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Notes Week Ending 6/28
6/22: Of the 184 active players with at least 500 games played at the end of 2024, Mike Trout didn’t rank in the top 20 in RBI per plate appearance…
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Notes Week Ending 6/21
6/15 N1: If I put together the numbers correctly, the “strike” percentage (consisting of called, swinging, foul, and in-play) on the first pitch is just…
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Notes Week Ending 6/14
6/9 N1: It always seems too convenient to me for the purposes of remembering that Connie Mack’s last season was 1950.
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The Single-Season Runs-Allowed Record for Pitchers
It’s a funny thing about trivia.
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Notes Week Ending 6/7
6/1 N1: I consider 16 steals for Kyle Tucker with just over a third of the season gone super surprising and super cool.
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Notes Week Ending 5/31
5/25 N1: Now with an extra-base hit in five straight games and 10 hits in his last 23 AB, Kody Clemens is for the first time requiring attention beyond…
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May 2025

Notes Week Ending 5/24
5/18 N1: The virus that is “baseball tools speak” entered new crevices when interim Orioles manager Tony Mansolino described his fallen boss this way…
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Teams Leading in HR and Singles, Etc.
I noted a day or two ago that Trea Turner is leading the NL in singles.
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Making Sense of 1969's Lowered Mound and Expansion, Via League Statistics
Introduction
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Notes Week Ending 5/17
5/11 N1: What gave me the idea that Jacob deGrom had been much better over his career with men on than with the bases empty?
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Notes Week Ending 5/10
5/5 N1: Vinnie Pasquantino’s BAbip, .198 this year after .265 last year, has gone from bad to worse.
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It's Not Bad, And It's Not Boston
Being broadly interested in OBP Allowed, and working with a database of all American League seasons in the 1970s of 150 or more innings pitched, I…
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