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With the First Pick …

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Greetings everyone!

I’m your friendly neighborhood historian back with a new blog post regarding first year drafts. With the start of a new year, comes the excitement or disappointment of the first year draft.  Many within our league have noted the weakening drafts and I thought I would compile some data for all of the numbers’ freaks out there like me.

After conducting some data analysis on all of the first overall picks (there are 76 of them), I came up with some interesting tidbits of information that I thought I would share:

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I am… Iron Man!

Monday, February 16th, 2009

With the exception of a pulled groin muscle early in the 2011 campaign, Dusty Lockman has not missed a day of work in nine years. Perhaps, the WBH’s own version of Cal Ripken, Dusty is on several leaderboards throughout the hierarchy and there are many who believe that when all is said and done, Dusty will not only be bound for the Hall, but perhaps be the stick by which future generations will be measured.

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Swing, Swing, Swing Away!

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

Wikipedia defines a hitting streak as “the consecutive number of official games in which a player gets at least one base hit. According to the Official Baseball Rules, such a streak is ended when a player has at least 1 plate appearance and no hits. A streak shall not be terminated if the plate appearance results in a base on balls, hit by pitch, defensive interference or a sacrifice bunt. A sacrifice fly shall terminate the streak.”

Conversely, the OOTP sim engine recognizes a hitting streak, if and when it reaches twenty games or more. It should be further noted that only a hand few of players have reached this plateau. In a league where pitchers are valued more than hitters (sometimes beyond reason), it is incredibly ironic that “official” hitting streaks are actually more rare than no-hitters. In league history, to date, there have been 27 hitting streaks of 20 games or more.

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The Ever-Elusive No-No

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Consider the following list of men:
Yo Terada
Aquilino ”The Rat” Lobez
Luis Cardenas
Keishi Aoki
Jerry Bath
Juan “Ducky” Colinas
Chin “Missing Link” Chong
Jaime Costa
Fu-quan Su
Alfredo Coronilla

Now, contemplate what they have in common. The answer is simple really, this list of men is a small sample of men fortunate enough in their careers to do the unthinkable. These men, at one point in their careers, pitched no-hitters.

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