Homers and Streaks Stuff

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Homers and Streaks Stuff

Post by DOUGHBOYS » Wed Jul 11, 2018 9:57 am

This year's individual home runs are different than last year's.
Last year, Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge wowed fans and fantasy owners by seemingly hitting a homer or two a day.
They were the alpha dogs of home runs.
This year, home runs are running in a pack. There have been many different leaders in homers. Currently, JD Martinez leads baseball with 28 dingers.
15 other hitters have at least 20 homers.
53 players have 15 homers.
Max Muncy is the new Cody Bellinger with 21 homers.
The new Cody Bellinger has become the so-so Cody Bellinger with 17 homers.

Only 11 of the 53 batters with 15 homers are also hitting .300
That is ok though.
There are only 24 hitters that are hitting .300 period.
And that number is fading fast.
Only five of the 24 hitters that are hitting .300 have stolen 10 or more bases.

And only two players have hit 20 homers, stole 10 bases, and hit .300
We paid dearly for them.

Mike Trout- .314/68/25/50/14
Mookie Betts- .346/74/22/44/16

The media is so starved for 'streaks' that they now focus on 'on base streaks'.
In particular, Shin-Soo Choo's 48 games of reaching base.
When Ted Williams reached base 84 straight games, there was hardly a mention.
With today's methodology of all or nothing swinging. Hit streaks of any length are null and void.
So the media 'settles' for on base streaks.
Wonderful.

Baseball fans love streaks though. And it doesn't matter who the 'streakee' is.
In 1974, Rowland Office had a hitting streak.
Rowland Office is very unique anyways.
He is the only player in history to have the first name of Rowland.
He is the only player in history to have the last name of Office.
Office had a 29 game hitting streak.
In the 35 games before the streak, he hit .207
In the 35 games after the streak, he hit .220
He was out of baseball by the age of 27.

This year, no hitter has a hitting streak of 20 games.
Not a year has passed in this century without a player having a hitting streak of just 20 games.

Here's a few more streaks that do not or have not gotten much recognition....

Joe Sewell went 115 games without striking out....

Billy Hamilton, the good Billy Hamilton of 1894, scored runs in 24 straight games....

In 1947, Roy Cullenbine was way ahead of his time, at least sabrly thinking.
Roy drew a walk in 22 straight games.....

In today's spirit of streaks, Earl Averill was also ahead of his time.
In 1962, Averill reached base in 17 consecutive plate appearances. Only seven of those, were hits.
There were eight walks, an error, and fielders choice.....

Ichiro Suzuki had a 10 year streak with at least 200 hits.
During the last three years, only 10 hitters have reached 200 hits.
Not counting Jose Altuve, only seven players have reached 200 hits.
Altuve has a four year streak of 200 hits.
Altuve leads baseball in hits this year with 124.....

Joe Medwick, a triple crown hitter from 1937 and the last National Leaguer to top a league in Homers, rbi, and batting average, hit 40 doubles seven years in a row.
Those doubles did not turn into home runs.
Medwick finished his career with 205 home runs.
He hit 540 doubles..........
And just a note...
Medwick and Garrett Anderson are the only players to have hit 500 doubles and draw less than 500 walks during their careers.
During Choo's streak, he has hit 11 doubles....and walked 43 times....

I love this streak...
From August of 1931 to August of 1933, the New York Yankees were never shut out.
308 games.
Exactly two baseball seasons for a team with a 154 game schedule.
No team has come remotely close to that record.

In 1969, the New York Mets pitching staff (remember when the Mets had healthy pitchers?) did something unthinkable in today's game.
That staff went 23 games without allowing a home run.....

Thanks for the listen....
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Re: Homers and Streaks Stuff

Post by DOUGHBOYS » Wed Jul 11, 2018 1:44 pm

Just to add one little rant about streaks....

It is damned...no....DAMNED ABOMINABLE that Managers of modern day baseball are trying their best to help streaks along instead of managing their teams.
As if Kansas City doesn't have enough problems, they try to continue Alcides Escobar's consecutive game streak.
To what end?
Escobar SUCKS.
Escobar has SUCKED FOR YEARS.
Yet, here are the Royals trying to perpetuate a streak that never should have occurred.
Nonsense.

Today, Choo is sitting against Chris Sale. This is understandable.
Sale is a great lefty and Choo is a left handed hitter.
On a greater scale, Choo has sat out four of the last 11 games.
Before this streak, Choo had sat three times total in 82 games.
Now, games are seemingly being cherry picked for him.

I call these instances, 'Mets Syndrome'.
Remember when a bad Mets team would to go out of their way to get RA Dickey 20 wins and Jose Reyes a batting title by bunting for a hit, then leaving the game, secure in his one-for-one 'accomplishment?
The Royals and Rangers have nothing really to play for, so they go for individual 'achievements'.
Ted Williams had no idea he was making baseball history during his streak.
He just played every day and did his job.
His Manager had the easy task of slotting him third in the batting order, no matter the pitcher.
Now, it is ballyhooed and a player is given the best of circumstances to further a 'feat'.
Ugh.
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Re: Homers and Streaks Stuff

Post by JohnP » Thu Jul 12, 2018 6:06 pm

I couldn't pass up "Mets Syndrome".

Your team has 101 points on Week 4. At All Star Break you have 56. Met's Syndrome.
Your team has 8 guys on the DL. Met's Syndrome.
Your team has an ERA of 2.60 but has no wins in 3 weeks. Met's Syndrome.
The Rotoworld blurb about food poisoning turns into Tommy John surgery. Met's Syndrome.
Your home league commissioner somehow doesn't have the payout money at year end. Met's Syndrome.

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