February 14, 2011
Today pitchers and catchers report (for most teams)
44 days until Opening Day
kthxbye trivia: Last year Edgar Renteria won the World Series MVP for the Giants; this year he’ll be playing for the Reds. In 2009 Hideki Matsui won the World Series MVP for the Yankees; the next year he played for the Angels. Three other players have won World Series MVP only to play for another team the following season. Who are they?
Say it ain’t so: On this day in 1916 the White Sox and the Indians finally complete a trade when a player to be named later from the previous season is shipped to Cleveland. The trade is full of guys you’ve never heard of except for one – Joe Jackson. Jackson had been sent to Chicago during the 1915 season. He would finish his MLB career with a .356 average and four 200-hit seasons. His career was of course cut short by being banned by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis for Jackson’s alleged role in the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Jackon’s stats in that World Series against the Reds beg to differ: he hit .375 (which lead the Series) with 12 hits (a record at the time), 6 RBI, and hit the only homer of the Series. Eight Men Outis not a bad film if you’re interested in that sort of thing.
This guy again? (it’s the Midwestern bias): Friday’s trivia question was about the active leader in at-bats per home run. Only one guy appears in the top 20 of that list and the top 20 of the list of active leaders of at-bats per strikeout: Mr. Pujols. He’s tied with strikeout machine Adam Dunn for third on the list of AB/HR at 14.05, and he’s twelfth on the AB/SO list at 8.87.
Today pitchers and catchers report (for most teams)
44 days until Opening Day
kthxbye trivia: Last year Edgar Renteria won the World Series MVP for the Giants; this year he’ll be playing for the Reds. In 2009 Hideki Matsui won the World Series MVP for the Yankees; the next year he played for the Angels. Three other players have won World Series MVP only to play for another team the following season. Who are they?
Say it ain’t so: On this day in 1916 the White Sox and the Indians finally complete a trade when a player to be named later from the previous season is shipped to Cleveland. The trade is full of guys you’ve never heard of except for one – Joe Jackson. Jackson had been sent to Chicago during the 1915 season. He would finish his MLB career with a .356 average and four 200-hit seasons. His career was of course cut short by being banned by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis for Jackson’s alleged role in the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Jackon’s stats in that World Series against the Reds beg to differ: he hit .375 (which lead the Series) with 12 hits (a record at the time), 6 RBI, and hit the only homer of the Series. Eight Men Outis not a bad film if you’re interested in that sort of thing.
This guy again? (it’s the Midwestern bias): Friday’s trivia question was about the active leader in at-bats per home run. Only one guy appears in the top 20 of that list and the top 20 of the list of active leaders of at-bats per strikeout: Mr. Pujols. He’s tied with strikeout machine Adam Dunn for third on the list of AB/HR at 14.05, and he’s twelfth on the AB/SO list at 8.87.
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| A Peach and a Shoeless guy Trivia answer: In 1996 John Wetteland won World Series MVP for the Yankees, then played for the Rangers in 1997; in 1991 Jack Morris won World Series MVP for the Twins, then played for the Blue Jays in 1992; in 1986 Ray Knight won World Series MVP for the Mets, then played for the Orioles in 1987. Morris is the only one to win the World Series with his new team. |
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