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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Thursday, July 12, 2007The Baseball Crank: Baseball’s Most Impressive RecordsMcLaughlin’s latest release..."Their Goal’s Beyond.”
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Yeah, giving up a bunch of runs to lose a game isn't really a concern if the score was tied to begin with.
one game doesn't count (Mark Whiten he cites), but a few games does?
hitting streaks are fluky, and often not more valuable (DiMaggio 41 vs Ted W)
I'd nominate a few like
Babe Ruth - gee, you could go with 12 or 13 slugging titles, or reaching 600 home runs when most others had 100, or a bunch of other stats
Bonds - 7 MVPs. Never mind the utterly ridiculous intentional walks. I mena, if in 1996, someone offered you a bet that a player would get 120 IBBs in a year in the next 10 years, would you have given him 100 to 1 odds? At least?
Rivera - 112 post-season innings, 0.80 ERA.
Babe Ruth has a total of 2,062 walks, but as you point out, they did not keep records for how many were IBBs.
Barry Bonds currently has a total of 2,517 walks, of which 675 have been IBBs, leaving 1,842 UIBBs.
One other record I like (although it only beats out the second place guy by a sliver): Orel Hershiser's 59 consecutive scoreless innings. It is only a third inning more than Drysdale, but the context -- leading the Dodgers to the pennant, and then the World Series -- makes it special.
I also find it hard to believe that anyone will ever break Ray Chapman's record for most times killed in a major league game. (I admit it, this is in bad taste.)
Regarding Mike Marshall's relief IP record, I have more confidence than the author that this will be broken someday, as bullpen usage and the game itself continue to evolve. I was going to say that perhaps a Mark Eichhorn type could do it someday, with an extra factor or two in his favor, but goodness, even that was over two decades ago.
Joe D's 56 could fall too. Someone like Ichiro could even pull it off. I never watched him play much, but was amazed at his abilities with the bat during the all-star game. Someone else like Gwynn will come along and get that record.
I'm not sure how to phrase it as a "record," but Lou Gehrig having three of the top six RBI seasons ever (174, 175, and 184) is ludicrous.
How far away is Favre from that record?
I agree with this. Just because we've seen the shift in pitcher usages in recent years, it will continue to change. I've always said, if you got a solid pitcher, your best ace pitcher, than can give you 230 innings in a year, then use those innings differently, and make them count. Don't be afraid to use someone like this in 90-100 games. When you are up or down 8-0, why the chrikey is your ace pitching. Use him the next game when you are tied 3-3 for a handful of inings. Use him the next night the same way. Often the differences in a division title comes down to one-run games. You want to win all of them! Not 50%. Your best guy should be in! But, everyone laughs at my theory.....
I think Feagles has 288 and Favre has something like 237.
He mentions that in the SLG % record
Cobb hit .300 or better twenty-three consecutive seasons.
Eddie Collins hit over .340 in a season in 4 different decades.
Or of the 8 OPS+ seasons of 205 or more by current players, Bonds has 7 of them? (Frank Thomas, 212 in 1994, has the 8th.)
As Christopher Brian Bridges would say, "Bonds is absolutely ludacris."
That would be a very impressive accomplishment, if, you know, it had happened.
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