Thanks to Chris Jaffe, I'm aware that if Ervin Santana wins tonight, then he'll be the eighteenth pitcher in history to win a game against all thirty teams.
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Thanks to Chris Jaffe, I'm aware that if Ervin Santana wins tonight, then he'll be the eighteenth pitcher in history to win a game against all thirty teams.
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Followup, two former Twins are among the seventeen to have wins against all thirty teams. Who are they?
I knew the first, but was shocked by the second.
Funny, I got the second, but Battey'd the first.
0-fer. Dang it.
Bert retired before expansion was done
Totally didn't even cross my mind. Good point. I was thinking "Who are the best pitchers the twins have had that have been on NL teams"
And even then, Bert was only with Pittsburgh for three years, having looked it up. They would have had to have been three pretty good years.
Additional followup: Chris Jaffe was wrong. Santana has defeated the Angels, but never the Brewers. Nothing interesting could actually happen tonight.
I hope Byung-Ho goes 5-for-5 and proves you wrong
More trivia: Name the band to never have a #1 single but has the most #2 singles
btw, CH, check out The Man from Uncle soundtrack sometime...
Damn B!
If you don't get to #1, just keep on chooglin'.
Their output, while clearly produced at an unsustainable pace, still boggles my mind.
John was a machine and a control freak and he completely burnt out his band and destroyed his relationships.
It's been 20 years since his collapse at Augusta. That scarcely seems possible.
Also, it's been 19 since Tiger destroyed the competition at Augusta. That...seems even more impossible.
Morning game alert: Chattanooga, with Kohl Stewart pitching, is at Tennessee at 11:00 Central time today.
Of course, after deciding to do my own practice, the interviews are rolling in...
The Sporting News ranks the MLB front offices. We're not last! We're not last!
Not second to last either!
Not third to....wait, crud.
The Twins have hit 69 home runs this year. 5 more than the Yankees! Almost midtable in the AL! What in blazes is going on?
They were 10th last year in HRs as well and that was with only a half season of Sano and no Park.
Just more proof that home runs don't help you win.
Then again, Twins opponents have hit 88 home runs, so they certainly seemed to help them.
Abad is the only pitcher on the team with more than 10 innings to not be giving up over a home run per 9.
That's how you get a team ERA+ of 83.
If they maintain that for the full season, it would be worst ERA+ in the AL since the Indians had 82 in 2012.
Reds are currently at 76.
Abad is on a Dennys Reyes like pace with an ERA+ over 500.
That's a great comp.
Oh, Dennys. I miss that guy.
nice
The Robbie Grossman Experience
I remember that 8-track.
Scott Diamond, a Canadian, had probably one of his biggest dreams fulfilled when the Blue Jays called him up the other day. He gave up 3 runs in one inning and then was DFA'd.
Ouch.
I did a double take when I saw Kyle Waldrop is the starting left fielder for the Reds tonight. Turns out he's not that Kyle Waldrop.
The internet is a terrible place. I've been doing research on for sale by owner real estate transactions in Louisiana, and there is nothing but doom and gloom. We're in a very different situation, but all this 'research' is making my head spin.