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
We’ve done homers by birthday, and hits by birthday. Might as well go whole hog and do slash stats.
Here are the composite homer, RBI and slash stats for each birthday. The homers and RBI are prorated to 502 plate appearances per player, and all stats are from 1954-2016.
In case you are wondering, 7/24’s numbers are quite gaudy due to one Barry Bonds.
Last time out we presented the homer leaders by birthday, as well as total homers by day. Now its time to do the same for hits.
Another prompt from the Twitterverse:
Most HR Jan 26 bday
Bob Neiman 125
Johnny Frederick 85
Rick Schu 41
Jeff Branson 34
Andres Torres 32
Rip Russell 29
Charlie Gelbert 17— High Heat Stats ? January 27, 2017
There has been only two instances of a batting order in birthdate order, and both of them started with the youngest player and move to the oldest: July 10, 1993 Padres at Expos EXPOS Birthdate Delino DeShields 1/15/1969 Mike Lansing 4/3/1968 Marquis Grissom 4/17/1967 Larry Walker 12/1/1966 Darrin Fletcher 10/3/1966 Moises Alou 7/3/1966 Frank Bolick … Read more
One of the cool facts of the upcoming Super Bowl is the record 13-year age difference between the starting quarterbacks (Peyton Manning is 39 while Cam Newton is 26). That got the VORG wondering what the regular season record is for age difference between starting pitchers. With the Retrosheet gamelogs accessed, here is the answer: … Read more
In a group of 25 people (such as a baseball club), there is a 57% chance that at least two people will share a birthday. In a group of 50 people (such as competing ballclubs), there is a 97% chance of at least two people sharing a birthday. Given this, how often have opposing pitchers … Read more
Since today is 11/12/13, and that “date pattern” of “x/x+1/x+2” happens very rarely, the VORG gives you the short list of players whose birthdates meet that criteria: Name Month Day Year Ivy Andrews 5 6 1907 Johnnie Chambers 9 10 1911 Mike Guerra 10 11 1912 Wayne Osborne 10 11 1912 Gene Lillard 11 12 … Read more