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Hank Aaron passes away at 86

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/braves-legend-hank-aaron-dies-age-86-according-former-city-official/JXDCLYDFFVHNPC2KRNX2KBKIEM/?outputType=amp

No stinking * after his totals.

755 is still it as far as I’m concerned.

Career RBI leader also.

Amazing thing is he never hit 50 in a year. Just consistently dinged 40 plus over the course of 25 years. Not to mention he’s a 25 time all star from ‘55-‘75. Every single year. Hats off to a fallen legend.

It appears the money GE spent for YE’s college education was well spent.

Ha funny. I didn’t realise that when I pulled the info from:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/aaronha01.shtml

Maybe it’s more noticeable because of COVID but the last 12 months has seen a huge number of deaths of bona fide legends.

Several pieces of my youth are breaking off and disappearing in the breeze.

Growing up in the 60’s, when we were playing ball and you were in the outfield, you were either Aaron, Mantle or Mays. Tony Oliva also of course, being with the Twins. I can quite clearly remember #715 off Al Downing of the Dodgers on Monday Night Baseball. The shadows of my own age grow longer as the heroes of my youth pass on.

Amazing thing is he never hit 50 in a year. Just consistently dinged 40 plus over the course of 25 years. Not to mention he’s a 25 time all star from ‘55-‘75. Every single year. Hats off to a fallen legend.

It appears the money GE spent for YE’s college education was well spent.

Ha funny. I didn’t realise that when I pulled the info from:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/aaronha01.shtml

I followed the link YE provided. From ’59-’62, they played two all-star games. That explains how Hammerin’ Hank got 25 appearances in 21 years.

Amazing thing is he never hit 50 in a year. Just consistently dinged 40 plus over the course of 25 years. Not to mention he’s a 25 time all star from ‘55-‘75. Every single year. Hats off to a fallen legend.

It appears the money GE spent for YE’s college education was well spent.

Apparently the same math was used to determine it’s ‘his’ cabin. :mrgreen:

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Arenado traded to St. Louis.

On Tweeter, Super 70s Sports declared that from 1997-2003, Pedro was the most dominant pitcher. I offered up Randy Johnson. Turned out, there is a lot of support for that argument. What say you?

Both were absolutely incredible, but I’d give the edge to Pedro because he did it in the AL where offenses are generally better (because they have the DH, and the NL continues to insist on 11% of their batting order being essentially an automatic out at least twice a game).

His 2000 season is maybe the best single season a pitcher has had in my (almost) 33 years of existence. 18-6 with a 1.74 ERA, 7 CG, 4 shutouts. He struck out 284 hitters and only allowed 170 to reach base safely (46 of them via walk/HBP). Those are like MVP Baseball on Rookie mode numbers.

5 times out of 7 years he lead the league in WHIP, and the two years he didn’t he had WHIP of 0.934 and 1.091. His WORST ERA in that stretch was 2.89 which is insane, especially factoring in where he pitched (Fenway and the other AL East bandbox Yankee Stadium) and the fact that that was essentially peak juicing time.

Johnson’s 1998 season before the trade was borderline poor (4.33 ERA in 20+ starts in Seattle) but he got traded to the NL and his numbers immediately went back to ungodly. To me, the most impressive thing about that time for Randy Johnson? He was 33 in 1997. He put up video game numbers for 6-7 years still.

On Tweeter, Super 70s Sports declared that from 1997-2003, Pedro was the most dominant pitcher. I offered up Randy Johnson. Turned out, there is a lot of support for that argument. What say you?

Both were absolutely incredible, but I’d give the edge to Pedro because he did it in the AL where offenses are generally better (because they have the DH, and the NL continues to insist on 11% of their batting order being essentially an automatic out at least twice a game).

His 2000 season is maybe the best single season a pitcher has had in my (almost) 33 years of existence. 18-6 with a 1.74 ERA, 7 CG, 4 shutouts. He struck out 284 hitters and only allowed 170 to reach base safely (46 of them via walk/HBP). Those are like MVP Baseball on Rookie mode numbers.

5 times out of 7 years he lead the league in WHIP, and the two years he didn’t he had WHIP of 0.934 and 1.091. His WORST ERA in that stretch was 2.89 which is insane, especially factoring in where he pitched (Fenway and the other AL East bandbox Yankee Stadium) and the fact that that was essentially peak juicing time.

Johnson’s 1998 season before the trade was borderline poor (4.33 ERA in 20+ starts in Seattle) but he got traded to the NL and his numbers immediately went back to ungodly. To me, the most impressive thing about that time for Randy Johnson? He was 33 in 1997. He put up video game numbers for 6-7 years still.

MVP Baseball 2005 was one of my favorite games of all time. I still have my old Xbox and play it occasionally!

I really discount ERA, because that also relies on your team. WHIP is the true ERA, IMO, and I’m generally anti-analytic. That is what is really driving my question here, to be honest.

Then Greg Maddux is your man.

Easily one of the most dominant pitchers of my adult lifetime.

I really discount ERA, because that also relies on your team. WHIP is the true ERA, IMO, and I’m generally anti-analytic. That is what is really driving my question here, to be honest.

Then Greg Maddux is your man.

Maddux’s career WHIP is 1.143 and a career 3.16 ERA

I just looked at his stats again. In 1995 he went 19-2 with a 1.63 ERA in 209.2 innings in 28 starts. He had 10 complete games and a .811 WHIP

That’s a ridiculous season

Detailed pitch count data only goes back to 1988 but during his career Maddux had 13 complete game shutouts where he threw under 100 pitches.

I really discount ERA, because that also relies on your team. WHIP is the true ERA, IMO, and I’m generally anti-analytic. That is what is really driving my question here, to be honest.

Then Greg Maddux is your man.

Maddux’s career WHIP is 1.143 and a career 3.16 ERA

I just looked at his stats again. In 1995 he went 19-2 with a 1.63 ERA in 209.2 innings in 28 starts. He had 10 complete games and a .811 WHIP

That’s a ridiculous season

He played a long time. He started young (20) and finished when he was 42. His numbers during his prime 1988-2002 were ridiculous. He didn’t walk people.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/maddugr01.shtml

Yeah – I wasn’t trying to refute your statement. The WHIP number is misleading because of his 23 years though because it’s 64th all time.

He was so much fun to watch in the 90s.

Maddux was so sick.

Pedro was very dominant, but it’s not a slam-dunk case of being MOST dominant.

Man that’s a lot of money for a pitcher that had a fantastic short season and a career 3.9 ERA

He’s not worth that money in the AL and may not be worth that money outside the NL Central either.

He’s a good pitcher but he’s a douche and, as stated before, has basically had about 12 very good months in his career.

He’s not worth that money in the AL and may not be worth that money outside the NL Central either.

He’s a good pitcher but he’s a douche and, as stated before, has basically had about 12 very good months in his career.

These contracts seem like self inflicted wounds for the owners, collectively. Has to make winning arbitration a bich. You’d think eventually they’ll set a cap.

Padres sign Fernando Tatis to a 14-year deal. To put that in perspective, by the time his contract ends, there will only be one year left on Bobby Bonilla’s contract with the Mets.

Former Twins all-star Brian Dozier announces his retirement

Only 33, a little on the young side.

https://www.twincities.com/2021/02/18/former-twins-all-star-brian-dozier-announces-his-retirement/

Padres sign Fernando Tatis to a 14-year deal. To put that in perspective, by the time his contract ends, there will only be one year left on Bobby Bonilla’s contract with the Mets.

I thought you were kidding. I looked it up and you’re not. Holy crap. Bonilla hasn’t played since 2001 and will get paid $1.19M every July 1st until 2035.

All this to avoid paying him $5.9M in 2001. :crazy:

Bobby Bonilla day is a meme for a reason. :lol:

Padres sign Fernando Tatis to a 14-year deal. To put that in perspective, by the time his contract ends, there will only be one year left on Bobby Bonilla’s contract with the Mets.

I thought you were kidding. I looked it up and you’re not. Holy crap. Bonilla hasn’t played since 2001 and will get paid $1.19M every July 1st until 2035.

All this to avoid paying him $5.9M in 2001. :crazy:

As Steve said, Bobby Bonilla Day is a thing.

Honestly, I think it surpasses it. Vikes have moved on, Mets haven’t.

Honestly, I think it surpasses it. Vikes have moved on, Mets haven’t.

It’s not like 1.2 million a year is crippling them. They got a trip to the World Series on the back of a pitcher they signed with money they didn’t pay Bonilla.

Padres sign Fernando Tatis to a 14-year deal. To put that in perspective, by the time his contract ends, there will only be one year left on Bobby Bonilla’s contract with the Mets.

I thought you were kidding. I looked it up and you’re not. Holy crap. Bonilla hasn’t played since 2001 and will get paid $1.19M every July 1st until 2035.

All this to avoid paying him $5.9M in 2001. :crazy:

As Steve said, Bobby Bonilla Day is a thing.

I am admittedly not up to date on memes. I likely have seen Bonilla related memes and moved along because I wasn’t aware of the contract.

It approaches the Hershel Walker trade for stupidity.

Speaking of Tatis and dumb trades, go check out what the White Sox got for him. :lol:

Ooof. That is bad.

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Slide, Miggy, slide!

https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1377675305180147719

MLB to move All Star game out of Atlanta.

I made some banana pancakes for breakfast today. So good.

Dude! Breaking from the banana theme but just I made some deviled eggs with sriracha and pickle juice (amongst other things) in the yolk…phenomenal.

Allstar game moved to Coors Field

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31200573/coors-field-expected-host-2021-mlb-all-star-game-sources-say

Interesting topic/discussion in these two tweets about the state of the game with regards to strikeouts etc.

https://twitter.com/HagemanParker/status/1379439644685795328?s=19

I wouldn’t have been able to cite the statistics, but as a lifetime fan of major league baseball I know that mid 90s fastballs were a rarity in the game – which made pitchers at the time like Gibson, Gossage, Ryan et. al. so unique. Now those same pitchers are the guys who tickle 100 mph. (Ryan was a freak even by today’s standards.)

There may be a time in that it’s necessary to move the mound back 6″ or lower it slightly, which is probably more likely.

It has.

That likely has to do with the increased power of pitchers and offenses focus on OPS. The BABIP has largely been static (between .291 and .297) since 2010. But with power numbers going up (both hitting and pitching), the balls in play are more frequently going for extra bases or over the fence. The HR/Fly ball percentage has gone up year over year since 2015 as pitch velo has jumped up and guys are focusing more on hitting it hard rather than making contact (ground ball percentage is down, too).

Padres get their first no-hitter in franchise history. Yeah.

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