Nerd Notes

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Paul Molitor played in the majors for 21 years and average .306 and never won a batting title.

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Rickey Henderson

1,406 career stolen bases

81 career HR as first batter of the game

130 stolen bases on 1982

12 seasons leading the league in stolen bases

2,295 times scored

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In 1986 the Giants Robby Thompson was caught stealing four times in one game.

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Ty Cobb

.367 career batting Average

batted .357 at 40

54 career steals of home

8 steals of home in 1912

3 times stealing 2nd, 3rd and home in on einning

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Craig Biggio holds the modern-era record [285] for being hit by a pitch and never once charged the mound.

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Jesse Orosco holds the largest differential in career games played and career hits. 1242

Lenny Harris is the answer for non-pitchers

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In 1982, Dave Kingman won the HR title with 37 ..led the league in SOs with 156 and had a batting average of .204..the lowest for a HR champion.

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In 1987 Nolan Ryan lead the NL
In strikeouts and ERA but was 8-15

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Carl Yastrzemski won the batting title in 1968 with the lowest average ever .301
He had 162 hits that year.

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In his previous 210 batters Zach Greinke allowed 4 ER....then today allowed 5 ER in the first 5 batters faced today

....as a side note he had 3 hits including a HR and won the game

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In 1967 Roberto Clemente batted .357 with a record 103 strikeouts.

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Jesse Orosco had a total of 1,252 appearances in his 24 major league seasons.

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Mike Marshall of the Dodgers had 208 innings of relief in a single season [1974] This was dominant enough to win 1974's National league Cy Young award.

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Jamie Moyer on April 17, 2012 became the oldest pitcher to ever notch a win with a victory over the Padres.

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Aroldis Chapman of the Reds recorded the fastest pitch of 105 MPH. He has been clock at throwing 101 MPH or more 253 times going into the 2015 season.

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Jack Chesbro had 48 complete games in a single season

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Aroldis Chapman of the Reds recorded the fastest pitch of 105 MPH. He has been clock at throwing 101 MPH or more 253 times going into the 2015 season.

I don't understand how they consider fastest pitch ever,Nolan Ryan was laser radar throwing one at 108.1 mph (1974) and Bob Feller was chronographed at 107.6 back in 1946.After further research I found the answer,today pitches are measured closer to the hand,back then closer to the plate which means they would lose speed by the time reaching home plate.They used the fifty foot equivalent to measure Ryan and Feller's pitches which would have theorectically been faster than Chapman's.

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Robert Allen Dickey won 20 games in 2012 and became the only Knuckleballer to win the Cy Young by getting 27 of the 32 first place votes.

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Before the 1920 season you could throw a spit ball. Burleigh Grimes and a few others were grand-father in and were allow to keep throwing it. Grimes was the last to be allowed to throw a spit ball. He retired in 1934 with 270 wins.
Pitchers even threw what was called shine balls, emory balls.

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The deadball era ended when Carl May, in 1920, fatally beaned Ray Chapman in the head.