Let’s see if I can come up with a post every day of the rest of the offseason. Today, there are 39 days left until Opening Day on April 6. 39 is the number of times Royals batters were hit by pitches in 2011. That was…not good. Only four teams got plunked fewer times – …
Tag Archive: stats
Feb 19
Opening Day Countdown: 47
Let’s see if I can come up with a post every day of the rest of the offseason. Today, there are 47 days left until Opening Day on April 6. 47 is the number of doubles Jeff Francoeur hit in 2011. That’s his highest total of doubles in a season, despite the fact that he …
Oct 12
Re: Will Carroll and stat geeks
I knew I wanted to respond to Will Carroll’s grumpy tirade against number-crunching baseball geeks. But first, I had to watch Jeopardy. Because I’m a nerd, I like to keep a tally of my correct answers and figure out how much money I could’ve won if I had been the one on the Jeopardy set. …