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[DOUGHBOYS]

This is my 10,000th post. Which means...
1. Passion, misplaced
2. Thank you, 'value'
3. Thank you, Joey Votto
4.Thank you, all you cool folks
5. little

To a degree, all are true. My wife says that without my passion for baseball, I may have changed the world. I tell her that any world with baseball, don't need changing.
It's a number. A big, even number.
If your toilet had a counter each time you pee'd, and you reached 10,000, you would nod, acknowledge, say "Hmmmm", and forget.
Same here.
Like that pee, this post will be forgotten soon after you read it.

Enjoy...

One record that'll never be broken in baseball is Cy Young's 511 Wins. Several misinformed fans think that Young threw in like a million games. He threw doubleheaders, fer Pete's sakes!
Young 'only' started over 800 Games. Pitched in over 900.
That's only 75 more Starts than Greg Maddux.
Only eight more Games than Jim Kaat pitched.
The difference is in the innings, not games.
Young threw over 7,300 innings. Even counting his relief appearances, that is over eight innings a game.
He got a Win, Loss, or Save in 93% of his games. No-decisions are for chumps!
To call Cy Young, 'dominating' may be wrong though.
Although Young threw over 2,300 innings more than Maddux, Maddux had 500 more strike outs than Young.
(Yes, I know the differences in era's)

I love splits. Here are a few favs and other Stuff....

Last August, Madison Bumgarner had a 5-0 record. Gave up no homers. Struck out 53 batters. In five Starts.

Last August, Jake Arrieta had a 6-0 record. Gave up no homers. Struck out 43 batters. In six Starts.
Arrieta continued and went 6-0 the rest of the season. Showoff.

Arrieta was a fantasy fretter's best pitcher. He never pitched less than five innings last year.
And never gave up more than four runs. Blow-up proof.

Shelby Miller won his fifth game of the season on May 17. He was 5-1
On October 4, Miller won his sixth game. He was 6-17

Zack Greinke was also blow-up proof. He gave up more than three runs twice.
The Dodgers won both of those games.
In 21 of 32 games, Greinke gave up zero or one run.
In 23 of 32 games, his WHIP was 1.000 or less

Last May, a player had this line for the month...321/19/6/23/9
That's as many homers as DJ Lemahieu had all year at Coors.
As many stolen bases as David Peralta had all year.
That player was Justin Upton.
And thank goodness he did not do that during April.
The 'On Pace' fellas would have been beating their drums.

Just the same, brother Melvin Jr. (why is that so freakin hard to type?) had a better seasonal average than Justin, .259 to .251

Why is Mookie Betts being taken at the top of a lot of second rounds?
From June-Sept, Betts had these vitals...321/70/13/51/12

Jose Fernandez has never lost a game in Miami...17-0
5- 9 any place else.

Brian McCann has hit 20 homers in eight straight seasons. His .270 averages have fallen prey to shifts.
He only hit .232 last year.
McCann is only 31 years old
Maybe, his most surprising stat.

Carlos Correa had at least five homers and at least 10 rbi in every month he played.

Jose Altuve reached second base more by doubles (40) than stolen bases (38)

Last year, Altuve was taken in the first round after career highs in stolen bases (56) and Average (.341)
This year, he lost 18 stolen bases and 28 points of average.
BUT, he doubled his homers from seven to 15

Matt Carpenter is thought of as a 'singles hitter'.
Carpenter had 79 singles last year.....77 extra base hits...

To put that in perspective for the slow of reading....
Paul Goldschmidt had 109 singles....73 extra base hits

AJ Pollock had over 600 at bats last year.
The first time he's had over 600.
The first time over 500
The last time he had even 450 at bats was at AA ball in 2011

13 of the last 20 world Series winners were Managed by former catchers.
David Ross will probably retire after this year.
If I'm a General Manager, I would sign him to a five year organization contract.
Just sayin'.

Moises Alou and Jorge Posada pee'd on their hands and didn't wear batting gloves.
Soon, the shoulder and elbow bump replaced hand shakes and high fives

There is one category that we bullshit ourselves in.
Saves.
None of us can figure out Saves.
We don't have a clue who will get a lot of Saves.
So we draft for stuff. Strikeouts.
Proof?
Here are last year's five top Saves getters...
1. Melancon
2. Rosenthal
3. Familia
4. Boxberger
5. Street

Here are the top Closers in ADP

1.Chapman
2. Davis
3. Kimbrel
4. Jansen
5. Miller
We draft peripherals, giving up on figuring the category...

A coach for the San Francisco Giants remarked to Alvin Dark in the early 60's that Gaylord Perry was peppering the ball pretty well in batting practice. Dark replied, "We will land on the moon before Perry hits a homer!"
At least that is the way most remember it. Including Dark and Perry.
Perry went through the next seven years not hitting a homer.
Dark went on to manage other teams while Perry toiled in San Francisco.

On July 20, 1969, the Candlestick Park announcer announced to the crowd that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had landed on the moon.
In the third inning of that game, Gaylord Perry hit his first home run.
Afterwards, Perry said, "Alvin Dark was right, BUT ONLY BY AN HOUR!!!"

[Ando]

Congrats on your milestone, Dan. You're material is as consistent as Votto is drawing a walk everyday.

[DOUGHBOYS]

"Milestone". That made me laugh, Matt!.
It is akin to belching the alphabet A to Z or Mike the Mouth doing 100 push-ups.
But mostly, it just displays my passion for the NFBC and meeting really solid people like yourself.