factoids

You Only Start on Sundays

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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

Pitching Matchups with One Last Name Matching Other’s First Name

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Last night, Gerrit Cole faced off against Cole Hamels. I was asked if that had happened before: I’m sure can tell us the last time opposing pitchers’ names lined up like Gerrit Cole v Cole Hamels — Thickie Don April 11, 2018 Indeed it has, at least 36 times in history. In … Read more

Players with Names Matching U.S. State Capitals

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Andrew Baggarly was watching the Giants play this past Thursday, and stumbled upon this factoid: Austin Jackson lines out in his first at-bat of the spring. I actually spent 20 minutes on this, and could not find another MLB player whose name is two state capitals. — Andrew Baggarly March 1, 2018 . . … Read more

Starting Pitchers with Highest TTO%

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We’ve talked a lot about Three True Outcomes for batters, most recently with Joey Gallo setting a new single-season record for highest TTO%. Now lets take a look at the record-holders from the starting pitcher standpoint. Here are the top 25 highest single-season TTO marks by starters with enough innings to qualify for the ERA … Read more

Three True Outcomes Record Falls

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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 more

From 20-game Winner to 20-game Loser

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A friend of mine asked me, after considering the 2016-7 fortunes of Rick Porcello, if anyone had ever lost 20 games the year after winning 20. This list meets that request, with the following exceptions: It doesn’t include those that won and lost 20+ games in the same season It doesn’t include those that lost … Read more

Consecutive Games Facing Pitcher with Same Last Name

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Friend of the VORG (and fellow you should definitely follow) Doug Kern asked me the following this morning:

After a bunch of data wrangling with the Retrosheet game logs, I don’t know about the Brew Crew having experienced this phenomena nine times, but here is what I was able to come up with in terms of one team facing pitchers with the same last name in consecutive games, through 2016. If there is only a last name listed, just trust me when I say that each pitcher had a different Retrosheet ID. I’m not 100% certain on this list, but I think I’m ….. in the ballpark.

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