TCR Friday Notes (Sports Final Edition)
...for those that missed out on the West Coast scores.
- One of our wonderful readers, "Wolf at the Door" has been burning the midnight oil with all kinds of fancy charts and graphs over at the Wolf-Report. Fantastic stuff. His latest is a comparison of Japanese players making the transition to the majors, although he did forget one player....
- Tadahito Iguchi, who John Dewan points out had remarkably similar numbers to Fukudome in their age 29 seasons in Japan (that was two years ago for Fukudome). Iguchi's first season with the White Sox produced a 278/342/438 line with 15 HR's. That doesn't sound $12M worthy.
- Another Dewan factoid questioning the effectiveness of the Cubs seven-year run as NL strikeout kings.
- I was actually going to mention that same "Stat of the Day" that Cubnut did earlier, but more for the fact that Zambrano has the most plate appearances (84) for a .300 hitter or above without a hit by pitch or a walk in a season (in 2005). I also wanted to note the one about "The Most Average Batters of All Time". Bill Buckner leads the list of hitters with most career plate appearances and an OPS+ between 99 and 101.
- I thought this article was a fun read by Ken Arneson on "How to Defeat a Sabermetrician in an Argument".
- A few weeks back I put up a video of Hendry watching a Felix Pie home run. Here's the clip of the actual moonshot.
Enjoy the weekend....
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