The Red Sox and Yankees are making a mockery of the American League East, with a healthy double-digit games lead over third place. As of the end of Saturday’s action, the Sox and Bronx Bombers have a combined winning percentage of .675 (129-62 overall record between the two teams). That would be good enough for … Read more
VORG favorite Jayson Stark tweeted the following recently: This #RedSox-#Yankees series isn’t just epic. It’s historic. According to 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 June 29, 2018 … which got me … Read more
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
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
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
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
Friend of the VORG David Branson asks: Is this the most players with the same surname to play in the same season? https://t.co/mgjbqLIgpU — David Branson August 30, 2017 Storm was one of 13 MLB players named Davis in 1985. Others: Alvin, Chili, Eric, Gerry, Glenn, Jody, Joel, Mark, Mike, Ron, Steve, Trench … Read more