Baseball Fun Facts '26

[Frayed Knot]

In Babe Ruth's 60 HR season he faced 64 different pitchers.

Cal Raleigh faced 303.

[Edgy MD]

Thanks to Raleigh, Ruth also faced fewer throat irritants.

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[whippoorwill]

In Babe Ruth's 60 HR season he faced 64 different pitchers.

Cal Raleigh faced 303.

 

It would be an interesting research project to see how many pitchers were rostered that year

[Frayed Knot]

In Babe Ruth's 60 HR season he faced 64 different pitchers.

Cal Raleigh faced 303.

 

It would be an interesting research project to see how many pitchers were rostered that year

 

Philadelphia Athletics used 15 pitchers in 1927

Washington Nationals = 16

Detroit Tigers = 14

Chicago White Sox = 10 (to pitch 153 games/1,367 innings!!)

Cleveland Indians = 15

St Louis Browns = 14

Boston Red Sox = 14

So that's only 98 pitchers that Ruth could have possibly faced that year.

The 2025 Mets used 46

[whippoorwill]

The 2025 Mets used 46

 

Most of them shouldn’t have been there

[Frayed Knot]

The 2025 Mets used 46

 

Most of them shouldn’t have been there

 

Well, if the of the pitchers who should have been there actually were there then a chunk of those 46 wouldn't have been needed.

btw, of those 64 pitchers that Babe faced back 99 seasons ago, he homered off of more than half of them (33).

Obviously that means he took various guys deep multiple times with two poor souls leading the parade at four taters served up each.

Boston wound up being the team victimized most often (11) that year ... because of course they were.

Final note: one thing I noticed in flipping through the box scores for the Yanx in that '27 season is that they just bludgeoned opponents on a daily basis.

110-41 (and one tie) was their record for the year (plus 4-0 in the WS) and a 975 to 599 RS/RA gap, or right about a 1.63/1 ratio.

They were more than 200 runs scored better than lg avg and 131 ahead of the second place club.

In runs allowed they were 157 below the lg avg and let up 103 fewer than the runner up.

If that kind of dominance has been bettered over an entire season by anyone in any year in MLB I'd be very surprised.

[MFS62]

I had heard that in that 1927 season, Ruth outhomered every other TEAM.

Did your research verify that?

Later

[Edgy MD]

In runs allowed they were 157 below the lg avg and let up 103 fewer than the runner up.

 

That's amazing for a club that was known for (more like defined by) their offense. Urban Shocker and Waite Hoyt apparently were more than just a pair of cool names.

[Frayed Knot]

I had heard that in that 1927 season, Ruth outhomered every other TEAM.

Did your research verify that?

 

Yup! And probably a couple other seasons in the early '20s as well.

NYY = 158 (Ruth + Gehrig = 107)

PHA = 56

SLB = 55

DET = 51

CHW = 36

WAS = 29

BOS = 28

CLE = 26

This means that the NYY other than Ruth & Gehrig out-homered more than half of their opponents.

Also: Cleveland all year = 26; Ruth in September = 17

In the NL, the Giants (109), Cards (84), and Cubs (74) out-HR'd G.H.R. that year.