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For single seasons, From 1901 to 2011, For players in the saved report : (Batted .260 or lower, 1980-2010, 27 or younger, 2000 PA), From Age 28 to 99, (requiring Qualified for league batting title), sorted by greatest Batting Average: Results - Baseball-Reference.com.

The actual report above isn't that interesting, but the new feature I used to create it is.   When you save a report using the "link url" option under the SHARE link (and you can use this anywhere on the site).  This saved report will now appear as an option on the very bottom of the season finders.

So for the report linked above.  I first found all of the batters from 1980-2011, ages 0-27, with 2000 PA's and sub .260 career batting averages.    I then saved that report, reloaded, used that report, changed the ages to 28+, used single season and then found the best single-season batting averages among this group.

This feature will give you a lot of flexibility.   You could save reports like 2000 first round draft picks, or 1999 Chicago Cubs, or anything else on the site.  I think this will have a lot of power, but I expect you'll have some ideas I haven't thought of.  You will also be limited to 200 players total, so very broad searches may not work.

This is limited also to your last 20 saved reports.  Also note that if you use the season finder to save a report and then want to use that report, that will require a page reload to get that widget populated with the new report.

This is live only on the season finders at the moment and you can only filter on players.  It would be nice to allow searches that look for year n+1 or allow it for particular games, but at the moment, we are stuck with this method.

Have fun and let us know if there are any interesting reports you create.

Have you ever looked at the single season HR records in terms of pre-1987, post-2003 and during the period 1987 through 2003?

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I was looking at Josh Hamilton's career to date, since he got hurt tonight and is expected to be out two months, and wanted to see what players had the highest slugging percentage between ages 26 and 30, where the player played a fair amount of the time but didn't play all the time.

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How many pitchers had 1,500 IP after 1932 with an ERA+ of 100 or better in their career and never made an All-Star team?

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Through 2011:

The Marlins have 2 guys on there.

Overall this is a pretty weird list. A negative OPS+ against....another guy with just a 1.50 ERA but a 121 OPS+ against...or a 0.00 ERA and 138 against...

How many players had 5,000+ PA after 1932 with an OPS+ of 100 or better in their career and never made an All-Star team?

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Yesterday, the Rays lost again, dropping to 0-5. They got only 4 hits in the game. Even before that (because I wrote this post last night...) they had some terrible hitting going on.

Check out the teams with the most players having at least 10 at-bats and a batting average under .100:

That's 4 out of 17 players from the Rays. And after today, John Jason joined the group with another 0fer, Man-Ram fell to .059, Damon fell to .067, Dan Johnson fell to .053, and Matt Joyce fell to .071.

As of the moment, the Rays have the worst BA in the majors at .138.

Who are the leaders, since 1901, for the most seasons with 150+ games played in a season with an On-Base Average of .390 or better?

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In what baseball season did we see the most pitchers have at least 15 losses with an ERA of 5 or worse?

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Here is the full list (1901-present, Gerry) of players with a career ERA+ of 120 or better (minimum 1000 IP):

Among the teams with nobody:

• The Padres got screwed by my arbitrary criteria, as Trevor Hoffman finished with 952.1 IP and Jake Peavy finished his Padres career with a 119 ERA+. They have nobody else close to qualifying (and active).
• The Rockies seem fairly likely to add Ubaldo Jimenez to this list in 2012, as he's currently at 133 ERA+ over 728 IP.
• For the Marlins, Josh Johnson is well on his way. He's currently at 138 ERA+ and 665 IP. Two more solid, healthy seasons would do it.
• Dan Plesac is the only Brewer with at least 500 IP and an ERA+ of 120, and he only had 524.1 IP with the team. Teddy Higuera was a near miss at 117 ERA+. Nobody else is active and close.
• The Rays have nobody close at all.  In fact there are only two pitchers (James Shields and Andy Sonnanstine) with at least 500 IP and still with the team.
• The Rangers don't have a single pitcher with at least 500 IP and an ERA+ of 120.  They don't even have any active pitchers with 500 IP and an ERA+ of 100.