Stuff
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:17 am
We love our numbers.
20/20 30/30 30/100 5 tool 100 mph 500 feet etc etc
We know what all those numbers mean without further explanation.
We try to get those kind of numbers on our teams.
It's not easy. It's easier during drafting season when we say players will get those numbers....
Do you know how many players actually went 30/100/.300 last year?
Before the year begins, those numbers are attributed to several players.
They're so much easier to obtain during the drafting season!
The answer is six.
And here's the surprising thing...
Only two of those six players are what we consider first round material.
The two first rounders are Colorado Rockies players, Charlie Blackmon ( 37/104/.331) and Nolan Arenado (37/130/.309).
Here are the other four...
Joey Votto 36/100/,320
Marcell Ozuna 37/124/.312
Jose Abreu 33/102/.304
Ryan Zimmerman 36/108/.303
We need a numbers category for our judy type friends.
Let's go with runs/sb/avg.
If we set the bar at 90 runs/20 stolen bases/.300 avg, we get five speed players who really helped out owners this year.
Two, are first round musts.
Mike Trout 92/33/.306
Jose Altuve 112/32/.346
The others, not so much...
Ender Inciarte 93/22/.304
Dee Gordon 114/60/.308
Tommy Pham 95/25/.306
Another easy thing to do during draft season is give players 100 rbi and 100 runs.
This is easily done with hitters like Trout, Goldy, or almost any good power hitter who also hits for average.
How many hitters actually had 100 rbi and 100 runs?
Eight. Just eight.
Charlie Blackmon
Aaron Judge
Giancarlo Stanton
Paul Goldschmidt
Joey Votto
Mookie Betts
Justin Upton
Nolan Arenado
Only five players went 100/100 last year.
Only two have gone 100/100 two years in a row.
Mookie Betts and Nolan Arenado.
Arenado missed by three runs scored of 100/100 in 2015 as well.
100/100 is the easiest stat to obtain during drafting season.
There are 162 games in a season.
We don't care that Alcides Escobar played in all 162 games.
To us, it only proves either how weak the Royals were at shortstop or how bad their Manager was for letting this happen.
We do care about the players we actually roster. Especially, the elite players.
We want our players to play every day.
They can 'rest' when they die.
Who seldom takes days off?
Jonathon Schoop has missed two games the last two years.
Joey Votto has missed just four during that time.
Eric Hosmer too.
Nolan Arenado, five.
The aforementioned Escobar has played 162 games in three of the last four years.
He is an offensive (barely) innings eater.
We have to be careful of such players.
Like their pitching counterparts, they disappear fast.
Last year, Chris Carter played in 160 games.
Different folks like other categories besides the roto-5 to gauge hitters.
There is the k/bb blah blah
The OBP mumbo jumbo
OPS la-de-da
They pale in just looking at extra base hits.
This is where we'll find most first rounders.
We love extra base hits in that it includes home runs or a hit that has knocked in runs or put our hitter in scoring position.
We do not want extra base hits for judys, since it deflates the main purpose of a judy. The stolen base.
Here are 2017's top extra base hitters...
Giancarlo Stanton 91
Jose Ramirez 91
Nolan Arenado 87
Charlie Blackmon 86
Jose Abreu 82
Francisco Lindor 81
Aaron Judge 79
Justin Upton 79
JD Martinez 74
Paul Goldschmidt 73
A special shout out to Martinez.
While most other players had their extra base hits in over 150 games, Martinez had 74 extra base hits in just 119 games.
During the NFBC era, Travis Hafner with 74 extra base hits in 2006 came the closest to Martinez feat.
Still, it took Hafner 129 games to achieve his totals.
Speaking of the NFBC era, the two top home run hitters from the first year of NFBC existence (2004)are still playing today.
Can you name them?
Answer at the bottom of the post.
In 2010, 45 pitchers threw 200 innings or more.
In 2017, 45 pitchers threw 170 innings or more.
Only one pitcher averaged seven innings per start.
Cory Kluber.
Some big name starting pitchers did not average even six innings...
Chris Archer
Jose Quintana
Julio Teheran
Masahiro Tanaka
Jason Vargas
Trevor Bauer
Jake Arrieta
Robbie Ray
Kyle Hendricks
Jon Gray
In 2016, 20 starting pitchers started 33 games.
In 2017, 12 starting pitchers started 33 games.
Yusmeiro Petit started one game.
He threw more innings than....
Doug Fister
Mark Leiter
Felix Hernandez
No pitcher won 20 games this year.
No pitcher won 19 games this year.
Four, won 18.
The last time baseball did not have a 19-game winner during a non-strike season was..... never.
This is the first time.
2006, 2009, and now, 2017 are the only seasons without a 20 game winner.
In 1871, the first 'official year of baseball, Al Spalding won 19 games to lead baseball.
The next year, he won 38.
Then 41, 52, 54, and 47 while topping 600 innings pitched one year.
That is more innings than White Sox starters threw this year.
I made that stat up.
The one about the White Sox, not Spalding.
Answer to the question above.....
Albert Pujols and Adrian Beltre led baseball in home runs in 2004.
20/20 30/30 30/100 5 tool 100 mph 500 feet etc etc
We know what all those numbers mean without further explanation.
We try to get those kind of numbers on our teams.
It's not easy. It's easier during drafting season when we say players will get those numbers....
Do you know how many players actually went 30/100/.300 last year?
Before the year begins, those numbers are attributed to several players.
They're so much easier to obtain during the drafting season!
The answer is six.
And here's the surprising thing...
Only two of those six players are what we consider first round material.
The two first rounders are Colorado Rockies players, Charlie Blackmon ( 37/104/.331) and Nolan Arenado (37/130/.309).
Here are the other four...
Joey Votto 36/100/,320
Marcell Ozuna 37/124/.312
Jose Abreu 33/102/.304
Ryan Zimmerman 36/108/.303
We need a numbers category for our judy type friends.
Let's go with runs/sb/avg.
If we set the bar at 90 runs/20 stolen bases/.300 avg, we get five speed players who really helped out owners this year.
Two, are first round musts.
Mike Trout 92/33/.306
Jose Altuve 112/32/.346
The others, not so much...
Ender Inciarte 93/22/.304
Dee Gordon 114/60/.308
Tommy Pham 95/25/.306
Another easy thing to do during draft season is give players 100 rbi and 100 runs.
This is easily done with hitters like Trout, Goldy, or almost any good power hitter who also hits for average.
How many hitters actually had 100 rbi and 100 runs?
Eight. Just eight.
Charlie Blackmon
Aaron Judge
Giancarlo Stanton
Paul Goldschmidt
Joey Votto
Mookie Betts
Justin Upton
Nolan Arenado
Only five players went 100/100 last year.
Only two have gone 100/100 two years in a row.
Mookie Betts and Nolan Arenado.
Arenado missed by three runs scored of 100/100 in 2015 as well.
100/100 is the easiest stat to obtain during drafting season.
There are 162 games in a season.
We don't care that Alcides Escobar played in all 162 games.
To us, it only proves either how weak the Royals were at shortstop or how bad their Manager was for letting this happen.
We do care about the players we actually roster. Especially, the elite players.
We want our players to play every day.
They can 'rest' when they die.
Who seldom takes days off?
Jonathon Schoop has missed two games the last two years.
Joey Votto has missed just four during that time.
Eric Hosmer too.
Nolan Arenado, five.
The aforementioned Escobar has played 162 games in three of the last four years.
He is an offensive (barely) innings eater.
We have to be careful of such players.
Like their pitching counterparts, they disappear fast.
Last year, Chris Carter played in 160 games.
Different folks like other categories besides the roto-5 to gauge hitters.
There is the k/bb blah blah
The OBP mumbo jumbo
OPS la-de-da
They pale in just looking at extra base hits.
This is where we'll find most first rounders.
We love extra base hits in that it includes home runs or a hit that has knocked in runs or put our hitter in scoring position.
We do not want extra base hits for judys, since it deflates the main purpose of a judy. The stolen base.
Here are 2017's top extra base hitters...
Giancarlo Stanton 91
Jose Ramirez 91
Nolan Arenado 87
Charlie Blackmon 86
Jose Abreu 82
Francisco Lindor 81
Aaron Judge 79
Justin Upton 79
JD Martinez 74
Paul Goldschmidt 73
A special shout out to Martinez.
While most other players had their extra base hits in over 150 games, Martinez had 74 extra base hits in just 119 games.
During the NFBC era, Travis Hafner with 74 extra base hits in 2006 came the closest to Martinez feat.
Still, it took Hafner 129 games to achieve his totals.
Speaking of the NFBC era, the two top home run hitters from the first year of NFBC existence (2004)are still playing today.
Can you name them?
Answer at the bottom of the post.
In 2010, 45 pitchers threw 200 innings or more.
In 2017, 45 pitchers threw 170 innings or more.
Only one pitcher averaged seven innings per start.
Cory Kluber.
Some big name starting pitchers did not average even six innings...
Chris Archer
Jose Quintana
Julio Teheran
Masahiro Tanaka
Jason Vargas
Trevor Bauer
Jake Arrieta
Robbie Ray
Kyle Hendricks
Jon Gray
In 2016, 20 starting pitchers started 33 games.
In 2017, 12 starting pitchers started 33 games.
Yusmeiro Petit started one game.
He threw more innings than....
Doug Fister
Mark Leiter
Felix Hernandez
No pitcher won 20 games this year.
No pitcher won 19 games this year.
Four, won 18.
The last time baseball did not have a 19-game winner during a non-strike season was..... never.
This is the first time.
2006, 2009, and now, 2017 are the only seasons without a 20 game winner.
In 1871, the first 'official year of baseball, Al Spalding won 19 games to lead baseball.
The next year, he won 38.
Then 41, 52, 54, and 47 while topping 600 innings pitched one year.
That is more innings than White Sox starters threw this year.
I made that stat up.
The one about the White Sox, not Spalding.
Answer to the question above.....
Albert Pujols and Adrian Beltre led baseball in home runs in 2004.