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Category Archives: frivolity
2013 Pi Young Award – April Update
April has come and gone, so let us see which hurlers are leading their respective leagues in the race for the annual “Pi Young Award“. First up . . . the American League/no innings requirement. Cleveland’s Justin Masterson is only … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, frivolity, pitchers
Tagged Jeremy Guthrie, Jon Lester, Justin Masterton, Lance Lynn, Mike Minor, Pi Young Award, Stephen Strasburg, Tony Sipp
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You Were Meant to Play for Us!
Friend of the VORG Rob (aka @StumpTheRob) tweeted at me a couple of nights ago: rob @StumpTheRob @dianagram Got a project for you, but it starts with this trivia ?: what do Kyle Seager and Tony Cingrani have in common? … Continue reading
Posted in frivolity, Names, teams
Tagged Cincinnati, Damian Miller, Kyle Seager, Milwaukee, Seattle, Tony Cingrani
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The Shortest (Named) Batteries of All-Time
Tuesday night saw another instance of a Dillon GEE – Cliff LEE pitching matchup, the brevity of their last names having been written about before. In the midst of (re)publicizing that post to the Twitterverse, one of my followers noted: … Continue reading
Mike Lieberthal and “Sabbathmetrics”
Last night marked the beginning of Passover, the celebration of the Israelites’ freedom from slavery in Egypt. That means its time for another Sabbathmetrics post, in which we look at whether certain Jewish players performed better on worse on the … Continue reading
Posted in frivolity, Sabbathmetrics
Tagged Mike Lieberthal, Passover, Phillies, Sabbathmetrics
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Happy Pi Day 2013!
If you’ve been reading the VORG for a while, you know that our favorite day of the year, aside from Opening Day, would be Pi Day. Pi Day (3.14) celebrates the magic and … Continue reading
Posted in factoids, frivolity, Play Index mining, stat crunching
Tagged 3.14, pi day, Pi Young Award
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Documenting the Existence of Unicorns in Baseball
Unicorns are the “it” thing nowadays. Even respected publications like “The Week” are doing stories on them (with and without accompanying rainbows and butterflies). But you may wonder, have there ever been unicorns in baseball? Well dear reader, the VORG … Continue reading
Posted in foreign languages, frivolity, Names
Tagged eenhoorn, eichhorn, einhorn, unicorns
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They Are Who We Thought They Were (with a slightly different name)
Sometimes you’ll be having a conversation with friends about ballplayers, and you’ll mistakenly mention someone with a very similar name to the one you are actually describing. For example, perhaps you meant to talk about the white, 46-year-old former reliever … Continue reading
Posted in frivolity, Names, parts of speech
Tagged homophones, Jae Seo, Jay Johnstone, John Jaso, John Jay, John Johnstone, Jon Jay, names
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