MLB 2024 Season

[Bucky]

White Sox making history. For being bad.

White Sox lose 119th game, 1 away from '62 Mets

Luis Robert and the White Sox tied the American League record with their 119th loss Saturday night, dropping a 6-2 decision to the San Diego Padres, moving Chicago just one loss from equaling the post-1900 record of 120 losses by the 1962 New York Mets.

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[Gator Dad]

Given that an AAA team would typically be expected to win about 25% of its games if it played a season against major league teams, the 2024 White Sox are statistically worse than about half of AAA teams.

 

[Booth]

I thought this was an interesting statistic. There were only 7 hitters in MLB that hit .300 The second lowest ever.

.300 hitters become scarce commodity in Major League Baseball

NEW YORK — A .300 hitter has become an endangered species, a victim of increased velocity as 100 mph heaters are no longer rarities. “When I got in the league, I’d still see a lot of guys throwing 89, 91,” Baltimore Orioles All-Star slugger Anthony Santander said. Not anymore. The major league...

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[knightedsoldier5000]

According to Opta STATS, Alonso is the first player in MLB history to hit a go-ahead home run while trailing in the ninth inning or later of a winner-take-all game.

It's a jarring stat at first glance. There are so many iconic late-game home runs in MLB postseason history, but none occurred in the ninth inning or later of a Game 7. Or in this case, a Game 3 of the wild-card round.

Joe Carter's game-winning homer in the 1993 World Series was in a Game 6. Kirby Puckett's iconic home run in the 1991 World Series was in the 11th inning of Game 6. Kirk Gibson's walk-off blast in the 1988 World Series occurred in Game 1. The game was tied when David Ortiz hit a series-clinching homer in Game 3 of the ALDS against the Anaheim Angels in 2004.

Wild Stat Shows Pete Alonso's Game-Clinching Homer Stands Alone in MLB Playoff History

This stat is pretty nuts.

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[Don Wassall]

I thought this was an interesting statistic. There were only 7 hitters in MLB that hit .300 The second lowest ever.

.300 hitters become scarce commodity in Major League Baseball

NEW YORK — A .300 hitter has become an endangered species, a victim of increased velocity as 100 mph heaters are no longer rarities. “When I got in the league, I’d still see a lot of guys throwing 89, 91,” Baltimore Orioles All-Star slugger Anthony Santander said. Not anymore. The major league...

www.miningjournal.net

Shades of 1968, when Carl Yastrzemski was the only .300 hitter in the AL, just barely reaching it with a mark of .301. Danny Cater finished second at .290. There were five .300 hitters in the NL that year, led by Pete Rose's .335. But unlike 2024, a number of pitchers put up spectacular numbers in '68.

 

[FootballDad]

Shades of 1968, when Carl Yastrzemski was the only .300 hitter in the AL, just barely reaching it with a mark of .301. Danny Cater finished second at .290. There were five .300 hitters in the NL that year, led by Pete Rose's .335. But unlike 2024, a number of pitchers put up spectacular numbers in '68.

It's rumored that in 1968 pitchers actually pitched complete games. What a concept!