Loading ...Congratulations Javy
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009Javier Vazquez just became the 2nd NL and 5th MLB pitcher to strike out 200 batters this season. This is the 5th time he’s struck out 200 batters in a season. This feat has been accomplished by 27 people since 1900: Bert Blyleven, Jim Bunning, Steve Carlton, Roger Clemens, David Cone, Don Drysdale, Bob Feller, [...]
Javier Vazquez: Strikeout King.
Thursday, June 11th, 2009Today Javier Vazquez became the first NL pitcher to reach 100 strikeouts and the 2nd pitcher in MLB to do so (the first was Justin Verlander). It took both of them only 13 starts to accomplish the feat, Verlander has struck out 106 in his 13 starts. There are only 2 other pitchers in MLB [...]
Series Thoughts: Mutts / Series Preview: Diamondbacks
Thursday, May 14th, 2009A win that put us on cloud 9, a loss that put us in the trenches, and another win that put us right back where we started. That’s what happened. Here’s how it went down. In the first game, Santana vs. Lowe, neither pitcher was particularly brilliant. Santana pitched 6 and 1/3 innings of 1-run [...]
36 Pitchers
Monday, May 11th, 2009I watch a lot of baseball. I’m in college, so I don’t have any sort of structured schedule other than class, which is usually less than 20 hour s a week. I subscribe to MLB.tv, and my favorite thing to do when I’m not busy is to watch games on mlb.tv. I mainly want to [...]
Series Thoughts: Philthies / Series Preview: Mutts
Monday, May 11th, 2009Again we win a series in Philly, although we didn’t play as well as we did in the first series. We lost the first game behind Reyes’s terrible outing. He gave up 8 runs (only 4 were earned because of 2 errors in 1 inning, 1 by Escobar and 1 by Reyes, both on routine [...]
Strikeouts.
Sunday, May 10th, 2009Most K’s in the NL: 1. Javier Vazquez – 57 2. Johan Santana – 54 3. Jake Peavy – 52 4. Dan Haren – 51 5. Tim Lincecum – 50 Nobody else has 50 or more. Highest K/9 minimum 20 IP in the NL (IP in ()’s): 1. Johan Santana – 12.25 (39 and 2/3) [...]
ERA+
Thursday, May 7th, 2009Best ERA+ in baseball: 1. Zach Greinke – 1168 2. Johan Santana – 476 3. Dan Haren – 315 4. Johnny Cueto – 274 5. Jair Jurrjens – 226 Nobody else is 200 or better. If you doubted Jurrjens, stick that in your pipe and smoke it like they do in Curacao, mon (I know, [...]