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Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 3:47pm

Which NL franchises did the Cubs have the best and worst records against from 2000-2009? Click on the links or check after the jump.

Best: .590% - Cubs lose the season series just twice in 2000 and 2006.

Worst: .403% - Cubs win the season series just twice in 2003 and 2008.

Complete list and other decade trivia after the jump.

Pittsburgh Pirates: 95-66 (.590%)

Colorado Rockies: 37-28 (.569%)

Milwaukee Brewers: 84-76 (.525%)

Cincinnati Reds: 84-78(.519%)

San Francisco Giants 32-30 (.516%)

Houston Astros 83-80 (.509%)

Washington Nationals/Montreal Expos: 33-32 (.508%)

St. Louis Cardinals: 81-85 (.488%)

New York Mets: 30-32 (.484%)

Los Angeles Dodgers: 31-36 (.463%)

Florida Marlins: 30-36 (.455%)

San Diego Padres: 31-39 (.443%)

Atlanta Braves: 28-40 (.412%)

Philadelphia Phillies: 27-39 (.409%)

Arizona Diamondbacks: 27-40 (.403%)

733-737 (.499%) overall for the Cubs

Here are the Cubs that led in individual categories from 2000-2009. You can click on the link for the full leaderboard or skip to the bottom for the answers.

1. Cubs 2000's HR Leader: 238 link

2. Cubs 2000's Hits Leader: 961 link

3. Cubs 2000's SB Leader: 86 link

4. Cubs 2000's RBI Leader: 630 link

5. Cubs 2000's BB Leader: 428 link

6. Cubs 2000's GIDP: 93 link

7. Cubs 2000's Most Outs: 2342 link

8. Cubs 2000's OPS Leader(at least 1200 PA's): 1.002 link

9. Cubs 2000's OPS+ Leader(at least 1200 PA's): 156 link

10. Cubs 2000's Lowest OPS Leader(at least 600 PA's): .639 link

11. Cubs 2000's Lowest OPS+ Leader(at least 600 PA's): 62 link

12. Cubs 2000's Win Leader: 105 link

13. Cubs 2000's ERA Leader (at least 350 IP): 3.51 link

14. Cubs 2000's ERA+ Leader (at least 350 IP): 127 link

15. Cubs 2000's WHIP Leader (at least 350 IP): 1.145 link

16. Cubs 2000's Worst ERA+ Leader (at least 200 IP): 87 link

17. Cubs 2000's Saves Leader: 87 link

18. Cubs 2000's K Leader: 1324 link 

19. Cubs 2000's Games Pitched Leader: 316 link

 

 

 

 

1. Sammy Sosa

2. Aramis Ramirez

3. Corey Patterson

4. Aramis Ramirez

5. Sammy Sosa

6. Aramis Ramirez

7. Aramis Ramirez

8. Sammy Sosa

9. Sammy Sosa

10. Ronny Cedeno

11. Ronny Cedeno

12. Carlos Zambrano

13. Mark Prior

14. Carlos Zambrano

15. Ted Lilly

16. Jason Bere

17. Ryan Dempster

18. Carlos Zambrano

19. Kyle Farnsworth

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#1 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 4:06pm.

"Arizona Diamondbacks: 27-40 (.408%)"

-snicker- -laugh-

did we lose any important games to them? hehe...

#2 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 4:09pm.

actually that doesn't include the playoffs...

#3 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by GO CUBBIES on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 4:15pm.

Rob,
FYI, you have worst win % at .403 at the beginning of the post and .408 at the end. Unless I am misunderstanding something. which is definitely possible.

#4 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 4:18pm.

you obviously don't understand satire.

#5 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 4:22pm.

typo...

.403%

if you include the playoffs

.452% against Marlins
.443% against Dodgers
.425% against Braves
.386% against Dbacks

at least they did well against the NL Central

#6 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 4:24pm.

oh noz! the "mark grace curse" (tm)...he's a lot more entertaining than a stupid goat or a black cat.

#7 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 5:15pm.

wow.

mitch williams on MLB Network with a bit of personal info...

because of the way he fell off the mound on his follow-through he claims (seriously) to have never actually completed a play at 1st for an out, but he did get his most serious knee injury attempting to cover 1st on a play.

-edit-

the Carb. WS has been pretty damn awesome, though the winner is pretty much DR. last night's VEN/DR game was won by 1 run on a steal of home in the bottom 7th. today's game with DR/PR has been pretty awesome. VEN/MEX tonight...

#8 Cubs Opener

Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 4:50pm.

http://twitter.com/CarrieMuskat/statuses/8689...

Muskat believes opener will be on ESPN as well as WCIU

#9 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 5:13pm.

i love her twitter background for a sportswriter.

#14 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by Ryno on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 9:45pm.

That would piss me straight the fuck off if I can't watch the season opener. I'm writing my fucking congressman.

#27 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by Paul Noce on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 12:42pm.

Don't write Senator Shelby, he'll put a hold on any Cubs games from airing.

#15 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by Charlie on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 9:56pm.

Sadly, I don't get ESPN. God my cable provider sucks.

#16 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by The Real Neal on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 10:08pm.

Huh?

#17 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by navigator on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 10:21pm.

Chances are it will be carried on espn360.com where I'm watching the Lakers Nuggets game right now.

#20 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by Little Nate Lewis on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 9:57am.

What cable provider doesn't carry ESPN??

#23 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by Charlie on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 10:52am.

It's really more a matter of me being broke [read: cheap] and only going for the "limited basic" plan. What's actually strange about it is that I get only 20 channels and one of them is WGN (even though I'm in Florida) but I don't get ESPN or ESPN2 (although I do get the SPEED network, so I can watch drag racing 24/7 if I wan't to). It's really a much better deal for me as a Cubs fan than if I got ESPN but not WGN.

#24 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by John Beasley on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 11:03am.

You must have Bright House. I'm on the same cable plan. The difference between you and I: here in Indiana, I'm blacked out of Cubs (and White Sox and Reds) games on MLB.tv as well, even though none of them are on locally.

F MLB.

#26 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by artskoe on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 11:12am.

MLB.TV usually carries the 1st 3-4 games as a preview. Unless it's black out, you can watch it on your 'puter.

#10 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by John Beasley on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 6:26pm.

I would've bet a lot that it was the Phillies for lowest win %. We've been horrible against them, especially in Philly, and especially in the new park. Makes me not want to go there to see a game knowing there's an 80 percent chance the Cubs will lose.

#11 Re: Wrigley Renovations

Submitted by QuietMan on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 6:52pm.

Bruce Levine talks about some changes at Wrigley:

http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/cubs/post/_/i...

#13 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 6:59pm.

wow.

if they manage to do it up right they might get another 20-50+ years of life out of that old building. hope it works.

#18 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by jacos on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 7:26am.

"The Cubs also have hired a new nutritionist to help with healthier meals during the 81 home dates. "

Why do I picture, until now, that Yosh Kowano and his replacement were making pasta, pbnj sandwiches and laying bags of chip-a-hoys for the players?

#12 Cubs response to WSox

Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 6:58pm.

http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/cubs/post/_/i...

"This is not our issue," Cubs president Crane Kenney said. "This is an issue for the state of Arizona to represent."

#19 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by tbone on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 9:29am.

The list makes the mission at hand for the Cubs crystal clear:

Find a way to play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the post season.

#28 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by The Joe on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 12:57pm.

Excellent idea. How about trading all of our good players to the Pirates. Then we're guaranteed a playoff matchup, right? Of course, in this scenario, we'll be keeping Soriano.

#30 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by Charlie on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 1:02pm.

I for one look forward to an Aramis Ramirez for Ronny Cedeno swap.

#21 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by Cubster on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 10:00am.

BP's C. Karhl regular 'Transaction Analysis' has this on "wildman" Carlos Marmol...

With that, the Wild Man's back...Carlos Marmol, who plunked 12 batters to achieve a bruising pace of 3.58 percent of the men who stepped in against him. Historically, that's incredible, because if you look at the list of people in the database with higher rates, none of them pitched as many as 50 innings, so they had fewer opportunities to bury people at the plate. Cutting the figure to 60 IP...

and here's your top 10:

Rk Blackguard IP HBP Plunk Percentage
1 Carlos Marmol, '09 74 12 3.582%
2 Jerry Spradlin '99 61 10 3.497%
3 Bob Wells '01 68.2 10 3.344%
4 Esteban Yan '99 61 9 3.147%
5 Brian Fuentes '05 74.1 10 3.115%
6t Jerome Williams '04 129.1 17 3.041%
6t Geoff Geary '07 67.1 9 3.041%
8 Chan Ho Park '04 95.2 13 3.037%
9 Charlie Hough '75 61 8 3.030%
10 Ken McBride '64 116.1 16 3.002%

...It's an interesting coincidence that Larry Rothschild managed the Devil Rays team that had Yan on it, and was Marmol's pitching coach.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php...

#22 Re: Cubs 2000's Decade Trivia

Submitted by MikeC on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 10:29am.

My guess is none of those pitchers strikeout as many batters as Marmol or give up less hits than he does.

Its a tightrope Marmol is walking, but atleast he is on the good end of the spectrum. I would rather work with a player that gives up less hits, strikes out alot of batters and has a problem with walks than trying to teach a player how to give up less hits and strikeout more batters.

The 2 things Marmol has in spades you can't teach, you can work with him in reducing his walks but you can't magically transform a Kevin Gregg type pitcher into a strikeout machine like Marmol.

#25 Estes gets minor deal from Gnats

Submitted by John Beasley on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 11:07am.

I can't believe Shawn Estes is still hanging around. He looked done in 2003.

http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/news/arti...

#29 FA Frenzy update

Submitted by Rob G. on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 1:01pm.

3 people got Bedard to Seattle

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AjMn...

E-man 18 (2 correct)
Bryan 15 (2 correct)
Michael Connors 15 (1 correct)
Jim Hickman's Bat 14 (1 correct)
Rob G. 13 (2 correct)
JD too 13 (1 correct)
big lowitzki 12 (1 correct)
Sweet Lou 12 (1 correct)
Dusty Baylor 11 (1 correct)
the stick 10 (1 correct)
Dr. Aaron B 4 (1 correct)
twcoffee 2 (1 correct)
Ahone Ahtwo Ahtree 2 (1 correct)
H Vaughn 1 (1 correct)

Damon, Dye and Branyan left

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