A Graphic Look at MLB Contracts, Good and Bad
Excited about this whole Winter Meetings madness, lets take a look at what contracts have been the most valuable to their respective teams. Surprisingly, the $100M contract Pujols just fulfilled, was a deal in terms of the production they got of The Machine.
Pitching on 3 Days Rest (Updated 10/30)
Updated to show Chris Carpenter’s amazing Game 7 WS clinching win.
Who’s Heating Up In October?
A look at the greatest postseason jumps in OPS. This was all after David Freese’s out of his mind postseason this year. We’ll see if he can continue this trend. Also interesting to note, Chris Young seems pretty playoff proven to get better, but maybe it’s just Diamondback players heating up at the right time, since there were others on this list, but didn’t qualify since they didn’t have enough regular season plate appearances (see Paul Goldschmidt and Ryan Roberts)
As seen on CBS Eye on Baseball
Are You Going to Watch the World Series?
“Game 6 of the NLCS was tuned in by fewer people than the season premiere of the Walking Dead on AMC. It could have been the fact that the game was on TBS or that it was decided pretty quickly as Shaun Marcum gave up four first-inning runs, but either way it’s not a good omen for the World Series ratings.
Another bad sign for the World Series ratings is that it’s the Rangers and Cardinals playing — neither of which really back in the viewers like the Yankees or Red Sox. Here’s a look at the ratings for the last 10 World Series.” from Eye on Baseball Blog on CBS Sports
Missing Out of Baseball’s Biggest Stage
“Only Bobby Abreau (2,247) and Miguel Tejada (2,118) have played more regular-season games than the Rangers’Adrian Beltre (1,959) without having appeared in a World Series. With the Rangers’ Game 6 victory on Saturday, Beltre will have his name taken off that list. Adam Dunn (1,570) and Vernon Wells (1,524) have played the most regular-season games without a postseason appearance.” C Trent Rosecrans, Eye on Baseball
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Postseason Pitching - All Time and Active Leaders
Lets take a look at all-time career pitching performances, as well as active pitchers still in the league. Two of em are still pitching this postseason, Colby Lewis who pitched only 5.2 innings last nite with a 6.35 ERA, and Chris Carpenter, pitching tonight, and looking to follow up to his dominant series winning performance last Friday against the Phillies.
Data via baseball-reference.com
Chopped: The 2011 Braves Collapse
Epic collapse in the NL! With the 2011 Braves leading the Wild Card at the beginning of September with 28 games to go, similarly to the Red Sox in the previous post, blew it.
Luckily for the Braves, the Red Sox collapse took precedent, and they might be a little more forgotten.
How do you blow a 98.99 chance of making the playoffs?
Thanks baseball-reference.com for providing stats, always!
