Strong & Deep Bullpens
27th November 2010
How many teams have featured three plus pitchers in the same season to have thrown in 50+ games with an ERA+ of at least 130 while also collecting at least 60 Ks?
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Yankees WAR Leaders Since 1996
24th November 2010
How many players have posted 5+ WAR for the Yankees since 1996?
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Ivan Rodriguez and more GIDP than BB
24th November 2010
Reader Joseph T. sent in this great nugget (along with a bunch of others that I'll try to write up in the coming weeks):
Ivan Rodriguez just finished his 6th season with more times grounding into a double play than walks. Click through for more.
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6000+ PA In Their 20’s
23rd November 2010
How many players in major league history have collected 6,000+ PA while they were in their 20's?
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Seasons Of 60+ RE24 Age 26 Or Younger
22nd November 2010
In honor of Mr. Votto winning the N.L. MVP Award this season, here's a list of players with seasons where they were age 26 or younger and they had 60+ RE24.
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Felix Hernandez wins the AL Cy Young award
18th November 2010
This is a good day for stats geeks like us. Felix Hernandez, despite a 13-12 record, easily won the AL Cy Young award, and deservedly so.
He led AL pitchers in WAR:
| Rk | Player | WAR | Age | Tm | GS | CG | SHO | W | L | IP | SO | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Felix Hernandez | 6.0 | 24 | SEA | 34 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 12 | 249.2 | 232 | 2.27 | 174 |
| 2 | Clay Buchholz | 5.4 | 25 | BOS | 28 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 173.2 | 120 | 2.33 | 187 |
| 3 | CC Sabathia | 5.4 | 29 | NYY | 34 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 237.2 | 197 | 3.18 | 134 |
| 4 | Jered Weaver | 5.4 | 27 | LAA | 34 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 12 | 224.1 | 233 | 3.01 | 135 |
| 5 | David Price | 5.3 | 24 | TBR | 31 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 208.2 | 188 | 2.72 | 145 |
| 6 | Jon Lester | 5.0 | 26 | BOS | 32 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 9 | 208.0 | 225 | 3.25 | 134 |
| 7 | John Danks | 4.9 | 25 | CHW | 32 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 11 | 213.0 | 162 | 3.72 | 117 |
| 8 | C.J. Wilson | 4.6 | 29 | TEX | 33 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 8 | 204.0 | 170 | 3.35 | 129 |
| 9 | Francisco Liriano | 4.6 | 26 | MIN | 31 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 10 | 191.2 | 201 | 3.62 | 115 |
| 10 | Carl Pavano | 4.6 | 34 | MIN | 32 | 7 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 221.0 | 117 | 3.75 | 111 |
Just goes to show you how little Wins and Losses mean, as an individual pitcher stat (despite being, obviously, the most important team stat.)
Jered Weaver had a similar season W-L record and a high WAR.
Amazingly, 50 pitchers have had a WAR of at least 6.0 and a W-L record even worse than Hernandez.
I think Neil is going to follow up with a post on WAR leaders who also won the Cy Young award.
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Dan Uggla and good offensive second basemen
17th November 2010
Dan Uggla was traded yesterday from the Marlins to the Braves, after his former team was unable to sign him to a contract extension beyond the 2011 season. This was somewhat surprising given that the Marlins were under some pressure to spend money after reports surfaced that the team had actually been very profitable in 2008 and 2009. Given how good and how recognizable Uggla is, I would have expected the Marlins to find a way to sign him to a longer-term deal.
Anyway, now that Uggla's moving on to the Braves, let's take a look at just how good he is.
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4+ Seasons Of 400+ PA & Less Than 100 Hits
12th November 2010
This is an interesting list. It's players with 4 seasons (or more) with at least 400 PA where they also had less than 100 hits.
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2010 Productive But Not Full-Time Batters
11th November 2010
How many batters last season had between 200 and 350 PA and had more than zero batting wins?
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Best defensive shortstops in 2010
10th November 2010
Here's an updated list of shortstops from 2010 ranked by best fielding runs (minimum 100 games played, at least half at SS.) Sean fixed a bug that prevented players who appeared with more than 1 team from showing up in the list. I included OPS+ too so we could get a sense of what each player did with his bat.
| Rk | Player | Rfield | G | Age | Tm | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brendan Ryan | 15 | 57 | 139 | 28 | STL |
| 2 | Alex Gonzalez | 13 | 99 | 157 | 33 | TOT |
| 3 | Josh Wilson | 12 | 62 | 108 | 29 | SEA |
| 4 | Troy Tulowitzki | 12 | 138 | 122 | 25 | COL |
| 5 | Ramon Santiago | 12 | 82 | 112 | 30 | DET |
| 6 | Wilson Valdez | 12 | 79 | 111 | 32 | PHI |
| 7 | Cliff Pennington | 11 | 88 | 156 | 26 | OAK |
| 8 | Alexei Ramirez | 9 | 97 | 156 | 28 | CHW |
| 9 | Yunel Escobar | 8 | 80 | 135 | 27 | TOT |
| 10 | Jamey Carroll | 7 | 101 | 133 | 36 | LAD |
| 11 | Cesar Izturis | 6 | 50 | 150 | 30 | BAL |
| 12 | Elvis Andrus | 2 | 75 | 148 | 21 | TEX |
| 13 | Juan Uribe | 2 | 99 | 148 | 30 | SFG |
| 14 | Marco Scutaro | 1 | 92 | 150 | 34 | BOS |
| 15 | J.J. Hardy | 0 | 93 | 101 | 27 | MIN |
| 16 | Stephen Drew | 0 | 113 | 151 | 27 | ARI |
| 17 | Yuniesky Betancourt | -2 | 88 | 151 | 28 | KCR |
| 18 | Orlando Cabrera | -2 | 78 | 123 | 35 | CIN |
| 19 | Jason Bartlett | -3 | 88 | 135 | 30 | TBR |
| 20 | Jerry Hairston | -3 | 83 | 119 | 34 | SDP |
| 21 | Alcides Escobar | -3 | 67 | 145 | 23 | MIL |
| 22 | Ronny Cedeno | -4 | 82 | 139 | 27 | PIT |
| 23 | Erick Aybar | -4 | 76 | 138 | 26 | LAA |
| 24 | Jose Reyes | -4 | 103 | 133 | 27 | NYM |
| 25 | Ian Desmond | -9 | 89 | 154 | 24 | WSN |
| Rk | Player | Rfield | G | Age | Tm | |
| 26 | Hanley Ramirez | -10 | 124 | 142 | 26 | FLA |
| 27 | Derek Jeter | -10 | 90 | 157 | 36 | NYY |
| 28 | Starlin Castro | -12 | 97 | 125 | 20 | CHC |
Tulo comes up as the big winner here, with the best OPS+ and one of the best fielding run totals as well.
There's your AL Gold Glove winner, Derek Jeter, nearly dead last on the list with -10 fielding runs and a 90 OPS+ to boot.
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