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
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
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
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
Jack Cust set the record for highest “Three True Outcome” percentage for a batting title qualifier when he compiled a 58.2% rate in 2007. In his 507 plate appearances that season, he amassed 26 homers, 105 walks and 164 strikeouts. Thus far this season, the Twins Miguel Sano has eclipsed Cust’s mark, TTOing in nearly … Read more
Last week we detailed the 2016 update to the lowest career totals that no one is currently sitting on for various stats. Now its time to do the same for single season records. To find out, we exported the single season statistics from 1871-2016 for the nearly 17,000 players in baseball history listed via Fangraphs, … Read more
Baseball is full of career records, with numbers that everyone can reference … 762, 511, 652, 4256. But what about the numbers that no player currently has? The VORG wanted to know what is the LOWEST career total that no one is currently sitting on. In other words and as an example, does no one … Read more
We’ve finally reached the World Series, and with it the established institutions will of course give you the standard previews of the Indians/Cubs showdown. But this is the VORG … we don’t do “standard” … we do factoids, minutiae, trivia, oddities, random bits of info on all the major participants for both teams. Here now … Read more