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Last time we listed the pitcher/catcher combos with the most game starts in history. Now let’s see if some of those same pitchers and catchers were tossing the old ball around with lots of other batterymates. Here are the pitchers who have started games with at least 30 different catchers in their career: PITCHER # … Read morePitchers “Pitching Around” & Catchers “Catching Around”
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 have to be able to communicate well, in many different, subtle forms. The twittering of … Read moreGlove Will Keep Us Together
A couple of week ago we announced that we were taking suggestions for player names for an NCAA-style pool called “March Moniker Madness“. We received close to 500 names for 64 slots! So, we’re going to inflate the pool to 512 entries . . . that’s right each of the four divisions will have 128 … Read moreMarch Moniker Madness - Update #2
While recently admiring the statistical oddities of Adam Dunn‘s career (beyond his “TTO” status and the four consecutive seasons of exactly 40 homers), I stumbled upon a factoid that baffled and befuddled me. In 2004, “The Big Donkey,” while hitting 46 dingers and driving in 102, failed to knock anyone in via a sac fly. … Read moreAdam Dunn Does Not Like Sacrificing Flies
In what is seemingly a strenuous attempt to get young girls interested in fantasy baseball, a company called “A View from My Seat” teamed up with the usually well-regarded CBSSports.com to produce an app called “Baseball Boyfriend.” Here is the gist, as described on the app’s page on CBSSports.com: Baseball Boyfriend is a single draftee … Read moreTake a bad app . . . and make it better
Back in August 2000, Baseball Prospectus’ Rany Jazayerli wrote an article on introduced the sabermetric world to the concept of the “Three True Outcomes” (TTO)*. TTO was the premise that there are three events in a plate appearance that cannot be impacted by the fielders, namely the strikeout, walk and homerun. (* - After I … Read moreApplying “Three True Outcomes” to a Team
Earlier this week we announced that we were taking suggestions for player names for an NCAA-style pool called “March Moniker Madness“. The response has been overwhelming . . . we’ve received 487 valid entries as of this morning! Obviously, we’re going to have to adjust the initial size of the field a bit! But in … Read moreMarch Moniker Madness Update #1
Unless you’ve been in a hyperbaric chamber, state of suspended animation or a cave the last two weeks, you know that tomorrow will be Super Bowl 46. But the NFL, in what I can only hope was a nod to the “Roman gladiator”-style entertainment of the sport, identifies each year’s final game by a Roman … Read moreThis Year we will have World Series CVIII (corrected)