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Date: Mon, Aug 23, 2010

Sponsoring a page is fun, fast, and easy way to support what we're doing here at Baseball-Reference. With a sponsorship, you can: Show your support for your favorite player or team. Drum up traffic for your own site & draw in fans with a common interest. Get some well-deserved recognition for your support of B-R. Make your voice heard [...]

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Bloops: Losing Is Profitable For the Pirates

Date: Mon, Aug 23, 2010

Courtesy of ESPN, here's confirmation on something Pittsburgh fans have long suspected -- namely, that the Pirates are making a killing by giving the fans a subpar product: "The Pirates made nearly $29.4 million in 2007 and 2008, according to team financial documents, years that were part of a streak of futility that has [...]

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Checking in on Robinson Cano and Kelly Johnson

Date: Mon, Aug 23, 2010

Back at the end of April, we were marveling at the great starts posted by Robinson Cano and Kelly Johnson. Let's take another peak at how these two doing are doing with a little over a month left in the season. Johnson's 2010 splits tell his story: Split G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB BAbip tOPS+ sOPS+ April/March 22 94 80 17 25 8 0 9 18 13 17 .313 .404 .750 1.154 60 .291 162 207 May 27 115 98 18 24 8 0 3 7 15 28 .245 .351 .418 .769 41 .313 80 110 June 25 119 102 12 24 7 0 1 10 17 25 .235 .345 .333 .678 34 .303 61 87 July 24 105 96 17 32 3 3 4 16 7 24 .333 .381 .552 .933 53 .406 115 152 August 20 85 73 9 20 5 1 2 5 12 14 .274 .376 .452 .829 33 .316 94 130 Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table Generated 8/22/2010. After an [...]

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Sabathia’s Home Winning Streak

Date: Sun, Aug 22, 2010

MLB.com is reporting that CC Sabathia has now won 15 consecutive decisions at home and has not lost a game there in his last 20 starts.  How does this rank historically? Here are a couple of PI searches to help frame Sabathia's streak. Both  charts are since 1920. First- The most consecutive home decisions won: Rk Strk [...]

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Chris Carpenter’s W-L record with the Cardinals

Date: Sun, Aug 22, 2010

Last night Chris Carpenter improved to 14-4 this season by beating Tim Lincecum and the Giants. His overall record since joining St. Louis in 2004 is 82-28 in 151 starts. Wins and losses are overrated as stats, but this bears a little comparison... Carpenter's winning percentage with the Cardinals is now .7455. For comparison [...]

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Matt Stairs Passes Cliff Johnson

Date: Sun, Aug 22, 2010

Yesterday, Matt Stairs hit his 21st homer as a pinch-hitter - which is now the most in big league history - passing Cliff Johnson, who had held the career record for most pinch-hit homers. It's been 24 years since Johnson hit his last pinch-hit home run. That's nearly a quarter-century. Congrats to Stairs, and, condolences to [...]

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Why Mark Reynolds is not the next Mike Schmidt

Date: Sat, Aug 21, 2010

Through 500 career games, Mark Reynolds and Mike Schmidt have remarkably similar career numbers. Reynolds had a line of .250/.336/.495 with 108 HR, 316 RBI, 220 BB, and 675 K. Schmidt had a line of .252/.372/.507 with 108 HR, 301 RBI, 302 BB, and 503 K. So is Reynolds going to be a Hall of Fame third baseman [...]

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Top Player Added to Franchise History Pages

Date: Fri, Aug 20, 2010

Pittsburgh Pirates Team History & Encyclopedia - Baseball-Reference.com. I used to have ERA and OPS leaders on these pages, but decided to switch it to WAR now.  It gives a nice look at who has been the best player on the team over a span of years.  Or in the case of the Pirates a strong [...]

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Bobby Abreu has never heard of Wins Above Replacement

Date: Fri, Aug 20, 2010

The title of this post is not an attempt at humor; it's a fact. Marcos Grunfled, friend of the Baseball-Reference.com blog and journalist for BeisbolVenezolano.net met with Abreu before yesterday's Angels-Red Sox game and (on my behalf) asked Abreu about WAR. Read on... Marcos, visiting from Venezuela, had full press access to yesterday's game and has [...]

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Keeping Score: Growing Complexity for Cooperstown – Bats Blog – NYTimes.com

Date: Fri, Aug 20, 2010

Keeping Score: Growing Complexity for Cooperstown - Bats Blog - NYTimes.com. This week's Baseball-Reference.com piece for the New York Times.  What do you think, will anyone (other than Greg Maddux) gain induction from 2012-2014?  Here are the likely ballots. 2012 / 2013 / 2014

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Bloop: Vin Scully’s Thoughts on Tulowitzki’s Mullet

Date: Thu, Aug 19, 2010

With a hat tip to Wezen-Ball, here's legendary Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully trying to make sense of Troy Tulowitzki's hairstyle:

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Miguel Cabrera has 100 RBI for 7 straight seasons

Date: Thu, Aug 19, 2010

Miguel Cabrera just hit a 2-run homer against the Yankees to put him into triple digits for RBI this season. He's been over 100 every season since 2004. The only players to have 100 RBI each season since 2004 are: Rk Yrs From To Age 1 Mark Teixeira 6 2004 2009 24-29 2 Alex Rodriguez 6 2004 2009 28-33 3 Albert Pujols 6 2004 2009 24-29 4 Miguel Cabrera 6 2004 2009 21-26 5 Bobby Abreu 6 2004 2009 30-35 Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used Generated 8/19/2010. A-Rod needs only 3 [...]

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POLL: 2010 AL Cy Young award

Date: Thu, Aug 19, 2010

Please add your comments and vote below. Who deserves the AL Cy Young award this year?Market Research

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Jim Thome & top OPS+ seasons for a 39-year-old

Date: Wed, Aug 18, 2010

Jim Thome is raking so far this year. Here are the only players (1901-present) to post an OPS+ of at least 150 in age 39 season, minimum 80 games. Rk OPS+ G Year Age Tm PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB BA OBP SLG OPS Pos 1 Barry Bonds 169 126 2007 42 SFG 477 340 75 94 14 0 28 66 132 54 5 .276 .480 .565 1.045 *7/D 2 Ted Williams 190 113 1960 41 BOS 390 310 56 98 15 0 29 72 75 41 1 .316 .451 .645 1.096 *7 3 Barry Bonds 156 130 2006 41 SFG 493 367 74 99 23 0 26 77 115 51 3 .270 .454 .545 .999 *7/D 4 Willie Mays 158 136 1971 40 SFG 537 417 82 113 24 5 18 61 112 123 23 .271 .425 .482 .907 *83 5 Ted Williams 179 129 1958 39 BOS 517 411 81 135 23 2 26 85 98 49 1 .328 .458 .584 1.042 *7 6 Babe Ruth 161 125 1934 39 NYY 471 365 78 105 17 4 22 84 104 63 1 .288 .448 .537 .985 *97 7 Barry Bonds 263 147 2004 39 SFG 617 373 129 135 27 3 45 101 232 41 6 .362 .609 .812 1.422 *7/D 8 Jim Thome 163 81 2010 39 MIN 253 209 31 57 14 1 17 44 42 62 0 .273 .391 .593 .985 *D 9 Hank Aaron 177 120 1973 39 ATL 465 392 84 118 12 1 40 96 68 51 1 .301 .402 .643 1.045 *79 Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used Generated 8/18/2010. In fact, here are the top OPS+ figures (1901-present) for [...]

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