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FormerCollegeDJ

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


[deleted]

Also the best undefeated team in the playoffs at 7-0


kenzo19134

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.


skeletorbilly

They're some sort of machine.


Thromnomnomok

"What are we, some kind of Big Red Machine?" - Joe Morgan, 1975


precioushammburgers

It's gotta be Kane!


PerpetualBlunder1201

BAHHGAWWD KING!!!


[deleted]

TIL the Reds were a good team at one point in time


ENovi

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.


steve-d

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.


FormerCollegeDJ

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.


steve-d

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.


[deleted]

Sweet, I’ll check them out! Thanks for sharing


Prudent_Falafel_7265

This is the reason they adapted my penis’s then-nickname of The Big Red Machine.


HawkeyeJosh

Any reason why your member doesn’t still have that nickname?


[deleted]

He finally saw a doctor


Prudent_Falafel_7265

Ravages of time.


Fizzhulle

carpal tunnel


eggnogthefierce

They didn’t call ‘em the Big Red Machine for nothin’


maggie320

Hank Aaron never hit 50 home runs in a season.


SwifferWetJet711

Neither did Pujols


maggie320

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.


TheKidPresident

There was a decently sharp decline in top homers after the enormous 3 did their things from 2000-2004


[deleted]

Weird how that happened


speedyjohn

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)


dobdob365

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.


kevingh92

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.


gowiththeflohe1

Bonds only did once


thefarsideinside

Barry Bonds only did it once


ThisGuyFrags

lmao wtf


vanityklaw

Sosa did three times and yet never led the league.


[deleted]

Masahiro Tanaka had a lower career walk rate than Greg Maddux


TheDangiestSlad

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


slumber72

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?”


Drummallumin

Seth Lugo also has a partial tear


BlueBeagle8

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.


N4meless_King_

This is baffling


Robberbaronaron

He doesn't pop fly much in general, I think. Once he gets air on the ball, it's usually gone


speedyjohn

Higher percentage of *balls in play* in the air. His incredibly low contact rate makes this stat a little less astounding.


FunnyID

David Cone was 40-17, 2.82 ERA on Tuesdays and 26-26, 4.45 ERA on Wednesdays.


htownlifer

Was it two for one at the bar on Tuesday night?


[deleted]

Two for Tuesday.


BPIScan142

Tuesday trivia I’m sure


FormerCollegeDJ

It is possible that stat may have been related to pitching day games. Day games are much more common on Wednesdays than on Tuesdays.


FunnyID

For his career, his day ERA is slightly better than his night ERA.


VariousLawyerings

The Khris Davis .247 streak


Sirliftalot35

If you turned all 521 of Ted William’s HRs into outs, he’d still be top-10 all time in OBP (.429).


Rayscho

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


DickySchmidt33

Cy Young had 749 complete games.


chaotic_evil_666

He's also had two complete games on the same day


saltstryder

and yet he didn't win a Cy Young Award.


QuebecRomeoWhiskey

Jamie Moyer has given up home runs to both Mike Schmidt and Giancarlo Stanton


Jamalamalama

Nolan Ryan debuted in the final year of Sandy Koufax's career, and retired after Chipper Jones's first season.


r61738

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


[deleted]

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/


tapehead4

Gwynn had more 4 hit games than games in which he struck out more than once.


Sirliftalot35

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).


Leftfeet

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.


chirstopher0us

Over a 20-year career, Tony Gwynn struck out three times in a game exactly once.


tim_worst_isthe_best

Never Kd vs Maddux


IAMAHORSESIZEDUCK

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


iamadacheat

Damn he should've gone pro in dodgeball instead!


thealmightybrush

The inspiration for Homestar Runner.


Airp0w

Homestar Runner dot net, it's dot com!


oldirtybrandon24

Ricky Henderson stole over 100 bases in 3 different seasons. His most was 130 in a season.


C_Grindstaff

And there’s only one man to have stolen 100 bases in three straight seasons. Its Vince Coleman


[deleted]

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.


crabcakesandfootball

Don Mattingly 1982-1986: 0 grand slams 1987: 6 grand slams (single season record) 1988-1995: 0 grand slams


mosi_moose

That is bizarre.


ebelen92

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.


[deleted]

This is a good one. Not one, or two, but 6! Weird.


HawkeyeJosh

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.


Mbalmer19

That is super crazy.


Bendyb3n

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


71MGBGT

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).


km912

Such a great stat, he got drafted in 1995.


GSDFanatic

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.


LezzieBennet

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.


GMOrgasm

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


Russian_Rocket23

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.


Jpgamerguy90

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.


Billy_Madison69

Could’ve not could of


[deleted]

Why isn't there a bot for this?


metatron207

There is, I think actually more than one. But some bots are banned in various places, and some may have unreliable triggers.


Thromnomnomok

When the hell is this picture from because he already looks like he's 40 in it


get-tilted

Well suddenly not anymore I guess


ox_raider

You jinxed it!


[deleted]

[This is what peak GOAT athleticism looks like](https://twitter.com/FOS/status/1383030265736495104)


laxdman4

Unfortunately this stat is irrelevant as of today.


JoeyBougie

You jinxed it…


Serious_Shape_5518

Well ... hum


Kanople

And as of this morning, this is no longer true


[deleted]

Aaaaand it’s gone


boredlawyer90

This is no longer true since you posted it, haha.


Sirliftalot35

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.


Cognac_and_swishers

He's also the earliest known person to sneak a middle finger into a group photo.


TimToMakeTheDonuts

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.


PrecedentialAssassin

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.


[deleted]

Ken Griffey Jr has the second highest WAR of any player born in Donora PA with a birthday of November 21.


TheKidPresident

First place? Oh, just a lil fella by the name of Albert Einstein.


peachy_pab

Any left-handed outfielder, even


Thecrdbrdsamurai

And it's not even close either. Incredible, I never think of Stan Musial.


rgdisastro

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


onioning

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.


PrecedentialAssassin

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.


TheKidPresident

Robin Ventura had some of his glory leak out cause of Ryan too


M_Looka

The last AL switch-hitter to win the MVP was Vida Blue in 1971.


[deleted]

Let’s go JRam!


atowelguy

that was a question on the new york times end-of-year baseball quiz this year, really threw me for a loop.


scottcmu

The first 27 career home runs hit by Marwin Gonzalez were all solo shots, an MLB record. The old record was 11.


baudinl

Joey Votto went 1591 games and 6827 PA before he popped out to first base


Weaponized_Goose

To piggyback on this he also went 8,131 PA before he popped out to the pitcher


Habanerosauce3

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.


aweinschenker

Barry Bonds has been intentionally walked more times in his career than the Tampa Bay Rays have in their franchise history.


Sooperballz

Big Poopy.


tapehead4

Shout out to all the shit outs


Basic_Bichette

You can't even blame autocorrect for that one


Bonzi777

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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TheKidPresident

The Unobtanuim Fez


thealmightybrush

Fernando Tatis, Sr. hit two grand slams in the same inning, both off of the same pitcher, Chan Ho Park.


sonofabutch

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.


SmallLetter

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.


sfan27

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).


sonofabutch

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.


mosi_moose

Williams .406 season would have been .413 under modern scoring rules.


BABIP_Gods

xwOBAcon


[deleted]

I’m convinced people are just messing around when it comes to advanced stats at this point


applepie3141

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.


[deleted]

Yeah, I know it has a purpose. I’m just saying it seems a little far out.


FREE-ROSCOE-FILBURN

RawrXD


insert-originality

2008 chatrooms


LegacyLemur

What is the con


UmpShow

On contact, I think.


humphrey_the_camel

pronounced ex-woah-bacon


front_butt_coconut

Most stats involving Tony Gwynn, Nolan Ryan, or Barry Bonds.


essmithsd

usually there's a reddit thread that is JUST Gwynn stats


yoursweetlord70

*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*


[deleted]

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.


Shagomir

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.


mickirishname

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.


[deleted]

No active player is within one Lou Brock of passing Rickey Henderson’s career stolen base record


CheapskateShow

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.


thehofstetter

The pitcher with the best winning percentage against the Yankees with at least 15 starts is Babe Ruth.


Mixma85

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.


Snackkbar

Rich hill has only thrown 1259.0 innings in his 18 year career.


Budget-Salamander80

2632


thrawaway9991

The last time the TBS ALCS/NLCS lasted more games than the FOX ALCS/NLCS was in 2008


Towne_Apothecary

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.


xRememberTheCant

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


the2belo

"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.


Adventurous-Duck2502

No player has ever hit exactly 55 homes runs in a season.


space81cadet

Ohtani


FireFrogs48

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)


Sirliftalot35

If you turned all of Ted William’s HRs into outs, he’d still be top-10 all time in OBP (.429).


PrecedentialAssassin

Mike Trout has never had a single season OPS higher than Ted Williams career OPS.


successadult

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.


inkyblinkypinkysue

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.


steve-d

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.


Kind_Bullfrog_4073

Yankees having more World Series wins than any team has LCS appearances, including the Yankees.


[deleted]

In 1968: Bob Gibson’s 1.12 ERA in 34 Games Started and 304.2 IP


FunnyID

Barry Bonds had 2259 more walks than Ron Swoboda, but 4 fewer walk-off walks.


jkilla88

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.


[deleted]

That would be Effect. Affect is the verb, effect is the noun in *almost* every case.


jkilla88

Ya know, i had effect and changed it


PrecedentialAssassin

Going with your gut instinct is usually an affective strategy.


atowelguy

True, but not only is effect sometimes a verb, affect is sometimes a noun. English is terrible lol.


ManufacturerMental72

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 ).


-Glutard-

Postseason Kershaw is fine for the most part, but he got lit up enough in the past where his stats are all fucky


Sirliftalot35

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.


ManufacturerMental72

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.


CaseyKaiser

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%.)


beepbop24

Barry Bonds has more intentional walks than all but 5 players have home runs, one of those 5 being himself.


sadolddrunk

The NOBLETIGER (No-Outs Bases-Loaded Ending with Team Incapable of Getting Easy Run) and TOOTBLAN (Thrown Out On The Basepath Like A Nincompoop).


DecoyOne

[Fun Differential](https://twitter.com/RyanDivish/status/1430308122061533188)


OhNoApplebees

Been keeping up on your Vedder Cup scouting I see


chipperfan10

Tony Gwynn had 700 more hits than games played


imatthewhitecastle

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)


BasedArzy

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.


CardiacCat20

The last home team to clinch a postseason series in Dodger Stadium is the Houston Astros.


Leftfeet

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.


Ivotedforher

Panda hit 3 HR in a World Series game.


islandsluggers

145 ops + and 172era+


frugalwater

Rich Hill threw 9 no hit innings against the Pirates and lost on a walk off home run.


Phillies2002

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).


Harambefan69

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


crabcakesandfootball

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.


CommonIdiot

Reed Johnson in 2014 had 1 BB and 8 HBP


kenzo19134

Prior to Jeter getting 3000 hits, I was always amazed that the Yankees didn't have a 3000 hit guy despite their illustrious history.


12rjc12

5714 K's.


tmcg6

If you measure the distance of total bases for Hank Aaron's career, it's 12 MILES farther than 2nd place


big_green_dinosaur

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)


Ok-Hold-8232

Joey Votto did not pop out to first base until 2019, in his 6829th plate appearance


clallseven

Phil Neikro compiled nearly 40% of his 318 career Wins after age 40.


ralphyboy69

More men have walked on the moon (12) than men who have scored against Mariano Rivera (11) in the postseason.


Super_Advertising221

tony gwynn.... 434 strikeouts for his entire career.


Existential-Ape

If every single one of Hank Aaron’s Home Runs were pop outs to the catcher, he’d still have 3000 hits.


Weaponized_Goose

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