Random baseball thoughts

by **Bucky** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 15:44:20

whoa

the ever monumental 7 home run milestone

by **BigEd76** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 15:56:25

All the people with 40+ SBs in 3 months are like Pierre and Bourn, so 7 HRs is like their career total. Barry Bonds in his Pirates years didn't even come close to doing it. Reyes in 2006 had the HR mark but only 99 hits and 34 SBs on July 1...

by **philliesphhan** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 16:02:50

How many people is it if you get rid of the silly 7HR requirement?

by **BigEd76** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 16:12:55

I checked a few of the people that finished with 100 SBs (Wills, Henderson, Coleman) and none had 100 hits before July 1. I don't think B-R allows queries for just March * through June 30.....just whole seasons...

by **Drugs Delaney** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 18:12:34

Phillies shortstops this year have 18 bases on balls in 351 plate appearances.
Phillies pitchers this year have 14 bases on balls in 149 plate appearances.

by **philliesphhan** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 21:23:55

There have been six no hitters thrown since 1954 which weren't shutouts. 2 were against the Phillies. All of the games had only one run scored by the team that was no hit. 4 of the runs were unearned.

Darryl Kile

Joe Cowley

George Culver

Dean Chance

Ken Johnson

Don Nottebart

By far, the most tragic is Ken Johnson as he actually LOST the game. A run scored in the 9th after TWO errors in the inning.

by **smitty** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 21:48:24

philliesphhan wrote:There have been six no hitters thrown since 1954 which weren't shutouts. 2 were against the Phillies. All of the games had only one run scored by the team that was no hit. 4 of the runs were unearned.

Darryl Kile

Joe Cowley

George Culver

Dean Chance

Ken Johnson

Don Nottebart

By far, the most tragic is Ken Johnson as he actually LOST the game. A run scored in the 9th after TWO errors in the inning.

How about this one:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes ... 7010.shtml

by **VFB** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:16:28

washington sent down dukes to make room for morgan? srsly?

by **Polar Bear Phan** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:47:34

VFB wrote:washington sent down dukes to make room for morgan? srsly?

They want to avoid Arizona, Cleveland, or another team from getting within sniffing distance in the Bryce Harper sweepstakes.

by **Polar Bear Phan** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 13:16:44

The last time the Phillies won a game that was started by someone other than Jamie Moyer or J.A. Happ was June 10 (Hamels v. Mets).

by **jerseyhoya** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 13:25:31

Drugs Delaney wrote:Phillies shortstops this year have 18 bases on balls in 351 plate appearances.
Phillies pitchers this year have 14 bases on balls in 149 plate appearances.

Polar Bear Phan wrote:The last time the Phillies won a game that was started by someone other than Jamie Moyer or J.A. Happ was June 10 (Hamels v. Mets).

by **Stay_Disappointed** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 21:22:28

The Giants have the second best record in the NL.

by **BassGuiFloyd** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 23:48:46

the former GM of the pirates is slaughtered in his wikipedia article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Littlefield

by **philliesphhan** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 23:35:17

Albert Pujols has a .748 SLG percentage after 81 games.

by **CrashburnAlley** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 00:11:35

philliesphhan wrote:Albert Pujols has a .748 SLG percentage after 81 games.

I'd put him as one of the three best right-handed hitters of all time right now.

When his career is over, he'll probably be unarguably #1.

Website · by **Wolfgang622** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 01:29:11

smitty wrote:
philliesphhan wrote:There have been six no hitters thrown since 1954 which weren't shutouts. 2 were against the Phillies. All of the games had only one run scored by the team that was no hit. 4 of the runs were unearned.

Darryl Kile

Joe Cowley

George Culver

Dean Chance

Ken Johnson

Don Nottebart

By far, the most tragic is Ken Johnson as he actually LOST the game. A run scored in the 9th after TWO errors in the inning.

How about this one:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes ... 7010.shtml

I don't think that one counts by baseball's current reckoning because, as the White Sox did not need a final at bat, the Yankees' pitcher that day only pitched 8 innings of no hit ball.

by **BigEd76** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 13:20:14

-- Matt Herges DFAed by Cleveland after they acquired Winston Abreu from the Rays (for John Meloan)

-- Looks like Cueto/Harang/Bailey/Owings for the Phils series

by **Bakestar** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 13:31:35

BigEd76 wrote:
-- Looks like Cueto/Harang/Bailey/Owings for the Phils series

We gon' get rolled.

by **BigEd76** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 13:35:11

Florida signed Brendan Donnelly

Washington DFAed Colome and called up Bergmann

by **smitty** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 17:09:46

Interesting quote from a guy who should know:

You can't measure EVERYTHING. You can't run a baseball organization entirely by sabermetrics; you just can't. If you tried, you'd wind up with a Robert-McNamara style disaster, because you'd figure out too late that there was something there that everybody knew except you. Sabermetrics can HELP run a baseball team, but you have to respect the other ways of looking at the problems.

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