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03/27/2005: "I Am A Proud Baseball Nerd"

I ordered the "Sabermetric Baseball Encyclopedia," and it came yesterday, so here's a taste of the kind of fun things I can crank out with it.

Members of the 20-20 Club Since World War II To Score at Least 110 Runs with fewer than 100 strikeouts and five or fewer times Caught Stealing
Willie Mays, 1959
Robin Young, 1980
Rafael Palmeiro, 1993
Chipper Jones, 1999
Derek Jeter, 2004

Taking away the caught stealings, Alfonso Soriano in 2002 is the only player in history to score 100 runs, hit 25 homers, steal 25 bases and hit 50 doubles in one season.

Replies: 4 Comments

on Sunday, March 27th @ 6:06 PM EST, HSpec said

Are these stats straight from the book, or your synthesis of the information given?

on Sunday, March 27th @ 11:09 PM EST, Jesse Spector said

It's not a book, it's a CD-ROM that you can use to sort out information. It's pretty cool.

on Sunday, March 27th @ 11:22 PM EST, HSpec said

Okay, I will rephrase my question:
Are these stats straight from the CD-ROM, your synthesis of the information given?

on Monday, March 28th @ 12:20 AM EST, Jesse Spector said

I guess it would be best to say synthesis of the information, since you have to tell it what information you want.