21st September 2009
Today's MLB Oriole's Game Notes has a paragraph chronicling all the doubles lists that Brian Roberts is climbing this season. Here is a closer look courtesy of the Baseball-Reference.com Play Index:
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17th September 2009
Same columns as the earlier post, but from the pitching team's perspective.
Team Lk_hm Lk_rd Bls_hm Bls_rd %L_hm %L_rd HFA HFA_hi_lev SFG 2136 1967 3967 4104 35.00% 32.40% 2.60% 0.80% PHI 2093 1894 4056 3975 34.04% 32.27% 1.77% 0.39% CIN 1972 1948 3995 4265 33.05% 31.35% 1.69% 2.26% STL 2073 1829 3776 3581 35.44% 33.81% 1.63% 3.97% HOU 2115 1799 4116 3767 33.94% 32.32% 1.62% 4.62% MIN 2016 1727 4021 3705 33.39% 31.79% 1.60% 2.46% TOR 1919 1859 4016 4136 32.33% 31.01% 1.32% 0.79% PIT 1690 1703 3831 4107 30.61% 29.31% 1.30% 1.37% WSN 1890 1835 4082 4206 31.65% 30.38% 1.27% 0.84% CLE 2032 1879 4179 4063 32.72% 31.62% 1.09% -1.75% SDP 2135 1820 4425 3966 32.55% 31.46% 1.09% 2.13% NYM 1895 1812 4162 4188 31.29% 30.20% 1.09% 1.65% ATL 1973 2038 3728 4028 34.61% 33.60% 1.01% 2.28% DET 1899 1829 4112 4140 31.59% 30.64% 0.95% 1.65% LAD 2090 1906 4223 4007 33.11% 32.23% 0.87% 2.93% TBR 1893 1992 3823 4133 33.12% 32.52% 0.60% 1.06% MIL 1921 1885 4190 4215 31.44% 30.90% 0.53% -0.47% CHC 1981 1864 4230 4065 31.90% 31.44% 0.46% -0.40% LAA 1972 1995 4122 4246 32.36% 31.97% 0.39% -0.06% KCR 1987 1836 4414 4145 31.04% 30.70% 0.34% 0.84% BOS 1946 2032 4010 4253 32.67% 32.33% 0.34% -0.95% FLA 2130 1841 4482 3919 32.21% 31.96% 0.25% -1.86% ARI 2001 1948 4054 3991 33.05% 32.80% 0.25% 0.90% BAL 1975 1884 4238 4073 31.79% 31.63% 0.16% -1.16% NYY 2188 1920 4566 4035 32.40% 32.24% 0.15% -1.12% OAK 1813 2011 3919 4366 31.63% 31.54% 0.09% 1.44% CHW 1901 1787 4144 3892 31.45% 31.47% -0.02% 1.75% SEA 1788 1845 4104 4224 30.35% 30.40% -0.05% -1.01% TEX 2041 1831 4518 3870 31.12% 32.12% -1.00% 1.48% COL 1732 1841 3941 3965 30.53% 31.71% -1.18% -1.92%
Actually on the face of it there may be a park effect here. As the Rockies and Giants had almost the same spread in the opposite direction. Pitchers get more calls in San Fran and hitters get more calls in Colorado? Any ideas why?
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17th September 2009
Given the brouhaha over the Boston/LA of Ana game last night, and spurred by a media request, I looked at the called strike percentages at home and on the road for all 30 teams. The total line is in there as well. The called strike percentage is Called Strikes / (Called Strikes + Balls (not pitchouts or intentional)). The Home-Field Advantage is then the road rate - the home rate, since a lower rate is better for the batting team. I also looked at it in high-leverage situations, though in most cases we are only talking about 700 pitches, so it probably is just noise out there.
Team SL_hm SL_rd Bll_hm Bll_rd %Chm %Crd HFA HiLevHFA COL 1918 2173 4278 4437 30.96% 32.87% 1.92% 1.44% ATL 1673 1913 3817 4041 30.47% 32.13% 1.66% 0.17% HOU 1764 1795 3893 3676 31.18% 32.81% 1.63% 1.53% KCR 1813 1778 3981 3627 31.29% 32.90% 1.60% 2.94% CHC 1720 1810 4092 4007 29.59% 31.12% 1.52% 2.93% MIN 1987 1980 4299 4004 31.61% 33.09% 1.48% 1.97% DET 1679 1751 3984 3883 29.65% 31.08% 1.43% 2.18% WSN 2023 2154 4161 4155 32.71% 34.14% 1.43% 0.57% BOS 2095 2248 4359 4408 32.46% 33.77% 1.31% 1.47% MIL 1976 2183 4084 4254 32.61% 33.91% 1.31% 0.73% FLA 2095 2024 4476 4087 31.88% 33.12% 1.24% 1.21% TOR 1902 2036 4125 4173 31.56% 32.79% 1.23% 3.51% SEA 1724 1884 3745 3885 31.52% 32.66% 1.13% -1.61% PIT 1799 2059 3628 3964 33.15% 34.19% 1.04% 0.72% TEX 1703 1635 4140 3783 29.15% 30.18% 1.03% 0.13% BAL 1870 1884 4083 3926 31.41% 32.43% 1.01% -1.41% ARI 1845 2052 4001 4261 31.56% 32.50% 0.94% 1.37% SDP 1921 1867 4225 3936 31.26% 32.17% 0.92% 0.55% Totals 56357 59197 121630 123444 31.66% 32.41% 0.75% 0.87% PHI 2121 2144 4256 4203 33.26% 33.78% 0.52% 1.87% OAK 1751 2009 3839 4312 31.32% 31.78% 0.46% 5.80% NYY 2146 2078 4687 4465 31.41% 31.76% 0.35% -0.65% TBR 1863 2071 4256 4714 30.45% 30.52% 0.08% 0.77% NYM 2079 2203 3967 4204 34.39% 34.38% 0.00% -0.46% CIN 1763 1855 3874 4082 31.28% 31.24% -0.03% -1.02% CLE 1998 2155 4185 4542 32.31% 32.18% -0.14% 1.01% CHW 1819 1887 3870 4093 31.97% 31.56% -0.42% -2.30% STL 1616 1607 3734 3804 30.21% 29.70% -0.51% -1.62% LAD 2140 2267 4135 4493 34.10% 33.54% -0.57% 0.38% LAA 2039 2223 4016 4508 33.67% 33.03% -0.65% 1.40% SFG 1515 1472 3440 3517 30.58% 29.50% -1.07% -0.32%
I don't see much of a pattern in this data. You've got good and bad teams sprinkled around, you've got east and west coast teams sprinkled around (passionate east coasters vs. dispassionate left coasters). Looks pretty random to me.
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8th September 2009
With the 00's soon ending, the race is on for players to become the decade long leader in different statistical categories. Here are how thing are shaping up in the race for trivia immortality:
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7th September 2009
As Derek Jeter approaches Lou Gehrig's record for hits as a Yankee, I can't help but notice the sheer number of plate appearances that Jeter has accumulated for the team. Jeter, who leads all Yankees ever in AB and is second in PA, has more PA for the Yankees than any other active player has for any other franchise. Here are the current leaders in plate appearance for a franchise among active players:
Derek Jeter* New York Yankees 9707 Chipper Jones* Atlanta Braves 9185 Garret Anderson Angels 8480 Todd Helton* Colorado Rockies 7662 Andruw Jones Atlanta Braves 7276 Ken Griffey Jr.* Seattle Mariners 7070 * active with the team listedIn baseball history only 22 players have had at least 10,000 PA for a franchise. Here are the top ten:
Carl Yastrzemski Red Sox 13,991 Hank Aaron Braves 13,089 Cal Ripken Orioles 12,883 Stan Musial Cardinals 12,712 Craig Biggio Astros 12,503 Pete Rose Reds 12,325 Robin Yount Brewers 12,249 Ty Cobb Tigers 12,105 Willie Mays Giants 12,012 Brooks Robinson Orioles 11,782
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26th August 2009
Elias is reporting that Carlos Zambrano has become the first pitcher since Milt Papas in 1973 to hit 20 career home runs. Overall, among players who have played at least half their games at pitcher, Zambrano is now tied for 12th in career home runs. (BTW Babe Ruth had 14 home runs as a pitcher.)
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1st July 2009
Per a reader question.
| name_common | games | +-----------------+-------+ | Ivan Rodriguez | 535 | | Brad Ausmus | 492 | | Benito Santiago | 485 | | Carlton Fisk | 477 | | Tony Pena | 472 | | Jason Kendall | 463 | | Gary Carter | 450 | | Bob Boone | 440 | | Johnny Bench | 404 | | Jorge Posada | 401 | | Lance Parrish | 376 | | Jason Varitek | 359 | | Rick Dempsey | 335 | | Terry Steinbach | 328 | | Mike Piazza | 325 | | Joe Girardi | 325 | | Jim Sundberg | 323 | | Darrell Porter | 308 | | Javy Lopez | 306 | | Ted Simmons | 299 | | Bill Freehan | 298 | | A.J. Pierzynski | 296 | | Dan Wilson | 295 | | Ramon Hernandez | 293 | | Terry Kennedy | 290 |
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30th June 2009
On Friday night Brett Gardner of the Yankees went 5 for 6 with a triple and a home run. It was the third game this year in which Gardner has both homered and tripled (thanks to Peter Abraham for opening my eyes to this). His third such game occurred in the Yankees' 73rd game of the season and the 106th game of Gardner's career.
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20th May 2009
News has come out that Chavez may be forced to retire due to his latest injury, a herniated disk.
From 2001 to 2005, Chavez was unarguably the best third baseman in baseball, leading all in HR and RBI:
Cnt Player **HR** From To Ages G PA AB R H 2B 3B RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF GDP SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Positions Teams +----+-----------------+-------+----+----+-----+----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+----+----+---+----+---+---+---+---+----+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+---------+-----------+ 1 Eric Chavez 151 2001 2005 23-27 745 3182 2825 451 785 173 9 502 321 46 535 11 0 25 59 36 11 .278 .351 .506 .857 *5/D763 OAK 2 Aramis Ramirez 146 2001 2005 23-27 727 3007 2742 380 782 160 3 484 195 20 416 35 0 35 87 9 9 .285 .337 .505 .842 *5/D PIT-TOT-CHC 3 Troy Glaus 142 2001 2005 24-28 615 2622 2221 377 559 119 7 408 356 20 572 23 0 22 49 33 13 .252 .358 .503 .861 *5/D6 ANA-ARI 4 Adrian Beltre 124 2001 2005 22-26 755 3065 2822 352 765 146 12 423 193 24 476 21 4 25 69 32 14 .271 .320 .463 .783 *5/6D LAD-SEA 5 Scott Rolen 123 2001 2005 26-30 658 2793 2389 420 677 161 15 473 325 21 453 48 1 30 58 42 17 .283 .376 .518 .894 *5 PHI-TOT-STL 6 Tony Batista 114 2001 2004 27-30 635 2624 2431 312 582 113 10 383 136 19 400 24 4 29 56 28 15 .239 .283 .435 .718 *5/D6 TOT-BAL-MON 7 Mike Lowell 109 2001 2005 27-31 744 3077 2738 372 750 188 3 440 274 23 384 25 1 39 70 17 7 .274 .341 .464 .805 *5/4D FLA 8 Vinny Castilla 106 2001 2005 33-37 726 2934 2700 336 699 164 10 425 177 23 458 27 2 28 104 10 9 .259 .308 .445 .753 *5/6 TOT-ATL-COL-WSN 9 Corey Koskie 91 2001 2005 28-32 639 2679 2297 364 617 147 9 348 310 31 551 44 0 28 51 61 26 .269 .362 .459 .821 *5/D MIN-TOR 10 Hank Blalock 89 2002 2005 21-24 512 2205 1985 292 543 113 6 309 190 10 421 11 2 17 47 5 5 .274 .338 .471 .809 *5/4D TEX
A bit of a career oddity about Chavez: in 2004, he lead the AL with 95 walks despite playing in only 125 games, and also despite the fact that he generally walked only a moderate amount in his career, averaging 70 walks over a typical 162-game season.
In the 2004 season in which Chavez led the AL with 95 walks, Barry Bonds led the NL with (gulp) 232 walks. Chavez's total is the lowest to lead the AL since Dwight Evans' 85 in 1981, which doesn't really count since that was a shortened season. The real most recent season with a lower leading total is 1965, when Rocky Colavito led with 93 walks.
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18th May 2009
Jason Kendall hit a single in the second inning of tonight's Brewers-Cardinals game for his 2000 career hit. Here are all the players with at least half of their games at catcher and at least 2000 career hits: (Totals through yesterday)
Cnt Player **H** From To Ages G PA AB R 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF GDP SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Positions Teams +----+-----------------+--------+----+----+-----+----+-----+-----+----+---+---+---+----+----+---+----+---+---+---+---+----+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+---------+-----------+ 1 Ivan Rodriguez 2637 1991 2009 19-37 2301 9387 8757 1268 530 50 300 1236 477 63 1314 56 27 70 293 124 61 .301 .339 .476 .815 *2/D34 TEX-FLA-DET-TOT-HOU 2 Ted Simmons 2472 1968 1988 18-38 2456 9685 8680 1074 483 47 248 1389 855 188 694 39 11 100 287 21 33 .285 .348 .437 .785 *2D3/759 STL-MIL-ATL 3 Carlton Fisk 2356 1969 1993 21-45 2499 9853 8756 1276 421 47 376 1330 849 105 1386 143 26 79 204 128 58 .269 .341 .457 .798 *2D/735 BOS-CHW 4 Yogi Berra 2150 1946 1965 21-40 2120 8364 7555 1175 321 49 358 1430 704 49 414 52 9 44 146 30 26 .285 .348 .482 .830 *279/35 NYY-NYM 5 Mike Piazza 2127 1992 2007 23-38 1912 7745 6911 1048 344 8 427 1335 759 146 1113 30 0 45 229 17 20 .308 .377 .545 .922 *2D/3 LAD-TOT-NYM-SDP-OAK 6 Gary Carter 2092 1974 1992 20-38 2295 9019 7971 1025 371 31 324 1225 848 106 997 68 33 99 180 39 42 .262 .335 .439 .774 *29/375 MON-NYM-SFG-LAD-MON 7 Johnny Bench 2048 1967 1983 19-35 2158 8669 7658 1091 381 24 389 1376 891 135 1278 19 11 90 201 68 43 .267 .342 .476 .818 *253/798 CIN 8 Jason Kendall 1999 1996 2009 22-35 1867 7813 6847 957 360 34 73 677 650 46 596 236 25 55 157 170 81 .292 .370 .386 .756 *2/79D PIT-OAK-TOT-MIL
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