Fun with Numbers

[Z]

* Philadelphia AAA catcher D.J. Mathews has 864 at-bats in the BLB. He has zero career home runs. It is the fifth-highest number of BLB at-bats ever for a player without hitting a home run.

* On a related note. Morgantown outfielder Antonio Ontiveros holds the BLB record for most at-bats in a season without a home run, a mark he set in 2012 when he went homerless in 703 at-bats.

* Los Angeles outfielder Pat St. Thomas has a real shot at breaking the BLB record for most career strikeouts. He turns 34 next month and strikes out on average 211 times per 162 games. At roughly that rate, he'd set a new BLB career mark sometime in his age 37 season (2020).

* No BLB player has stolen 50 bases in a season since Fernando Ortiz in 2005.

* Russ McEvoy holds the BLB record for most wins in a season by a pitcher in his 40s, when he went 18-3 at age 40 in 1994.

* Dae-hee Yi (40 saves) and Adrián Diaz (28 saves) are the only pitchers to record 15 saves in a season after turning 40.

* Sonny Marshburn became the oldest player in BLB history to homer when last year he hit one at age 45.

* I'll end with the most inexplicable one. In 2007, at age 32, Toronto outfielder Enrique Ferreira set a new BLB record by hitting 66 doubles in one season. Then he never played another game of professional baseball.

[Pat]

More!

[Matt]

More!

[Z]

* Nine of the ten highest single season home run marks for a Morgantown Mohawk are held by Hector Feliciano. Pat St. Thomas has the other one.

* New York's single season home run record is 42, set by someone named Terry Mast in 2007.

* Aside from last year's expansion teams, only two clubs have never had someone hit 40 home runs in a season: Davenport, whose single season record belongs to Don Hudson (37 homers in 1993), and Los Alamos, for whom Curt Hardin bashed 39 bombs in 1996.

* California has been around since the beginning in 1978 but their all-time winningest pitcher is still Joe Toapanta with only 96 career wins.

* Denver has also been around since the start and their all-time winningest pitcher is Danny Melgoza who won only 89 games in Denver. Let the record show that Melgoza had an 89-108 record there.

* Los Alamos too has been around this whole time and their all-time winningest pitcher is someone named Ted Cooley and he won 84 games (and lost 93) for them.

* The Dinos franchise has seven different pitchers who won at least 100 games. The Guides have nine such pitchers, plus one more who won 99 games. The most surprising one to me is that Morgantown had five, which is the same number Washington has, for comparison.

* Baltimore, Dallas, and Los Alamos have titles but have never had a pitcher win 20 games in a season. The Guides have had eleven 20-win seasons from seven different pitchers.

* This year, Johnny McDade became the first Pawtucket pitcher to win 100 games for the franchise. It seems impossible that after all the playoff appearances and four championships this could be true, but there you go.

[Matt]

"Someone named Terry Mast"!

Terry was a god, and a minor league diety as well.

[Z]

"Someone named Terry Mast"!

Terry was a god, and a minor league diety as well.

I really don't remember him. He made one All-Star game.

[Sharkn20]

Hopefully Orton will break te 20 W mark this year :)

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[Matt]

His AAA season was amazing. I even referenced him in my 2014 draft review.

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[Z]

His AAA season was amazing. I even referenced him in my 2014 draft review.

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It was AA. And yeah, it was.

[Z]

More.

* José Guzman, Von Haynes, and Dani Trujillo are the only Hall of Famers to have hit for the cycle.

* Chris Aguilar is the only active pitcher to have thrown a perfect game.

* New Hall of Fame inductee Jamie Herberholz once threw a no-hitter in which he struck out 17 batters and didn't walk anyone. It might be the greatest BLB game ever pitched.

* Ricky Murillo is the only player in BLB history to win the batting Triple Crown, which he did in 2012.

* Fernando Hernandez isn't only chasing Russ McEvoy for the wins record. This year, he passed McEvoy to become the all-time leader in innings pitched.

* Teagan Corrigan holds the record for most career shutouts with 29. No one else has more than 19.

[Ryan]

This is so good, Z!

[Z]

* The all-time leaders for home runs by a second baseman are Neil Hildebrand (273) and Wilton Harcourt (217). Neither is in the Hall of Fame.

* The record for most home runs by a player in a single postseason is eight, shared by Hector Hernandez, Steve Suarez, and Dave Piekarski.

* The record for most hits in a single postseason is 28, shared by Piekarski (the same year he tied for the home run record) and former Guides left fielder Marco Volquez.

* Two pitchers have had a 5-0 record in a single postseason: Hall of Fame Dukes pitcher R.J. Curtis and former Guide Travis Fisher.

* Shane Burrows holds the record for most innings pitched in a single postseason without allowing a run, when he threw 15 2/3 scoreless innings during Carolina's championship run in 2011.

* It's hard to pinpoint one single best postseason by a starting pitcher, but I might choose Todd Taylor's 2016 performance for Pittsburgh in which he started four games and went 2-0 with a 0.99 ERA in 27 1/3 innings and recorded 35 strikeouts to only 3 walks.

* In 2001, in the last postseason appearance for the Furry Pigs, Los Lunas catcher Ryuzaburo Taniguchi was hit by a postseason record six pitches.

* The record for best stolen base percentage (of any players with at least 100 stolen bases) is 83.4%, held by Pete Lawson. Perhaps more interestingly, the second best career mark (80.8%) belongs to a former first baseman, Dani Muñoz. The active leader is Zachary Oldham.

* No active player has been caught stealing more times than Fernando Ortiz.

[Pat]

We need to do another veterans HOF vote.

Hildebrand and Harcourt should be in there.

[Z]

We need to do another veterans HOF vote.

Hildebrand and Harcourt should be in there.

I agree. I voted for both.

I think the two most surprising things to me that I've posted so far are:

(1) Ferreira set the doubles record and then no one ever signed him again, not even to a minor league deal.

(2) Pawtucket only just this year had a pitcher record his 100th win for the franchise.

[Sharkn20]

Why would you hit a player pitching??

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