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The Amazing Baseball Stats Thread

Matt Foley

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Always loved reading Cy Young's stats...

Career

511-316, 2.63 ERA, 7356 IP, 749 CGs

In 1892 he was 36-12, 1.93 ERA and tossed 453 innings (48 complete games)... Most pitchers don't do that in 2 seasons...

Most pitchers don't sniff 48 complete games in their careers.

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Most pitchers don't sniff 48 complete games in their careers.

He was FOURTH in complete games that year... heh

Gus Weyhing led the league that year with 3 saves... lol Not that they really kept stats on those back then... Bill Hutchinson started SEVENTY games that season... And led the league with SIXTY SEVEN complete games, and 622 innings pitched... wow... (typing this as I read the league stats)

Totally different era... amazing...

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Found this too:

He developed conditioning habits that allowed him to stay remarkably injury-free, even in an era when pitchers were expected to throw many, many more innings than they do these days. In 1895 he began throwing what he called a "slow-ball" in order to reduce the burden on his arm, and found that it actually became an equally effective pitch for getting batters out - in short, Cy Young invented the change-up. For the first three weeks of spring training he wouldn't throw at all, devoting all his time to conditioning his legs. Young once gave his view on the proper warm-up:

"I never warmed up ten, fifteen minutes before a game like most pitchers do. I'd loosen up, three, four minutes. Five at the outside. And I never went to the bullpen. Oh, I'd relieve all right, plenty of times, but I went right from the bench to the box, and I'd take a few warm-up pitches and be ready. Then I had good control. I aimed to make the batter hit the ball, and I threw as few pitches as possible. That's why I was able to work every other day."

http://ask.metafilter.com/69647/Why-was-Cy-Young-so-awesome

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Which of the following was NOT a major league team in 1901?

A. Boston Beaneaters

B. Chicago Orphans

C. Milwaukee Brewers

D. New York Yankees

E. Brooklyn Superbas

It's gonna be the Brewers, but I have to admit I had to look it up... The Chicago Orphans and Brooklyn Superbas just sounded way too made up to me...

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It's gonna be the Brewers, but I have to admit I had to look it up... The Chicago Orphans and Brooklyn Superbas just sounded way too made up to me...

It's actually the New York Yankees. There was a Milwaukee Brewers way back then, but no Yankees, according to this baseball trivia site I found that showed the standings.

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It's actually the New York Yankees. There was a Milwaukee Brewers way back then, but no Yankees, according to this baseball trivia site I found that showed the standings.

Most interesting! I did not know that... I looked up the NYY wiki and found this even more interesting:

One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1901 as the Baltimore Orioles, and moved to New York City in 1903, becoming known as the New York Highlanders before being officially renamed the "Yankees" in 1913

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Yankees

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This is pre-steroids, too....

In 1972, Steve Carlton was 27-10 with a 1.97 era. with 30 complete games, 346.1 innings pitched, and 310 K's!

Here's the kicker: The Phils that year were 59-97.

Lefty is one of the best pitchers of all time. One of my first real memories of Phillies baseball (along with Tug Mcgraw). Last NL pitcher to win 25 games or 300 innings in a season. He also mastered the balk......no one will ever break his record of 90. :)

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