Recondite Baseball

An open collection of baseball's little-known records and curiosities.

"He would have been among the league leaders in batting average for a majority of the season had he had enough plate appearances."
-- 2008 St. Louis Cardinals Media Guide about non-roster invitee Mark Johnson

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Rookie of the Year Voting Troubles

If you've paid attention to baseball news this week, you saw that Rays third baseman Evan Longoria and Cubs catcher Geovany Soto picked ...

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Don't Hit Me, Pitcher

When Craig Biggio retired following the 2007 season, he had been hit by pitches 285 times over twenty seasons. This wound up being two short...

Friday, October 31, 2008

The Bryan Harvey Award

After the Steve Carlton Award for the highest percentage of a team's wins by one pitcher and the Hugh "Losing Pitcher" Mulcah...

Thursday, October 30, 2008

AAA Errors Leaders

First off, congratulations to the Philadelphia Phillies for winning the 2008 World Series. As always it was a long trip with ups and downs f...

Friday, October 24, 2008

The Hugh "Losing Pitcher" Mulcahy Award

The sponsorship message on Hugh Mulcahy 's B-R.com page sums up Mulcahy's career pretty well: Seattle Marinerds sponsor(s) this pag...

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

The Steve Carlton Award

In 1972, Steve Carlton had a season for the ages. The Philadelphia lefty started 41 games, completed thirty of them, and had eight shutouts....

Monday, October 20, 2008

Offseason Dates Worth Knowing

I put this together earlier today for Brew Crew Ball and figured it'd be useful here, as well. I used Brewers players in the examples b...

Saturday, October 11, 2008

If His Arm Works, Who Cares What He Wears?

On April 9, 2008, the Seattle Mariners beat the Tampa Bay Rays by a score of 7-1. Following 7 2/3 forgettable innings pitched by Rays starte...

Sunday, October 5, 2008

More on the Single-Season Saves Record

If you've followed the 2008 Major League Baseball season at all, you're aware that Francisco Rodriguez of the Los Angeles Angels set...

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Unearned Run Average

I said I'd post this a couple days ago but haven't been able to get around to it until now. Oops. In my last post I talked about une...

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