http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog This and that about baseball stats. Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:55:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Although I was primarily known as  a ferocious #3 hitter, my game was at its best from the 2 hole. In fact, over a 3 year period I batted second 105 times and put up these gaudy numbers: Games PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS ▾ SH SF IBB HBP GDP 105 491 442 97 162 35 1 33 90 42 26 .367 .419 .674 1.093 2 4 14 1 12 Translated into 162 games those numbers would look like this: Games PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS ▾ SH SF IBB HBP GDP 162 758 682 150 250 54 2 51 139 65 40 .367 .419 .674 1.093 3 6 22 2 19 Who am ... http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/4107 Tom Ruane sent out this note to the RetroSheet mailing list. Sometime this winter we'll have boxscores for every game from 1920-1939, and we are really close to having a complete run of box scores from 1920-2010. This will mean complete career game logs for Gehrig, Grove, Ott, ... http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/4110 A recent comment on another post about Luis Castillo made me look into this. Here are qualified seasons where the player's SLG was less than 90% of his OBP (meaning that if, for example, his OBP was .400, his SLG was at most .360.) Rk Player Year ... http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/4103 Much more to come on the Hawk in the coming days. http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/4105 Just a few quick hits on Randy Johnson's career: Here are the guys who faced him the most: PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP Rickey Henderson 85 59 7 3 0 0 0 26 30 .119 .388 .169 .558 0 0 0 0 0 Ivan Rodriguez 81 78 19 4 0 1 5 3 17 .244 .272 .333 .605 0 0 0 0 4 Phil Nevin 78 69 18 4 0 3 13 9 22 .261 .346 .449 .795 0 0 0 0 3 Ruben Sierra 77 70 18 2 0 2 7 7 14 .257 .325 .371 .696 0 0 0 0 1 Devon White 75 66 19 6 0 3 5 8 22 .288 .373 .515 .888 0 0 1 1 0 Adrian Beltre 71 64 14 2 0 3 6 5 19 .219 .268 .391 .658 0 2 0 0 0 Juan Gonzalez 71 64 17 3 0 5 12 6 16 .266 .338 .547 .885 0 0 1 1 0 Mike Stanley 71 57 10 0 0 3 7 13 17 .175 .324 .333 .657 0 1 0 0 3 Paul Lo Duca 70 63 20 4 0 2 14 5 6 .317 .377 .476 .853 1 0 1 1 1 Kirby Puckett 66 60 17 3 0 1 9 6 14 .283 .348 .383 .732 0 0 0 0 2 Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used Generated 1/6/2010. Ouch, that's a painful line for Rickey Henderson. The 26 walks is nice, but everything ... http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/4100 In comments on a recent post, the question came up for leaders among players with lots of home runs but not too many strikeouts. There are 5 guys in history with at least 300 HR and no more than 1.5 strikeouts per HR hit. Rk HR SO From To Age 1 Ted Williams 521 709 1939 1960 20-41 2 Stan Musial 475 696 1941 1963 20-42 3 Johnny Mize 359 524 1936 1953 23-40 4 Joe DiMaggio 361 369 1936 1951 21-36 5 Yogi Berra 358 414 1946 1965 21-40 Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: ... http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/4084 Here are the players in 2009 to have less than 5% of their plate appearances result in extra-base hits (minimum 400 PAs): Rk XBH PA Year Age Tm Lg G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF GDP SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Pos 1 Ryan Theriot 32 677 2009 29 CHC NL 154 602 81 171 20 5 7 54 51 1 93 6 13 5 13 21 10 .284 .343 .369 .712 *6 2 Willy Taveras 14 437 2009 27 CIN NL 102 404 56 97 11 2 1 15 18 0 58 2 11 2 2 25 6 .240 .275 .285 .559 *8 3 Edgar Renteria 25 510 2009 33 SFG NL 124 460 50 115 19 1 5 48 39 5 69 1 5 5 17 7 2 .250 .307 .328 .635 *6 4 Alexei Ramirez 30 606 2009 27 CHW AL 148 542 71 150 14 1 15 68 49 3 66 1 6 8 15 14 5 .277 .333 .389 .723 *6 5 Nick Punto 17 440 2009 31 MIN AL 125 359 56 82 15 1 1 38 61 1 70 1 13 6 7 16 3 .228 .337 .284 .621 *46/5 6 Nyjer Morgan 25 533 2009 28 TOT NL 120 469 74 144 15 7 3 39 40 2 74 9 10 5 9 42 17 .307 .369 .388 .757 *78 7 Russell Martin 26 588 2009 26 LAD NL 143 505 63 126 19 0 7 53 69 9 80 11 2 1 18 11 6 .250 .352 .329 .680 *2/D5 8 Jason Kendall 23 526 2009 35 MIL NL 134 452 48 109 19 2 2 43 46 6 58 17 6 5 11 7 2 .241 .331 .305 .636 *2 9 Cesar Izturis 20 412 2009 29 BAL AL 114 387 34 99 14 4 2 30 18 0 38 3 4 0 11 12 4 .256 .294 .328 .622 *6 10 Tony Gwynn 19 451 2009 26 SDP NL 119 393 59 106 11 6 2 21 48 2 65 2 5 3 2 11 7 .270 .350 .344 .693 *89 11 Luis Castillo 16 580 2009 33 NYM NL 142 486 77 147 12 3 1 40 69 3 58 1 19 5 15 20 6 .302 .387 .346 .732 *4 12 Emilio Bonifacio 18 509 2009 24 FLA NL 127 461 72 116 11 6 1 27 34 0 95 2 8 4 5 21 9 .252 .303 .308 .611 *568/47 13 Willie Bloomquist 23 468 2009 31 KCR AL 125 434 52 115 11 8 4 29 27 1 73 1 4 2 7 25 6 .265 .308 .355 .663 9684/735D Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used Generated 1/2/2010. These are among the least productive players at ... http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/4057 Since 1954, there have been 18 occasions when a team has featured as many as 4 pitchers who appeared in a game for 1 batter or less. In 4 of those games the pitchers pitched consecutively. April 29, 1981 - Cardinals at Cubs - 8th inning August 26, 1987 -  Dodgers at ... http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/3580 During the regular season, a lot of my posts are of the so and so has a chance to do such and such variety.  Most of these don't come to fruition and are often not worth revisiting. However, there is one in particular that seems worth mentioning. On August 28th, we ... http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/4019 One of the projects that I've wanted to do since I started to work with the PI was to break down every starting pitcher's line and see how often pitchers with various innings pitched and runs allowed stats won their starts. The recent addition of the CSV option in the ... http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/4064