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by **Bucky** » Mon May 04, 2015 00:44:55

holy @#$%

hope SOMEBODY tossed him

by **cartersDad26** » Mon May 04, 2015 10:14:32

by **Slowhand** » Mon May 04, 2015 10:29:50

Slowhand wrote:I seriously wonder if Kyle Kendrix will even last the season.

5 innings, 6 ER yesterday. Has given up more runs than anyone in baseball and is the proud owner of the highest ERA in baseball at 8.73. Given up more HRs (10 in 33 innings) and total bases than anyone and has the highest opponents’ OPS at 1.056! He bad.

by **pacino** » Mon May 04, 2015 10:32:36

BigEd76 wrote:Ol friend Humberto Quintero

Dying here. Ump's reaction is priceless

wtf

by **pacino** » Mon May 04, 2015 10:45:12

The Astros are on pace to shift about 1,600 times this season, more than six times the projected total for their in-state rivals, the Rangers

any correlation between that and the Astros 18-7 record and the Rangers 8-16 record? Statheads assemble

by **pacino** » Mon May 04, 2015 10:47:23

Craig Counsell is the new Brewers manager. Gonna show 'em how to hit.

by **smitty** » Mon May 04, 2015 12:10:56

Bucky wrote:holy @#$%

hope SOMEBODY tossed him

Who is him? The batter who didn't get out of the way or the catcher who gut punched the batter? Is the batter required to get out of the way?

by **swishnicholson** » Mon May 04, 2015 12:49:01

smitty wrote:
Bucky wrote:holy @#$%

hope SOMEBODY tossed him

Who is him? The batter who didn't get out of the way or the catcher who gut punched the batter? Is the batter required to get out of the way?

I'd like to get a clarification from Bucky, too. as far as I can tell, while the batter doesn't have any right to the batter's box, the rule is so stated that he has to make some actual action to interfere with the catcher for interference to be called. It doesn't seem like the batter did anything except remain where he was.

The rule is even less clear on gut-punching.

by **Phred** » Mon May 04, 2015 13:05:57

It looks to me like Quintero went out of his way to punch the batter in the gut.

by **phatj** » Mon May 04, 2015 13:29:40

I happened to look at Barry Bonds' stats and noticed that in 2004 he had more homers (45) than strikeouts (41), and I thought that has to be pretty unusual. I thought of Joe DiMaggio who was famous for striking out very seldom; he did it five years in a row, and 7 times total in his 13 year career.

I wonder how common this has been historically.

by **Woody** » Mon May 04, 2015 13:36:58

phatj wrote:I happened to look at Barry Bonds' stats and noticed that in 2004 he had more homers (45) than strikeouts (41), and I thought that has to be pretty unusual. I thought of Joe DiMaggio who was famous for striking out very seldom; he did it five years in a row, and 7 times total in his 13 year career.

I wonder how common this has been historically.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10091

by **pacino** » Mon May 04, 2015 13:39:43

So Bonds is the only one in the past 60 years.

by **slugsrbad** » Mon May 04, 2015 13:43:52

pacino wrote:So Bonds is the only one in the past 60 years.

George Brett in 1980

by **RichmondPhilsFan** » Mon May 04, 2015 13:47:27

phatj wrote:I happened to look at Barry Bonds' stats and noticed that in 2004 he had more homers (45) than strikeouts (41), and I thought that has to be pretty unusual. I thought of Joe DiMaggio who was famous for striking out very seldom; he did it five years in a row, and 7 times total in his 13 year career.

I wonder how common this has been historically.

Seems pretty damn rare. I created a custom board on FG with only career K% and HR for seasons 1920-2015, then ranked it by lowest K%. (I basically ignored anyone with less than 125 career HR.) A few guys have one or two seasons where they did it, but Joe D is the first one that came up on the leaderboard with multiple. Yogi Berra is the next one, and he did it five times including three in a row during the same period Joe D was doing it. That's crazy. The next guy (way) down the K% leaderboard was Stan Musial, who only did it once. Ted Kluszweski did it four times in a row in the 1950s. There's probably more, but suffice to say it's an incredible feat.

by **smitty** » Mon May 04, 2015 14:02:51

Woody wrote:
phatj wrote:I happened to look at Barry Bonds' stats and noticed that in 2004 he had more homers (45) than strikeouts (41), and I thought that has to be pretty unusual. I thought of Joe DiMaggio who was famous for striking out very seldom; he did it five years in a row, and 7 times total in his 13 year career.

I wonder how common this has been historically.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10091

Johnny Mize. He was an outstanding hitter until he was 34. After that he had six more good years. Also spent three years in the Army during the big one.

by **smitty** » Mon May 04, 2015 14:14:22

Kluzewski was the guy who cut off the sleeves of his uniform because his guns were so damn big. The Reds, Indians and Pirates adopted sleeveless uniforms in the 50s.

http://cincinnati.reds.mlb.com/cin/imag ... iform6.jpg

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en-US& ... AA#imgrc=_

by **phatj** » Mon May 04, 2015 16:03:39

Interesting that it never occurred in the 1900s or '10s, then occurred several times each decade from the '20s through the '50s, then only twice in the 60 years since.

by **Werthless** » Mon May 04, 2015 16:09:23

swishnicholson wrote:
smitty wrote:
Bucky wrote:holy @#$%

hope SOMEBODY tossed him

Who is him? The batter who didn't get out of the way or the catcher who gut punched the batter? Is the batter required to get out of the way?

I'd like to get a clarification from Bucky, too. as far as I can tell, while the batter doesn't have any right to the batter's box, the rule is so stated that he has to make some actual action to interfere with the catcher for interference to be called. It doesn't seem like the batter did anything except remain where he was.

The rule is even less clear on gut-punching.

Batter did nothing wrong. Batter has a right and ovligation to stand in the box. Catcher should be suspended, although it's hard for an ump to be confident enough when it happened live to make that ejection.

by **Bill McNeal** » Mon May 04, 2015 17:06:30

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by **Bucky** » Mon May 04, 2015 17:29:02

Werthless wrote:
swishnicholson wrote:
smitty wrote:
Bucky wrote:holy @#$%

hope SOMEBODY tossed him

Who is him? The batter who didn't get out of the way or the catcher who gut punched the batter? Is the batter required to get out of the way?

I'd like to get a clarification from Bucky, too. as far as I can tell, while the batter doesn't have any right to the batter's box, the rule is so stated that he has to make some actual action to interfere with the catcher for interference to be called. It doesn't seem like the batter did anything except remain where he was.

The rule is even less clear on gut-punching.

Batter did nothing wrong. Batter has a right and ovligation to stand in the box. Catcher should be suspended, although it's hard for an ump to be confident enough when it happened live to make that ejection.

agree with all of this

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