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Tuesday afternoon will see the continuation of the 2017 MLB award period, with the AL and NL Managers of the Year being announced. These awards are usually given to the skipper of a team that exceeds its preseason expectations. At the VORG, we don’t think that’s true to the spirit of the word “manager”. We … Read moreThe VORG’s 2017 “Manager of the Year” Awards
If you’re new to the VORG, please note that we give out our awards not necessarily to the BEST player for each honor, but for the most NOTABLE player. For example, Michael Fulmer and Corey Seager were last year’s Rookies of the Year. But instead we gave the American League Rookie of the Year to … Read moreThe VORG’s 2017 “Rookie of the Year” Awards
Since 1980, Louisville Slugger has given out the “Silver Slugger Award“, described as follows: The Louisville Slugger Silver Slugger Awards are the top offensive honor in Major League Baseball ®. Coaches and managers of Major League teams vote for the players they feel are the best offensive producers at each position in the field in … Read moreThe VORG’s 2017 “Nate Silver Slugger Awards”
As mentioned three weeks into this season, the Three True Outcomes record for a batting title qualifier was liable to be in a bit of jeopardy. While Miguel Sano didn’t keep up his 62.7 TTO% from the first weeks, the Rangers’ Joey Gallo managed to maintain his TTO pace, and finished the season with the … Read moreThree True Outcomes Record Falls
Friday night marks the beginning of “Yom Kippur“, the holiest day on the Hebrew calendar. It is a day of atonement, and one is to refrain from work, while attending synagogue and fasting. At the VORG, it means its time for another edition of “Sabbathmetrics“. Today we examine the Sabbath/non-Sabbath performance differences of former pitcher … Read moreJose J. Bautista and “Sabbathmetrics”
Wednesday night marks the first evening of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. So its time for another installment of “Sabbathmetrics”, where we determine if Jewish ballplayers perform better or worse on the Sabbath. Our subject today is lefty pitcher Ross Baumgarten. Baumgarten was a 20th-round selection of the White Sox in 1977 and made … Read moreRoss Baumgarten and “Sabbathmetrics”
At the seventh annual Saberseminar this past weekend at Boston University, attendees were entertained and informed by the event’s emcee, Chicago White Sox play-by-play announcer Jason Benetti. Periodcally, Benetti would make note of a “Recycled Battery” receptacle in the lecture hall. He asked if anyone had extra batteries to dispose of, and then started asking … Read moreRecycled Batteries
As so often is the case with a VORG topic, it started with a single tweet: Hey @jaysonst wi Austin Pruitt starting opposite Dallas Keuchel in TX - can you recall 2 SP named after cities meeting in that state — Neil Solondz (@neilsolondz) August 3, 2017 To which my hero Jayson Stark replied: How … Read morePitchers are Cities in the State Game is Played In