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Hitting Homers To Power Outages Overnight

21 January 2010, 2:23 pm

Apparently Bryant Gumble and doesn’t know how to look up a player in baseball-reference. Well he shouldn’t worry about that because I’ll do it for him:

Jeff Bagwell

Year
Age
Tm
Lg
G
PA
HR
SLG
OPS

1991
23
HOU
NL
156
650
15
.437
.824

1992
24
HOU
NL
162
697
18
.444
.812

1993
25
HOU
NL
142
609
20
.516
.903

1994
26
HOU
NL
110
479
39
.750
1.201

1995
27
HOU
NL
114
539
21
.496
.894

1996
28
HOU
NL
162
719
31
.570
1.021

1997
29
HOU
NL
162
717
43
.592
1.017

1998
30
HOU
NL
147
661
34
.557
.981

1999
31
HOU
NL
162
729
42
.591
1.045

2000
32
HOU
NL
159
719
47
.615
1.039

2001
33
HOU
NL
161
717
39
.568
.966

2002
34
HOU
NL
158
691
31
.518
.919

2003
35
HOU
NL
160
702
39
.524
.897

2004
36
HOU
NL
156
679
27
.465
.842

2005
37
HOU
NL
39
123
3
.380
.738

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 1/21/2010.

That sure doesn’t look like Bagwell went from hitting homers to a power outage overnight to my untrained eye.  Forgetting the arthritis condition [...]

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The Worst 2010 Hall of Fame Ballots I Found

8 January 2010, 10:46 am

Because I keep a nerdy spreadsheet tracking all the ballots I find, I’m able to look back and be irritated at some of the worst Baseball Hall of Fame ballots instead of forgetting about them. I consider this a positive because it reminds me of whose opinions I should not care about later on in [...]

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2010 Baseball Hall of Fame Results With Ugly Graphs (Updated!)

6 January 2010, 4:43 pm

Update 1/8 Graphs now not ugly. Thank you, Microsoft Excel 2007 you are much better than 2003.
For my own crazy purposes, I keep track of the Hall of Fame ballots that are made public by writers every year. You can see the crazy nerdsheet here.
This year, the shocking thing that happened was the difference between [...]

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You May Have Forgotten: Kevin Appier

31 December 2009, 11:32 am

Besides actually putting people into Cooperstown, the Hall of Fame ballot is a good way to reflect on very good players of times gone by. And yeah, sometimes that’s only five years ago but not everyone has a great memory. This year, for me, Kevin Appier was the guy who I found I’d mostly forgotten. [...]

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Things That Are Bad Ideas

17 December 2009, 1:03 pm

The Huffington Post started a sports section that I never look at, and apparently one of the things they do there is let Arn Tellem (a bigtime agent if you don’t recognize the name) have a soap box. He posted a column about Hideki Matsui’s signing with the Angels and it was mostly what you [...]

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