Baseball Tangents: Recent Episodes
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Baseball Tangents is Jeff Hayward and Kyle Louis discussing the minutia of baseball, often through the lens of statistics, with the (more than) occasional rant about a related (or not) topic.
Baseball Tangents S2E3
Recently * Rizzo: Somebody start banging for me * Trevor Bauer Purposefully tipping his pitches * Trevor Bauer on pine tar and more
Center Fielders * Jackie Bradley * Alex Verdugo + Episode 1 of S2 featured a discussion of Alex Verdugo, I am not a time traveler as much as I wish I was. * Mike Trout * George Springer * Ronald Acuna Jr * Victor Robles
CF/SS * Kiké Hernández * Ketel Marte * Ketel Marte in 2019 * Scott Kingery
OPS+
More Center Fielders * Jason Heyward * Manuel Margot
Real or Not? * Burton Williamson or Bill Bruton (William) * SABR Bio * Career 26.1 WAR & OPS+ of 96 * 4th in ROY voting, Jim Gilliam )won that year, career 40.7 War)
| Year | League | Stolen Bases (rank) | | --- | --- | --- | | 1953 | NL | 26 (1st) | | 1954 | NL | 34 (1st) | | 1955 | NL | 25 (1st) |
In 1954 also led NL in CS!
| Year | League | Errors as CF (rank) | | --- | --- | --- | | 1953 | NL | 9 (2nd) | | 1954 | NL | 7 (3rd) | | 1955 | NL | 14 (1st) | | 1956 | NL | 13 (1st) | | 1957 | NL | 4 (4th) | | 1958 | NL | 5 (4th) | | 1960 | NL | 5 (4th) | | 1961 | AL | 5 (5th) | | 1962 | AL | 7 (1st) | | Career | 77 (28th) |
| Year | League | Putouts as CF (rank) | | --- | --- | --- | | 1953 | NL | 389 (4th) | | 1955 | NL | 382 (3rd) | | 1956 | NL | 395 (3rd) | | 1959 | NL | 297 (5th) | | 1960 | NL | 352 (3rd) | | 1961 | AL | 406 (1st) | | 1962 | AL | 396 (1st) | | 1963 | AL | 342 (2nd) | | Career | 3,808 (33rd) |
Bill Bruton’s Obscure Record - Most innings in a game without an opportunity
Box score from the record day
Further Reading from SABR
Fangraphs
“The Game” ✅ Cincinnati Reds RF
✅ Cincinnati Reds LF
✅ Colorado Rockies SS
✅ Ian Desmond
✅ Colorado Rockies 1B
Projected WAR for Rockies 1B is 0.4 (not 1.5 per Kyle's guess)
🚫 Baltimore Orioles SS
Bonus rambling: Nationals SS is not Avisaíl García
Boston SS: Xander Bogaerts
Phillies SS: Didi Gregorius
San Diego Padre OF/1B: Wil Myers
Azuza Pacific Draftees
Azuza Pacific University
Wayne Edwards or Ed Wayne
Mason Saunders
Duke Silver
Puig
2019 Pitching leaders
2009 Pitching Leaders
Hurricanes backup goalie story
Blackhawks backup goalie
“The Game” 🚫 Chicago White Sox RF 🚫 Detroit Tigers RF On a serious note ✅ Atlanta Braves RF Not the Braves RF
I Wouldn’t Bet(ts) Against Him
Current Happenings: Trades
Current Happenings: New Rules
https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-rule-changes-for-2020-season
http://m.mlb.com/glossary/idioms/three-true-outcomes
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lorenmi01.shtml
Micheal Lorenzen
Interesting and Unexpected
Madison Bumgarner
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/12/diamondbacks-nearing-agreement-with-madison-bumgarner.html
Stephen Vogt
Looking forward:
Angels @ dodgers 2/26
Bold Predictions:
Angels more likely to get to WS than Dodgers
Average weather 7/4 Phx
Average weather 7/4 Can
The Game
✅ Cincinnati Reds SS
🚫 Kansas City Royals SS
✅ Houston Astros CF
Houston Astros CF Sprint Speed Article
Sprint Speed Leaderboard
Effectively Wild
Tim Locastro
Cincinnati Reds C Real Player or Not?
Baseball Tangents Episode 9: A Robot That Swings a Club
- Rich Hill throws a beautiful curveball that people seem to like writing about
- Effectively Wild
- Mark Melancon vs Sam Dyson
- Sam Dyson is who Mark Melancon should have been this year
- Mark Melancon salary
Cincinnati Reds Catchers
- Devin Mesoraco doesn’t play much baseball these days
- Hip Labral Tear
- The Greatest Show on Turf
- Extension for Tucker Barnhart
- 2014 NL Catchers sorted by WAR (Baseball Reference subscription required)
- Scooter Gennett 4 Grand Slam season
Topic: NL Centerfielders
- Billy Hamilton is not good, but is playing again!
- Denard Span
- Looking at CF this year
Terrible Players in 2015
- Angel Pagan
- Andres Torres
- Pablo Sandoval
- Hanley Ramirez
- Drew Stubbs
- drew stubbs trade with indians and diamondbacks
- 1 good year choo
- terrible shin soo choo
Good Players and more
- Willie Mays
- T206 Honus Wagner
- Barry Bonds
- National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
- Roberto Clemente and his Baseball Reference Page
- Gaylord Perry 11 WAR Season 1972, but since 1969, there are actually 5 better pitcher seasons!
- 17 pitchers with season WAR > 10 since 1969
- Which Leaves You with 7 Seasons by 5 Total Players with 10 War or Greater
Post Show: Jeff tells a story with very little context
Baseball Tangents Episode 2: Joey Votto Appreciation Part 1 of __
A joey Votto rarity * Joey Votto * Votto Pop Up or struck by lightning, what’s more likely? * Mariano Rivera and his wearing #42 * Jackie Robinson Day * Cutter * all time career save leaders * Kimbrel * K-rod * Kenley Jansen * The Hidden Game Of Baseball * Save * Winning Pitcher - how to determine winning pitcher in baseball * Andrew miller WAR * Andrew miller post season stats * FIP * The Traditional Role of the Closer * The Flawed Importance of the Closer * Raisel Iglesias * Michael Lorenzen * batting average on 3rd time through order - info and more * Joey Votto Z-Rate vs Miguel Cabrera * Another Fun Joey Votto Article
Baseball Tangents Episode 1: Who is this Miguel and Where does he live?
- Giants chat
- Kerhsaw vs Giants for his career
- Kyle Hendricks (who actually did not win the) NL cy young 2016
- Scherzer lead league in HR allowed and SO
- Miguel Sano vs Max Scherzer
- Reds Chat
- Nortsiders of Chicago
- Cozart 5 HR in consecutive games at Wrigley
- Slugging Percentage (SLG)
- OBP
- OPS
- Joey Gallo
- My Cousin Vinny
- Kyle gets confused
- Trout Harper Machado (Needs Play Index access)
- Bryce Harper
- Mike Trout
- Manny Machado
- Chris Davis salary
- Orioles Salary cap 2016 2017
- Barry Sanders
- LA Angels team salary
- Scherzer Contract
- Giancarlo Stanton contract
- Stump kyle Game
- Rajai Davis (missed)
- Trevor Plouffe (missed)
- Mike Napoli (correct)
- Jarrod Dyson gets HBP (missed)
- Yonder Alonso
Episode 8: Not That Billy Hamilton 9 September 2017
pablo sandoval 0-38 streak
Justin Morneau vs Dustin Garneau
Streaks
craig counsell hitless streak
wikipeida article of streaks
Old Billy Hamilton
new billy hamilton
Major Lazer
Eric Davis
Consecutive batters without a strikeout record
Consecutive perfect innings
Yusmeiro Petit
indians win streak article/graphic
Moneyball (film)
04 mariners 116 wins
All time home run leaders
Sadaharu Oh or Barry Bonds (asterisk)
Darvish vs. Verlander
Playoff picture AL then NL
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