Toronto Blue Jays’ rookie outfielder Lourdes Gurriel is in the midst of an amazing streak. Gurriel, with all of 38 games of experience in the Majors, has an 11-game hit streak, and has collected at least two hits in every one of those games. In baseball history, this is only the seventh such streak of … Read more
VORG favorite Jayson Stark tweeted the following recently: This #RedSox-#Yankees series isn’t just epic. It’s historic. According to @EliasSports it’s the first time two teams with this good a win pct have met this late in a season since 9/2/54! That was #Yankees-#Indians. Wow — Jayson Stark (@jaysonst) June 29, 2018 … which got me … 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 @dianagram special. ? — Doug Kern (@dakern74) 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
Perhaps you’ve seen the article each year where they cost out what you’d have to spend to give your beloved each of the items mentioned in “The 12 Days of Christmas“. Last year, I thought it would be cool to see if we could come up with the baseball equivalent of this, using ballplayer names. … Read more
Today is Thanksgiving, so I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the following people/entities for making my baseball blogging world a better place (in no particular order): Baseball Prospectus: The folks I followed (Kahrl, Jaffe, Goldstein, Lindbergh, Sheehan, Goldman) are gone, but they continue to find great writers/analysts. From prospect talk to fantasy baseball … Read more
The last of the 2017 season awards will be handed out Thursday afternoon, as the AL and NL MVPs are announced. Here at the VORG, MVP stands for “Most Voweluable Player”, that being the player in each league with the highest percentage of vowels in their first and last names combined. Over in the American … Read more
Wednesday evening brings us the announcement of the “Cy Young Award” winner in each league. So, its now time for the VORG to announce the winners of the 2017 “Pi Young Awards”, celebrating the pitchers with ERAs closest to 3.1415927 . . . . (Here’s a refresher on the whys and wherefores of the award). … Read more