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Thursday, April 20, 2017
Pittsburgh Press, April 20, 1917: Manager Mitchell of the Cubs has ordered the discontinuance of the hit and run play. “I’ll fine anyone who tries it,” says Mitchell—“fine him $100 for the first offense and fire him the second time. I’ve studied that play thoroughly. The odds against its bein a winner are about 70 to 1, and I don’t propose to lose out on the 69 extra chances.”
On one hand, it’s pretty cool and a bit unexpected that managers were studying success rates of plays like this. On the other hand, I find it difficult to believe that the success rate of the hit and run is (or has ever been) as low as 1.4%.
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1. Jefferson Manship (Dan Lee) Posted: April 20, 2017 at 10:20 AM (#5438801)With regard to third base, there seems to be some disagreement about Mike Mowrey's birthdate. Even his SABR bio page lists two different dates: March 24, 1883 and April 20, 1884. If he's eligible for today's team, he's a massive upgrade at 3B. I've generally used BBRef as the tiebreaker when there's a dispute on birthdates, though, so Buttermilk Tommy Dowd mans the hot corner on my version of the team.
C: Ted Easterly (12.57 WAR)
1B/Manager: Don Mattingly (42.17 WAR)
2B: Germany Smith (21.38 WAR)
3B: Tommy Dowd (-1.71 WAR)
SS: Dave Bancroft (48.5 WAR)
LF: Brandon Belt (17.5 WAR)
CF: Charlie Hemphill (16.06 WAR)
RF: Todd Hollandsworth (6.52 WAR)
SP: Milt Wilcox (13.61 WAR)
SP: Charlie Smith (9.59 WAR)
SP: Masato Yoshii (6.72 WAR)
SP: Johnny Wertz (2.42 WAR)
SP: Earl Harrist (-0.21 WAR)
RP: Sean Green (0.31 WAR)
Fun names: Steamer Flanagan, Ham Allen
Golden Greek: Harry Agganis
Spanish for "Girl Tony Perez"?: Tony Perezchica
My best players are Moose Skowron (2 MVP awards, .330, 215 hits and 115 RBIs per year like clockwork) and Starlin Castro (steady 105 OPS+ with strong defense at shortstop). Al Bumbry is still a top hitter in the league but his defense has quickly gone late Bernie Williams on us, and with no DH slot I'm not sure what to do with him exactly.
Rennie Stennett may be the best player in baseball - he hits .350 and his defense at 2B is off the charts - but he has yet to play a season without missing several months to injury.
I won the WS 3 years in a row, which has cemented the White Sox's claim as the best team in baseball history. We're in 1927 I think. Still no sight of Ruth, Williams, Mays, Bonds, Mantle. Pedro Martinez does win the CYA almost every year. Bo Jackson was in the last draft but received mediocre ratings across the board, which is a shame.
He could run like the wind (before the hip injury), hit the ball 500 feet, and he had a great arm, but it would be difficult to get a data-based algorithm to see that stuff in his stats.
Which sucks, because Bo was the coolest.
Time to start The Chica Tracker.
C'mon now, we have a perfectly god baseball term for that. It's a "1-2-3 inning".
My picks are Chris Sale in the AL (pitching this afternoon for the Red Sox against Toronto) and Madison Bumgarner in the NL
I think I agree with you, but I'll throw out some other names.. Lester and Cueto from the NL. Darvish and Hamels from the AL.
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