Clem Fandango

I present to you the list of every major leaguer who has scored the Kris Bryant projected 136 or more runs in a season since 1937: 2011: Curtis Granderson (136) 2007: Alex Rodriguez (143), Jimmy Rollins (139) 2003: Albert Pujols (137) 2001: Sammy Sosa (146) 2000: Jeff Bagwell (152!), Todd Helton (138), Johnny Damon (136) 1999: Bagwell (143), Roberto Alomar (138) 1997: Craig Biggio (146), Larry Walker (143), 1996: Ellis Burks (142), A-Rod (141), Chuck Knoblauch (140), 1993: Leonard Dykstra (143) 1985: Ricky Henderson (146) 1982: Paul Molitor (136) 1970: Billy Williams (137) 1949: Ted Williams (150) 1948: Tommy Henrich (138) 1947: Johnny Mize (138) 1946: Ted Williams (142) 1942: T. Williams (142) 1939: Red Rolfe (139) 1938: Hank Greenberg (143), Jimmie Foxx (139) 1937: Joe Dimaggio (151), Rolfe (143), Lou Gehrig (138), Greenberg (137) So since 1980 only 18 people have scored 136 or more runs. Of those 18, 12 of them happened during the prime of the steroid/big offense era. So even during the steroid era when offense was at it's peak performance, scoring 136 runs was still not an easy thing to do. I stopped at 1937 because when they made changes to the ball in 1920 and offense changed forever, there was at least one, if not more, than one guy scoring well over 136 runs a season from like 1920-1937 each year and I got tired of typing them all down. Before 1920 in the deadball era the only guys scoring more than 136 runs were few and far between, but the only guys to do it between 1900 and 1920 were Ty Cobb (twice), Eddie Collins, Ginger Beaumont, Nap Lajoie, and Jesse Burkett.

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I might be able to recite that entire routine. ...why did comedy central play that thing on repeat on weekends? Because it was great

You're a disgrace to this ZASTRYZNY SYSTEM.

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Those Charmin bears don't know what the hell they're doing. horsefeathering amateurs

Samardzija* Zastryzny: Zas - Try - Zany, drop the a in zany. Now I'll never forget.

[expletive] you! I'm at 48,221 I had to pass when my number came up last year! http://i.imgur.com/vLzjv3n.gif

I disagree, he was a starter his whole career until halfway through his season in AAA this year, he can handle the workload. Plus since he's been a closer (the start of August), Servais has only used him once in a 1+ inning situation. Not to mention, the only other relievers he had at his disposal were Arquimedes Caminero who has a 5.68 ERA over his previous 6.1 innings in relief work and Pat Venditte who pitched 3 innings the previous night, so he probably wasn't available. In a one run game while you're in the middle of a playoff hunt against your division leader, I think putting Diaz in there for two innings with those limited options is the right call. His arm isn't going to fall off, and he's been the best strikeout reliever in all of baseball. He has a 16.3 K/9. That's better than Chapman, Kimbrel, Miller, and Betances. Servais only had one reliable option if he wanted to beat the Rangers, and it was using Edwin Diaz.

That can't be a complete wipe. Well when you've had 30+ years to perfect it...

Maybe I'm an anomaly among standing wipers, but my set up and motion is like I'm snapping a football. I understand, now, how weird that sounds, but again that was how I first did it as a small child and my parents never corrected me.

If he's truly ambidextrous that's awesome. Though I grew up as a lefty writer and a righty thrower, and a righty in the batters box, but a switch handed person on a tennis/raquetball court, I always assumed I was ambidextrous, but I recently learned not long ago that apparently that's called mixed-handedness, or cross-dominance. You're only ambidextrous if you can truly do everything with either your left or right hand and that is apparently very rare ("some suggest about 1%, others a vanishingly small percentage"), but if you can only do some things with both hands and strictly one hand on others (or if you can do things with both hands but one of them is more dominant than the other), it's mixed-handedness/cross-dominance.

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TMI, Carrie. TMI.

It was done with eye black to make fun of Rougned Odor's haircut apparently

We were the best team in baseball in 2008 and it sure as horsefeathers didn't feel like it when the playoffs were over.

Jeff Sullivan wrote an article yesterday about Kris Bryant's very unclutch performance this year. Ha!

Carlos Correa hit his 41st career home run last night, his 40th as a shortstop in an Astros uniform. He is the became the franchise record holder for most home runs hit by a shortstop in Astros history... when he hit 36. Former record holder Adam Everett hit 35 at the position. I know SS is historically a futile offensive position, but I never would've guessed 35 career home runs was a franchise record for the position on any team.

I was referring to him saying "The 2000 First Year Player Draft"

Bud really nailed that draft year

Spoiler alert, but in the documentary they use the technology they used to measure the fastballs of Feller and Ryan back in the day and then an MIT professor (I think it was MIT) applied it to modern techniques using math and stuff to determine what the actual speeds they threw back then would've been calculated at using a radar scanner the way they use them today. Feller threw a pitch through some weird scanner device at home plate which clocked him at like 97 or 98 or something, pre radar technology, that they then said by todays standards would've been measured at 107mph. Nolan Ryan was scanned using a radar at about 100 or 101 (I forget the actual numbers), but the scanner they used was aimed at home plate. Scanners today measure speed within 5 feet of being released from the pitchers hand (which I did not know, I thought they scanned it at home plate, personally), so the ball traveled at that speed coming out of their hands. It's a fascinating documentary, I can't recommend it enough.

http://37.media.tumblr.com/2cabd4dac014fb06e44ca84d5357eb2e/tumblr_moeo97AEIV1ryx23wo2_400.gif I would have liked this, were it not for the fact that the Peaches lose in painful fashion. I don't think Willson is gonna throw the World Series to make his sister happy, especially since they can't collide at the plate anymore.

It's more interesting when you start at #15 instead of #1, haha. http://www.trendingtoplists.com/the-top-15-fastest-pitches-recorded-in-mlb-history/1 Also, its been mentioned before by myself and someone else I think, but the documentary "Fastball" is very good and worth watching because it goes in depth about a lot of the fastest throwers in history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybw2W2pXm6Y

Like... a hat tip or something? What a boring thing to keep an eye out for. Dad: "Look son he tipped his cap to Vin Scully! That's what respect looks like!" Kid: *continues to Pokemon*