January 2013
1 post
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The Tampa Bay Rays have a prospect named Alex Torres. He’s a left handed pitcher.
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September 2012
3 posts
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Miguel Cabrera has 6 lucky homeruns this year. http://hittrackeronline.com/detail.php?id=2012_2858&type=hitter
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Chad Durbin has 70 relief appearances, 5th most in the Majors. While Fredi’s been resting his big 3 more this year, is it at the expense of his 4th guy?
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The entire A’s starting rotation right now has 86 career wins. There are 50 active major leaguers with at least that many.
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August 2012
2 posts
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Republican VP nominee Paul Ryan cited snow in his district as a reason that climate change is a “tough sell.”
He also claimed that a few scientists working through their experiment provided reason to doubt the climate change science altogether.
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Hugh Daily is credited with playing 3 games in the outfield, 2 at second and one at shortstop. Remember, Daily had one arm. That game at short…. turned a double play. Yeah, He’s awesome.
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June 2012
1 post
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Diet Coke was invented in 1983.
The term mayday comes from the French.
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Earlier in May, scientists reported the discovery in Guatemala of a Mayan calender that goes past 2012. We are all saved!
April 2012
2 posts
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Matt Kemp currently leads the Majors in 9 categories, the most impressive being his 1.026 slugging percentage.
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The Yankees lost 95 games in 1990.
March 2012
3 posts
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Vlad Guerrero has lead the league in 13 single season categories in his career, 5 times leading the league in intentional walks.
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David Wells’ listed weight is officially 187 pounds. I think not Mr. Wells
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February 2012
5 posts
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After the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) passed in 1992, drug companies can pay to have their drug sped through the FDA approval process. Since PDUFA passed, the FDA has issued 156% more recalls.
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I Really Want to Write a Post
But there is absolutely nothing to write about today. Pitchers and catchers are reporting but it’s raining here some I’m not in a “turn that into 500 outrageously optimistic words” mood. So it seems like nothing will go up from me today.
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The Twins were 20-12 in the Grapefruit League last year, winning the title.
They proceeded to win 63 games during the regular season.
Basically Spring Training results don’t matter.
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Stat of the day: The average length of an MLB career is 5.6 years
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On this day in 1910, MLB passes a sanction saying that any given owner can own only one franchise.
Peter Angelos owns a franchise, but he’s not doing a good job of it. Read here
January 2012
7 posts
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The 2011 AL leader for Sac Flies was Adam Jones.
The NL leader was Yuiesky Betancourt.
Combined, the two had 23 more walks all season than sac Flies.
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Atlanta Braves reliever Eric O’Flaherty posted a 0.98 ERA last year in 78 appearances. This is the first time a reliever made at least 70 appearances and posted an ERA under 1.00. Also, O’Flaherty’s (I just used two apostrophes in the same word) ERA+ was 389. That’s just plain dumb. A really good ERA+ is about 100. For some reference Rivera’s best ERA+ season was...
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Al Dark played for 14 seasons from 1946-1960 and had a career .289 average with 2089 hits. He played 1400 games at shortstop.
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Lee Smith got 50.6% of the vote today. It appears my post reached some of the viewers as this represents Smith’s highest vote total to date.
The only guys in the past 25 years to reach 50% and NOT get in by BBWAA: Jim Bunning, Orlando Cepeda and still-on-the-ballot Jack Morris. Bunning and Cepeda got in via Veterans Committee
Also,
I can’t wait for Pitchers and Catchers to report.
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“In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That’s not to pick on homosexuality. It’s not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing.”
“All the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis, they’re not Palestinians. There is no ‘Palestinian.’ This is Israeli land.”
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December 2011
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As part of his punishment for perjuring himself and obstructing justice in 2003, Barry Bonds is required to pay a $4,000 fine. In 2001, the year he hit 73 home runs, Bonds made, on average, a little over $5,000 per pitch he saw as a batter.
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Greg Maddux pitched 5,008.1 Major League innings. 351.1 of them were as a Padre.
He also won 18 Gold gloves. Two of them as a Padre.
On the Lowrie-Melancon Trade:
I like the trade for the Astros. Finally, they have a general manager in place who understands that the ‘Stros are not a feeder for the rest of the league and is capable of pulling off somewhat fair trades. I think the Astros actually got the best in this deal. Melancon can be good for the Red Sox, but he won’t be nearly as valuable if say Marco Scutaro gets hurt and the Sox are...
Definition of Bawse
It’s like “boss” but way, way, way cooler. If Bruce Springstein is “The Boss” or George Steinbrenner was “The Boss,” imagine a bawse!
Basically you have to do something extra extra awesome to be a Bawse.
One might consider Roy Halladay’s no hitter in the playoff as sufficient to be a bawse but its not. Dan Johnson’s 9th innning, two out,...
Read This
I don’t usually like what Jim Bowden writes (and lord knows ESPN doesn’t need the Off the Bench mini blog linking to them) but this is an interesting and good read. Five trades that should happen.
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There are more than 6 billion people not on Facebook.
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Two Stats today:
1) Ryan Braun’s ISO, a metric used to measure power (discussed here), jumped from .197 in 2010 to .265 this year. His career average is .251 so don’t get too excited
2) 80.5% of people in India are Hindu
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Albert Pujols had 445 HRs and a .328 batting average as a Cardinal. The only other players to have an average at least that high and at least that many homers for one team would be Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Ted Williams, and Stan Musial. Wow.
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Braun is Coming, Really
It’s finals time of year so as important as the Ryan Braun analysis post is, that 6 page paper due tomorrow morning is has to be done first.
Here’s a link to the big site, Off The Bench
Braun Article To Come
Keep an eye out for something on the big Ryan Braun PED news later today on Off The Bench
New Post On The Big Site: Dbacks get Cahill
Check out the new post on Off The Bench, Cahill Makes DBacks Serious Contenders.
Ian Stewart to the Cubs
The Cubs acquired Ian Stewart and Casey Weathers from the Rockies for Tyler Clovin and DJ LeMahieu. This could turn out to be a big deal for the North Siders and signals the official end to any Aramis Ramirez back to the Cubs talk. Why didn’t I hear about this yesterday? More at Off The Bench.
Pujols is Not Lebron
I read an ESPN article this morning trying to compare Albert Pujols’ departure from St. Louis to Lebron James’ “Decision” to leave Cleveland last summer. This is absolutely ridiculous. Pujols’ move to LA is absolutely nothing like the Lebracle. I haven’t decided if I want to dignify the idea that the two are similar with an entire post on the big site. Watch...
Albert Pujols Ranks Through the First 11 Seasons
Prince Albert just signed a $254 Million deal with the Los Angeles deal. For our version of the story, be sure to read the main site quick, reactionary post. Also, we just found the fun stat of the day. Through the first 11 years of his career, Pujols has more home runs, RBI’s and total bases than anyone in history. He could quite possibly be the best player ever and deserves to be the...
Our Mini Blog
Max and Sean have decided to add a tumblr.com site in an effort to increase cross listing on our main site. This is where you will find most of our stats of the day, or things we wanted to tweet that are a bit longer than the 140 limiting characters of Twitter. Who chose that random character amount? Anyway, hope you like what we write on here and do not be afraid to visit our main site Off The...
