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Category Archives: lineups
He’s batting Cleanup?
Cleanup hitters . . . generally your most powerful hitters. Baseball history (and the Hall of Fame) is full of legendary cleanup hitters. Here are the players with most games batting cleanup in their careers: Player Games Started Eddie Murray … Continue reading
Posted in factoids, lineups, Play Index mining, records
Tagged cleanup hitter, Lou Brock, Paul Molitor, Tony Gwynn, Yuniesky Betancourt
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Your Last Name is My First Name!
Friend of the VORG Keith DeCandido alerted me to the following Wednesday afternoon: Keith R.A. DeCandido @KRADeC Ben Francisco batting before Francisco Cervelli, and I’m wondering how often that’s happened. (Paging @dianagram….) Well, after poring over the nearly 160,000 Retrosheet … Continue reading
Posted in lineups, Names, Retrosheet
Tagged Ben Francisco, Blake DeWitt, Brendan Ryan Ryan Langerhans, Casey Blake, first names, Francisco Cervelli, last names, lineups
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A Lineup of Unique Last Names
In response to the most recent article on the VORG (titled “Our Opponents Don’t Look Familiar”), Jamie Gray tweeted the following: Jamie Gray @Jamee999 This title gave me a question: has there ever been a lineup of surnames seen no … Continue reading
Posted in lineups, Names
Tagged A.J. Pierzynski, Jim Thome, Scott Podsednik, St. Louis Browns, Tadahito Iguchi, Twins
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The Gauntlet of 26-Letter Lineups
Its nice to be gaining a reputation for certain kinds of analyses. Twitter followers, Facebook friends and the like point out to you that “this would be right up your alley” or “has this ever happened in a game?” Such … Continue reading
Posted in lineups, Names, publicity
Tagged Baseball Today, lineups, Mark Simon, Russell Carleton
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Historical Opening Day Lineup Turnover Rates
You can tell a bit about the health of a franchise by looking at the rate of change in their Opening Day lineups. If you see the same names over and over, that generally means a stable (good) ballclub with … Continue reading
Posted in lineups, Opening Day
Tagged Andres Galarraga, Carl Yastrzemski, Frank White, Jim Rice, lineups, Opening Day, Ted Williams, Todd Helton
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Glove Will Keep Us Together
Its Valentine’s Day on Tuesday, and what better way for the VORG to celebrate it than to examine the “couples” that have lasted the longest on the diamond. I’m speaking of the batterymates . . . pitchers and catchers. They … Continue reading
Posted in batteries, catchers, lineups, pitchers
Tagged batteries, Bill Freehan, catchers, Mickey Lolich, pitchers, Valentine's Day
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Games People Don’t Play
Jose Reyes had a great year for the Mets. He led the National League in batting, tied for the overall lead in triples and played his usual average (but flashy!) defense. He also tied for the team lead in games … Continue reading
Posted in lineups, stat crunching, teams
Tagged Jose Reyes, lineups, Mets, Willie Harris
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