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Comment on Revolving Door On The Mound by Atlas

Atlas — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:50:52 +0000

Really? “[F]aster than someone with a severe sharting problem changes their underwear” was the best comparison you could make?

Comment on Missed Games in Batting Gamelogs by Raphy

Raphy — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:15:08 +0000

I’m all for more info. However, if you could put it in a different field to keep things uniform, it would probably be best. Whenever I copy info into a spreadsheet, any fields which are not uniform (such as dates with double headers) throw things off.

Thank you for constantly improving your website.

Comment on Missed Games in Batting Gamelogs by ZimJim

ZimJim — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:51:42 +0000

I think its cool. A great and easy way to see when a player missed time due to injuries or suspension. Obviously all people wont see eye to eye on this

Comment on Joe Mauer is not going to hit .400 by screinh

screinh — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:41:01 +0000

I have also read that if over 4% of your at bats result in a K you are very unlikely to hit .400. Mauer has gotten close in the past, but is close to 10% this year, which is where less at bats is against him.

Comment on Suggestions v. June 22, 2009 by JohnnyTwisto

JohnnyTwisto — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:32:53 +0000

Damthesehighheels, you can just do a pitcher season search setting SHO at least 1 and searching for the highest ERA that qualified for the ERA title. In 1999 Brian Bohanon had a 6.20 ERA in 33 starts for COL w/ 1 SHO. Actually the next two on the list are also ‘99: Jose Jimenez and Bobby Witt each had 2 SHO despite ERAs over 5.80.

Comment on GIDP by JohnnyTwisto

JohnnyTwisto — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:26:45 +0000

Not all of them. Gwynn was fast as a young man. Musial and Brett could run. I think Yaz and Oliver moved pretty well. Green was athletic in his younger days, though he seemed immobile by the end.

Comment on Suggestions v. June 22, 2009 by leatherman

leatherman — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:17:44 +0000

194 times a pitcher has allowed 3 or more runs and earned a save: shareit link ends in f7sn.

6/6/73 - 8 runs allowed in a save. Dave Goltz allows 2 runs in the 7th, 2 in the 8th, and 4 in the 9th, earning him a 3 inning save in a 13-9 game.

9/4/71 - Phil Hennigan allows 6 runs in earning a save.

8 run saves: 1
6 run saves: 1
5 run saves: 5
4 run saves: 23
3 run saves: 164

As expected, most of these were the 3 inning save variety. Only 73 of the 194 were shorter than 3 innings.

Comment on GIDP by Andy

Andy — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:02:49 +0000

Good info, kingturtle. Those guys are all as slow as dirt.

Comment on GIDP by kingturtle

kingturtle — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:00:57 +0000

Lefty/righty batting makes a huge difference in this.

There is only one left handed batter on the first list (totals for grounded-into-double-plays over the last 10 seasons), Shawn Green, and only one right-handed batter on the 2nd list (fewest GIDPs over the last 10 years), Alfonso Soriano. Nicely done Alfonso!

The all-time GIDP leaders for left-handed hitters are Carl Yastrzemski (323), Harold Baines (298), Rusty Staub (297), Tony Gwynn (260), Al Oliver (254), Bill Buckner (247), Stan Musial (243), Wade Boggs (236), George Brett (235), John Olerud (232).

Single-season GIDP leaders for left-handed hitters are Ben Grieve (32), Carl Yastrzemski (30), Bruce Bochte (27), Sean Casey (27), A.J. Pierzynski (27), Rusty Staub (27), Carl Yastrzemski (27), Lyman Bostock (26), Shawn Green (26), Willie Montanez (26), Willie Montanez (26), Dave Parker (26).

Comment on GIDP by whiz

whiz — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:22:38 +0000

Some players with a lot of SB also get a lot of GIDP (funny, I was just looking at this yesterday).
Here is a list of 200-GIDP, 300-SB players since 1954.

Many of them hit a lot of ground balls (especially the top two, with GO/FO over 1.3). Carew had GO/FO = 1.83. Mays and Dawson may have had a lot of runners on in front of them.