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
Toronto Blue Jays’ rookie outfielder Lourdes Gurriel is in the midst of an amazing streak. Gurriel, with all of 38 games of experience in the Majors, has an 11-game hit streak, and has collected at least two hits in every one of those games. In baseball history, this is only the seventh such streak of … 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
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
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
Late in Monday night’s 2-0 Mets victory over Miami, the Mets’ announcers mentioned that New York was using its sixth pitcher of the evening. Now generally speaking, nine-inning shutouts SHOULD require fewer pitchers than games where a team gives up some runs. So the six-pitcher shutout got the VORG wondering if the explosion in relief … Read more
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
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