This polar vortex that is passing through a wide swath of the United States has led to some of the VORG’s baseball brethren to proclaim their cities’ temperatures in a slightly different fashion. To wit:
So according to my phone the temperature is Babe Ruth and the wind chill is minus Yogi Berra.
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@StaceGots @dianagram My temp is negative Ozzie Smith & wind chill of negative Ray Lankford, which is an improvement on yesterday.
This got us thinking about how each major league city could describe the temperatures experienced this past Monday. Using data from the National Weather Service (both US and Canada), and Baseball Almanac’s compendium of team uniform number histories, here is what we’ve come up with:
| CITY | a Hi of | a Lo of |
| ATL | John Smoltz | Clete Boyer |
| BAL | Erik Bedard | Bobby Grich |
| BOS | Craig Hansen | John Valentin |
| CHC | Kazuo Fukumori | negative Darwin Barney |
| CHW | Marv Foley | negative Gordon Beckham |
| CIN | Gary Redus | negative Paul Janish |
| CLE | Duane Kuiper | negative Toby Harrah |
| TEX | John Burkett | negative Curtis Wilkerson |
| COL | Aaron Cook | Dante Bichette |
| DET | Schoolboy Rowe | negative John Wockenfuss |
| HOU | Joe Niekro | negative Jesus Alou |
| KCR | Alex Gordon | negative George Brett |
| LAA | Reggie Willits + 1 | Brendan Donnelly |
| LAD | Kenley Jansen + 4 | Don Drysdale |
| MIA | Livan Hernandez + 24 | Jose Ceda |
| MIL | negative Richie Sexson | negative Casey McGehee |
| MIN | negative Cesar Tovar | negative Tim Laudner |
| NYM | Pedro Feliciano | David Wright |
| NYY | Hideki Matsui | Joe DiMaggio |
| PHI | Mike Zagurski | Lenny Dykstra |
| ARI | Mike Koplove + 10 | Paul Goldschmidt |
| PIT | Bruce Kison | negative Bill Mazeroski |
| STL | Ozzie Smith | negative Marty Marion |
| SDP | Will Venable * 3 | Brian Lawrence |
| SFG | Waldis Joaquin | Jeff Brantley |
| OAK | Sean Doolittle | Erubiel Durazo |
| SEA | Dave Cochrane | Shane Rawley |
| TBR | Grant Balfour + 20 | Jeff Niemann |
| TOR | negative Reed Johnson | negative Garth Iorg |
| WSN | Garrett Mock | Scott Hairston |