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Veteran’s Day is here, and the VORG is celebrating by highlighting the oldest teams (relative to league-average age) since 1901. Listed below are the ten teams with the biggest difference between their average age “TmAge” and the league average that year “LgAge” (expressed as “TotDif”). You’ll notice that though seven of these squads finished over … Read more“Veteran” Teams
Here’s some things you probably didn’t know about each member of the World Series teams (based on presumed rosters as of Tuesday afternoon). First up, the Tigers: Pitchers Al Alburquerque : Has not allowed a homerun in his 56.2 inning MLB career (regular season). Only player in MLB history with two “Qs” in his name. … Read moreThe VORG 2012 World Series Preview
In our last post, we mentioned the ESPN Baseball Today podcast from last Friday, in relation to the question of whether there had ever been any lineup that included all 26 letters. That podcast also had an e-mailer offering up his “all-sitcom” lineup, featuring sitcom character names that are the same as Major/Minor Leaguers. The … Read moreThe All-Sitcom Emmy-nominated Role Team
Last time out we found the batters with the most games played without an All-Star Game appearance. Let’s flip that on its head by now presenting the batters with the fewest career games played with at least one appearance in an All-Star game. We’ll be limiting this to retired players debuting on or after 1933 … Read moreHey Now … You’re an All-Star … Then You’re Out of Baseball
So we’ve come to another All-Star game, and given the ever-expanding rosters, we now have a situation in which one of every eight MLB regulars in an “All-Star”. But even with roster expansion and the silly rule that every team needs to have at least one representative sent to the game, there HAVE been players … Read moreToiling (and sometimes excelling) in Anonymity
Lots of sites have written chapter and verse on the just-started season. Player projections, won-loss predictions, awards prognostications. Here at the VORG, we give you roster analysis based upon the Scrabble-acceptability of the names on the Opening Day ledger for each team. If the player’s first or last name can be found in the Official … Read more2012 VORG Season Preview - Scrabble-style