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
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.
Last time out we presented the homer leaders by birthday, as well as total homers by day. Now its time to do the same for hits.
Another prompt from the Twitterverse:
In a group of 25 people (such as a baseball club), there is a 57% chance that at least two people will share a birthday. In a group of 50 people (such as competing ballclubs), there is a 97% chance of at least two people sharing a birthday. Given this, how often have opposing pitchers … Read more
So you are thinking of having a child, and hoping that if its a boy, he’ll grow up to be a major leaguer. Is there any more likelihood of that happening based on his birthday? The indispensable Lahman Baseball Database has demographic information on the nearly 18,000 players in major league history, with birthdates for … Read more