Interesting baseball stats

[Bob_Loblaw]

Most of these came into my feed on youtube but I thought they were interesting.

• Greg Maddux faced 20,421 batters in his life time. Only 310 ever saw a 3-0 count. Of that 310, 177 were intentional walks.
• Not counting batters who were intentionally walked, Greg Maddux faced 8,025 batters during the 1995-2003 seasons. Total pitches to those batters called balls? 8,006.
• Tony Gwynn faced Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux, Pedro Martinez and Jon Smoltz a combined 330 times. Combined, they struck him out 3 times.
• Including postseason play, Gwynn faced 18 Hall of Fame pitchers for a total of 541 plate appearances. That’s essentially a full season’s worth of plate appearances exclusively against Hall of Famers. Gwynn batted .331.
• Tony Gwynn has a career .302 batting average with two strikes (highest in modern era). Wade Boggs comes in second with .267.
• In his 20 year career, Gwynn struck out 414 times (~22 per season), there are currently (5/14/2025), 225 guys who have struck out more than 21 times this season.
• In 2004 Bonds reached base 376 times with only 373 AB.
• Also in 2004 120 IBBs was more than whole AL (106) that year
• He had 688 career IBB, more than Rays franchise since 1998(27 years).
• If you played every single game in a season and went 2-5 with a single and homer every single game, you would bat .400, set the single season records for hits, homers and slugging percentage, probably set the RBI and runs scored records, and still have a lower OPS than Barry Bonds did in 2004.
• Rickey Henderson has a lot of crazy stats. Here’s one of them: on 7/29/89 Henderson went 0 for 0 with five stolen bases and four runs scored in a game against the Mariners.
• This one is simple, but Ricky had over 1400 stolen bases. That's 70 per year for 20 years.
• Henderson reached base safely in 85% of the games he played and scored at least one run in 54% of those games.

 

[GophersInIowa]

Love stuff like this. Some others I've come across:

- Rickey Henderson spent more of his career as the all time steals leader than not.
- Stan Musial had 1,815 career hits at home and 1,815 career hits on the road.
- Don Mattingly had 6 career grand slams. They all occurred in the same season: 1987.
- Eric Bruntlett once committed 2 errors in the 9th inning of game. Then completed an unassisted triple play in the same inning to make up for it.
- At his time of retirement in 2012, Jamie Moyer had faced 8.9% of all batters to ever play in MLB. Also, there have only been two players in MLB history with the last name Moyer: Ed & Jamie. Jamie was born on 11/18/1962, the same day Ed died.
- Bob Gibson has more career complete games (255) than wins (251).
- Ernie Shore once pitched a combined no hitter with Babe Ruth back in 1917. Ruth was the starting pitcher, walked the first guy, got mad at the ump, got ejected and then punched the ump. Shore finished the game without allowing a single base runner the rest of the way.
- If you take away all of Hank Aaron's home runs, he'd still have 3,000 career hits.
- Khris Davis had a .247 batting average 4 seasons in a row.
- Ichiro collected his 3rd MLB hit in his 10th at-bat and never saw his career BA dip below .300 after that.
- Only one time in MLB history has there been two immaculate innings on the same day by any team. It happened in 2021 by the same team (Astros) against the same 3 hitters both times (Rangers).
- Sammy Sosa is the only player to ever hit 60+ home runs in 3 different seasons. He never led the league in HR in those seasons. However he did lead the league in HR in 2 other seasons.
- Since 1918, the White Sox have won a grand total of 3 playoff series. All 3 occurred in 2005 when they won the WS.
- Jeremy Hermida is the only player in history to hit a grand slam in his first MLB at-bat as a pinch hitter.
- Ron Hunt was hit by a pitch in about 4% of his career PA. In 1971 he was plunked 50 times.
- In 1986, Bert Blyleven gave up a record 50 home runs. Jesse Barfield led the league with hitting 40 HR. There has never been that large of a gap (10) between the pitcher that gave up the most and the player that hit the most.
- Cecil and Prince Fielder ended their careers with the same number of home runs, 319.
- If you were to guess who had the most hits in the 90's, many would probably say Boggs or Gwynn. It was actually Mark Grace. Palmeiro was 2nd.

 

[Gophers1992]

Love stuff like this. Some others I've come across:

- Rickey Henderson spent more of his career as the all time steals leader than not.
- Stan Musial had 1,815 career hits at home and 1,815 career hits on the road.
- Don Mattingly had 6 career grand slams. They all occurred in the same season: 1987.
- Eric Bruntlett once committed 2 errors in the 9th inning of game. Then completed an unassisted triple play in the same inning to make up for it.
- At his time of retirement in 2012, Jamie Moyer had faced 8.9% of all batters to ever play in MLB. Also, there have only been two players in MLB history with the last name Moyer: Ed & Jamie. Jamie was born on 11/18/1962, the same day Ed died.
- Bob Gibson has more career complete games (255) than wins (251).
- Ernie Shore once pitched a combined no hitter with Babe Ruth back in 1917. Ruth was the starting pitcher, walked the first guy, got mad at the ump, got ejected and then punched the ump. Shore finished the game without allowing a single base runner the rest of the way.
- If you take away all of Hank Aaron's home runs, he'd still have 3,000 career hits.
- Khris Davis had a .247 batting average 4 seasons in a row.
- Ichiro collected his 3rd MLB hit in his 10th at-bat and never saw his career BA dip below .300 after that.
- Only one time in MLB history has there been two immaculate innings on the same day by any team. It happened in 2021 by the same team (Astros) against the same 3 hitters both times (Rangers).
- Sammy Sosa is the only player to ever hit 60+ home runs in 3 different seasons. He never led the league in HR in those seasons. However he did lead the league in HR in 2 other seasons.
- Since 1918, the White Sox have won a grand total of 3 playoff series. All 3 occurred in 2005 when they won the WS.
- Jeremy Hermida is the only player in history to hit a grand slam in his first MLB at-bat as a pinch hitter.
- Ron Hunt was hit by a pitch in about 4% of his career PA. In 1971 he was plunked 50 times.
- In 1986, Bert Blyleven gave up a record 50 home runs. Jesse Barfield led the league with hitting 40 HR. There has never been that large of a gap (10) between the pitcher that gave up the most and the player that hit the most.
- Cecil and Prince Fielder ended their careers with the same number of home runs, 319.
- If you were to guess who had the most hits in the 90's, many would probably say Boggs or Gwynn. It was actually Mark Grace. Palmeiro was 2nd.

Awesome stuff. Your last one made me look up Mark Grace’s BBR page and I never knew he was originally a Twins draft pick, but didn’t sign with the team and was drafted by the cubs the next year.

 

[GophersInIowa]

Awesome stuff. Your last one made me look up Mark Grace’s BBR page and I never knew he was originally a Twins draft pick, but didn’t sign with the team and was drafted by the cubs the next year.

I did not realize the Twins originally drafted Grace. Some other notable guys the Twins drafted but didn't sign: Tim Belcher (1st overall pick, ouch), George Springer, JD Martinez, Steve Garvey, Jason Varitek, Al Hrabosky.

 

[Ope3]

Per Twins Radio, the Chicago White Sox have not accomplished a 3 Game Series Sweep on the Road since July 1-3, 2022.

They knocked off the Reds this week in the first 2 games. They will need to rally to bust the streak today as they trail Cincinnati 7-1 in the Bottom of the 8th.

Rematch of the 1919 World Series which has gotten some run this week due to a Manfred decree of reinstating the Black Sox.

 

[Ope3]

Per Twins Radio, the Chicago White Sox have not accomplished a 3 Game Series Sweep on the Road since July 1-3, 2022.

They knocked off the Reds this week in the first 2 games. They will need to rally to bust the streak today as they trail Cincinnati 7-1 in the Bottom of the 8th.

The Sox could not mount a comeback. The streak lives.

 

[atsgopher]

The Sox could not mount a comeback. The streak lives.

Hopefully it’s the curse of the Black Sox!

They tarnished our game. Landis’ punishment kept the curse off; now it is back!

 

[GophersInIowa]

A few others:

- Brothers Justin and BJ Upton hit their 99th career home runs on the same day on July 20, 2012. A couple weeks later they also hit their 100th career home runs on the same day; August 3rd.
- Johnny Damon had as many career hits as Ted Williams: 2,654
- In MLB history, there has only been two games where a pitcher went exactly 2.1 innings, allowed exactly 12 baserunners and surrendered exactly 11 earned runs. Both times it was done by Tanner Houck and both occurred this season.

 

[BleedGopher]

So many amazing stats in this thread. My favorite crazy MLB stat:

St. Paul natives, Gopher legends, Blue Jay world series champs and Twins legends Dave Winfield and Paul Molitor each got hit #3,000 on the same day, three years a part, both with the Twins.

Winfield's 3,000th hit came on September 16, 1993.

Molitor's 3,000th hit came on September 16, 1996. Molitor was the first ever in MLB history to get a triple as hit #3,000.

Go Gophers!!

 

[GophersInIowa]

Mike Piazza had just 8 career triples, but he had at least 1 for all 5 teams he played for including the Marlins which he only played 5 games for.

Some Nolan Ryan facts:
- He pitched under 7 US presidents
- He played 3 seasons before the Apollo 11 moon landing and 2 after the fall of the Soviet Union.
- Threw no-hitters for 3 different teams
- He struck out 7 father-son pairs

Old Hoss Radbourn of the Providence Grays won 60 games in 1884. He pitched 678.2 innings and had just a 1.38 ERA.

 

[BleedGopher]

Mike Piazza had just 8 career triples, but he had at least 1 for all 5 teams he played for including the Marlins which he only played 5 games for.

Some Nolan Ryan facts:
- He pitched under 7 US presidents
- He played 3 seasons before the Apollo 11 moon landing and 2 after the fall of the Soviet Union.
- Threw no-hitters for 3 different teams
- He struck out 7 father-son pairs

Old Hoss Radbourn of the Providence Grays won 60 games in 1884. He pitched 678.2 innings and had just a 1.38 ERA.

Apparently advanced stats nerds hadn't analyzed Old Hoss' data!

Go Old Hoss Radbourn!!

 

[Bob_Loblaw]

• Tom Brady was the last active professional athlete drafted by the Expos.

• There are 2 different unrelated 6-foot-4 red-headed and bearded minor league pitchers with glasses that have had Tommy John surgery named Brady Feigl

• Bob Gibson had more complete games (255) than wins (251).

• After Ichiro's 10th at bat, his career batting average never dipped below .300.

• There were two unassisted triple plays in less than 24 hours back in 1927, then none for another 41 years.

• Fernando Tatis hit two grand slams in 1 inning, off the same pitcher.

• Marwin Gonzalez’s first 25 MLB home runs were all solo.

• Luis Castillo hit .314 w/ a 4.4 WAR, and got MVP votes with FLA in 2003 with near 700 PA’s. He only had 39 RBI’s.

• Raul Mondesi had 5,814 at bats and never played in a World Series. His son’s first at-bat was in the World Series.

• In Mariano Rivera's rookie season, he had 52 IP and 1 ER.

 

[Gophers1992]

• Tom Brady was the last active professional athlete drafted by the Expos.

• There are 2 different unrelated 6-foot-4 red-headed and bearded minor league pitchers with glasses that have had Tommy John surgery named Brady Feigl

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• Bob Gibson had more complete games (255) than wins (251).

• After Ichiro's 10th at bat, his career batting average never dipped below .300.

• There were two unassisted triple plays in less than 24 hours back in 1927, then none for another 41 years.

• Fernando Tatis hit two grand slams in 1 inning, off the same pitcher.

• Marwin Gonzalez’s first 25 MLB home runs were all solo.

• Luis Castillo hit .314 w/ a 4.4 WAR, and got MVP votes with FLA in 2003 with near 700 PA’s. He only had 39 RBI’s.

• Raul Mondesi had 5,814 at bats and never played in a World Series. His son’s first at-bat was in the World Series.

• In Mariano Rivera's rookie season, he had 52 IP and 1 ER.

As a charter member of the "RBIs are a terrible way to evaluate players" club, this one makes me smile.