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  1. roger_that
    Aw. A superstar in 1964. Had a year Bill James compared to a typical Roberto Clemente season. Which is slightly ironic, since JC was the rightfielder for the Pirates, subbing for Clemente, over whose head Joe Adcock hit his HR ruining Harvey Haddix's 13-inning perfect game.
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    Edgy MD wrote: has been below .300 since taking an ohfer on July 5, in a 2-1 win over Arizona, the middle game of a three game sweep of the Diamondbacks But what was the at-bat that did it? And were you aware of this disaster when it happened, or only now discovering it?
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    and the money shot (so to speak):
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    I guess Brian Ostrosser. Put me down for Ostrosser. Is Ostrosser the right answer? Is Ostrosser when Wright's BA dipped below .300? Did I say Ostrosser? Ostrosser! Thanks for reminding me. I got a letter from Brian Ostrosser a few months ago, when we'd been discussing here the post-season payments for 1973, so I asked him if he remembered how much he'd gotten. He sent me the actual letter he'd gotten, notifying him that he'd be getting $100 for his contribution. The entire list is fascinating--it starts out using players' very formal names (Frank E. McGraw, etc.) but ends up going with "Buzz" Capra, etc. which I don't think was on Capra's birth certificate or tax returns. They also got Willie Mays's middle initial wrong, and a bunch of other oddities, like paying some players a penny more than others. I'll try to reproduce it here if I can.
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    Edgy MD wrote: It was a big deal for Mantle fans — at least it's remembered as such. Strange that the in-the-moment coverage didn't note it. And a big deal for Mantle. I published a whole (long) article on players in danger of losing their .300 lifetime BAs, and in the course of writing it, I found that Mantle himself had a whole neurotic set of worries about what dipping below .300 said about him as a hitter and as a human being, which was sad, because in his final year, 1968, of batting .236 he was actually hitting above the AL average (and finished 3rd in the league in OBP). It wasn't Mantle who sucked as much as all AL batters, but he took that .236 average very personally. Kinda pathetic, really. I was wrong about Joey Votto, who I predicted in 2017 would surely keep his average over .300. He's retiring with a .294 average by dint of batting way below .300 for the past five years, something I didn't see coming. He was at .311 or something like that after the 2017 season--a huge drop.
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    OK, it was July 28, 2014. The Mets (Big Sexy) beat A.J. Burnett 7-1, but Wright took an ohfer. Burnett struck him out on his second at-bat, sliding his lifetime BA from a smidge over .2995 to .299496945742005 and it never again rose above .300. He was hitting better than his lifetime .301 average through April and May, but from May 29th on, he batted .245 so that was that.
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    =MFS62 post_id=138256 time=1695774063 user_id=60] Significant enough for us to remember?
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    I figured out the answer this afternoon--I like to do this, find the exact (often very late in career) moment a lifelong .300 batter's BA slipped finally and irrevocably under the .300 mark. I did this for Keith Hernandez, and Mickey Mantle, and it's a bit tedious, searching for the month, the week, the game, the at-bat that a BA went from .2995787485 (say) to .2994801049. Anyone care to guess before I show my work? For all I remember, this was a major news story, and lots of people know when it happened, but I can tell you that with Mantle, not only did no media source note the moment, but the NYTIMES didn't even carry the box score for that game.
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    The weird one, that I have to keep looking up periodically to remind myself it's true, is Strawberry's miserable first 40 games: .180 BA, .562 OPS, 51 K. And ended up with ROTY. Similar body type to Mauricio. On Edit: hadda change OBP to OPS--.562 OBP is great, .562 OPS sucks.
  10. roger_that
    Milledge: first 9 games, .300 BA, .667 SLG, 9 hits, 8 RBI in 32 plate appearances.
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    He's currently a better pitcher than half the Mets' staff.
  12. roger_that
    I haven't been this excited about a rookie callup since Lastings Milledge.
  13. roger_that
    Did Nimmo try to catch that ball between his ankles or somefin?
  14. roger_that
    Or the Jed Lowries, who never pop up at all.
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    Nimmo ties it up with his 20th HR. Maybe switch him and Lindor in the lineup? I read an article suggesting such a switch, and it seems like not a bad idea.
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    Bob Alpacadaca wrote: No one is ever wearing 5 or 8 again. This is exactly what I'm talking about. Not only retired numbers, but pre-retired numbers. Should the Mets be careful about assigning 48 again? 13? 15? Just to be safe, I mean.
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    =nymr83 post_id=136463 time=1693536717 user_id=54] As long as they don't give him #5.
  18. roger_that
    Who's your thunderbolt? Who's your Thor? Who's your daddy?
  19. roger_that
    Maybe they should just award the title to any pitcher who throws a 9 inning shutout. If two manage that feat, they can share the honor.
  20. roger_that
    Thank you for that insight. Pitchers last about 15 minutes between career-ending injuries, and MLB is breaking their own arms patting themselves on the back on the fantastic way they're protecting pitchers' arms. Crazy. Who the hell changed my avatar, btw? Looks nothing like me.
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    There's a book-length study to be done (I'd buy a copy) of pitchers' injuries and pitcher use over the past six or seven decades. Sometimes I think cutting back on innings, consecutive days' use, starts, multi-inning relief appearances, etc. is the biggest scam in MLB history. I mean, with all the care now taken, pitchers still get injured, right? Mets' pitchers in particular, but I'm sure every team has its horror stories. Yet we have gotten absurdly careful in avoiding all types of "over-use" injuries. Can you imagine, for example, what would happen to contemporary pitchers if they were subject to the standards that applied to 1950s eight-man pitching staffs? Every team would have every pitcher (except for Warren Spahn) on the IL all season long.
  22. roger_that
    What's the point? Put a few extra fannies in seats this September? Remind us of when we had a pitching staff? Demonstrate how the mighty have fallen? Show how desperate we are for pitching? Highlight our barren (of pitching) minor league system? Thank him for services rendered? What's the friggen point?
  23. roger_that
    Oh, hell, retire every number and be done with it.
  24. roger_that
    =whippoorwill post_id=136012 time=1693091709 user_id=79] I've never understood retiring numbers. There should be a way to honor players (ok Hall of Fame is good) without taking numbers out of circulation. Pictures on corridors, statues, what have you.
  25. roger_that
    Benjamin Grimm wrote: I think I read that the Dodgers had a manager who wore a suit. Maybe it was Burt Shotton when he replaced the suspended Leo Durocher? Yes. Kindly Old Burt Shotton had promised his wife (so the story goes) that he'd never wear a baseball uniform again, so when he accepted the Dodgers' offer to manage, he refused to wear a uni, as if that were actually keeping his promise.
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