13th December 2010
Shutouts on your Birthday - Baseball-Reference.com.
I've added a couple of searches to the play index. In the game finders you can now search for games that occur on a player's birthday, and in the season finder, you can search for players with a particular month and day for a birthday (eg, all players born on Dec. 14th). Not super serious, but still kind of fun.
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13th December 2010
How many players in baseball history have posted 100+ BB and 100+ RBI in the same season where they also had 15 homeruns or less?
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12th December 2010
Who in baseball history played 1,000 games or less in their career but showed power when they played?
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10th December 2010
A simple list for today. Pitchers with 1,000+ IP since 2005 ranked by ERA+.
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9th December 2010
How many times have the Boston Red Sox had 4+ batters in a season qualify for the batting title?
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7th December 2010
Until now, I never realized how close the career stats were for these two...
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7th December 2010
As Adrian Gonzalez heads to the Red Sox, let's take a look at his career so far and guess about what we might expect going forward.
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3rd December 2010
How many pitchers have worked between 30 and 65 innings in a season while posting an ERA+ of 200 or better - more than once?
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29th November 2010
Here's more stuff from reader Joseph T. about numerous records set in the 2010 season for totals in the first 10 years of a playing career.
Ichiro Suzki, Albert Pujols, and Adam Dunn all broke into the (North American) major leagues in 2001, making 2010 their 10th season in the bigs. Unsurprisingly, they show up a lot on the following lists.
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28th November 2010
Playing around, and looking at post-1946 pitchers stats through year where they were age 35, where their career ERA+ during that time was between 100 and 106, and they had at least 2,600 IP but not more than 3,000 IP, and their K/BB ratio was at least 2.0, I found this pairing...
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