Posted by Andy on July 28, 2009
Check out the worst OPS+ figures so far in 2009 for players qualified for the batting title:
Cnt Player **OPS+** Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF GDP SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Positions
+----+-----------------+--------+----+---+---+--+---+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+---------+
1 Willy Taveras 54 2009 27 CIN NL 82 360 329 46 82 10 2 1 14 17 0 49 2 10 2 2 21 6 .249 .289 .301 .590 *8
2 Jason Kendall 63 2009 35 MIL NL 87 338 292 27 70 10 1 0 25 31 5 32 8 2 5 10 2 1 .240 .324 .281 .605 *2
3 Emilio Bonifacio 63 2009 24 FLA NL 92 425 391 57 98 11 5 1 22 26 0 81 1 3 4 4 18 7 .251 .296 .312 .608 *56/478
4 Edgar Renteria 66 2009 33 SFG NL 83 351 314 36 80 14 0 2 39 26 2 50 1 5 5 12 5 2 .255 .309 .318 .627 *6
5 Chris Young 70 2009 25 ARI NL 90 324 284 33 58 22 4 6 26 34 1 82 2 2 2 1 11 2 .204 .292 .373 .665 *8
6 Mike Fontenot 74 2009 29 CHC NL 88 305 273 26 63 13 1 8 31 28 3 65 1 0 3 5 2 1 .231 .302 .374 .676 *54
7 Jeff Francoeur 74 2009 25 TOT NL 94 376 353 34 92 14 2 7 49 12 2 51 4 1 6 10 5 2 .261 .288 .371 .659 *9
8 Jimmy Rollins 75 2009 30 PHI NL 91 432 397 61 94 25 2 10 45 29 1 45 2 1 3 6 17 8 .237 .290 .385 .675 *6
9 Daniel Murphy 76 2009 24 NYM NL 92 315 280 33 68 15 1 5 32 28 1 41 0 3 4 5 2 1 .243 .308 .357 .665 37
10 Adrian Beltre 77 2009 30 SEA AL 73 313 297 36 77 19 0 5 31 11 1 48 3 0 2 12 9 2 .259 .291 .374 .665 *5/D
With his second straight season having a qualifying OPS+ under 60, it's time for Willy Taveras' playing career to be over. It doesn't matter how fast the guy is--with an OBP of .289, he's not getting on base enough and no team should be wasting plate appearances on the guy. Defensively he's an average centerfielder (not above average with that speed) and there's no reason to use him in a game except as a pinch-runner.
Something similar could be said about Jason Kendall. He's working on his 3rd straight season under an OPS+ of 75. He slugged over .400 a few times but not since 2003 and this year his SLG is an almost impossibly-low .281. That's 10 doubles, 1 triple, and no homers in 87 games. It doesn't matter how good he might be defensively or in handling the pitching staff--no amount of positive impact he's making there can compensate for just how bad he is offensively.
Every guy on this list has a story, but two names that stick out are Jimmy Rollins and Adrian Beltre. In Beltre's case, other than his contract year of 2004, he's always been a fairly average player. This year's performance represents his worst since his rookie year in 1998. Pretty soon he won't be qualified for the batting title (he's on the DL right now) and we'll see how he does when he gets back.
Jimmy Rollins is also having the worst year of his career although he has been much, much better of late. Rollins is an overrated player and was one of the weakest MVP winners in recent memory in 2007 (even though I voted for him...) I can tolerate his career OBP of .330 but not this year's figure of .290. My guess is he continues to hit very well for the rest of the year and ends the season right around his career numbers, meaning an OPS+ still a bit below average.
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Posted by Sean Forman on July 27, 2009
I made a couple of server tweaks, mainly passing along ornery script calls (via mod_proxy) to our 16-core 16GB db server rather than the regular b-r web server. It appears to have dramatically improved performance (at least what top is showing me), but there may be some subtle bugs I didn't anticipate, so let me know if you find anything funky going on. Sorry for the poor server performance the last few months. Hopefully this will get us through the end of the year.
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Posted by Andy on July 27, 2009
Last season, Aaron Harang went 6-17 despite a 94 ERA+, meaning an ERA that was just a little below average.
Here are the lowest win totals in a season in which a guy had 17 or more losses but also an ERA+ of 94 or better:
Cnt Player **W** L ERA+ Year Age Tm Lg G GS CG SHO GF W-L% SV IP H R ER BB SO ERA HR BF AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS Pk BK WP BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ Pit Str
+----+-----------------+------+--+----+----+---+---+--+---+---+--+---+--+-----+--+-----+---+---+---+---+---+------+--+----+----+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+----+
1 Dutch Henry 2 17 94 1930 28 CHW AL 35 16 4 0 12 .105 0 155 211 116 84 48 35 4.88 12 706 4 0 2 0
2 Eddie Smith 4 17 120 1937 23 PHA AL 38 23 14 1 11 .190 5 196.2 178 100 86 90 79 3.94 18 847 4 0 2 0
3 Scott Perry 4 17 95 1919 28 PHA AL 25 21 12 0 3 .190 1 183.2 193 92 73 72 38 3.58 4 758 2 1 4 0
4 Frank Allen 4 18 116 1913 24 BRO NL 34 25 11 0 3 .182 2 174.2 144 75 55 81 82 2.83 6 736 10 0 4 0
5 Jim Pastorius 4 20 95 1908 26 BRO NL 28 25 16 2 3 .167 0 213.2 171 88 58 74 54 2.44 5 814 7 0 6 0
6 Virgil Trucks 5 19 95 1952 35 DET AL 35 29 8 3 5 .208 1 197 190 99 87 82 129 3.97 12 858 7 1 5 0
7 Rollie Naylor 5 18 102 1919 27 PHA AL 31 23 17 0 5 .217 0 204.2 210 109 76 64 68 3.34 2 819 4 0 2 0
8 Aaron Harang 6 17 94 2008 30 CIN NL 30 29 1 1 0 .261 0 184.1 205 104 98 50 153 4.78 35 793 723 52 3 5 2 11 7 12 17 4 0 0 2 .284 .329 .509 .838 118 3046 2001
9 Galen Cisco 6 19 98 1964 28 NYM NL 36 25 5 2 5 .240 0 191.2 182 85 77 54 78 3.62 17 787 712 35 6 4 6 10 5 21 8 11 1 0 5 .256 .311 .393 .704 107
10 Johnny Lindell 6 17 95 1953 36 TOT NL 32 26 15 1 4 .261 0 199 195 122 103 139 118 4.66 17 910 6 0 11 0
11 Paul Minner 6 17 107 1951 27 CHC NL 33 28 14 3 3 .261 1 201.2 219 97 85 64 68 3.79 20 861 0 1 5 0
12 Howie Fox 6 19 105 1949 28 CIN NL 38 30 9 0 6 .240 0 215 221 120 95 77 60 3.98 13 928 4 1 2 0
13 Jack Russell 6 18 108 1929 23 BOS AL 35 32 13 0 3 .250 0 227.1 263 132 99 40 37 3.92 12 978 3 0 1 0
14 Joe Oeschger 6 18 98 1918 26 PHI NL 30 23 13 2 7 .250 3 184 159 87 62 83 60 3.03 3 778 7 0 4 0
15 Elmer Jacobs 6 19 101 1917 24 PIT NL 38 25 10 1 12 .240 2 227.1 214 87 71 76 58 2.81 3 941 5 2 1 0
16 Walt Leverenz 6 17 114 1913 24 SLB AL 30 27 13 2 2 .261 1 202.2 159 81 58 89 87 2.58 3 806 10 0 4 0
17 Cy Falkenberg 6 17 103 1907 26 WSH AL 32 24 17 1 4 .261 1 233.2 195 105 61 77 108 2.35 0 976 8 0 13 0
He's in some pretty rare company there and although many of these pitchers are not all that famous we do see Virgil Trucks on there. Trucks won 13 games in the previous season and 20 games in the following one.
If we restrict the above list to just the last 2o years, there are just 14 seasons that qualify:
Cnt Player **W** L ERA+ Year Age Tm Lg G GS CG SHO GF W-L% SV IP H R ER BB SO ERA HR BF AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS Pk BK WP BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ Pit Str
+----+-----------------+------+--+----+----+---+---+--+---+---+--+---+--+-----+--+-----+---+---+---+---+---+------+--+----+----+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+----+
1 Aaron Harang 6 17 94 2008 30 CIN NL 30 29 1 1 0 .261 0 184.1 205 104 98 50 153 4.78 35 793 723 52 3 5 2 11 7 12 17 4 0 0 2 .284 .329 .509 .838 118 3046 2001
2 Rich Robertson 7 17 100 1996 27 MIN AL 36 31 5 3 1 .292 0 186.1 197 113 106 116 114 5.12 22 853 722 32 5 2 9 2 4 23 15 8 1 0 7 .273 .378 .422 .800 102
3 Matt Young 8 18 113 1990 31 SEA AL 34 33 7 1 0 .308 0 225.1 198 106 88 107 176 3.51 15 963 836 25 3 7 6 7 7 27 20 14 3 0 16 .237 .325 .328 .653 82
4 Albie Lopez 9 19 95 2001 29 TOT ML 33 33 3 3 0 .321 0 205.2 226 123 110 75 136 4.81 26 896 804 48 2 3 4 8 5 20 20 9 3 1 2 .281 .343 .443 .786 105 3191 2019
5 Doug Drabek 9 18 103 1993 30 HOU NL 34 34 7 2 0 .333 0 237.2 242 108 100 60 157 3.79 18 991 906 41 4 12 3 14 8 18 28 7 0 0 12 .267 .312 .381 .693 93
6 Jack Armstrong 9 17 95 1993 28 FLA NL 36 33 0 0 2 .346 0 196.1 210 105 98 78 118 4.49 29 879 776 35 6 6 7 8 10 9 18 3 2 2 7 .271 .339 .443 .782 110
7 Tim Leary 9 19 97 1990 31 NYY AL 31 31 6 1 0 .321 0 208 202 105 95 78 138 4.11 18 881 785 39 1 1 7 7 4 20 18 9 6 0 23 .257 .328 .378 .706 97
8 Kirk McCaskill 10 19 96 1991 30 CAL AL 30 30 1 0 0 .345 0 177.2 193 93 84 66 71 4.26 19 762 681 36 5 1 3 6 6 22 8 6 1 0 6 .283 .347 .435 .782 116
9 Joe Magrane 10 17 106 1990 25 STL NL 31 31 3 2 0 .370 0 203.1 204 86 81 59 100 3.59 10 855 773 36 9 7 8 8 6 15 21 16 6 1 11 .264 .320 .373 .693 96
10 Greg Harris 11 17 94 1993 29 TOT NL 35 35 4 0 0 .393 0 225.1 239 127 115 69 123 4.59 33 975 881 45 9 9 7 14 4 10 22 10 2 6 6 .271 .328 .455 .783 107
11 Steve Parris 12 17 98 2000 32 CIN NL 33 33 0 0 0 .414 0 192.2 227 109 103 71 117 4.81 30 861 772 57 7 5 4 10 3 18 12 3 1 1 9 .294 .355 .503 .858 117 3308 2026
12 Darryl Kile 13 17 99 1998 29 COL NL 36 35 4 1 1 .433 0 230.1 257 141 133 96 158 5.20 28 1020 894 47 7 4 7 15 8 23 15 5 0 0 12 .287 .358 .450 .808 100
13 Todd Stottlemyre 13 17 95 1990 25 TOR AL 33 33 4 0 0 .433 0 203 214 101 98 69 115 4.34 18 866 781 36 8 4 8 3 5 13 23 13 1 1 6 .274 .337 .410 .747 103
14 Frank Viola 13 17 106 1989 29 TOT ML 36 36 9 2 0 .433 0 261 246 115 106 74 211 3.66 22 1082 986 43 6 4 4 12 6 16 16 11 5 1 8 .249 .303 .372 .675 89
This is a pretty interesting group. For the most part, these guys all had decent-or-better major league careers. That's not too surprising as earning a 94 ERA+ while pitching enough games to lose 17 decisions means you must be at least pretty decent.
As of this writing, Harang isn't fairing much better in 2009. So far he has an ERA+ of 106 but a record of just 5-10. Weird.
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Posted by Andy on July 24, 2009
Several weeks back, Sean announced the addition of a new search feature where using "the" in the search box returns the page meeting the search criteria with the highest number of page views.
I absolutely love this new feature and it has saved me a lot of time. In case you don't quite get how it works, let me explain:
Let's say you want to see Willie Mays' page, so you enter "Willie Mays" into the search box.
Willie Mays
Click on that link and you'll see the result: Willie Mays, as well as Willie Mays Aikens.
Now trying putting "the Willie Mays" into to search box. It takes you direct to Willie Mays' page because he has more page views than Aikens.
Big deal? Well let's say you search for just "Mays".
Mays
That gives you 11 major-leaguers and 36 minor-leaguers. But "the Mays" takes you right to Willie's page again. So does "the Willie" and even "the Willy".
Now, here's some fun.
Can you guess who comes up when you put in "the Jim"?
It's not James Cool Papa Bell, Jim Bottomley, Jim Bouton, Jim Bunning, Jimmie Fox, Jim Thome, or any other All-Star or Hall of Famer. Nope, it's this guy, who has the most hits of any Jim.
I was recently wondering who'd come up the most for "the Charlie". I thought maybe Pete Rose, due to his nickname. But anybody with the first or middle name of Charles or Charlie is fair game, meaning even a guy like Whitey (Edward Charles) Ford is eligible. Turns out that the Charlie with the most page views is, ahem, Mickey Mantle.
This new search feature isn't perfect, but it makes finding many guys a lot quicker.
Which "the" searches can you find that turn back surprising results?
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Posted by Sean Forman on July 24, 2009
We had to install a kernel update this morning which means that all of the servers went down for awhile (unfortunately B-R was down for two hours due to a messed up config file). This was the first time the servers had been rebooted in about 350 days. Pretty impressive if you ask me.
I also did some manipulation of the build script to move it to a less loaded machine which should have the affect of 1) dramatically improving the time that the site is updated 8am rather than 10:30am and 2) improving the performance of the site in the morning.
Also due to the Mark Buehrle perfect game and resulting traffic spike, I fiddled with the server configs and made some changes (mainly with keep alives, i.e. disabling them) that should speed things up substantially on the site. We'll see. This Sunday and next Friday will be the litmus tests.
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Posted by Steve Lombardi on July 24, 2009
Playing around with Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Pitching Game Finder, looking for a "not-so-perfect game," I set the controls for "From 1954 to 2009, requiring BR>=21 and IP=9" and this is what I got:
Cnt Player Date Tm Opp GmReslt App,Dec IP H R ER BB BR SO HR Pit Str GmSc IR IS BF AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS Pk BK WP ERA
+----+-----------------+-------------+---+----+-------+---------+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+--+--+--+--+--+------+
1 Billy O'Dell 1962-04-16 SFG LAD W 19-8 CG 9 ,W 9 15 8 6 4 21 4 1 172 111 29 47 41 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 6.00
2 Burt Hooton 1974-04-17 CHC PIT W 18-9 CG 9 ,W 9 16 9 5 1 21 7 3 33 47 46 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5.00
Games found: 2.
Note the dates on both these games - and that O'Dell and Hooton got wins too.
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Posted by Raphy on July 23, 2009
Congratulations to Mark Buehrle on his perfect game! It has been reported that this is Buehrle's second no hitter, however it is more than that. Buehrle is only the second pitcher since 1954 (if you have time to check prior to 1954, let me know and I'll post it, otherwise I'll try to do it later) to have 2 no-hitters in his career in which he faced the minimum 27 batters. The other is Sandy Koufax. Here are the lines from Buehle's previous no hitter and Koufax's games:
Cnt Date Tm Opp GmReslt App,Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR Pit Str GmSc IR IS BF AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS Pk BK WP ERA
+----+-------------+---+----+-------+---------+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+--+--+--+--+--+------+
Buehrle 1 2007-04-18 CHW TEX W 6-0 SHO9 ,W 9 0 0 0 1 8 0 106 66 94 27 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.00
Koufax 1 1964-06-04 LAD @PHI W 3-0 SHO9 ,W 9 0 0 0 1 12 0 92 66 98 27 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.00
Koufax 2 1965-09-09 LAD CHC W 1-0 SHO9 ,W 9 0 0 0 0 14 0 113 79 101 27 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
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Posted by Andy on July 23, 2009
This came up in a recent discussion. Most baseball trivia buffs will know that Steve Carlton was the last guy to pitch 300 innings in a season:
Cnt Player Year IP Age Tm Lg G GS CG SHO GF W L W-L% SV H R ER BB SO ERA ERA+ HR BF AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS Pk BK WP BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ Pit Str
+----+-----------------+----+-----+---+---+--+---+---+--+---+--+--+--+-----+--+---+---+---+---+---+------+----+--+----+----+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+----+
1 Steve Carlton 1980 304 35 PHI NL 38 38 13 3 0 24 9 .727 0 243 87 79 90 286 2.34 162 15 1228 1114 50 13 12 2 14 8 14 14 16 9 7 17 .218 .276 .327 .603 69
2 Phil Niekro 1979 342 40 ATL NL 44 44 23 1 0 21 20 .512 0 311 160 129 113 208 3.39 120 41 1436 1290 50 6 8 11 14 7 25 40 11 2 4 18 .241 .306 .384 .690 88
3 Phil Niekro 1978 334.1 39 ATL NL 44 42 22 4 1 19 18 .514 1 295 129 107 102 248 2.88 142 16 1389 1254 42 10 5 13 13 6 13 34 12 4 3 11 .235 .298 .323 .621 71
4 Jim Palmer 1977 319 31 BAL AL 39 39 22 3 0 20 11 .645 0 263 106 103 99 193 2.91 132 24 1269 1148 42 9 1 3 10 9 22 15 30 1 0 7 .229 .290 .344 .634 77
5 Steve Rogers 1977 301.2 27 MON NL 40 40 17 4 0 17 16 .515 0 272 122 104 81 206 3.10 122 16 1235 1121 44 10 3 5 18 9 23 24 13 4 1 14 .243 .294 .343 .637 77
6 Dave Goltz 1977 303 28 MIN AL 39 39 19 2 0 20 11 .645 0 284 129 113 91 186 3.36 120 23 1253 1149 41 14 4 2 7 5 26 18 16 6 1 9 .247 .302 .367 .669 82
7 Phil Niekro 1977 330.1 38 ATL NL 44 43 20 2 1 16 20 .444 0 315 166 148 164 262 4.03 111 26 1428 1236 44 9 12 8 11 8 26 47 32 4 3 17 .255 .344 .368 .712 88
8 Randy Jones 1976 315.1 26 SDP NL 40 40 25 5 0 22 14 .611 0 274 109 96 50 93 2.74 120 15 1251 1173 40 3 9 4 15 9 34 15 3 2 1 0 .234 .265 .311 .576 74
9 Jim Palmer 1976 315 30 BAL AL 40 40 23 6 0 22 13 .629 0 255 101 88 84 159 2.51 130 20 1256 1140 35 8 5 8 10 14 20 33 15 3 0 5 .224 .278 .321 .599 80
10 Gaylord Perry 1975 305.2 36 TOT AL 37 37 25 5 0 18 17 .514 0 277 127 110 70 233 3.24 116 28 1248 1159 45 7 6 4 11 3 15 12 17 2 0 5 .239 .284 .362 .646 82
11 Jim Palmer 1975 323 29 BAL AL 39 38 25 10 1 23 11 .676 1 253 87 75 80 193 2.09 169 20 1268 1172 37 10 4 2 10 4 32 29 11 1 0 4 .216 .266 .316 .582 68
12 Jim Kaat 1975 303.2 36 CHW AL 43 41 12 1 1 20 14 .588 0 321 121 105 77 142 3.11 125 20 1279 1172 51 6 0 9 11 10 31 4 12 2 2 0 .274 .321 .379 .700 95
13 Andy Messersmith 1975 321.2 29 LAD NL 42 40 19 7 2 19 14 .576 1 244 92 82 96 213 2.29 149 22 1276 1148 29 3 2 5 20 7 24 14 7 2 0 8 .213 .275 .301 .576 67
14 Catfish Hunter 1975 328 29 NYY AL 39 39 30 7 0 23 14 .622 0 248 107 94 83 177 2.58 144 25 1294 1191 38 5 4 5 7 8 17 15 14 0 0 7 .208 .261 .312 .573 62
15 Nolan Ryan 1974 332.2 27 CAL AL 42 41 26 3 1 22 16 .579 0 221 127 107 202 367 2.89 118 18 1392 1165 38 6 3 9 12 4 24 28 21 3 0 9 .190 .313 .279 .592 76
16 Phil Niekro 1974 302.1 35 ATL NL 41 39 18 6 1 20 13 .606 1 249 91 80 88 195 2.38 159 19 1219 1106 43 7 3 6 10 8 22 18 13 1 4 6 .225 .284 .328 .612 73
17 Luis Tiant 1974 311.1 33 BOS AL 38 38 25 7 0 22 13 .629 0 281 106 101 82 176 2.92 133 21 1266 1166 40 12 3 4 6 8 24 23 7 2 0 1 .241 .291 .350 .641 78
18 Wilbur Wood 1974 320.1 32 CHW AL 42 42 22 1 0 20 19 .513 0 305 143 128 80 169 3.60 105 27 1316 1201 50 7 8 9 14 12 33 29 16 6 0 5 .254 .303 .375 .678 91
19 Gaylord Perry 1974 322.1 35 CLE AL 37 37 28 4 0 21 13 .618 0 230 98 90 99 216 2.51 144 25 1262 1127 34 7 7 6 19 12 27 12 6 3 0 2 .204 .269 .313 .582 67
20 Catfish Hunter 1974 318.1 28 OAK AL 41 41 23 6 0 25 12 .676 0 268 97 88 46 143 2.49 134 25 1240 1171 43 7 2 4 9 10 15 14 19 1 0 1 .229 .258 .342 .600 76
21 Fergie Jenkins 1974 328.1 31 TEX AL 41 41 29 6 0 25 12 .676 0 286 117 103 45 225 2.82 126 27 1305 1231 56 2 3 8 9 12 17 18 10 0 2 4 .232 .262 .347 .609 76
22 Mickey Lolich 1974 308 33 DET AL 41 41 27 3 0 16 21 .432 0 310 155 142 78 202 4.15 91 38 1263 1155 48 10 11 3 17 10 24 16 32 5 0 10 .268 .314 .426 .740 109
He pitched 304 innings over 38 starts, or exactly 8 innings per start. Check out Carlton's complete 1980 game log right here. Lefty had only 4 starts all year where he didn't reach at least 7 IP. He also had 13 games where he pitched 9 innings, all for complete games except this September 22nd game that the Phillies won in the 10th inning. He also pitched one 10-inning complete game.
From his game logs, you can also see that he pitched quite a bit on 3 days' rest instead of 4 days' rest. The Phillies weren't quite using a full 5-man rotation yet, which is how Carlton got 38 starts instead of the typical 32 to 34 we see for a full-time ace these days.
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Posted by Raphy on July 22, 2009
On August 19, 1997 the Cincinnati Reds beat the Colorado Rockies 6-5 beginning a stretch in which they went 20-17. While this may seem unremarkable, the Reds managed to record a save in every single one of those wins. It was the longest streak of wins saved by any team from 1954-2009 (and presumably ever). As a quick point of reference, the longest such streak this year was 8 games by the Royals earlier this month. Here are the longest streaks 1954-2009:
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Posted by Sean Forman on July 22, 2009
We'll be rebooting the servers this Friday morning. We should be out of commission (Murphy wiling) for just a few minutes. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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