OleMissCub

Converted pitcher Babe Ruth traded to the Yankees for cash considerations.

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There has to be a force at third for it to apply, IIRC.

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More Santo stats: http://nationalsportsreview.com/2005/03/02/ron-santo-hall-worthy-2/

Thanks for the heads up!!

OK...so maybe my brain is just fried after a three day long BAR exam and so my sarcasm-detector is defective, but I can't tell if the sponsor of C-Patt's B-R page is serious or not... http://www.baseball-reference.com/p/patteco01.shtml

Well, yes. I wasn't really throwing it out there to be guessed upon, because I think we'd already had a slight discussion about this topic several pages back. I just wanted to post it again to show the absurdity of the Hall of Fame and how much net effect being "charming" has on your chances of being a Hall of Famer.

I've done this before, but I feel like doing it again: Player A: - 12 seasons, 162 game avg: .295/.369/.564, 143 OPS+, 40 HR, 130 RBI, 103 Runs, 41 doubles, 2 triples - 1539 games: 89.6 WARP3, 565 VORP Player B: - 12 seasons, 162 game avg: .318/.360/.477, 124 OPS+, 19 HR, 99 RBI, 97 Runs, 38 doubles, 5 triples - 1783 games: 87.1 WARP3, 505 VORP Player A: 1st ballot - 40 votes 2nd ballot - 19 votes, dropped from ballot. Player B: 1st ballot: 423 votes, Hall of Fame.

LOL http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3511804

Z's pitch count?

Freaking Marriott i'm at right now has 50 channels but not WGN...plus i dont have my laptop so I can't watch on mlb.tv :-(

Ya, I liked that. That guy is such a prick. I hope he isn't behind the dish this afternoon.

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Players that have led the league in certain categories 3 times or more (since 1900) OPS+ Babe Ruth - 13 Rogers Hornsby - 12 Ty Cobb - 11 Ted Williams - 9 Mickey Mantle - 9 Barry Bonds - 9 Honus Wagner - 6 Stan Musial - 6 Willie Mays - 6 Mike Schmidt - 6 Jimmie Foxx - 5 Mel Ott - 5 Frank Robinson - 4 Yastrzemski - 4 Reggie Jackson - 4 Mark McGwire - 4 Hank Aaron - 3 George Brett - 3 Dick Allen - 3 Frank Thomas - 3 Willie McCovey - 3 Ralph Kiner - 3 Lou Gehrig - 3 Nap Lajoie - 3 Gavvy Cravath - 3 SLG% Babe Ruth - 13 Rogers Hornsby - 9 Ted Williams - 9 Ty Cobb - 8 Barry Bonds - 7 Stan Musial - 6 Honus Wagner - 6 Willie Mays - 5 Jimmie Foxx - 5 Mike Schmidt - 5 Johnny Mize - 4 Frank Robinson - 4 Hank Aaron - 4 Mark McGwire - 4 Mickey Mantle - 4 Yastzremski - 3 Alex Rodriguez - 3 Manny Ramirez - 3 Reggie Jackson - 3 Dick Allen - 3 Nap Lajoie - 3 Willie McCovey - 3 Ralph Kiner - 3 Chuck Klein - 3 OBP% Ted Williams - 12 Babe Ruth - 10 Barry Bonds - 10 Rogers Hornsby - 9 Ty Cobb - 7 Stan Musial - 6 Wade Boggs - 6 Lou Gehrig - 5 Yastzremski - 5 Rod Carew - 4 Frank Thomas - 4 Honus Wagner - 4 Joe Morgan - 4 Mel Ott - 4 Tris Speaker - 4 Richie Ashburn - 4 Jimmie Foxx - 3 Manny Ramirez - 3 Mike Schmidt - 3 Edgar Martinez - 3 Jason Giambi - 3 Mickey Mantle - 3 Elbie Fletcher - 3 Arky Vaughan - 3 How some of our Cubs favs ranked out in these categories: Ernie Banks: OPS+: 2nd in '58 SLG: 1st in '58, 2nd in '59 OBP: 9th in '58 Billy Williams: OPS+: 3rd in '65 SLG: 1st in '72, 3rd in '65 and '68 OBP: 2nd in '72 Ron Santo: OPS+: 2nd in '64, 4th in '66 SLG: 2nd in '64 OBP: 1st in '64 and '66, 3rd in '72 Ryne Sandberg: OPS+: 7th in '90 SLG: 2nd in '90, 3rd in '84 OBP: 7th in '91 Sammy Sosa: OPS+: 2nd in '01, 3rd in '02 SLG: 2nd in '98 and '01 OBP: 3rd in '01 Mark Grace: OPS+: 8th in '95 SLG: 10th in '95 OBP: 4th in '89 Bill Nicholson: OPS+: 2nd in '40 & '43 SLG: 2nd in '40, '43, & '44 OBP: 7th in '42 & '43 Phil Cavaretta: OPS+: 2nd in '45, 3rd in '46 SLG: 3rd in '45 OBP: 1st in '45 Heine Zimmerman: OPS+: 1st in '12, 2nd in '13 SLG: 1st in '12 OBP: 5th in '12 Hack Wilson: OPS+: 1st in '30, 2nd in '26 & '27 SLG: 1st in '30, 2nd in '26 OBP: 3rd in '30 Gabby Hartnett: OPS+: 3rd in '35, 4th in '37 SLG: 4th in '37, 5th in '30 and '35 OBP: 3rd in '37, 4th in '35 Frank Chance: OPS+: 4th in '04, '05, & '06 SLG: 5th in '04 & '06 OBP: 1st in '05, 3rd in '03, '06, & '07 Johnny Evers: OPS+: 4th in '08 & '12 SLG: ya right OBP: 2nd in '08 & '12 Kiki Cuyler: OPS+: 3rd in '25, 5th in '24 SLG: 2nd in '25, 4th in '24 OBP: 3rd in '31

Wonder how nice it must feel for someone like Nady to go to a team that actually has a chance of perennially going to the playoffs.

Your wife?? You got married? Naw, just meant hypothetically.

My wife would get that Just for Men box bounced off her dome

I wish I could tell ya. They were keeping pretty good tabs on stats and scores back into the 1870's, so I'm not sure. I think this is probably just his personal system.

HOLY COW!!! That is much better video of the actual brawl. That almost brought a tear of joy to my eye to actually see a REAL baseball brawl. There must have been ten different groups of people squared off in their individual fights.

So he hits my boy Cozart in the head with a fastball, then throws another heater at a fan??

I think you are thinking about ANTZ...which was a superior movie to a Bug's Life, but was done by Dreamworks, not Pixar.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/hof_monitor.shtml Bill James (up to date) top 20 HOF Monitor Index of hitters not yet eligible for election: Barry Bonds Alex Rodriguez Ken Griffey Jr. Ivan Rodriguez Derek Jeter Mike Piazza Sammy Sosa Manny Ramirez Frank Thomas Roberto Alomar Rafael Palmeiro Vladmir Guerrero Albert Pujols Craig Biggo Ichiro Suzuki Chipper Jones Todd Helton Jeff Bagwell Larry Walker Gary Sheffield top 20 all time hitters: Stan Musial Ty Cobb Hank Aaron Babe Ruth Willie Mays Ted Williams Barry Bonds Lou Gehrig Rogers Hornsby Alex Rodriguez Jimmie Foxx Honus Wagner Pete Rose Mickey Mantle Charlie Gehringer Tony Gwynn Wade Boggs Nap Lajoie Joe DiMaggio Paul Waner

On google books they have the full copy of Johnny Evers book that he wrote in 1910 "Touching Second: The Science of Baseball". http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/cover-1.jpghttp://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/evers-1.jpg Here is a link to the book, all online. http://books.google.com/books?id=4jINAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0 Check out the "Inside the Game" chapter. Evers has all these diagrams about fielding positions and spray chart type things. In it, he recounts a neat story from the 1908 World Series against the Tigers and talks about the challenges of facing Cobb: http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/5.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/4.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/6.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/10.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/8.jpg some other images from the book: http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/cobbever.jpghttp://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/matty.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/nap.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/tris.jpg Ya, I'd say so... Some of Evers' charts: http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/chart-1.jpghttp://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/chart2.jpg Some of sportswriter Hugh Fullerton's scorecards. Recall it was Fullerton, along with Ring Lardner, that broke the Black Sox scandal by keeping up with errant plays. http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/scorecard.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/scoring.jpg

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