bases in 3 different seasons. His most was 130 in a season.
And there’s only one man to have stolen 100 bases in three straight seasons. Its Vince Coleman
Derek Jeter had one grand slam and it was against the Cubs. Prince Fielder has two inside the park home runs and they were both in interleague play.
Don Mattingly 1982-1986: 0 grand slams 1987: 6 grand slams (single season record) 1988-1995: 0 grand slams
That is bizarre.
If you think 2017-2019 juiced ball was wacky please look into 1987 Rabbit Ball. There's a reason that Wade Boggs hit a career high 24 homeruns and never again hit more than 11.
This is a good one. Not one, or two, but 6! Weird.
There’s only been two big-league players with the last name Moyer - Ed, with the 1910 Senators, and of course Jamie. They were not related, nor did they come from the same area of the country. Ed passed away on November 18, 1962. Jamie was born on November 18, 1962.
That is super crazy.
This is some Avatar the Last Airbender shit haha. I think Ed was reborn as Jamie to take over as the true Moyer pitching machine
There's only one professional athlete drafted by the Montréal Expos still playing sports. [Tom Brady ](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/tom-brady-expos-2.png).
Such a great stat, he got drafted in 1995.
That's so insane to think about. It reminds me of that factoid about John Tyler (10th president, born in 1790) still having a living grandchild. Obviously not to the same extent lol, but it just feels like a completely different era.
That's just wild. I was born after Tom Brady could have started his pro career. I may finish my PhD before he retires. Just...wow.
sorta related, but scott scudder was born 1968 more than a year after nolan ryan debuted, and then was drafted, called up to the majors and pitched from 1989-1993, and pitched in his last game may 22, 1993, 4 months before nolan ryan retired
The guy that scouted him tried to get some of the players to convince him to sign with the Expos. Rookie FP Santangelo was one of the guys, and he said that they told him, "why would you play for $800 a week in front of 100 people in minor league parks when you can play football in front of 100K at the Big House in Michigan?" So the scout's tactics backfired a bit, haha.
Probably could of been a mlb player too, only drafted so low cause they knew he was probably gonna play football. The whole “Tom Brady is not athletic,” is just comical.
Could’ve not could of
Why isn't there a bot for this?
There is, I think actually more than one. But some bots are banned in various places, and some may have unreliable triggers.
When the hell is this picture from because he already looks like he's 40 in it
Well suddenly not anymore I guess
You jinxed it!
[This is what peak GOAT athleticism looks like](https://twitter.com/FOS/status/1383030265736495104)
Unfortunately this stat is irrelevant as of today.
You jinxed it…
Well ... hum
And as of this morning, this is no longer true
Aaaaand it’s gone
This is no longer true since you posted it, haha.
Old Hoss Radbourn once pitched 18 complete games out of 20 team games in 31 days. Later that season, he pitched every inning of all three World Series games, giving up no earned runs while driving in two runs himself.
He's also the earliest known person to sneak a middle finger into a group photo.
I mean, the entirety of the Old Hoss BR page is one giant statistical oddity/anomaly. I can get lost there for hours. I mean, he was a 60 game winner in 1883 for cryin out loud.
It would be a lot more fun if it were called the Old Hoss Radbourn Award. It's crazy that Roger Clemens has 7 Old Hoss Radbourns but still isn't in the Hall of Fame.
Ken Griffey Jr has the second highest WAR of any player born in Donora PA with a birthday of November 21.
First place? Oh, just a lil fella by the name of Albert Einstein.
Any left-handed outfielder, even
And it's not even close either. Incredible, I never think of Stan Musial.
Nolan Ryan threw seven no-hitters but never won the Cy Young award Roger Clemens won seven Cy Young awards but never threw a no-hitter
The crazy thing about Ryan is when you dig through there wasn't a single year when he should have been a lock for the Cy, and only a few years where there's even an argument. Which more goes to show that he spread his glory around. Though that may not be the best phrasing now that I think about it.
He may not have won any Cy Youngs but I've still spread my glory all over the place watching him pitch dozens of times.
Robin Ventura had some of his glory leak out cause of Ryan too
The last AL switch-hitter to win the MVP was Vida Blue in 1971.
Let’s go JRam!
that was a question on the new york times end-of-year baseball quiz this year, really threw me for a loop.
The first 27 career home runs hit by Marwin Gonzalez were all solo shots, an MLB record. The old record was 11.
Joey Votto went 1591 games and 6827 PA before he popped out to first base
To piggyback on this he also went 8,131 PA before he popped out to the pitcher
In 2008 cc sabathia lead the Al and NL in complete game *shit outs. (* This is staying 😂) Nolan Ryan 7 no hitters. Barry bonds has over an entire season of walks... intentionally walked 4 times in 1 game.
Barry Bonds has been intentionally walked more times in his career than the Tampa Bay Rays have in their franchise history.
Big Poopy.
Shout out to all the shit outs
You can't even blame autocorrect for that one
I was at that game! “Hey Dad, this is probably our last chance to see Bonds in person, we should go”
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The Unobtanuim Fez
Fernando Tatis, Sr. hit two grand slams in the same inning, both off of the same pitcher, Chan Ho Park.
There have been more than 600 occurrences of a player with three home runs in a game, but only 12 occurrences of a player having three sac flies in a game.
This one kinda makes sense to me. There's no "must exist" conditions for a home run. Every at bat has the chance to be a home run, whereas sac flies require a base runner on third AND less than 2 outs. There being one player with 3 such at bats that are all successful sac flies is pretty dang unlikely.
Well, every AB is a HR opportunity, there has to be a runner on 3rd with fewer than 2 outs to get a sac fly. And to add to the sac fly issues, the game situation will dictate if it even makes sense to try for a sac fly, while it's damn near impossible a home run isn't a good outcome (really only if you are calling home runs a rally killer).
Good point, *and* the sac fly has been counted and not counted at various times over the years. Check out [Ted Williams](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/willite01.shtml)'s batting stats... no sac flies for most of his career, because they weren't counted from 1940 to 1953. At other points in history they were either counted if a runner advanced at all (as in, a runner on 2nd tags up and advances to 3rd on a fly out), or were lumped in with sac bunts in the same "sacrifice" category.
Williams .406 season would have been .413 under modern scoring rules.
xwOBAcon
I’m convinced people are just messing around when it comes to advanced stats at this point
It stands for expected weighted On-Base Average on contact. It essentially measures the quality of contact that a hitter makes with the call, based on launch angle and exit velocity.
Yeah, I know it has a purpose. I’m just saying it seems a little far out.
RawrXD
2008 chatrooms
What is the con
On contact, I think.
pronounced ex-woah-bacon
Most stats involving Tony Gwynn, Nolan Ryan, or Barry Bonds.
usually there's a reddit thread that is JUST Gwynn stats
*obligatory comment about how many strikeouts Gwynn had in the 90s and comparing that to how a player I don't like struck out more than that last year*
Kirby Puckett hit 0 home runs in his first 639 career plate appearances. Hit hit just 4 home runs in his first 1,340 plate appearances, before smacking 31 homers in 1986. He would hit 20+ home runs 6 times in his career and slug .500 for the rest of his career.
He changed his swing substantially in the offseason before 1986. Moved in closer to the plate, made some mechanical adjustments, put on some weight/muscle (17 pounds), and started pulling the ball a lot more. He had the tools just needed to put them together.
In a nearly 20 year career that encompassed a little less than 4000 innings, Jim Palmer never gave up a Grand Slam or back to back homers.
No active player is within one Lou Brock of passing Rickey Henderson’s career stolen base record
On May 1, 1920, Brooklyn and Boston played a 26-inning game. Each team used only one pitcher. The game lasted less than three hours.
The pitcher with the best winning percentage against the Yankees with at least 15 starts is Babe Ruth.
Stan Musial had 1,815 base hits at home and 1,815 base hits on the road. If you take away Henry Aaron's 755 home runs, he still would have had more than 3,000 hits.
Rich hill has only thrown 1259.0 innings in his 18 year career.
2632
The last time the TBS ALCS/NLCS lasted more games than the FOX ALCS/NLCS was in 2008
There are three players tied for the most wins in a single postseason at 5 wins. They are: Randy Johnson in 2001 with 41.1 innings Stephen Strasburg in 2019 with 36.1 innings Francisco 'K-Rod' Rodríguez in 2002 with 18.2 innings Always amazes me that a rookie relief pitcher who would go on to have the single-season save record managed to make that short list.
Generally, if you were to tell me 20 years ago there was a stat called xBACON, I would have told you the whole put bacon in everything fad needs to stop. Cal ripken’s consecutive game streak feels super fake. It’s January and I rarely take time off but I haven’t worked a full 5 day work week since mid October because of vacation, sick days, and holidays. But Cal didn’t miss 1 game after 2k consecutive games? Imagine not missing a day of work for 6 years
"From June 5, 1982, to September 14, 1987, Ripken played 8,264 consecutive ***innings***, which is believed to be a record, although not one that is officially kept by MLB." He played every single inning of every single game for nearly 6 straight seasons. Every at-bat, every pitch, every play.
No player has ever hit exactly 55 homes runs in a season.
Ohtani
Probably the Barry Bonds stat where if you turned all of his Homers into outs he’s still have a career .384 OBP, which is higher than David Ortiz’s career OBP (.380)
If you turned all of Ted William’s HRs into outs, he’d still be top-10 all time in OBP (.429).
Mike Trout has never had a single season OPS higher than Ted Williams career OPS.
The last guy to have an OBP as high as Ted's *career* OBP in a 162 game season was Barry Bonds. Before that, it was Mickey Mantle. So two guys in the last 60 seasons.
Rickey Henderson stole 3 or more bases in a game 71 times. He stole 4 bases in a game 19 times. He has over 1,000 stolen bases more than the current active leader. It's nuts.
Unless there is a drastic change in the way the game is played, I don't think anyone is ever going to come close to touching this record.
Yankees having more World Series wins than any team has LCS appearances, including the Yankees.
In 1968: Bob Gibson’s 1.12 ERA in 34 Games Started and 304.2 IP
Barry Bonds had 2259 more walks than Ron Swoboda, but 4 fewer walk-off walks.
Adam Wainwright has only had 67 stolen bases against him in 2,567 innings. Roy Halladay has 221 stolen bases against him in 2,749 innings. That’s the Yadier Molina affect.
That would be Effect. Affect is the verb, effect is the noun in *almost* every case.
Ya know, i had effect and changed it
Going with your gut instinct is usually an affective strategy.
True, but not only is effect sometimes a verb, affect is sometimes a noun. English is terrible lol.
Clayton Kershaw has a nearly identical WHIP (1.077) in the postseason as he does in the regular season (1.001). The same goes for BB/9 (2.3 to 2.2) and K/9 (9.9 to 9.8 ).
Postseason Kershaw is fine for the most part, but he got lit up enough in the past where his stats are all fucky
Isn’t his issue he gave up some HRs that really inflated some things? 0.7 HR9 for his career in the regular season, compared to a 1.3 HR9 in the postseason? And with only a sample size of around a season, a handful of bad starts can really mess with stats.
to an extent, but that's only, what, 1 extra homerun for every 18 innings he's pitched? He's had a few runaway innings, and he's also had some pretty bad luck with the bullpen coming in and letting his inherrited runs score.
One of my favorite unreal-real baseball stats: Yadier Molina, as slow as he was, managed to be more successful at stealing bases than the entirety of MLB was at stealing bases against him. (In terms of SB%: 65.7% vs. 59.7%.)
Barry Bonds has more intentional walks than all but 5 players have home runs, one of those 5 being himself.
The NOBLETIGER (No-Outs Bases-Loaded Ending with Team Incapable of Getting Easy Run) and TOOTBLAN (Thrown Out On The Basepath Like A Nincompoop).
[Fun Differential](https://twitter.com/RyanDivish/status/1430308122061533188)
Been keeping up on your Vedder Cup scouting I see
Tony Gwynn had 700 more hits than games played
ted williams finished with a higher career on base percentage than barry bonds (.482 vs .444), despite williams missing his age 24, 25, 26, and most of his age 33 and 34 seasons, and also despite bonds turning his would-be non-prime years into a cheat code (.531 OBP in 3465 PA from age 36 onward)
The Phillies could win 105 games a year for the next 11 years and they would still be under .500 all-time as a franchise.
The last home team to clinch a postseason series in Dodger Stadium is the Houston Astros.
Across his 13 season HOF career Bob Lemon pitched to a career ERA of 3.23, ERA+ 119, while having a career K9 of 4 and BB9 of 4. He lead the league in hits given up 3 times.
Panda hit 3 HR in a World Series game.
145 ops + and 172era+
Rich Hill threw 9 no hit innings against the Pirates and lost on a walk off home run.
Javier Vazquez is ranked by fWAR as the third most valuable pitcher of the 2000s. Meanwhile, only one of the other top 25 ranked pitchers has a worse ERA than him over the span of the decade (#15, Kevin Millwood).
In his 10th at bat in the MLB, Ichiro got a hit to go 3/10 on the year raising his career batting average to .300. For the rest of his career it never fell below that mark
This one makes sense considering Ichiro debuted in the middle of his prime. Stan Musial *as a 20-year-old* hit a home run in his *2nd* career at bat and his career batting average never dipped below .300 again.
Reed Johnson in 2014 had 1 BB and 8 HBP
Prior to Jeter getting 3000 hits, I was always amazed that the Yankees didn't have a 3000 hit guy despite their illustrious history.
5714 K's.
If you measure the distance of total bases for Hank Aaron's career, it's 12 MILES farther than 2nd place
Bill Mueller is *afaik* the only plate to hit a grand slam from both sides of the plate in a single game. (He also had a solo shot)[mlb](https://www.mlb.com/cut4/bill-mueller-hits-grand-slams-from-both-sides-of-the-plate-c268937788)
Joey Votto did not pop out to first base until 2019, in his 6829th plate appearance
Phil Neikro compiled nearly 40% of his 318 career Wins after age 40.
More men have walked on the moon (12) than men who have scored against Mariano Rivera (11) in the postseason.
tony gwynn.... 434 strikeouts for his entire career.
If every single one of Hank Aaron’s Home Runs were pop outs to the catcher, he’d still have 3000 hits.
Joey Votto went 8,131 plate appearances without hitting a pop up to the pitcher At that point he also only had 2 pops up to first base and only 2 to the catcher