Its very early in the season, but we have no fewer than six batters, each with enough plate appearances to qualify for the batting title, whose on-base percentage is at least double their batting average: Name PA BB K AVG OBP OBP/AVG Russell Martin 39 8 13 .097 .282 2.91 Ryan Schimpf (*) 48 13 … 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.
In 2013, the VORG gave out the first annual “Nate Silver Slugger Award,” bestowed to those batters at each position who came closest to slugging .538 (after Mr. Silver’s data-driven analytics site). Here are this year’s players who slugged closest to .538 (on either side of it). Ties for the award are given to whichever … Read more
Last year, the VORG gave out the first annual “Nate Silver Slugger Award,” bestowed to those batters at each position who came closest to slugging .538 (after Mr. Silver’s data-driven analytics site). Here are this year’s players who slugged closest to .538 (on either side of it). Ties for the award are given to whichever … Read more
Mike Trout’s 2012 AL Rookie of the Year campaign was one for the ages. He compiled a .326/.399/.564 line in 129 games. The resulting .963 OPS was the 16th-highest rookie mark amongst batting title qualifiers in baseball history, and the highest since Albert Pujols’ 1.013 rookie OPS in 2001.
This season, not only is Trout not suffering a sophomore slump, he is maintaining or slightly improving upon those slash stats. Going into Tuesday evening, he was “slashing” .329/.423/.568 for a .991 OPS. This consistency, especially in the batting and slugging averages, got the VORG wondering what the record is for the smallest absolute difference in a player’s slash stats from season-to-season.
In order to minimize the comparisons of players with .000 (or any other “.100”) totals in a category, we restricted our universe to those players with at least 100 at-bats in each of two successive seasons. Here are the results:
Wally Moses 1938-9: absolute difference of 2 points (1 point in OBP, 1 point in SLG):
| Year | Tm | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | PHA | .307 | .369 | .424 |
| 1939 | PHA | .307 | .370 | .423 |
Six players had an absolute difference of 4 points between seasons. The most recent player to achieved this was Jose Guillen in his first two major league seasons:
| Year | Tm | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | PIT | .267 | .300 | .412 |
| 1998 | PIT | .267 | .298 | .414 |
Saturday night marks the beginning of Chanukah, the eight-day Jewish celebration commemorating the rededication during the second century B.C. of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, where according to legend Jews had risen up against their Greek-Syrian oppressors in the Maccabean Revolt. At the VORG, it means its time for another edition of “Sabbathmetrics“. Today, we’ll … Read more
Tuesday night marks the beginning of Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. It is a day of atonement, and one is to refrain from work, while attending synagogue and fasting. At the VORG, it means its time for another edition of “Sabbathmetrics“. Today, we’ll look at the differences in Sabbath versus non-Sabbath performance … Read more
Sunday night marks the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the “Jewish New Year”. So, as we’ve done with Yom Kippur and Passover, its time for another edition of “Sabbathmetrics”. Today, we’ll look at whether 1991 first-round draft pick, two-time All-Star and “member of the tribe” Shawn Green performed better or worse on the Sabbath during … Read more