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Tag Archives: Phillies
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
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Contracted Player Names
Due to an intestinal bug suffered by Cole Hamels, the Phillies are giving rookie Tyler Cloyd the start tonight. It’s Cloyd’s big league debut. When I saw the name, I thought of this guy, and apparently so did Andy, of … Continue reading
Are you ready for some football during the pennant races?
With this being the opening weekend of the NFL, I thought we should find some football-type baseball scores. So, after parsing out the Sunday games that feature multiples of 7s and 3s, here are the highest “football-like” scores in MLB … Continue reading
Lee / Gee in Battle of Three-Letter SPs
When I saw that tonight’s pitching matchup at Citizen’s Bank Park featured the Phils Cliff Lee and the Mets Dillon Gee, the first thing that piqued my interest was the rhyming last names. But then, being a math geek, I … Continue reading