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
Over on Facebook, in the Effectively Wild (Baseball Prospectus daily podcast) group, there is currently a discussion of music-oriented fantasy baseball team names. Here are some of my suggestions so far: Four Non-Bonds (if you think your team might be “one-hit wonders”, I suppose) ChiCarGo (25 or 6 to 4 ….. would be a weird … Read more
Friend of the VORG Ben Berk posed this question on Twitter: Random curiosity – who were the best players to play for 5+ teams? 6? 7? etc etc — Ben January 4, 2017 For simplicity sake, I used Baseball Reference’s WAR for determining the “best” players. Here are the batters: Teams … Read more
The Braves are a miserable (and remarkable) 2-20 (.091) in home games coming into Friday night’s action. Here are the worst single-season home winning percentages since 1900: Team-Year W L W-L% SLB-1939 18 59 .234 BSN-1911 19 54 .260 PHA-1915 19 53 .264 PHI-1923 20 55 .267 NYM-1962 22 58 .275 DET-2003 23 58 .284 … Read more
Michael Baron of “JustMets.net” tweeted: #Mets are 4-8 when they don’t hit a home run so far in 2016. 16-4 when they do hit a home run. — Michael Baron May 11, 2016 That results in a .467 winning percentage difference between when they DO homer (.800) and when they don’t (.333). Is that … Read more
As we here along the northeast deal with “Winter Storm Juno,” the VORG gives you its “Blizzard” team made up of appropriately-named minor and major leaguers. Sadly, its lacking in middle infielders (those little guys can’t see over the snowdrifts): P: Forrest Snow, Jack Blizzard, Rich Gale, Ted Power, Tom Morgan (nicknamed “Plowboy”), Shovel Hodge, … Read more
Its been a trying year for the Yankees. They haven’t been able to establish any real momentum, as their longest winning streak is five games (done twice). However, they’ve never really gone into a prolonged tailspin, with their longest losing streak also encompassing five games (also done twice). As such, it shouldn’t be a surprise … Read more