January 2012
7 posts
Stat of the Day
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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Stat of the Day
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...
Stat of the Day
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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Stat of the Day
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.
Stat of the Day
“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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