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

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Spring Training IBB

There's nothing more pointless in spring training games, especially early spring training games, than an intentional walk. Yet each seas...

Friday, February 27, 2009

The Worst K/BB Ratios, Minimum 50 IP

This Beyond the Box Score post mentions Mariano Rivera's seventy-seven strikeouts and six walks last season and how his 12.83 K/BB rati...

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

The Record That Wasn't

Last weekend, I came across a bit of information regarding catcher putouts that I thought would be useful around the All-Star Break this sea...

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Most Sacrifice Flies Allowed in a Season Since 1956

Every once in a while a Google search that leads to my blog catches my eye. Someone looked up MLB pitchers with the most sacrifice flies, or...

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Hope Springs Eternal (Even For #85)

Spring training is firing up in Arizona and Florida and there are plenty of minor leaguers attending big league camp. Usually you can find p...

Friday, February 13, 2009

Major League Olympians

America's national pastime, baseball grew in popularity around the world throughout the 20th century. As a result of its growing popular...

Sunday, February 8, 2009

More Strikeouts Than Times on Base

In a comment on my post of last Sunday, Mitchell Marshall suggested I look at players whose career strikeout percentage was greater than th...

Sunday, February 1, 2009

More Strikeouts than Hits, Total Bases

Individual batting strikeouts have been recorded all through major league history except for 1897-1909 in the National League, 1901-1912 in ...

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