22nd May 2009
Just 7 players have gotten at least 100 RBI in each season at ages 34, 35, and 36:
From To Ages Seasons Link to Individual Seasons
+-----------------+----+----+-----+-------+------------------------------+
Raul Ibanez 2006 2008 34-36 3 Ind. Seasons
Gary Sheffield 2003 2005 34-36 3 Ind. Seasons
Rafael Palmeiro 1999 2001 34-36 3 Ind. Seasons
Paul O'Neill 1997 1999 34-36 3 Ind. Seasons
Andres Galarraga 1995 1997 34-36 3 Ind. Seasons
Stan Musial 1955 1957 34-36 3 Ind. Seasons
Babe Ruth 1929 1931 34-36 3 Ind. Seasons
Ibanez is easily the most surprising name on there as a late bloomer. His first 100-RBI season didn't come until age 30 and his second was the one at age 34. He's 37 years old now and has averaged more than 24 HR the past 4 years, and yet hasn't reached 200 career homers.
By comparison, Gary Sheffield had 449 HR at the end of his age 36 season. Babe Ruth had 611 HR at that time.
Ibanez has had a fantastic start this season including his best March/April ever as well as what is already his best May ever. Assuming he falls back towards his career averages for the rest of the year, he still has a good shot at setting career highs in HR, RBI, BA, OBP, and SLG this year.
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21st May 2009
Nice to see Dontrelle Willis get back to winning. With his victory the other day, he snapped the second-longest winless start streak of his career:
StreakStart Streak End Games W L GS CG SHO GF SV IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA HBP WP BK Teams
+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
2007-06-03 2007-08-08 13 0 9 13 0 0 0 0 70 92 49 40 33 44 5 5.14 6 3 0 FLA
2007-09-30 2009-05-13 9 0 2 9 0 0 0 0 30.1 28 29 29 40 20 5 8.60 2 6 0 FLA-DET
2006-04-19 2006-05-27 8 0 6 8 1 0 0 0 50.2 62 37 34 20 31 4 6.04 5 3 0 FLA
2007-08-19 2007-09-09 5 0 3 5 0 0 0 0 29.1 38 23 23 10 19 9 7.06 1 1 0 FLA
2003-08-11 2003-09-02 5 0 4 5 0 0 0 0 24.2 32 20 19 13 18 3 6.93 0 0 0 FLA
2006-07-13 2006-07-29 4 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 22 28 17 15 11 18 3 6.14 2 1 0 FLA
2005-09-27 2006-04-09 4 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 24 26 14 10 8 22 1 3.75 0 0 0 FLA
2004-08-20 2004-09-11 4 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 25 28 14 13 10 16 6 4.68 1 0 0 FLA
2004-06-19 2004-07-06 4 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 19 30 18 15 10 11 4 7.11 1 1 0 FLA
I don't know him personally, but Willis seems like a good guy and I certainly hope he can get back on top.
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20th May 2009
News has come out that Chavez may be forced to retire due to his latest injury, a herniated disk.
From 2001 to 2005, Chavez was unarguably the best third baseman in baseball, leading all in HR and RBI:
Cnt Player **HR** From To Ages G PA AB R H 2B 3B RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF GDP SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Positions Teams
+----+-----------------+-------+----+----+-----+----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+----+----+---+----+---+---+---+---+----+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+---------+-----------+
1 Eric Chavez 151 2001 2005 23-27 745 3182 2825 451 785 173 9 502 321 46 535 11 0 25 59 36 11 .278 .351 .506 .857 *5/D763 OAK
2 Aramis Ramirez 146 2001 2005 23-27 727 3007 2742 380 782 160 3 484 195 20 416 35 0 35 87 9 9 .285 .337 .505 .842 *5/D PIT-TOT-CHC
3 Troy Glaus 142 2001 2005 24-28 615 2622 2221 377 559 119 7 408 356 20 572 23 0 22 49 33 13 .252 .358 .503 .861 *5/D6 ANA-ARI
4 Adrian Beltre 124 2001 2005 22-26 755 3065 2822 352 765 146 12 423 193 24 476 21 4 25 69 32 14 .271 .320 .463 .783 *5/6D LAD-SEA
5 Scott Rolen 123 2001 2005 26-30 658 2793 2389 420 677 161 15 473 325 21 453 48 1 30 58 42 17 .283 .376 .518 .894 *5 PHI-TOT-STL
6 Tony Batista 114 2001 2004 27-30 635 2624 2431 312 582 113 10 383 136 19 400 24 4 29 56 28 15 .239 .283 .435 .718 *5/D6 TOT-BAL-MON
7 Mike Lowell 109 2001 2005 27-31 744 3077 2738 372 750 188 3 440 274 23 384 25 1 39 70 17 7 .274 .341 .464 .805 *5/4D FLA
8 Vinny Castilla 106 2001 2005 33-37 726 2934 2700 336 699 164 10 425 177 23 458 27 2 28 104 10 9 .259 .308 .445 .753 *5/6 TOT-ATL-COL-WSN
9 Corey Koskie 91 2001 2005 28-32 639 2679 2297 364 617 147 9 348 310 31 551 44 0 28 51 61 26 .269 .362 .459 .821 *5/D MIN-TOR
10 Hank Blalock 89 2002 2005 21-24 512 2205 1985 292 543 113 6 309 190 10 421 11 2 17 47 5 5 .274 .338 .471 .809 *5/4D TEX
A bit of a career oddity about Chavez: in 2004, he lead the AL with 95 walks despite playing in only 125 games, and also despite the fact that he generally walked only a moderate amount in his career, averaging 70 walks over a typical 162-game season.
In the 2004 season in which Chavez led the AL with 95 walks, Barry Bonds led the NL with (gulp) 232 walks. Chavez's total is the lowest to lead the AL since Dwight Evans' 85 in 1981, which doesn't really count since that was a shortened season. The real most recent season with a lower leading total is 1965, when Rocky Colavito led with 93 walks.
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20th May 2009
With his complete game last night, Barry Zito has ended the second longest (since 1954 and presumably in baseball history) streak of starts with out a complete game.
Here are the leaders:
StreakStart Streak End Games W L GS CG SHO GF SV IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA HBP WP BK Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Kirk Rueter 1999-07-04 2005-07-29 193 67 60 193 0 0 0 0 1112.1 1253 600 549 372 402 135 4.44 10 8 0 SFG
Barry Zito 2003-08-12 2009-05-13 185 69 69 185 0 0 0 0 1145 1067 588 545 494 813 124 4.28 49 25 4 OAK-SFG
Tony Armas 1999-08-16 2008-07-01 167 53 65 167 0 0 0 0 896.2 863 500 460 425 655 116 4.62 49 42 6 MON-WSN-PIT-NYM
Odalis Perez 2002-09-24 2008-09-28 157 46 57 157 0 0 0 0 900.1 988 492 456 252 603 117 4.56 21 19 7 LAD-KCR-WSN
Woody Williams 2002-06-21 2007-09-13 156 63 50 156 0 0 0 0 954.2 992 479 449 260 604 125 4.23 43 22 4 STL-SDP-HOU
Tim Wakefield 1998-08-25 2005-07-10 154 56 54 154 0 0 0 0 933.2 925 543 473 356 658 122 4.56 60 33 1 BOS
Frank Castillo 1996-05-04 2005-05-26 153 46 64 153 0 0 0 0 829.2 911 519 483 286 588 110 5.24 34 9 3 CHC-COL-DET-TOR-BOS-FLA
Jimmy Haynes 1998-05-23 2003-06-08 152 50 64 152 0 0 0 0 871.2 981 545 501 418 530 108 5.17 21 37 2 OAK-MIL-CIN
Adam Eaton 2003-06-16 2009-05-15 143 51 52 143 0 0 0 0 803.2 888 489 454 288 558 115 5.08 41 19 0 SDP-TEX-PHI-BAL
Ted Lilly 2004-08-28 2009-05-13 138 65 45 138 0 0 0 0 801.1 755 405 386 284 682 127 4.34 18 21 13 TOR-CHC
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19th May 2009
Career Home Run Leaders
I'm very pleased to announce that as part of our licensing agreement with SABR, we have acquired the online rights to the Tattersall/McConnell Home Run Encyclopedia. This database contains data for every major league home run hit from 1876 on. This has allowed us to create home run logs for all pitchers and batters (excepting those exclusively in the National Association, if someone wants to fill in the blanks for those 200 or so HR, we are definitely interested).
UPDATE @ noon ET, Wednesday: I just got the 2009 home runs working and the site is regenerating those pages, so you will see active players updating over the next 15-20 minutes. Now next up is a summary page and front-end for the general db.
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19th May 2009
Despite having 19 base runners in last night's game (or perhaps because they had such a big lead) , the Rays did not steal a base for the first time in 3 weeks. Their steak of 19 consecutive games with a stolen base was the 4th longest by any team since 1954.
Team StreakStart Streak End Games W L AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Opponents
-------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
STL 1985-09-04 1985-10-02 29 19 10 977 134 253 33 10 17 122 146 128 75 11 .259 .344 .365 .709 CIN,CHC,ATL,NYM,PIT,PHI,MON,PIT
STL 1986-06-17 1986-07-07 20 8 12 706 71 166 30 6 8 67 125 83 45 12 .235 .317 .329 .646 PIT,PHI,NYM,SFG,LAD
PIT 1981-05-20 1981-08-10 20 12 8 670 97 185 39 9 12 93 95 62 41 14 .276 .340 .415 .755 ATL,PHI,CHC,MON,SFG,SDP
TBR 2009-04-28 2009-05-17 19 11 8 661 117 192 50 4 20 110 145 72 43 5 .290 .363 .469 .832 MIN,BOS,BAL,NYY,BOS,CLE
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19th May 2009
Here are the 5-hit games so far in 2009:
Cnt Player Date Tm Opp GmReslt PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF ROE GDP SB CS BOr Positions
+----+-----------------+-------------+---+----+-------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+---+--+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+---------+
1 Julio Lugo 2009-05-14 BOS @LAA L 4-5 6 6 1 5 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 9th SS
2 Willy Taveras 2009-05-11 CIN @ARI W 13-5 5 5 4 5 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1st CF
3 Russell Branyan 2009-04-28(2) SEA @CHW W 9-1 5 5 2 5 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6th 1B
4 Ryan Braun 2009-04-21 MIL @PHI L 4-11 5 5 2 5 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3rd LF
5 Mark Teahen 2009-04-17 KCR @TEX W 12-3 6 6 3 5 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5th 3B
6 Ian Kinsler 2009-04-15 TEX BAL W 19-6 6 6 5 6 2 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1st 2B
7 Marlon Byrd 2009-04-15 TEX BAL W 19-6 6 6 1 5 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6th LF
8 Cristian Guzman 2009-04-13 WSN PHI L 8-9 5 5 2 5 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2nd SS
There are a few unlikely names on there, with Russell Branyan (a career .235 hitter) sticking out the most. If you check out Branyan's top career games by number of hits, he never even had a 4-hit game before his 5-hit job last month!
Julio Lugo had 3 different 5-hit games before the one from last Thursday, but in all other cases, his team scored at least 13 runs:
Cnt Date Tm Opp GmReslt PA AB R **H** 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF ROE GDP SB CS BOr Positions
+----+-------------+---+----+-------+--+--+--+------+--+--+--+---+--+---+--+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+---------+
1 2009-05-14 BOS @LAA L 4-5 6 6 1 5 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 9th SS
2 2004-06-24 TBD @TOR W 19-13 7 7 3 5 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 6th SS
3 2001-05-06 HOU @MON W 13-7 5 5 3 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1st SS
4 2000-09-08 HOU @CHC W 13-10 6 6 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2nd 2B
Christian Guzman, who's having a very weird season as part of a very weird career, had one prior 5-hit game, coming 5 years ago:
Cnt Date Tm Opp GmReslt PA AB R **H** 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF ROE GDP SB CS BOr Positions
+----+-------------+---+----+-------+--+--+--+------+--+--+--+---+--+---+--+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+---------+
1 2009-04-13 WSN PHI L 8-9 5 5 2 5 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2nd SS
2 2004-05-07 MIN @OAK L 9-11 7 6 2 5 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2nd SS
Guy's poor team lost both times.
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18th May 2009
This season has had its share of exciting individual performances and team games. However, one thing that has been missing is the individual 3 home-run game. A quick check with PI reveals that the last time a baseball season was 35 games (the minimum number every team thus far) old and did not have any player hit 3 home runs in one game was 1993. Here are the most 3-home run games through the first 35 games:
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18th May 2009
Jason Kendall hit a single in the second inning of tonight's Brewers-Cardinals game for his 2000 career hit. Here are all the players with at least half of their games at catcher and at least 2000 career hits: (Totals through yesterday)
Cnt Player **H** From To Ages G PA AB R 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF GDP SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Positions Teams
+----+-----------------+--------+----+----+-----+----+-----+-----+----+---+---+---+----+----+---+----+---+---+---+---+----+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+---------+-----------+
1 Ivan Rodriguez 2637 1991 2009 19-37 2301 9387 8757 1268 530 50 300 1236 477 63 1314 56 27 70 293 124 61 .301 .339 .476 .815 *2/D34 TEX-FLA-DET-TOT-HOU
2 Ted Simmons 2472 1968 1988 18-38 2456 9685 8680 1074 483 47 248 1389 855 188 694 39 11 100 287 21 33 .285 .348 .437 .785 *2D3/759 STL-MIL-ATL
3 Carlton Fisk 2356 1969 1993 21-45 2499 9853 8756 1276 421 47 376 1330 849 105 1386 143 26 79 204 128 58 .269 .341 .457 .798 *2D/735 BOS-CHW
4 Yogi Berra 2150 1946 1965 21-40 2120 8364 7555 1175 321 49 358 1430 704 49 414 52 9 44 146 30 26 .285 .348 .482 .830 *279/35 NYY-NYM
5 Mike Piazza 2127 1992 2007 23-38 1912 7745 6911 1048 344 8 427 1335 759 146 1113 30 0 45 229 17 20 .308 .377 .545 .922 *2D/3 LAD-TOT-NYM-SDP-OAK
6 Gary Carter 2092 1974 1992 20-38 2295 9019 7971 1025 371 31 324 1225 848 106 997 68 33 99 180 39 42 .262 .335 .439 .774 *29/375 MON-NYM-SFG-LAD-MON
7 Johnny Bench 2048 1967 1983 19-35 2158 8669 7658 1091 381 24 389 1376 891 135 1278 19 11 90 201 68 43 .267 .342 .476 .818 *253/798 CIN
8 Jason Kendall 1999 1996 2009 22-35 1867 7813 6847 957 360 34 73 677 650 46 596 236 25 55 157 170 81 .292 .370 .386 .756 *2/79D PIT-OAK-TOT-MIL
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18th May 2009
John Lackey is getting set to pitch against the Mariners and presumably he will throw more than 25 pitches. If he doesn't, he will join a group of 3 other pitchers since 1988 who have gone 2 consecutive games, both starts, without throwing more than 25 pitches:
StreakStart Streak End Games W L GS CG SHO GF SV IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA HBP WP BK Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Brad Radke 2002-05-13 2002-05-30 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2.1 2 1 1 0 2 1 3.86 0 0 0 MIN
Scott Scudder 1992-09-17 1992-09-24 2 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0.1 5 7 6 3 1 0 162.00 0 1 0 CLE
Brian Bohanon 1992-04-22 1992-04-27 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0.2 8 9 7 2 1 2 94.50 0 0 0 TEX
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