After reading that the Rays signed Carlos Pena to a one year deal wroth $7.5 million I thought that it was a pretty decent signing for both parties involved. Pena gets to play everyday and the Rays get a guy the fans love. But after I went back and looked at Pena’s last five years in [...]
Cole Hamels, Clayton Kershaw and Justin Verlander became the first trio in nearly 40 years to…
Adrian Beltre, Nelson Cruz, Josh Hamilton and Mike Napoli became the first foursome in the history of major league baseball to…
Jacoby Ellsbury, Adrian Gonzalez and David Ortiz
My first post in as long as I can remember is about none other than the record setting Kansas City Royals.
I know it is early in the season, but Shane Victorino is on pace for 29 doubles, 24 triples, 24 home runs, and 39 stolen bases. He would join current teammate and only two other players in the history of baseball to hit 20 doubles, 20 triples, 20 home runs and steal 20 bases in the same season.
Top 10 Reasons the Phillies will will the World Series- Halladay, Hamels and Oswalt are the only pitching staff ever with 190+ strikeouts, era’s under 3.10 and whip’s under 1.2.
Eclipsing the 40 home run palteau three times in his career he would hit 50 home runs while striking out only 42 times in 1947
Brady Anderson and Barry Bonds are the only two players who have hit 50 home runs and stolen 50 bases in a single season (not the same season)
Joe Morgan remains the only player in history with 250 or more home runs, 675 stolen bases and a slugging percentage of .425 or higher.
The 2003 Red Sox are the only team in the history of baseball to have 9 players finish the season with 50 or more extra base hits. They are the only team to have 6 players hit 25 or more home runs and one of two team so have 8 players hit 30 or more doubles.
There are 19 pitching duo’s in the history of major league baseball finished a season north of 200 strikeouts and south of a 3.00 earned run average. The last tandem to accomplish this feat were the co-MVP’s of the world series winning Arizona Diamondbacks, Curt Schilling and randy Johnson.
The 1906 Chicago Cubs became had the first and last pitching staff with 6 pitchers with 140 or more innings pitched and an earned run average under 2.25. Mordecai Brown, Jack Pfiester, Ed Reulbach, Carl Lundgren, Jack Taylor and Orval Overall would have an overall record of 106 wins and 30 losses for an unbelievable [...]
Padro Martinez and Derek Lowe are the only duo to start at least 30 games in a season and finish with 20 or more wins and a WHIP (walks plus hits per inning) less than 1.00.
Rogers Hornsby remains the only player ever to have a batting average higher than .400 and a slugging percentage higher than .750.
Since 1917, only one player has stolen 55 or more bases and finished the year with a batting average of .370 or higher.
Eric Davis is the only player in Major League Baseball history to hit 35 or more home runs and steal 50 or more bases.
Biggio remains the only player to hit 50 doubles, steal 50 bases and hit 20 home runs in the same season.
Babe Ruth remains the only player in baseball history to accumulate 170 runs scored and 170 runs batted in during the same season. In fact only one other player has eclipsed the 160/160 plateau, Lou Gehrig. In Ruth’s magical season, he would hit 59 home runs, 44 doubles, 16 triples and .378/.512/.846. Not too bad for a pitcher with a career 2.28 earned run average.
But in 1911 Ty Cobb became the first and only player with a slugging percentage higher than .600 with 80 or more stolen bases. His 83 stolen bases doubled the total for Bonds (40) and nearly doubled the total for Sisler (42).
