During last night’s Mets TV broadcast, it was mentioned that New York’s starting pitcher (Jacob deGrom) and catcher (Devin Mesoraco) shared the exact same birthday (6/19/1988). Here are all the prior games (through 2017) in which that has happened (note that the last occurrence prior to 2018 was way back in 1998): date vteam hteam … Read more
Friend of the VORG Doug Kern alerted me to the following: Just noticed the Yankee game had a 6-run inning, a 5-run inning, a 4-, a 3-, a 2-, and of course a 1-. This feels like a special. ? — Doug Kern May 24, 2018 To see if this “sequence” of runs … Read more
Late in Monday night’s 2-0 Mets victory over Miami, the Mets’ announcers mentioned that New York was using its sixth pitcher of the evening. Now generally speaking, nine-inning shutouts SHOULD require fewer pitchers than games where a team gives up some runs. So the six-pitcher shutout got the VORG wondering if the explosion in relief … Read more
MLB Advanced Media stats guru Cory Schwartz tweeted out this gem: Shohei Ohtani has made 4-of-6 starts (67%) on Sundays this year; since MLB.COM started in 2001, only six SP’s have started 10+ games in a season w/ 50%+ of them on the same day of the week; last was Yusmeiro Petit, who made 6-of-10 … Read more
The best, most realistic baseball sim is back again! I originally reviewed “OOTP” back in 2014, and in the four years since, the game’s AI, graphics and realism have only gotten better. You can manage or general manage practically ANY team in professional baseball from rookie ball to the big leagues to foreign leagues, … Read more
Last year, Major League Baseball set an all-time record when 33.5% of all plate appearances ended in a walk, strikeout or homers (the “three true outcomes“). Here at the VORG, monitoring “TTO” is one of our pet projects. Each month this season, we’ll be checking on the assault on the TTO record, both on the … Read more