Purdue ‘22, @Cubs pro decisions. Co-created MLB Pickle (mlbpickle.com/). Thoughts my own. Some CBB too
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I’m excited to announce that I’ll be joining the Cubs’ baseball analytics/R&D team full-time in early 2023!
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Albert Pujols’ average home run trot over the years it has been tracked by Statcast is ~26 seconds.
Extrapolated over his full career, Pujols has spent just over 5 HOURS of his life just running the bases after hitting a home run!
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This could be my favorite stat, ever...
Joey Votto pop ups by year:
2010 - 0
2011 - 1
2012 - 1
2013 - 1
2014 - 1
2015 - 2
2016 - 0
2017 - 1
2018 - 0
Since 2010, Votto has popped it up 7 times. With the same amount of PA, the MLB average player would have popped it up 127 times.
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I just randomly thought of this absolutely iconic thread and I hope that there’s at least a few people seeing this for the first time
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Most HR under each president
Biden: Judge 196
Trump: Trout 134
Obama: Pujols 272
W Bush: A-Rod 364
Clinton: Griffey 351
HW Bush: McGriff 137
Reagan: Schmidt 259
Carter: Schmidt 152
Ford: Schmidt 87
Nixon: Aaron 218
Johnson: Mays 181
Kennedy: Killebrew 139
Eisenhower: Mathews 313
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Highest slugging percentage with RISP, last 50 years:
.621 Shohei Ohtani
.616 Mike Trout
.615 Mark McGwire
Lowest SLG percentage allowed with RISP, last 50 years:
.201 Shohei Ohtani
.211 Dellin Betances
.226 Aroldis Chapman
(min. 400 PA / 200 BF)
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Lost in the Ohtani insanity: Mike Trout swung at a 3-0 pitch that was out of the strike zone for the first time in nearly five years (May 7, 2016).
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Time zones are pretty crazy...
Australia is in 2020
The US is in 2019
and people who only look at batting average, RBI, and pitcher wins are in 1985
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My Aaron Judge takes
1. 73 is the real home run record—Bonds is the HR king
2. Having the AL home run record is still a historic feat and a big deal
3. Even though 73 is the HR record, having the most HR among players w/ no serious steroid allegations is still meaningful to me
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CAREER BATTING
Shohei Ohtani:
.265/.354/.538, 140 OPS+
Giancarlo Stanton:
.265/.355/.538, 141 OPS+
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CAREER PITCHING
Shohei Ohtani:
3.10 ERA, 11.4 K/9, 22.7% K-BB%
Max Scherzer:
3.11 ERA. 10.7 K/9, 23.0% K-BB%
This is not normal!!
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Jacob deGrom has gotten 55 swings and misses this year.
Jacob deGrom has thrown 58 balls this year.
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How many times each final score has happened in MLB history...
The 49-33 game happened on June 28, 1871.
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Most #Mets hits in Jacob deGrom starts this year:
3 Jacob deGrom
2 Michael Conforto
2 Brandon Nimmo
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Yeah I’m sure 37 year old Scherzer would’ve signed for 8 years if it weren’t for your great work on Bauer’s contract lol
Cool to see Scherzer use this new “market” Bauer strived to create for players—shorter deals w/ higher AAV for top-market guys. Creating that market & getting teams comfortable w/$40M+salaries was a huge challenge. Awesome seeing him &his agent use this new market to build off of
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Home run cycle alert🚨
Chandler Redmond of the Springfield Cardinals (Cardinals AA team)
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Using 1871 as MLB’s start date, 29-9 is MLB’s first Scorigami (new final score) in over 20 years!
Before today, the last Scorigami was on May 19, 1999 when the Reds beat the Rockies 24-12
@jon_bois
How many times each final score has happened in MLB history...
The 49-33 game happened on June 28, 1871.
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Albert Pujols is slugging 1.300 over his last 10 games.
It’s his highest SLG in a 10 game span in his entire career.
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Some personal news:
I am excited to say that I’ll be spending next summer in Houston as a Research & Development intern for the @Astros!
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This is really insane, was just released as a Beta feature in MLB app.
When I tried it, it was ahead of the radio broadcast! and you can watch from any player’s view or move around yourself
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Home runs after falling behind 0-2 in the count this year:
9 Javy Baez
9 Red Sox
9 Phillies
9 White Sox
8 Angels
7 Giants
6 Pirates
6 Marlins
5 Indians
5 Royals
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Most HR under each president:
Trump: Trout 134
Obama: Pujols 272
W Bush: A-Rod 364
Clinton: Griffey 351
HW Bush: McGriff 137
Reagan: Schmidt 259
Carter: Schmidt 152
Ford: Schmidt 87
Nixon: Aaron 218
Johnson: Mays 181
Kennedy: Killebrew 139
Eisenhower: Mathews 313
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First A’s player to win ROY since Andrew Bailey in 2009
𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Cardinals QB Kyler Murray named 2019 NFL Offensive Rookie of Year
nfl.com/news/story/0ap300000…
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Career home run leaderboard when Queen Elizabeth II was born:
310 Babe Ruth
188 Cy Williams
180 Rogers Hornsby
151 Ken Williams
138 Roger Connor
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Not to take anything away from Giolito. But...
.000, .000, .000, .000, .000, .000, .000, .000, .000, .000
Those are the batting averages from today’s game of the 10 batters the Pirates used tonight.
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Most HR under each president
Biden: tied at 0
Trump: Trout 134
Obama: Pujols 272
W Bush: A-Rod 364
Clinton: Griffey 351
HW Bush: McGriff 137
Reagan: Schmidt 259
Carter: Schmidt 152
Ford: Schmidt 87
Nixon: Aaron 218
Johnson: Mays 181
Kennedy: Killebrew 139
Eisenhower: Mathews 313
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No player has hit more solo home runs off of Clayton Kershaw over the last 5 seasons than Madison Bumgarner
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I’m sure his agents were eager to make comps between their 37 year old with a decade of elite pitching to a 29 y/o whose best season came in a 73 inning season.
Good agents make contract comps between similar players in similar situations… Bauer and Scherzer were nothing alike
🤔what?
Guess you don’t understand how agents compare players to prior contracts and build from there at the top of the market. Happy to give you a crash course if that would help 😉
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Yu Darvish has 24 strikeouts over his last 9 innings pitched.
By inning:
3 strikeouts
2 strikeouts
2 strikeouts
3 strikeouts
3 strikeouts
3 strikeouts
2 strikeouts
3 strikeouts
3 strikeouts
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Shohei Ohtani ranks second in the American League in homers and third in the American League in 100 mph pitches
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Billy, this is Alejandro Kirk. He's a catcher. He is one of the most undervalued players in baseball. His defect is that he has the highest BMI of anyone in the sport’s history
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Nice find @ESPN
Lost in the Ohtani insanity: Mike Trout swung at a 3-0 pitch that was out of the strike zone for the first time in nearly five years (May 7, 2016).
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Most home runs in a 75 plate appearance span in MLB history:
16 Kyle Schwarber 2021
15 Barry Bonds 2001
15 Mark McGwire 1999
15 Sammy Sosa 1998
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If Omar Vizquel returned to baseball and hit 400 consecutive home runs, his career OPS would still be 12 points worse than Scott Rolen’s.
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Yesterday, the Red Sox became the first team to get walked-off on by every other team in their division in a single month since the Cubs in May 2012.
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Cubs rookie Seiya Suzuki has been thrown 29 pitches that were outside of the strike zone.
He took 28 of them… 26 were correctly called balls and 2 were called strikes.
His one chase? An RBI single against Brandon Woodruff.
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Rickey Henderson stole more bases before his 25th birthday than any active player has in their entire career.
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This was Clayton Kershaw’s ninth career postseason start of 6+ IP and no more than 1 earned run and 1 walk. Most in MLB history.
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Chicago Cubs
[groundout into the shift]
announcers:
[groundout into the shift]
announcers:
[groundout into the shift]
announcers:
[base hit against the shift]
announcers: “you see, if i was the pitcher, i would hate that. i don’t care what the percentages say. i’d be pissed off”
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Some personal news: I’ve accepted an internship at Sports Reference for this summer!
I appreciate the support you all have given me throughout the years!
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In Bob Gibson’s nine World Series starts, Cardinals relief pitchers combined for a total of just 1 inning pitched
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If Wander Franco and Nelson Cruz ever line up consecutively in the Rays order, they’ll be the first duo to hit back-to-back in a starting lineup where one player is twice as old as the other since Ozzie Albies and RA Dickey did for the Braves in 2017.
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play of the year nitter.app/scottipippen/status/10…
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The best part about Ohtani being the cover athlete for The Show is that they somehow still haven't figured out a way to properly incorporate two-way players into the game
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Up until today, there had been 72,190 recorded home runs to lead off an inning, which accounted for 72,190 RBI.
Now, there have been 72,191 leadoff home runs, and 72,192 RBIs from them.
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Jose Siri homered off of Shane Bieber.
Jose Ramirez homered off of Shane McClanahan.
It's the first game in playoff history where two (different) hitters with the same first name homered off (different) pitchers with the same first name, per @kennyjackelen.
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Shohei Ohtani is the first player in MLB history with 30 home runs and 12 stolen bases through 76 games played.
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Rotation ERAs in 2022:
1. LAD 1.90
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2. ARI 2.54
3. NYY 2.85
4. NYM 3.05
5. SDP 3.07
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14. TOR 3.76
15. SEA 3.76
16. TBR 3.81
17. MIA 3.83
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26. TEX 4.81
27. CHC 5.16
28. PIT 5.55
29. WSN 5.83
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30. CIN 8.91
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All of the Pirates’ wins this season came against playoff teams. Actually kind of unreal
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Here’s what the American League ERA leaderboard looked like on June 19, 2000:
0.99 Pedro Martinez
3.11 James Baldwin
3.54 Gil Meche
3.65 Gil Heredia
3.67 Mike Mussina
3.71 David Wells
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Aroldis Chapman:
57 IP, 85 K, 25 BB, 3 HR, 2.21 ERA
Liam Hendriks:
85 IP, 124 K, 21 BB, 5 HR, 1.80 ERA
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The player with the most saves in Reds games this year is Taylor Rogers, who pitches for the Padres
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MLB WAR leaders
0.8 Mike Trout
0.7 Nick Castellanos
0.7 Yermin Mercedes
0.7 Christian Vazquez
0.7 Ketel Marte
0.7 JD Martinez
0.7 Lance Lynn
Mike Trout leads baseball in WAR, which means we have enough of a sample size for stats to matter
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If MLB retroactively instituted a “Home Run Derby rule” for Barry Bonds saying that every batted ball that didn’t go over the fence was automatically an out, Bonds still would’ve had a .919 OPS from 2001 to 2004.
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Mike Trout is hitting .294/.385/.647.... in plate appearances where he falls down 0-2 in the count
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I think it's reasonable to take the over here. Typically there are 1 or 2 teams that go over 83.5 every year, but none of them are coming off a massive scandal. The Mets were hit 95 times last year, and no one really cared enough to hit them on purpose
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Here it is:
With Candelario, Cabrera, Castro, Castro, and Cameron all in the lineup for Detroit in Anaheim, CA tonight, the @Tigers are the first team in MLB history to have 5 players in their lineup whose last names start with the U.S. state that the game is taking place in
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8 innings of 1 run no walks 8 strikeout ball while leading off and hitting a league-leading 40th home run. We will never see this again. Tell your grandkids
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Every fair ball hit against Hunter Greene yesterday:
Home run
Home run
Double
Pop out
Single
Double
Home run
Double
Home run
Home run
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This lineup that the Yankees put out against the Mets on June 8, 2012 had combined for 2,502 career home runs coming into that game, the most by any lineup in MLB history
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Most recent players to pitch 2+ innings and then homer the next day:
Brett Phillips 2022
Shohei Ohtani 2021
Shohei Ohtani 2021
Shohei Ohtani 2021
Shohei Ohtani 2021
Shohei Ohtani 2021
Shohei Ohtani 2021
Shohei Ohtani 2021
Shohei Ohtani 2021
Michael Loreznen 2018
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*shift works perfectly*
smoltz:
*shift works perfectly*
smoltz:
*shift works perfectly*
smoltz:
*shift works perfectly*
smoltz:
*bloop single against the shift*
smoltz: “see this is exactly why back in my day, when they didn’t use these nonsensical shifts, was better...”
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Miguel Cabrera is the first player with 3,000 hits in a single week in MLB history apparently
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Bottom of the ninth, 2 outs, tie game, nobody on base. Billy Hamilton at the plate. The manager gives him the “strike out” sign so he will get to be the runner on second base in the tenth inning
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The 2014 Tigers are now the first team in MLB history to have 5 different Cy Young Award winners on their team.
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