Lynn Nolan Ryan (Ryan Express)

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: January 31, 1947 in Refugio, TX
High School: Alvin HS (Alvin, TX)
Drafted by the New York Mets in the 12th round of the 1965 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 11, 1966 (Age 19)   vs. ATL 2.0 IP, 1 H, 3 SO, 1 BB, 1 ER
Teams (by GP): Angels/Astros/Rangers/Mets 1966-1993
Agents: Dick Moss [*]
Final Game: September 22, 1993 (Age 46)
Inducted into the Hall of Fame by BBWAA as Player in 1999 (491/497 ballots).
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• 1/10 Radical Baseball: Honor Code: a player will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.: Fans should call for an honor code for Major Baseball League (MBL) players and that should take care of the "sportsmanship, integrity,...
• 1/8 Radical Baseball: How come no one is mad at the Babe?: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 Home Run hitting on steroids: 1920s? For purposes of this topic, I'll consider the modern HR record...
• 1/4 Nolan Writin': Lance Berkman Would Be An Excellent Fit: There are a million variations of articles I could introduce in relation to Lance Berkman. I could mention his A.J. Pierzynski-esque****...
• 1/4 Baseball News Source: Rangers Extend Offer to Free Agent Lance Berkman:  Berkman is drawing interest from several teams The Houston Astros, Tampa Bay Rays , Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles , Philadelphia Phillies...
• 1/3 Motor City Bengals: The Time To Extend Verlander Is Now: The Detroit Tigers haven’t been shy about throwing around some money the past couple of years. We all know that. We also...
• 1/3 Halo Hangout: Winning A Trade: 15,000 Days Ago: The Angels biggest and boldest moves lately have been through free agency involving Brinks trucks full of TV money but the art...
• 1/3 Rising Apple: Glory Days: Don Bosch: When Sandy Alderson traded R.A. Dickey to the Toronto Blue Jays last month, he was banking on a high major league yield of the...
• 1/2 Baseball With Matt: An Interview with Curt Schilling (the "Schilling-shot") 1/2/13: Hey baseball fans!I have another great interview for you today! This interview is with the should-be Hall of Famer......Curt ...

• 12/31 Motor City Bengals: With Sanchez, Tigers Rotation Could Make History: Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer ranked first and second respectively on the major league strikeout leaderboard this past season....
• 12/30 More Than A Fan: ML what would B: What if Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan had been Mets their entire careers?: Hey baseball fans! I know that it has been about a month, but I am here with another ML”what would”B! That’s right folks;...
• 12/29 SocraticGadfly: #Sabermetrics says: do NOT vote Jack Morris in the Hall: First of all, just as a growing group of sabermetrically minded baseball fans beat the drums — ultimately successfully — to ...
• 12/27 Swingin' A's: The Brian Gordon Experience: Shortly before Christmas, the Oakland Athletics agreed to sign 34-year old journeyman pitcher Brian Gordon to a minor league contract...
• 12/26 Nolan Writin': How Much Money Do The Rangers Really Have?: You know, I’m not a major fan of speculation-based posts. I like to reflect on the facts. But if you’re talking about...
• 12/25 The Baseball Continuum: Merry Rickeymas from the Baseball Continuum: You know the story of who inspired this holiday: His birth was an unusual one, but he grew up to perform amazing feats, and spoke...
• 12/24 Baseball With Matt: ML"what would"B: What if Ryan & Seaver Had Never Left the Mets 12/241/2: Hey baseball fans!I put up another ML"what would"B post on More Than A Fan. In every ML"what would"B alternative history post,...
• 12/22 mlbreports.com : Is Roger Clemens A Hall Of Famer? Try The Tom Seaver Test: Like us on Facebook here Saturday, December.22, 2012 Saul Wisnia (Baseball Writer and Red Sox Correspondent): : Since the list...
• 12/20 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Sudden Sam McDowell Finds Spot in All-Time Tribe Rotation: By Ronnie Tellalian Sam McDowell was one of the most interesting pitchers in the Indians post World War two era. He blew hitters...
• 12/19 Baseball Reality Tour: Hall of Fame Potential by Game Score: There are six Starting Pitchers on this year's Hall of Fame ballot: Rk HOFs JAWS 1 Roger Clemens 73 99.0 2 ...
• 12/18 Bleeding Yankee Blue: SWISHER GETS THE INDIANS OFFER: Now what? Jordan Bastian of MLB.com says an offer is in fact "in" from the Cleveland Indians for Nick Swisher's services. ...
• 12/15 Nolan Writin': Patiently waiting: I wrote on Monday that better things would be coming this week for the Rangers, but then Josh Hamilton hopped on over to the...
• 12/13 mlbreports.com : An Interview With Baseball Superfan And Photographer Jill Marie Workman: Thursday, December.13/2012 Chuck Booth (Lead Baseball Writer/Website Owner): I recently had the privilege to meet Jill Workman...
• 12/12 The Baseball Haven: The Case For Dale Murphy: For those of us who grew up being able to watch the Chicago Cubs on WGN and the Atlanta Braves on TBS, an infatuation with good...
• 12/11 MLB Injury News: The Red Sox Should Not Trade Jon Lester: Jon Lester's name has popped up in trade rumors off and on since the end of the season.  He has not been anywhere near one...
• 12/10 MetsToday.com: Would You Rather: R.A. Dickey or Zack Greinke?: Upon hearing the news that the Dodgers signed Zack Greinke to a six-year, $147M contract, I couldn’t help but think, who...
• 12/9 Baseball Musings: Don’t you know sarcasm when you hear it?: Baseball Time in Arlington unloads on all the Texas naysayers. After all, Greinke was enamored of the Maddux brothers, blown away...
• 12/7 Through The Fence Baseball: No matter what happens next, Texas Rangers will look different in 2013:   Michael Young looks to be headed to the Philadelphia Phillies, Derek Holland is getting trade interest from the Kansas...
• 12/6 Baseball Jerks: Josh Hamilton, Astros Agree to 1-year, $90 Million Deal: SATIREIn a surprising end to the 2012 Winter Meetings, the Houston Astros announced this evening they have agreed to terms with...
• 12/6 Call to the Pen: Rangers Hold All the Cards in Greinke, Hamilton Markets: There is a growing sentiment among front office types that if free agent starting pitcher Zack Greinke wanted to sign with the...
• 12/6 Nolan Writin': Is Zack Greinke the Rangers’ to Lose?: We’re one day closer to Zack Greinke being a Ranger. Well, I guess you could also say we’re another day closer to...
• 12/6 Through The Fence Baseball: Texas options: Will it be Zack Greinke or Josh Hamilton?:   It started Wednesday morning with one simple tweet from ESPN’s Jayson Stark, “The big buzz this morning at...
• 12/6 Baseball Reality Tour: Last Night of Winter Meetings: This can be one of the best nights of the offseason. The following is our attempt to document the evening for posterity. ***According...

• 11/28 PaulLebowitz.com: Marvin Miller—A Man Of Vision And Guts: Marvin Miller’s death at 95 has spurred public expressions of appreciation and recognition of all he did for baseball, baseball...
• 11/27 mlbreports.com : The Most Important Offseason of Josh Hamilton’s Future: Wednesday, November 28th, 2012 Sam Evans (Baseball Writer): Whether he deserves it or not, Josh Hamilton is one of the most controversial...
• 11/26 Nolan Writin': Ranger Brain Trust Playing it Close to the Vest: Nolan Ryan, Jon Daniels and the rest of the Rangers brain trust have done an incredibly good job at keeping secrets. I know that...
• 11/22 Yanks Go Yard: Smoke Signals: What if the Steinbrenners Sold the Yankees?: Since George Steinbrenner, “The Boss,” bought the team in the 1973, there has been no baseball team more deeply connected...
• 11/22 Rising Apple: Ike Davis Wins Thurman Munson Award; Double-A Team Moving to Ottawa?: On behalf of the entire Rising Apple staff, I want to wish all of you a very blessed and enjoyable Thanksgiving. The holidays...
• 11/16 Baseball With Matt: Fergie as a Cub, Was not a Slug 11/16/12: Hey baseball fans!I'm back with another post! I didn't really know who to blog about, so I looked at the list of Hall of Famers...
• 11/13 Baseball With Matt: Working Out Like a Hall of Famer 11/13/12: Hey baseball fans!Certain baseball Hall of Famers happen to be very well known for certain physical skills.  Nolan Ryan...
• 11/12 Call to the Pen: Rangers Trying to Fix What Isn’t Yet Broken: The Texas Rangers won consecutive American League pennants in 2010 & 2011. In 2012, they were probably the best team in the...
• 11/5 D.C. Baseball Yesterday and Today: This Date in Washington Senators History: November 5 1914 The law prohibiting Sunday baseball in Washington remains intact when the Court of Appeals upholds the ban. 1940...
• 11/5 High Heat Stats: Greg Maddux and 5 and 20 Pitchers: This past spring, birtelcom wrote a piece about Greg Maddux, looking at his pitching efficiency in terms of pitches thrown per...
• 11/5 Call to the Pen: Josh Hamilton Won’t Get Huge Deal from Rangers: If the Texas Rangers weren’t already preparing themselves for losing MVP Josh Hamilton to free agency this winter, they...
• 11/4 mlbreports.com : ATR: Ask the Reports Answers Your Baseball Questions: MLB Free Agency Season Is Upon Us!: Sunday November 4th, 2012 Posted every Weekend: Your top baseball questions from the past week are answered. E-mail all questions...
• 11/3 The Baseball Page: Top Centerfielders : Ranking the Center Fielders Joe DiMaggio made playing center field for...
• 11/2 MLB Dirt: Red Sox Prospect Steven Wright: Continuing Baseball’s Knuckleball Tradition: Successful knuckleball pitchers are about as common in baseball as a Triple Crown winner, and they are always in danger of going...
• 11/2 Mets360.com: Hall of Famers who played for the Mets: How many of the 11 players who have been enshrined in Cooperstown who have also played for the Mets can you name? Most of these...

• 10/29 Nolan Writin': The 2012 Season is Over: Going into the postseason, I had this belief that, even though the Rangers collapsed down the stretch, they still possessed more...
• 10/27 mlbreports.com : There Will Never Be Another 300 Game Winner: Saturday October 27th, 2012 Luke Whitecotton (Guest Writer):   Let me thrown four names out there: Cy Young, Nolan Ryan, Greg...
• 10/26 For Baseball Junkies: Astros All-Time Team v.2012: Click Here to Read MoreToday, we're taking a look at the All-Time Astros roster - last year's version can be seen here.As part...
• 10/22 Rays Colored Glasses: Sorry Royals Fans, But Matt Moore Is Not Going Anywhere: Over at Kings of Kauffman, a Kansas City Royals website, Marcus Meade talked about how the Royals, in desperate need of good young...
• 10/14 Baseball With Matt: An Interview with Walter Johnson (Sort Of) 10/14/12: Hey baseball fans!Before I get to telling you all who I think deserves to be on baseball's Mount Rushmore, let me tell you who...
• 10/13 Nolan Writin': A Day in the Life of a Video Game GM: It’s been a whole week since the abrupt ending to the 2012 Rangers season. And yesterday, the last two Division Series’...
• 10/8 MetsToday.com: Don’t Give Up…Yet (Part One): Deceptively, baseball looks like an easy game to play. Most of the players seem to be of average height and weight; the rules...
• 10/7 High Heat Stats: 1972 ALCS Opener: A’s 3, Tigers 2 (11 innings): As the 1972 playoffs began, the bloom was off the League Championship Series. Born in ’69, the first six tilts had produced...
• 10/3 The Writer's Journey: The Essential Games of the Philadelphia Phillies (2012): The Essential Games of the Philadelphia Phillies New Video, 2012 Approx. 10 hrs., 14 mins. When choosing a team’s greatest...
• 10/1 The Writer's Journey: The Essential Games of the Texas Rangers (2012): The Essential Games of the Texas Rangers New Video, 2012 Approx. 9 hrs., 6 mins. The Texas Rangers are headed into the 2012 playoffs...

• 9/30 Baseball With Matt: The Greatest Pitchers You've Never Heard Of - Part Two 9/30/12: Hey baseball fans!As promised, here is The Greatest Pitchers You've Never Heard Of - Part Two!!!! Unlike the pitchers in the original...
• 9/29 The Baseball Page: Frequency of No-Hitters Takes Mystique Away: There was a time, in the not so distant past, when a no-hitter in baseball...
• 9/27 Baseball With Matt: Talking Baseball Trades 9/27/12: Hey baseball fans!Recently, I had the chance to interview Ben Nicholson-Smith of MLB Trade Rumors.  MLB Trade Rumors is...
• 9/24 Rising Apple: David Wright: Face of the Faceless Franchise: Throughout the past couple years, David Wright has been breaking the Mets’ “Kranepool records,” team records held by the...
• 9/19 Baseball Analytics: Jered Weaver joins the Angels 100-win club: RkPlayerWFromToGSSHOLW-L%IPBBSOERA 1 Chuck Finley 165 1986 1999 379 14 140 .541 2675.0 1118 2151 3.72 2 Nolan Ryan 138 1972 1979 288 40 121 .533 2181.1 1302 2416 3.07 3 Mike...
• 9/17 High Heat Stats: Why does CC Sabathia allow so many unearned runs?: Fielding in baseball (if not fielders, necessarily) is getting better all the time. Improvements in equipment, field conditions...
• 9/13 High Heat Stats: Wednesday game notes: Tigers 8, @White Sox 6: The good news for Detroit is that the one team they must beat is the one team they can beat. Max Scherzer continued...
• 9/12 High Heat Stats: The All-Time Los Angeles/California/Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Team: For my High Heat Stats debut, I’m continuing a series I started on my personal blog, Left Field, in which I’m naming...
• 9/12 The Writer's Journey: TWJ 2012: Nolan Ryan: How amazing is it that Nolan Ryan pitched for twenty-seven years in the majors? Or that only twice he posted an ERA above 4.00…in...
• 9/11 Baseball With Matt: Nadel Elected to the Hall of Fame!!! 9/11/12 : Hey baseball fans!Since my last name is Nadel, I'm always looking out for famous Nadels on the web, especially if they have...
• 9/11 WahoosOnFirst: Opposition Research: Jared Book Talks Texas Rangers: The Cleveland Indians open their final inter-division series of the 2012 season tonight as they head to Arlington for a three-game...
• 9/11 High Heat Stats: Let youth be served: 2012 makes a mark: Earlier this month, Rangers’ second baseman Jurickson Profar (an early finalist for the All-Name team) made his major league...
• 9/9 Rays Colored Glasses: Rays Notes: Chris Archer, Rays Team Photo: On Saturday, the Rays lost 4-2. But that was in no way the fault of Chris Archer. Archer had an incredible outing, going 7 innings...
• 9/5 60ft6in.com: The 2009 100+ MPH Class: According to efastball.com, these pitchers all threw over 100 mph in 2009: 102.7 (138), Joel Zumaya (Tigers), 6/30/2009, Oakland...

• 8/31 Royally Speaking: Bruce Chen: Rolling With The Greats (and Mark Redman): I was 16 years old when I first became su**** that wins weren't the best way to evaluate a pitcher's season. The year was 1987...
• 8/30 Baseball With Matt: Before the Bigs, There's Little League 8/30/12: Hey baseball fans!Have any of you been watching the Little League World Series? For those of you who have been keeping up...
• 8/29 Nolan Writin': Baseball, and the Rays: At its material essence, baseball is simply a game of probability. A two-run lead in the 9th inning is better than just one,...
• 8/27 Motor City Bengals: Max Scherzer and Strikeout History: Sunday afternoon, the heterochromatic Max Scherzer downed nine Los Angeles Angels on strikes–eight of them swinging–to...
• 8/23 Baseball With Matt: Back to School for Kids, Back to Work for Adults 8/23/12: Hey baseball fans!Now that the summer is almost over and baseball season is getting close to ending, some of us have to go back...
• 8/23 Radical Baseball: Great White Father: Some things that happened yesterday: 1. Derek Jeter hit a home run for the third consecutive game in Chicago. 2. 38 year old...
• 8/23 The Baseball Page: Go Get Them Roger: This weekend when I heard on the news that pitching great Roger Clemens...
• 8/22 The Baseball Page: Ryan strikes out 5,000th and Dodgers brawl the Giants on This Day in Baseball: Cooperstown Matchup: On August 22, 1989, Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers...
• 8/22 PaulLebowitz.com: The Roger Clemens Comeback Attempt: Whatever Roger Clemens’s agenda is, he doesn’t have to explain himself to anyone as to why he wants to pitch again. It could...
• 8/20 The Baseball Page: Cincinnati Reds pitcher Johnny Cueto has masterful season: The season is coming to an end. We only have a month and a half remaining...
• 8/17 Bleeding Yankee Blue: NOW TOMMY JOHN SOUNDS OFF ON "BABYING" PITCHERS: Not sure why this was buried by the New York Post, or maybe I've just been swamped and missed it.  Bottom line, we...
• 8/16 High Heat Stats: Wednesday game notes: Belatedly, and most imperfectly…. @Orioles 5, Red Sox 3: For 5-1/3 innings, all Baltimore could do with Aaron Cook‘s...
• 8/15 High Heat Stats: King Felix wears the crown of perfection: Mariners’ ace Felix Hernandez collected his and the team’s first-ever perfecto, fanning 12 Rays in a 1-0 victory,...
• 8/9 High Heat Stats: Pitching reliability – an honest day’s work: Quick – have you had a bad day at work this year? Pretty silly question, right. Well, if you’re among a select group...
• 8/7 Rising Apple: This Date in Mets History: 1971 – Boswell and Mets Erupt for 20 Runs, beat Braves in ATL: The 1971 New York Mets are a team looking for 2nd half consistency. They started off strong, hitting their high water mark of...
• 8/6 mlbreports.com : Baseball in the Olympics: Born in 1904 to Elimination in 2008: Monday August 6th, 2012             Robert Whitmer:  Have you ever loved something so much that the only way to see...
• 8/5 The Writer's Journey: Baseball’s Greatest Games: New York Mets First No-Hitter (2012): Baseball’s Greatest Games: New York Mets First No-Hitter New Video, 2012 Approx. 131 mins. If a DVD were to be released...
• 8/4 Nolan Writin': Game 106: Scotty Be Good: Regression to the mean is so much fun when it goes this way. Scott Feldman was perceptively the worst pitcher of the planet earlier...

• 7/31 Baseball With Matt: 5,000 Views and Strikeouts 7/31/12: Hey Guys!I just reached my 5,000th view on my blog! I want to thank all of you guys who have been reading my blog for the past...
• 7/31 The Baseball Page: Nomar Traded and Dick Allen hits 2 inside-the-park on This Day in Baseball: July 31 2004 - The long-anti**** trade of Nomar Garciaparra is finally...
• 7/30 The Writer's Journey: Baseball’s Greatest Games: New York Mets First No-Hitter (2012): Baseball’s Greatest Games: New York Mets First No-Hitter New Video, 2012 Approx. 131 mins. If a DVD were to be released...
• 7/29 Bleeding Yankee Blue: THE BLEEDING YANKEE BLUE NEWSSTAND XI: This is an extra long Newsstand today because there are a ton of things going on around the world of baseball, the Yankees...
• 7/26 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Suggested Sponsors for MLB Teams: The latest kerfuffle in baseball involves the suggestion that MLB could allow corporate sponsorships of teams, and those sponsors...
• 7/26 Bleeding Yankee Blue: YANKEE CHRONICLES: PETTITTE, BANUELOS, CAMPOS & BILL MASSE: Andy Pettitte: George King III had this latest news about Pettitte, but me being wrapped up in all the Ichiro news, I...
• 7/26 MetsToday.com: Mets Game 98: Loss to Nationals: Nationals 5 Mets 2 What was bad, has gone to worse. Mets Game Notes Jeremy Hefner held his own, allowing two runs on six hits...
• 7/22 The Writer's Journey: Fun Cards: 2012 “Taco Bell Softball” Rickey Henderson: What can be said about Rickey Henderson that Rickey himself has not already said? On becoming the all-time stolen base leader:...
• 7/14 Chicken Friars: Where Are They Now? – John D’ Acquisto: John D’Acquisto retired from Major League Baseball in 1982. But instead of taking the high road and riding off into the sunset,...
• 7/11 The Baseball Page: Nolan Ryan Strikes out 4,000th on July 11th: On July 11, 1985, Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros becomes the first...
• 7/11 The Baseball Page: Ryan hits milestone as Astros top Mets: Ryan hits milestone as Astros top Mets (reprinted from)July 11, 1985 – by Neil Hohfeld, Houston Chronicle In the grand scheme...
• 7/10 Baseball With Matt: The Greatest Pitchers You've Never Heard Of 7/10/12: Hey Guys!While all of you have heard of the records of Cy Young (511 career wins) and Nolan Ryan (5,714 career strikeouts and...
• 7/6 Kings of Kauffman: Blast From the Past: The 1973 All-Star Game: Before it was Kauffman Stadium, you likely remember it as Royals Stadium. The huge-scoreboard, multi-fountained stadium opened...
• 7/3 Radical Baseball: Can one player lead both conferences in one season?: The Major Baseball League (MBL) has pretty easy standards for qualifying for leading in an average category. For batters:...

• 6/28 WasWatching: Best Pitchers In Baseball 1971-1974: Wilbur Wood was just about the king of the hill during this time: Rk Player WAR From To Age G GS W L IP ERA ERA+ 1 Wilbur Wood...
• 6/26 Baseball Musings: Pitching Woes: The Rangers placed Colby Lewis on the disabled list with forearm tendinitis. Well, the starting rotation of the winningest team...
• 6/24 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: No Shortage of No-Nos: Remember the old commercial from the 1990’s, where TomGlavine and Greg Maddux were hitting the gym so that...
• 6/23 Tubbs Baseball Blog: Why Dwight Evans Is a Much Better Candidate For The Hall of Fame Now Than He Was 15 Years Ago: Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable...
• 6/22 Baseball Musings: Dominant Pitchers and No Hitters: The subject of why there were so many no-hitters in the 1960s, and why the rate of no-hitters hasn’t really gone up with...
• 6/20 High Heat Stats: Wild but Effective – the Return of Intimidation Pitchers?: Reading the title of this post, you might be asking “Haven’t there always been intimidation pitchers?”. What...
• 6/14 WasWatching: For Those Who Think Nolan Ryan Was Overrated…: Check out this list.  It’s pitchers with the most starts with a Game Score of 90+ since 1918: Rk Player #Matching   W...
• 6/14 WasWatching: Game Scores Of 100+ Since 1973: Welcome to the club, Matt Cain! Rk Player Date Tm Opp Rslt App,Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR GSc 1 Tom Seaver 1974-05-01 NYM LAD L 1-2...
• 6/13 Baseball With Matt: Proficient Pitchers - Part Two 6/13/12: Hey Guys!Here's part two of my blog of the Proficient Pitchers greatest nicknames ever:The Rocket - Roger ClemensClemens, although...
• 6/8 High Heat Stats: Best and Worst Ballparks for No-Hitters: Since the Mets finally got over the hump to record a no-hitter last week, the question has been “What took them so long?”...
• 6/7 High Heat Stats: Thursday roundup (pocket edition): @Athletics 7, Rangers 1: The walks are starting to catch up with Yu Darvish. He walked 6 today, including 3 (plus a HBP) in a...
• 6/6 High Heat Stats: The Mount Rushmore of the Texas Rangers: Let’s take a look at the Texas Rangers, including their years as the second version of the Washington Senators. When the...
• 6/5 60ft6in.com: F12 Top12 1970-1979: In the 1970s, there were tan and taupe sport coats, disco balls, the birth of this writer, and quality pitching.   The Factor12...
• 6/4 WasWatching: 5+ BB Allowed In A No-Hitter: Here’s the list to do this, since 1918 - Rk Player Date Tm Opp Rslt IP H R ER BB SO GSc 1 Jim Maloney 1965-08-19 (1) CIN...
• 6/2 Baseballhotcorner.com: Johan Santa-stic: There was electricity in the air last night a Citi Field when 27,069 fans witnessed Mets ace Johan Santana pitch his way into...
• 6/2 High Heat Stats: All shutout streaks of 3 or more since 1918: I had to separate this from the “…by decade” post, due to data limitations. Here are all individual shutout...
• 6/2 High Heat Stats: Consecutive CG shutouts by decade: By request of HHS reader Brett, here are the longest individual shutout streaks since 1918, broken down by decade. Note that streaks...
• 6/2 High Heat Stats: 10 Amazin’ Mets facts about Johan Santana’s no-hitter: Here are 10 facts about The Mets and Johan Santana following his no-hitter for the Mets. 1. The Mets had a whopping 26 compete-game...
• 6/2 Mets360.com: Santana no-hitter captivates New York; sets Twitter ablaze: Just call him No-Han! Well, it FINALLY happened! After waiting through 8,019 games Johan Santana finally achieved the Mets’...
• 6/2 PaulLebowitz.com: The Santana No-Hitter From Soup To Nuts: Let’s go point-by-point on Johan Santana’s no-hitter. The call at third base. Umpire Adrian Johnson called Cardinals’...
• 6/1 Baseball Musings: Mets No-Hit Drought Ends: Johan Santana throws an ugly no-hitter against the Cardinals, but it goes in the books as the first in Mets history. The third...

• 5/31 Baseball With Matt: Matt's Dream Team 5/26/12: Hey guys!It's finally time. You've all been anti**** this very moment. You are about to read....My Dream Team! I will be listing...
• 5/31 NY Baseball Digest: Are the Texas Rangers the Best Team Since the ’98 Yankees?: The Rangers are the best team since the ’98 Yankees. Do you agree? Tom Verducci made this statement yesterday to John Feinstein...
• 5/30 High Heat Stats: Oldest and Youngest Players as Teammates: I was watching a Blue Jays game the other night with Omar Vizquel starting at shortstop and Drew Hitchison starting on the mound....
• 5/29 High Heat Stats: The Mount Rushmore of the Los Angeles Angels of Ahaheim: Just to be clear, this poll includes all iterations of the Angels franchise, including the Anaheim Angels, California Angels,...
• 5/27 The Writer's Journey: Major League Baseball Triple Header (2012): Major League Baseball Triple Header New Video, 2012 3 discs; approx. 6 hrs. 39 mins. total + extras In this newest video package...
• 5/26 The Writer's Journey: Major League Baseball Triple Header (2012): Major League Baseball Triple Header New Video, 2012 3 discs; approx. 6 hrs. 39 mins. total + extras In this newest video package...
• 5/25 High Heat Stats: The Mount Rushmore of the Houston Astros: We turn our attention to the Houston Colt .45′s, who came into being in 1962. Three years later they were rebranded as the...
• 5/24 60ft6in.com: F12 Top12 1980-1989: In the 1980s, there were some legendary pitching performances. The decade introduced us to “The Doctor” Dwight Gooden, and...
• 5/22 60ft6in.com: Bedrock or Rock Bottom?: For twenty-five years, this baseball enthusiast has wondered if the BBWAA made a colossal blunder in voting Steve Bedrosian the...
• 5/22 NY Baseball Digest: Kerry Wood: What If?: Kerry Wood announced his retirement this past weekend. It’s more of a Chicago story, although Wood briefly played for the...
• 5/18 Baseball Musings: Verlander in the Eighth: Justin Verlander strikes out the side in the eighth, keeping his no-hitter intact. He threw pitches that hit 98, 99, and 100 MPH...
• 5/18 The Writer's Journey: Standard Catalog of Vintage Baseball Cards edited by Bob Lemke (2011): Standard Catalog of Vintage Baseball Cards edited by Bob Lemke Krause Publications, 2011 696 pages The 21st edition of the Standard...
• 5/18 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Hudson, Orioles, Draft: On this date in 2004, 40-year-old Randy Johnson threw a perfect game against the Braves. He joined Cy Young, Jim Bunning, Hideo...
• 5/11 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Hamilton, Twins, Reggie: On this date in 1998, Cubs right-hander Kerry Wood struck out 13 Diamondbacks to set the Major League record for most strikeouts...
• 5/10 Diamond Rhapsody: Ivan Rodriguez retiring and the Texas Rangers' huge mistake; what a difference Pudge could have made: In July 1997, Texas Rangers fans plastered cars with bumper stickers and roadways with billboards imploring the team to sign their...
• 5/10 60ft6in.com: F12 Top12 1980-1989: The 1980′s were known mostly for their tight uniforms and cocaine issues.  But, there were also a few pitching seasons...
• 5/7 James Smyth Broadcast: All-Time Bluefield Team - Sammy Stewart: The next member of the All-Time Bluefield-to-the-Bigs Team is relief pitcher Sammy Stewart. This 6' 3" mustachioed right-hander...
• 5/6 MetsToday.com: Mets Game 28: Win Over Diamondbacks: Mets 3 Diamondbacks 1 After losing four straight, the Mets win two in a row — the right kind of momentum they want as they...

• 4/26 Bus League Baseball: The Bizarro Hall of Fame: The Class of 1999: The Bizarro Hall of Fame was a series I ran on my old blog, One More Dying Quail, in 2007. It consists of players who appeared...
• 4/24 The Writer's Journey: Astros 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition (2012): Astros 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition: The Essential Games of the Houston Astros and Astros Memories New Video, 2012...
• 4/23 Mets360.com: Twenty memorable doubleheaders for the Mets: In honor of today’s single-admission doubleheader with the Giants, I’ve gone back and listed 20 memorable moments in doubleheaders...
• 4/17 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Feller No-Hitter Lives In Opening Day History: By Vince Guerrieri It’s one of the great baseball mindbenders: What’s the only game where all the players had the same batting...
• 4/15 Bleeding Yankee Blue: WHY IT'S THE TALE OF 2 YANKEES: I believe in Phil Hughes. I have always believed in Phil Hughes. Partly because I believe he has the stuff the become a truly...
• 4/14 High Heat Stats: Baseball’s 20 Year Reunions: Many of us have probably been to our 20 year (or more) high school reunion. There are some people you may have stayed in touch...
• 4/12 High Heat Stats: Roger Clemens, 1996, and the other unluckiest pitching seasons of all-time: In 1996, Roger Clemens had an offseason by his standards, off enough that it may have been the spur to get him on steroids.  It...
• 4/12 The Writer's Journey: Double No-Hit by James W. Johnson (2012): Double No-Hit: Johnny Vander Meer’s Historic Night Under the Lights by James W. Johnson University of Nebraska Press, 2012...
• 4/11 MLB Dirt: Cody Buckel: The Rangers’ Texas Sized Prospect: Since Nolan Ryan became president of the Texas Rangers in 2009, they have become known as one of the tightest run organizations...
• 4/10 PaulLebowitz.com: The Yu Darvish Return Policy: Yu Darvish threw 42 pitches and allowed 4 first inning runs in his Rangers’ debut last night. Immediately when he started to...
• 4/6 PaulLebowitz.com: The Much Anti**** Meeting Between Robin Ventura and Nolan Ryan: How the Robin Ventura-Nolan Ryan scrap from 19 years ago gained such cult status is understandable when you consider the ages...
• 4/5 WasWatching: Bad Luck Bunning: Since 1918, how many pitchers had 11+ games in their career where they went 5+ innings and allowed one run or less – and...
• 4/4 High Heat Stats: Opening Day Starters – Some Random Trivia: Opening day in North America is tomorrow, April 4th. As with last week’s opener in Japan, doesn’t seem to be a lot...
• 4/3 60ft6in.com: The Factor12 Rating: The Factor12 Rating (F12) is an analytic measurement utilizing league average performance to compare the value of all MLB pitchers....

• 3/30 Mets360.com: Mets Card of the Week: 1998 Carl Everett: 1998 FLEER ULTRA CARL EVERETT Here we find Carl Everett on his 1998 Fleer Ultra card, saddled with the horns. Everett underachieved...
• 3/24 Bleeding Yankee Blue: WHY PETTITTE'S RETURN WILL ALL WORK OUT: I believe that Andy Pettitte will succeed on the Yankees this year. According to Art Stapleton of the Bergen Record, you can’t...
• 3/24 Mets360.com: Mets Q&A with Ed Leyro from Studious Metsimus: There are a ton of people who write about the Mets and I am happy to say that most of them seem to be good people, too. I guess...
• 3/16 NY Baseball Digest: Nolan Ryan Says Military Impacted his Mets Development: The gang over at the Kult of Mets Personalities scored a great guest, Hall of Famer and current owner of the Texas Rangers, Nolan...
• 3/13 High Heat Stats: Graphs of 300-game winners: Following up the Halladay/300-win discussion, here are two age-based graphs of the 18 modern* 300-game winners: wins by seasonal...
• 3/10 WasWatching: Jamie Moyer: I cannot convey how much I am rooting for Moyer to get a win with the Rockies this season. We were born less than 200 hours apart....
• 3/8 Bus League Baseball: Owner By Day, Pitcher By Night: Late last week, an item appeared in Google Reader from Our Sports Central with the headline, “Wingnuts’ Owner Signs With Cubs”....
• 3/6 Mets360.com: Mets Minors: Great expectations: My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer...

• 2/27 NY Baseball Digest: The Boston Red Sox Home Locker Room Powered by Gatorade: If you logged onto ESPN.COM this weekend to read the story about Bobby Valentine banning beer in the locker room, you were greeted...
• 2/24 MLB Dirt: Trevor May: The Next Star of the Philadelphia Phillies Starting Rotation: Currently there is little doubt that the Philadelphia Phillies have the best starting rotation in all the major leagues. Led by...
• 2/22 High Heat Stats: Normalized strikeout rates for the top 200 pitchers of all time: I found a straightforward way to redo the normalized strikeout rate study. Check out my previous post on the subject for the rationale....
• 2/22 Baseball Musings: Chapman and Ryan: Tom Tango wonders if Aroldis Chapman is the new Nolan Ryan when it comes to control. With luck, Ryan will take to Chapman like...
• 2/21 High Heat Stats: Normalized strikeout rates of the all-time greats: As strikeouts have become so much more frequent than they used to be, it’s useful to gain a little perspective on how the...
• 2/20 The Greatest 21 Days: 1988 Score: Improved Velocity: Coming back from a sprained elbow in spring 1988, Greg Minton worked to improve his velocity.He'd made 60 miles per hour, he told...
• 2/19 High Heat Stats: Trivia: Rare stat combo: In 2011, a player in the NL East had a two-piece statistical combination that had only been done twice before in MLB history....
• 2/13 Tubbs Baseball Blog: The Best Players Not In the Hall of Fame By Position-Part 2: Tim Raines and Dwight Evans Highlight the Outfield: Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */...
• 2/12 High Heat Stats: The best relief career you never hear about: Who were the top relievers of the 1970s? If you ask the average fan, you’d likely hear Rollie Fingers, Sparky Lyle, Goose...
• 2/10 MLB Dirt: A Conversation with Seattle Mariners Prospect Willy Kesler: The Seattle Mariners are in full-blown rebuilding mode. With aging super star Ichiro in the twilight of his career, and a roster...
• 2/7 El Maquino: ROY OSWALT UPDATES: CARDS OUT, REDS IN It sounds like the reports of Oswalt’s asking price being too far above $10 million were true, as Mozeliak...
• 2/4 El Maquino: ROY OSWALT UPDATES: OSWALT “SCRAMBLING” Jon Paul Morosi reports that “Oswalt is scrambling” for a contract two weeks before...
• 2/2 El Maquino: A LESSON FOR THE UNINFORMED ON MARKET DETERMINATION IN BASEBALL AND EVERYWHERE ELSE: In last night’s nightly coverage of the Roy Oswalt-to-the-Cardinals drama, I said that Oswalt needs to watch his step and...
• 2/2 El Maquino: ROY OSWALT UPDATES: RANGERS OUT? Looks like the Rangers are done with Oswalt.  They are unwilling to move fifth starter Matt Harrison out of the...
• 2/1 El Maquino: ROY OSWALT UPDATES: NOT EVEN CLOSE?! Ken Rosenthal’s latest: “The Cardinals, perhaps trying to exert their leverage [Oswalt prefers them],...

• 1/31 El Maquino: ROY OSWALT UPDATES: RANGERS COULD MOVE THEIR FIFTH STARTER The Cardinals can’t move their worst starter Jake Westbrook because he has a no-trade...
• 1/30 PaulLebowitz.com: Oswalt as the 6th Man: When the Blue Jays were one of the frontrunners for—and in fact were widely expected to get— Yu Darvish, I wrote that...
• 1/30 Ramblings of Baseball: What To Wear XIX: Houston Astros There have been some rumblings recently about the Astros changing their name. New ownership has stepped in and...
• 1/28 El Maquino: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO OSWALT: POTENTIAL CARDINAL: EM has been covering every new development of the potential Roy Oswalt-to-the-Cardinals deal today, and as reports and hints come...
• 1/23 Bus League Baseball: All-Time MLB Draft: Round 6 (Picks 251-300): At least a year ago, maybe longer, I had an idea: wouldn’t it be cool to go through every draft pick in major league history,...
• 1/20 Ramblings of Baseball: AARP Application: Jamie Moyer: On Wednesday the Colorado Rockies and Jamie Moyer agreed to terms on a Minor League contract that will give Moyer the opportunity...
• 1/20 Ramblings of Baseball: What To Wear XV: Texas Rangers Rangers fans haven’t been blessed with a lot of great teams until recently. The teams for many years were put...
• 1/20 Ramblings of Baseball: What To Wear XIII: Arizona Diamondbacks The Diamondbacks are a very young organization. Is history built through the calendar or are dramatic moments...
• 1/19 The Daily Catch: The Texas Rangers and the Quest for a Cy Young: This article is courtesy of our friends at Nolan Writin’ Written by:  Phillip Livingston Finally, the waiting is over and...
• 1/18 PaulLebowitz.com: Darvish is Coming: Totaling up the posting fee and the reported contract for Yu Darvish, the Rangers have made a commitment of $111.7 million over...
• 1/13 High Heat Stats: The 10 most under-appreciated players of the 1980s: #2 Dave Stieb: Dave Stieb was the best pitcher of the 1980s. Don't believe me? Well, that's why he's rated #2 on our countdown.Let's start by...
• 1/12 High Heat Stats: The 10 most under-appreciated players of the 1980s: #4 Danny Darwin: Danny Darwin is best-remembered by many fans for 1 of 2 things: winning the 1990 ERA title despite making only 17 game starts...
• 1/11 High Heat Stats: WAAS for Pitchers: (For an explanation of the Wins Above All-Star Level method, as well as position-player values, see previous post.)The following...
• 1/11 High Heat Stats: The 10 most under-appreciated players of the 1980s: #6 Mario Soto: Before I talk about Mario Soto specifically, I want to talk about the card featured in this post, 1983 Topps #351 Reds Team Leaders.I...
• 1/10 High Heat Stats: The 10 most under-appreciated players of the 1980s: #7 Mark Eichhorn: I love Mark Eichhorn so much that last year, I wrote a post at B-R.com entitled "I love Mark Eichhorn."It turns out that this...
• 1/4 MLB Dirt: Catching Up With Colorado Rockies Prospect Chad Bettis: The Colorado Rockies have traditionally had a difficult time developing successful pitchers. This has partly been luck in drafting,...
• 1/4 Baseball Musings: Torre! Torre! Torre!: Joe Torre resigned his position with Major League Baseball to pursue ownership of the Dodgers: Torre was appointed MLB’s...
• 1/3 Baseball Musings: Hall Predictions: Chris Jaffe runs the numbers on the Hall of Fame voting and shows Barry Larkin gaining election easily. Strength of ballot This...
• 1/1 WasWatching: Top 15 Pitchers Of The Jack Morris Peak Era: Here’s one way to slice it - Rk Player WAR From To Age G GS CG W L SV IP BB SO ERA ERA+ 1 Roger Clemens 57.2 1984 1992 21-29...

• 12/27 WasWatching: Best Pitching From Age 36: Since 1901, which pitchers put up the best numbers after age 35?  Here’s one way to slice it - Rk Player WAR G From To...
• 12/25 High Heat Stats: Most career PITCHING WAR by number of franchises played for: Earlier today, Andy took a look at the batting/fielding leaders in WAR categorized by number of franchises played for.  Here...
• 12/20 The Writer's Journey: Retired Numbers: #34: Three players, all Hall of Famers, honored by five teams make up the retired #34′s. Kirby Puckett, Minnesota Twins While...
• 12/18 High Heat Stats: Readers' Research: Only Career HR Off of a Hall of Famer: A week ago there was the following  comment was posted on our  suggestions page by Psychump  :I am currently collecting...
• 12/18 The Writer's Journey: Retired Numbers: #29 & #30: Three Hall of Famers, and one guy who might be the best non-steroid player outside the Hall (that won’t get voted in this...
• 12/17 The Writer's Journey: Retired Numbers: #25 & #26: Gene Autry, Los Angeles/California/Anaheim Angels Long before Nolan Ryan posed for baseball cards wearing a cowboy hat, baseball...

• 11/28 NY Baseball Digest: Jim Kaat’s HOF Candidacy: We have been discussing the Veterans Committee “Golden Era” selections over the last few weeks. Gil Hodges and Allie...
• 11/25 Baseball Musings: Former Dodgers for the Dodgers: Orel Hershiser and Steve Garvey found the backing to bid on the Dodgers. I’m not surprised this is happening. Players made...
• 11/22 i70baseball.com: Game 6 Story: How I Almost Missed History: Dad Duties, Frustration Almost Cost Me A Glimpse Of The Historic Comeback. Tell your story and win a copy of the World Series...
• 11/15 i70baseball.com: The Buyers MarketWhen it comes to shoppers for Albert Pujols, it may be a buyers market....
• 11/14 Mets360.com: From 1966-2011, one move a year Mets should have made: For all sad words of tongue and pen The saddest are these It might have been You probably recognize this quote but probably don’t...
• 11/14 Classic Minnesota Twins: Classic Twins Game of the Week: Dave Winfield's 3,000th Hit Game: Sept. 16, 1993:                 Winfield squares up pitch  from Dennis Eckersley  for his...
• 11/13 El Maquino: DONE DEAL: PUJOLS IS STAYING IN ST. LOUIS: > It was supposed to be the free agent rush of the short century: the best player in the game, maybe ever, was available to...
• 11/13 Mets360.com: As Mets aim for top farm system, what should we expect?: One of the mantras of the current Mets front office is the need to develop a strong farm system, so that the team does not have...
• 11/11 NY Baseball Digest: Hideki Irabu: The Japanese Curt Flood: When former Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu took his life this past summer the most common theme was the failure and disappointment...
• 11/4 WasWatching: Long In Tooth & Arm: Since 1901, how many pitchers had 3+ seasons at age 36 or older with at least 20 starts and an ERA+ of 115 or better?  Here is...

• 10/27 MetsToday.com: Spilled Milk Part One: What-If Trades In Met History: First off a little brown-nosing–Joe’s article on what if the Mets hadn’t made certain moves was very entertaining and...
• 10/26 NY Baseball Digest: Looking Back: Gammons ’86 Playoff Preview: Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. I thought it would be fun to look back at the preview of...
• 10/24 PaulLebowitz.com: Free Agent Strategizing, Texas Style: C.J. Wilson is going to want a lot of money as a free agent. Presumably, he’ll have his eyes on an $100 million payday,...
• 10/22 Mets360.com: Mets Trivia: 500 times four: Seeing Nolan Ryan on television all of the time these days and he’s immediately thought of as part of the Rangers. But Ryan...
• 10/20 MetsToday.com: More What Ifs in Mets Hot Tub History: This week there’s been far too much buzz about the fact that postseason superstar Nelson Cruz was once property of the Mets...
• 10/19 Bleeding Yankee Blue: WHY BLEEDING YANKEE BLUE PICKS THE CARDINALS: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE ...
• 10/19 MetsToday.com: The Nolan Ryan Express Still Doesn’t Stop In Flushing: Over the last couple of weeks, ESPN has been running the film “Catching **** from their exquisite 30 for 30 series. Directed...
• 10/16 PaulLebowitz.com: Ryan Leads The Way For The Pennant-Winning Rangers: As affable as he is in interviews, Nolan Ryan is neither subdued nor calm; he’s a relentless competitor who was an ornery...
• 10/16 Baseball Musings: Rangers AL Champs: The Texas Rangers left no doubt that they are the AL pennant winners, beating Detroit 15-5. Texas knocked out 17 hits and walked...
• 10/14 B-R Blog: Long Relief Apperances In Winning & Last Game Of An LCS: How many of these efforts do you remember? Rk Player Date Series Gm# Tm Opp Rslt App,Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR Pit Str GSc IR IS...
• 10/14 Mets360.com: Top 10 best hot streaks in Mets history: The 2011 Mets finished under .500 but they had an 88-game stretch where they played at a .568 clip (50-38). That got me wondering...
• 10/13 Baseball Musings: Ryan for President: Seems like the Soxaholix is trying to start a Nolan Ryan for president campaign. I’d vote for him. Nolan Ryan would run...
• 10/11 Baseball Press: Prospect Press: Shelby Miller, St. Louis Cardinals: Shelby Miller is a top prospect for the St. Louis Cardinals (Icon SMI)From young minor league prospects to rookie big-league...
• 10/4 Halo Hangout: On the Same Track? Comparing Verlander to the Ryan Express: Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan shown here during his first season with the Angels. (Photo Courtesy Topps) In the eighth inning of last...
• 10/4 Bleeding Yankee Blue: WHY THE YANKEES FELL SHORT: The Yankees started off aggressive in the Motor City. Not knowing what to expect from CC Sabathia tonight, we needed to strike...
• 10/4 Crashburn Alley: Cliff Lee and BABIP: Cliff Lee left the seventh inning of Game Two down 5-4 with runners on first and second, no outs. It was quite a disappointing...

• 9/27 MLBTradeRumors: Returns For Trading The Manager: So it appears that the Florida Marlins, a team not known for friendliness to Twitterers, have acquired Ozzie Guillen, one of the...
• 9/11 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: A’s @ Rangers Game 146:   5:16PM CDT: Anthony Recker flies out to center field and the A’s are officially eliminated from the playoffs. The...
• 9/11 Bleeding Yankee Blue: WHY THE ANGELS HONORED JETER RIGHT: I wrote a piece titled WHY IT'S BIZARRO WORLD last month because word on the street was Jeter was to be honored by the Los Angeles...
• 9/8 Mets360.com: Mets Now & Then: Justin Turner and Wayne Garrett: In his first full season with the Mets, Justin Turner has become a fan favorite. He’s a gritty ballplayer willing to do whatever...
• 9/7 B-R Blog: Quick recap – Early games of 9/7/11, etc.: Games of Wednesday, 9/7/11: -- Oakland's Guillermo Moscoso no-hit the Royals for 7.2 innings before a single by rookie catcher...
• 9/7 B-R Blog: A.J. Burnett Sets A Wild Pitch Record: A.J. Burnett had three wild pitches in today's Yankees game.  Before today, no pitcher since 1919 had 8+ games in their career...
• 9/7 Jeff's Mariners Fan Blog: Jeff’s Mariners Live Report from 2-1 Win in Anaheim: At long last after watching Mariners away games played against the Angels on TV for years I saw a live game tonight here in Anaheim...
• 9/4 PaulLebowitz.com: Waiting (Hoping?) For The Breakdown Of Tim Lincecum: Tim Lincecum got knocked around by the Diamondbacks in the Giants’ 7-2 loss last night. The Diamondbacks’ broadcasters—I’m...
• 9/1 PaulLebowitz.com: Latin Flavor Meets Texas Justice And The Culture Card: In this New York Times piece about Francisco Cervelli, you find Cervelli justifying his over-the-top on-field antics by playing...

• 8/22 Bleeding Yankee Blue: WHY LOYALTY & DEDICATION IS THE YANKEE WAY: What's the deal with kids and entitlement? I see is all the time in life and it happens in baseball too. Back in the day, ballplayers...
• 8/18 Call to the Pen: Dominant Games: Nolan Ryan 6th No-Hitter: Ball is hit in the air, maybe playable. Ruben Sierra comes and Ryan has a no-hitter! Number six! -Athletics announcer Greg Papa...
• 8/17 B-R Blog: CG With 14+ Ks And Getting The Loss: Since 1919, how many pitchers have thrown a complete game, whiffing 14 or more, and got the loss in the contest? Here is the list...
• 8/4 NY Baseball Digest: Beware Verlander, The Future Starting Rotation, Munson and Teixeira HOF Credentials: The dog days of August start to build separation in the standings. In the AL Central, both Detroit and Cleveland made deadline...
• 8/4 NY Baseball Digest: Learning From Generation K- A Second Chance:  Paul Wilson, Jason Isringhausen, Bill Pulsipher. For now, that is the order in which their lockers are situated in the clubhouse...

• 7/30 Bleeding Yankee Blue: BYB YANKEE TRADE RUMORS: PART 5: The latest from the Trade front, right here at Bleeding Yankee Blue.(Photo: NY Daily News)Ubaldo Jimenez: Ken Rosenthal says the...
• 7/29 Call to the Pen: Dominant Games: An Introduction: No-hitters have always struck me as an oddity in baseball. The mere mention of a no-hitter will keep you glued to the television...
• 7/29 NY Baseball Digest: Hideki Irabu’s Legacy, Johan Santana as Freddy Garcia, Jimenez Risk, SF Exec on Wheeler, Is Beltran the Best Positional Player in Mets History?: Very sad news out of Rancho Palos Verdes, California as former Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu committed suicide. TMZ is reporting he...
• 7/27 Subjective Baseball: Top 30 Logos: 20-11: Continuing the three-part series started yesterday, here's the second installment of the thirty best logos, one from each franchise....
• 7/26 Mets360.com: Mets Card of the Week: 1972 Jim Fregosi: 1972 TOPPS TRADED JIM FREGOSI Right now everyone’s mind is on the trade deadline so what better time to break out this classic...
• 7/22 Baseball Musings: No Hitter in Texas: It looks like Colby Lewis is trying to celebrate Nolan Ryan‘s return to the front office by throwing a no-hitter. He’s...
• 7/19 B-R Blog: Longest Streaks With 6+ IP On The Road Since 1919: From Doc Halladay to Sloppy Thurston! Here is the leader board on this one - Rk   Strk Start End Games W L GS CG SHO GF SV IP...
• 7/14 NY Baseball Digest: Getting to Know Jason Isringhausen: Jason Isringhausen might be the next Mets closer now that K-Rod is in Milwaukee. Lets take a minute to get to know him. FULL NAME:...
• 7/5 NY Baseball Digest: Unanimous HOF, Mo’s Injury, Parnell’s Key to Success: Josh Norris of the Trentonian wonders if Derek Jeter will be the first unanimous Hall of Fame selection in the history of the...
• 7/2 B-R Blog: Since 1969, at least 5 shutouts in an otherwise ordinary season: Friday night, Jason Vargas tossed his 3rd shutout of the year. Overall, his ERA+ is 103. No knock on Vargas, who has been a nice...

• 6/27 The Crazy Crabbers: The Improbable Ryan Vogelsong: If someone says that they saw the performance of Ryan Vogelsong coming they are either related to him or certifiably insane....
• 6/22 B-R Blog: Three True Outcomes: Players with the highest fraction of HR + walks + strikeouts: Thanks to reader Doug N., I figured out how to generate this list with the PI. Here are the guys (ranked by most plate appearances)...
• 6/16 NY Baseball Digest: Morning Digest: ALF, Pitching Injuries, HOF: Mets Police has a video of a FOX Game of the Week Commercial with Mike Piazza as a Dodger. This one might be my favorite Piazza...
• 6/13 B-R Blog: “What are the odds?” … of 3 straight no-hitters?: Johnny Vander Meer's feat of consecutive no-hitters in 1938 is often described as "the most unbreakable record in baseball." Do...
• 6/12 B-R Blog: Liriano’s second no-hitter this year?: I see that Francisco Liriano has yet to allow a hit through 7 innings today. He could become the first pitcher to get 2 regular-season...
• 6/12 PaulLebowitz.com: In Joba’s Best Interests: The Yankees have mismanaged Joba Chamberlain so horribly that he will be better off if they do what was once unthinkable and decline...
• 6/9 PaulLebowitz.com: The Joba Ruination Is Now Complete: Noble and misguided, the Joba Rules surrounding the use of one-time Yankees phenom Joba Chamberlain demolished what was once...
• 6/1 NY Baseball Digest: Getting to Know Dillon Gee: FULL NAME: Dillon Kyle Gee HEIGHT, WEIGHT:  5-10, 170 BORN: April 28, 1986 in Cleburne, Texas MAJOR LEAGUE DEBUT: September 7th,...

• 5/28 Wahoo's Warriors: Price dominates Indians… again: There’s no shame in losing to the best, and that’s exactly what David Price was on Friday night. Price struck out...
• 5/27 The Captain's Blog: Youth Is Served: News Stars Helping to Refresh the Game: (In addition to appearing at The Captain’s Blog, this post is also being syndicated at TheYankeeAnalysts.) Baseball is a young...
• 5/27 YankeeAnalysts.com: Youth Is Served: News Stars Helping to Refresh the Game: (The following is being syndicated from The Captain’s Blog). Baseball is a young man’s game. Nothing drives that point home...
• 5/23 B-R Blog: 5+ Career Games Since 1919 With 1 IP Or Less & 5+ ER Allowed: Since 1919, how many pitchers have 5 or more games in their career where they lasted 1 inning or less in the game and allowed...
• 5/18 PaulLebowitz.com: Mocking The Draft: It’s nearly draft time in Major League Baseball and the leeches looking to sell you things, invite webhits or garner viewers...
• 5/8 Caught Looking: Verlander throws second no-hitter of career: Just four days after Liriano’s no-hitter, Tigers ace Justin Verlander fired the second no-hitter of his career Saturday...
• 5/7 B-R Blog: Justin Verlander joins the short list of pitchers with multiple no-hitters: Pitchers since 1919 with more than one complete game allowing no hits: Rk Player #Matching W L W-L% ERA GS CG SHO SV IP H ER HR...
• 5/7 The Captain's Blog: Did Fans of the Past Better Appreciate Star Players? Examining a Radio Talk Show Claim: Toward the end of Friday afternoon’s edition of the Michael Kay radio show, which was being co-hosted by Don La Greca and Bill...
• 5/7 Crashburn Alley: Fun with B-R Play Index: By now, everyone is familiar with the addiction that comes with Baseball Reference’s Play Index. I can get lost for hours...
• 5/7 B-R Blog: Cliff Lee’s 16 strikeouts (and loss): Cliff Lee pitched  an unusual game last night. He struck out 16 batters in just 7 innings, but allowed 9 hits 3 runs, 1 walk,...
• 5/7 Caught Looking: About last night: Friday, May 6 notes: No power outage Can you name the batter who leads the Yankees in home runs this year? It’s not A-Rod, it’s not Teixeira...
• 5/6 MLBTradeRumors: From Glory To Goodbye: No-Hitter, Then Traded: Earlier in the week, we showed how no-hit pitchers arrived at their place of immortality. But when Francisco Liriano pitched...
• 5/5 The Captain's Blog: (Half) Marathon Men: 10-Strikeout Game Leaders by Franchise: Last night, Tim Lincecum established the Giants’ franchise record for most 10 strikeout games by a pitcher. By punching...
• 5/4 WSJ Daily Fix: Liriano’s Unlikely Gem: The Count: By various standards, including his own, Liriano's no-hitter against the White Sox was one of the worst such performances...
• 5/4 Mets360.com: Mets Card of the Week: 1967 Seaver/Ryan RC: This is not a real card but it could have been, as Tom Seaver’s rookie card was issued in 1967 and Nolan Ryan’s came a year...
• 5/1 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Two Games Two Very Different Results: I was out of pocket and then had a bad internet connection so could not live blog the last two games but wanted to start with...

• 4/28 NY Baseball Digest: Mike Francesa: A Modern Day **** Young: Back in the 1950s through the 1970s, here in New York City, there used to be a curmudgeonly sports columnist named **** Young...
• 4/24 PaulLebowitz.com: Travels In The Blameatorium: Rangers closer Neftali Feliz has been placed on the disabled list with shoulder inflammation. Naturally this is leading to the...
• 4/23 B-R Blog: Anibal Sanchez nearly pitches the FIFTH no-hitter in Marlins history: Anibal Sanchez got pretty close to pitching another no-hitter last night. A few thoughts on that: I was amazed to hear that this...
• 4/23 The Captain's Blog: One Hit Wonders: Sanchez Loses No Hitter, but Still Puts Himself in Select Company: Anibal Sanchez came within three outs of pitching his second no hitter, but his attempt at history was thwarted by Dexter Fowler’s...
• 4/22 The Captain's Blog: Exaggerated Claims Distort Dodgers’ Current Plight; McCourts Have History with Distressed Franchises: Move aside Barry Bonds. Fred McCourt is one of the most vile, reprehensible men in the history of baseball. At least that seems...
• 4/22 YankeeAnalysts.com: Exaggerated Claims Distort Dodgers’ Current Plight; McCourts Have History with Distressed Franchises: (The following is being syndicated from The Captain’s Blog). Move aside Barry Bonds. Fred McCourt is one of the most vile, reprehensible...
• 4/20 B-R Blog: One Time All-Stars, Most Seasons Without 20 Wins Or Saves: Of all the pitchers to once make an All-Star team, who has the most seasons where he did not win or save 20 games? Here's the...
• 4/17 B-R Blog: Justin Verlander’s Trippy Balk: Did you see this one? Verlander still has a ways to go before he catches up to some of these guys: Spanning Multiple Seasons or...
• 4/16 YankeeAnalysts.com: Garcia shuts Texas offense down in 5-2 Yankee win: Why did the Texas Rangers even bother pursuing Cliff Lee this past offseason? It turns out the Rangers have plenty of solid southpaws...
• 4/14 B-R Blog: Unlikely No-Hit Pitchers: One of the fun new things we can do with the PI is to sort the results of a game-finder search by a season finder. Here are all...
• 4/10 Giants Nirvana: Jonathan Sanchez's BB/9: As a follow-up to my recent article on Jonathan Sanchez: Ross of Ross and the Heckler Speak suggested that there is still...
• 4/9 Giants Nirvana: Jonathan Sanchez's Development: The Jonathan Sanchez narrative states that he's gradually developed and matured into a top arm in the National League. ERA seems...
• 4/5 NY Baseball Digest: Francesa: Josh Hamilton Closest Thing to Mantle: During their weekly segment on WFAN yesterday, Mike Francesa and Jon Heyman of Sports Illustrated gushed over the talent of Josh...
• 4/4 Caught Looking: Garza’s historical debut: Matt Garza made his debut with the Chicago Cubs Sunday and of course with him and the Pirates involved, something pretty rare...
• 4/2 Mets360.com: Comparing Jenrry Mejia and Neftali Feliz: How good would Jenrry Mejia look in the New York Mets starting rotation? There’s a good chance the 21-year-old would be a fixture...

• 3/29 PaulLebowitz.com: Theories: Research is important. And today, it’s easy. With that in mind, I have to wonder why writers insist on twisting facts to...
• 3/18 B-R Blog: Bloops: The Hall of (Peak-Weighted) WAR: Here's a cool link from Adam Darowski: Hall of wWAR: The Hall of Fame Re-Po**** by Peak-Weighted WAR It is exactly what it sounds...
• 3/17 NY Baseball Digest: Jeff Nelson, Joe McEwing Nominated for Irish American HOF: Each year, Foley’s NY Pub & Restaurant Recognizes Players, Executives, Journalists and Entertainers of Irish Descent. There...
• 3/14 PaulLebowitz.com: Viewer Mail 3.14.2011: Jane **** at Confessions of a She-Fan writes RE Chuck Greenberg and Cliff Lee: Seeing Greenberg get the boot from the Rangers...
• 3/12 PaulLebowitz.com: Memos From The Dark Side 3.12.2011: The Sith thing from a few weeks ago didn’t go so well, so let’s try some brevity in the form of a memo; a memo—with...
• 3/11 YankeeAnalysts.com: Room Enough for One Sheriff: Conflict with Ryan Leads to Greenberg’s Ouster; Clash Similar to One from Yankees’ Past: (The following is being syndicated from The Captain’s Blog). You don’t mess with Nolan Ryan, at least not in Texas. Today,...
• 3/11 The Captain's Blog: Room Enough for One Sheriff: Conflict with Ryan Leads to Greenberg’s Ouster; Clash Similar to One from Yankees’ Past: (In addition to appearing at The Captain’s Blog, this post is also being syndicated at TheYankeeAnalysts.) You don’t mess...
• 3/4 Mets360.com: Mets need a big year from Jon Niese: For the Mets to have a successful 2011 season, it once again has to get the most it can from the starting rotation. After all,...
• 3/3 B-R Blog: Relief Appearances Of 3+ IP In Postseason Deciding Games: How many players, from 1903 to 2010, have come into a post-season deciding game out of the bullpen and thrown 3 innings or more?...

• 2/16 PAAPFLY: Lincecum not complacent: There should be quite a few exciting storylines in Giants camp this spring and that’s leaving aside the most obvious one: it’s...
• 2/9 YankeeAnalysts.com: Ten Years of Spending | 1990s edition: Much to my delight, I recently stumbled onto an excellent article by THT’s Matt Binder contemplating league spending from 2001-2010....
• 2/7 NY Baseball Digest: Vote: Pettitte and the Hall of Fame: Andy Pettitte and the Hall of Fame is not a new topic to this site. The first dialog about this happened in September of 2009,...

• 1/31 Mets360.com: The eventful career of Mike Torrez: Most pitchers would kill to have the career of Mike Torrez. He spent 18 years in the major leagues and won 185 games. He was a...
• 1/31 NY Baseball Digest: Winning a Pennant on MLB’s Credit Card: In the past I have applauded Texas Rangers owner Chuck Greenberg for his honest commentary when it comes to the Yankees. I thought...
• 1/24 B-R Blog: 2010: Year of the Strikeout: (Thanks to reader Kahuna Tuna who pointed out the central stat used in this post.) Strikeouts are more prevalent now than at any...
• 1/18 B-R Blog: Tough Loss Leaders Since 1920: What pitcher, since 1920, has the most career games where he threw 9+ innings, allowed 3 ER or less, and yet took the loss in...
• 1/17 Baseball Musings: Selling the Orioles?: Via Inside Charm City, the Orioles may be working on a sale to Cal Ripken that would take place in about two years: According...
• 1/16 PaulLebowitz.com: Abandonment: The Joba Ruination leads to opportunity: The Yankees should make Joba Chamberlain into a starter. They should do so without constraints...
• 1/6 YankeeAnalysts.com: The Hall of Fame continues its march toward irrelevance: Even by the Hall of Fame's increasingly low standards, yesterday's vote was a joke. Let's start with the only two position players...
• 1/6 WSJ Daily Fix: Blyleven Celebrates; Brown Is Rejected: The Count: Bert Blyleven got his overdue induction into Cooperstown, but Kevin Brown got almost no support despite a strong case...
• 1/6 SocraticGadfly: Some post-HOF-vote final thoughts on Jack Morris: Now that Bert Blyleven is in the Hall of Fame, let's look once more at Jack Morris and why he shouldn't be, since we have two...
• 1/5 B-R Blog: Bert Blyleven & Roberto Alomar Elected To Cooperstown: Congrats to Bert Blyleven and Roberto Alomar! I'll have more here shortly. In the interim, please feel free to use this entry...
• 1/5 Baseball Press: Hot Stove: Adrian Beltre joins the Texas Rangers: After another big walk year, Beltre cashed in with Texas. (AP) The Winter Meetings are over, but the MLB Hot Stove is still...
• 1/3 NY Baseball Digest: Rickey Henderson: True or False: This is a fun clip I found via Fangraphs where ESPN’s Mike & Mike quiz Rickey Henderson on some of the stories that...

• 12/30 Mets360.com: Perez Deal Is No Kazmir Trade: Just like us regular folk, Major League Baseball teams look towards the winter months for something special. The only difference...
• 12/26 Mets360.com: Pitch counts and Al Jackson’s 15-inning game: Perhaps no issue in baseball today is more divisive than pitch counts. Advocates of pitch counts claim that it helps to protect...
• 12/23 B-R Blog: Most Games With 9+ IP Age 43+: Since 1920, which pitcher threw the most games at age 43 or older where he threw at least 9 innings pitched? Here's the leaderboard...
• 12/18 My Pinstripes: It's Time To Roll The Dice On Greinke: You should never make a move in reaction to another's move unless your playing chess or at war, and when I say war I really mean...
• 12/14 My Pinstripes: BD Hot Stove: The Repercussions of Phil Lee: The fallout from Cliff Lee signing with Philadelphia can be heard today from Texas to New York to Boston and everywhere in between....
• 12/8 NY Baseball Digest: Rumor Mill: Lee, Crawford, Pettitte, Wood: I talked to one of your Yankee sources in Tampa asking him to update us on some of the rumblings regarding Cliff Lee, Carl Crawford,...
• 12/4 B-R Blog: 4+ One-Hitters Since 1920: Since 1920, how many starting pitchers have thrown 4+ one-hitters? Here's the list - Rk Player #Matching   W L W-L% ERA GS CG...
• 12/2 Jason's Baseball Blog: Hall of Fame Ballot Review 2011 – Bert Blyleven: Around this time last year, I went through and reviewed the case for a number of players for the Hall of Fame, and whether or...
• 12/1 PaulLebowitz.com: The Bronx Zoo Revisited: Typical insanity: With George Steinbrenner gone, I thought things were supposed to calm down; that there would be a businesslike...

• 11/21 NY Baseball Digest: Cliff Lee Race Starts to Heat Up: Since Brian Cashman visited Cliff Lee a couple of weeks ago there has been very little talk about the Texas ace. That changed...
• 11/21 NY Baseball Digest: The Best Expansion Player Picked?: .bbpBox6061165754978305 {background:url(http://s.twimg.com/a/1289518607/images/themes/theme2/bg.gif) #C6E2EE;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px...
• 11/20 The Captain's Blog: AL Cy Young Voting Only a Minor Skirmish in Stats War: The American League Cy Young race was seen by many as a battleground between modern sabremetrics and old fashioned statistical...
• 11/17 YankeeAnalysts.com: The Yankees aren't getting Justin Upton, and other Yankee-related Hot Stove items: The three of us have been pretty tied up this week with real world obligations, ergo the constant barrage of Season in Review...
• 11/11 The Writer's Journey: Starting pitchers and the Hall of Fame: Did you realize there are no starting pitchers in the Hall of Fame that debuted after 1967? Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan, Catfish Hunter…they...

• 10/31 MLBTradeRumors: Ranking Mets GMs All-Time: Well, it's official. Sandy Alderson is the 12th General Manager of the New York Mets, bringing joy to the corners of the globe...
• 10/21 B-R Blog: Data Dump: Postseason Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio Leaders: B-R user Simmy Cohen noticed that we don't have a K/BB leaderboard on our all-time playoff pitching leaders page, and asked if...
• 10/18 B-R Blog: Which Staff Had the Most Wins in Their Future?: Here's an interesting question sent to us by B-R reader Phil: "I've been a Mets fan since 1967, when, as the youngest kid in my...
• 10/15 The Sporting Hippeaux: A-Roid Bankrupted The Rangers, Now Is The Time For Vengeance (ALCS Preview): Expanding upon the superlative "Narrative Likability" grade I gave the Rangers prior to the ALDS, let's look at three reasons...
• 10/13 B-R Blog: Starting More Than One Sudden Death Game: During the Rangers-Rays ALDS game last night, on TBS, Ron Darling talked about the two "Game Sevens" that he started in his career....
• 10/11 B-R Blog: Ace Vs. Ace In Game 5 LDS: David Price and Cliff Lee will face off in Game 5 of the 2010 ALDS series between the Rays and Rangers. Is this the best match-up...
• 10/8 B-R Blog: Most Game Scores of at Least 90 in a Post Season: One day after Roy Halladay made his historic post-season debut  for the Phillies, Tim Lincecum has burst onto the scene for the...

• 9/26 The Sporting Hippeaux: "Narrative Likability Factor" & The Texas Rangers: If it hasn't been apparent in my treatments of the Twins and the Yankees, let me be clear, Narrative Likability Factor does not...
• 9/20 PaulLebowitz.com: The Greatest GM In The History Of The World, Ever--Ever!!!: And these guys ain't it: In John Madden's first book (Hey, Wait a Minute) he spoke about the cushy job enjoyed by some backup...
• 9/7 PaulLebowitz.com: The Paul Effect: The Paul Effect (pôl -f kt), adj.---A syndrome named for Paul (The Prince of New York) Lebowitz related to and caused by an...
• 9/4 PaulLebowitz.com: Pick A Side: Clean it up or don't----and know the consequences either way: Reading the Wall Street Journal this morning, I came across...

• 8/15 B-R Blog: Streaks Of 6+ IP With 5 Hits Or Less: Since 1920, how many pitchers have streaks of 8+ games of throwing at least 6 innings while allowing 5 hits or less (each time)? Here's...
• 8/10 Call to the Pen: Premium Pitching: Brandon Morrow and Crawford Simmons Lead the Way: The week of August 2nd-8th was capped off with one of the most dominating pitching performances of the season.  In fact using...
• 8/9 The Captain's Blog: Morrow’s Near Miss Still A Historic Achievement: Brandon Morrow came within one out of pitching a no-hitter, but even more impressive than his brush with immortality was the dominance...
• 8/8 B-R Blog: Brandon Morrow’s Big Day 8/8/10: By now, you've probably have heard about Morrow's effort today. So, since 1920 and through yesterday, how many starting pitchers,...

• 7/28 PaulLebowitz.com: Me Pitch Through Pain, Me Tough: And me remarkably stupid: When word got out that Stephen Strasburg was scratched from his start for the Nationals against...

• 6/25 B-R Blog: Edwin Jackson no-hitter: In what has been an up-and-down season for Edwin Jackson, tonight he hits a peak by no-hitting the Rays. Click through for more. His...
• 6/18 WasWatching: Not Too Old To Boogie Down: Old guys to start a game against the Yankees, in New York, since the Steinbrenners owned the team, where they won the game: Rk Player Age 6 Date Tm Rslt App,Dec IP H R ER BB SO GSc 1 Jamie...
• 6/1 B-R Blog: Jumping Jimenez – More On Über Ubaldo: Somewhat adding on to Raphy's post on Ubaldo Jimenez, via Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Pitching Game Finder - starting...

• 5/30 B-R Blog: Scherzer’s 14 Strikeouts: Max Scherzer's 14 strikeouts in 5-2/3 innings today was quite a feat. As Alex DiFilippo of mlb.com points out, Scherzer became...
• 5/30 B-R Blog: Roy Halladay’s perfect game: Well as you must know by now, Roy Halladay pitched a perfect game yesterday. This game goes right to the top of his list of best...
• 5/20 B-R Blog: WAR Data: Best Starting Pitchers Not In the Hall of Fame: Yesterday, I looked at the best eligible position players not in the Hall of Fame by WAR, and you responded with your votes by...
• 5/8 B-R Blog: Jamie Moyer’s incredible record-setting performance: Jamie Moyer has pitched himself into the record books and I suspect he's going to stay there for quite a long time. Last night...
• 5/6 B-R Blog: The 3,000 hit club (but not the one you think): The "3,000 hit club" is one of the most recognizable phrases among baseball fans. It ranks up there with "a .300 hitter", the...

• 4/20 B-R Blog: Ubaldo Jimenez’s no-hitter: Ubaldo Jimenez has put together a solid major-league career so far and last night he pitched the first no-hitter in Rockies franchise...