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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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Cliff Lee has completed a third of his starts

Date: Wed, Aug 18, 2010

Cliff Lee now has 7 complete games in 21 starts. Click through for the list of most recent pitchers to complete a third of their starts in a season. Here are the guys to do it in the last 20 years (minimum 20 starts): Rk Player Year GS CG 1 Cliff Lee 2010 21 7 2 Mark Mulder 2003 26 9 3 Randy Johnson 1999 35 12 4 Curt Schilling 1999 24 8 5 Curt Schilling 1998 35 15 6 Pedro Martinez 1997 31 13 7 Greg Maddux 1995 28 10 8 Randy Johnson 1994 23 9 9 Greg Maddux 1994 25 10 10 Kevin Brown 1993 34 12 11 Chuck Finley 1993 35 13 12 Roger Clemens 1992 32 11 13 Jack [...]

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Card of the Week: 2008 Goudey #217 Bobby Thomson

Date: Wed, Aug 18, 2010

Bobby Thomson's 1951 home run made such a large impact that more than 50 years later, baseball card companies are still issuing cards to celebrate his achievement and career. Take, for example, this 2008 Goudey card. Actually produced by Upper Deck, this set carries the name of a long-gone bubble gum company that sold trading cards [...]

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What Would be the Effect of Hard Slotting in the MLB Draft?

Date: Tue, Aug 17, 2010

Last night was the amateur draft signing deadline and lots and lots of "over slot" deals came through at the end. Leading to gnashing of teeth and complaints about money going to unproven players. One of the things that seems likely in the next collective bargaining agreement is that the players and teams will clear [...]

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POLL: Which is the dumber injury?

Date: Tue, Aug 17, 2010

Which is the dumber season-ending injury?Market Research

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POLL: Craig Biggio and the Hall of Fame

Date: Tue, Aug 17, 2010

Craig Biggio, a lifetime Astro and member of the 3,000-hit club, is out next Hall of Fame debate subject. Once known as one of the fastest catchers around, Biggio was moved to second base in 1992, his 5th season. Amazingly, he made another position move, this time to center field, in 2003. Biggio is the only [...]

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Most Consecutive Appearances in a Loss to Start a Career

Date: Mon, Aug 16, 2010

In another post, reader ES made the following observation: Not only did Scott Ruffcorn not win any games over his Major League career, his team lost all 30 Major League games he ever appeared in. That is quite a feat to pitch that many games and never be involved in a victory..... Which [...]

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Updated Minor League Seasons

Date: Mon, Aug 16, 2010

SABR Minor League Blog - Updated Minor League Seasons We were a couple of weeks behind SABR's latest and greatest, but we've now update our db to sync with theirs.   This means walks, strikeouts, RBI's, SB, and runs scored for more and more seasons. I like what David Smith of RetroSheet said at the SABR convention. [...]

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Bloops: Tim Kurkjian’s Box Score Streak Ends After 20 Years

Date: Mon, Aug 16, 2010

Some people might not find it poignant to hear a grown man wistfully describe ending a 20-year streak of clipping names & numbers out of a newspaper every day. Those people probably aren't baseball fans. "A most absurd streak quietly ended in 2010: For the first time since 1989, I no longer clip every box [...]

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Kevin Slowey pulled after allowing no hits

Date: Sun, Aug 15, 2010

Kevin Slowey was pulled by manager Ron Gardenhire today after 7 innings despite allowing no hits. Here are the most recent starts where the pitcher went at least 7 innings, allowed no hits, but went no more than 8.2 innings in the game: Rk Player Date Tm Opp Rslt App,Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR GSc 1 Damian Moss 2002-05-03 ATL STL W 2-1 GS-7 7.0 0 0 0 7 6 0 76 2 David Cone 1996-09-02 NYY OAK W 5-0 GS-7 ,W 7.0 0 0 0 3 6 0 80 3 Matt Young 1992-04-12 (1) BOS CLE L [...]

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