OFF THE BENCH

Stat of the Day

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:04:36 -0500

The Tampa Bay Rays have a prospect named Alex Torres. He’s a left handed pitcher.

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Stat of the Day

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:11:22 -0400

Miguel Cabrera has 6 lucky homeruns this year. http://hittrackeronline.com/detail.php?id=2012_2858&type=hitter

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Stat of the Day

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:19:24 -0400

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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Stat of the Day

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:58:22 -0400

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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Stat of the Day

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:57:07 -0400

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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Stat of the Day

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:57:50 -0400

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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Stat of the Day

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:05:47 -0400

Diet Coke was invented in 1983.

The term mayday comes from the French.

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Stat of the Day

Thu, 31 May 2012 23:29:50 -0400

Earlier in May, scientists reported the discovery in Guatemala of a Mayan calender that goes past 2012. We are all saved!

Stat of the Day

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:28:27 -0400

Matt Kemp currently leads the Majors in 9 categories, the most impressive being his 1.026 slugging percentage.

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Stat of the Day

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:28:18 -0400

The Yankees lost 95 games in 1990.

Stat of the Day

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:11:42 -0500

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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Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:05:17 -0500

Off The Bench is now on Pintrest. Check it out. http://pinterest.com/offthebench/the-blog/

Stat of the Day

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:17:54 -0500

David Wells’ listed weight is officially 187 pounds. I think not Mr. Wells

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Stat of the Day

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:51:02 -0500

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

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:10:14 -0500

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.

Stat of the Day

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:55:00 -0500

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

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:01:29 -0500

Stat of the day: The average length of an MLB career is 5.6 years

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A Stat of the Day

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:22:12 -0500

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

Stat of the Day

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:00:12 -0500

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

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:44:34 -0500

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 318 posted in 2008 and the best for a starter was Pedro’s 1999 at 291.

Also, look at Let Aroldis Chapman Start!!!