Radical Baseball

Stimulating, provocative, sometimes whimsical new concepts that challenge traditional baseball orthodoxy. Note: Anonymous comments will not be published. Copyright Kenneth Matinale

About Me

My photo
Kenneth Matinale
Nice guy.
View my complete profile

Labels

"500" home runs (24) 1961 HR race (67) 3 Home Run games (12) All City: New York (37) Attendance (16) Conduct (384) Constitutional (39) DiMaggio (50) Hall of Fame (123) home r (1) Home Run rates (65) Home Runs (477) Home Runs career (19) Home/Road (95) Jackie Robinson (26) Jeter (53) Mariano Rivera (16) Mickey Mantle (256) Negro Leagues (18) Philosophy (337) Righty/Lefty (121) Rules (312) Ruth (191) Safety (34) Salary Cap (22) Signs (50) Stats (775) Strike Zone (18) Tactics (88) WAR (34) Williams (50) World Series (66)

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Why do teams have only one closer?

Posted by Kenneth Matinale at Saturday, January 15, 2011

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home

Featured Post

8 batters and starting each inning with top of order fix two dumbest things on the field.

Each of these two improvements will bring up the better batters much more often. Combined, they would improve MLB immensely. 8, not 9, batte...

Search Radical Baseball

Radical Baseball Archive

Popular Posts last 7 days.

  • Randy Johnson released the ball closer to home plate than at least 99.9% of pitchers.
    Randy Johnson is the greatest pitcher taller than 6 feet 7 inches of all time.  That's it.  It doesn't seem like such a big deal, co...
  • 50 Home Runs: Home Run Rate (AB/HR) percentages above the league. What about Sac Flies? Cal Raleigh?
    50 Home Runs: Home Run Rate (AB/HR) percentages above the league. Babe Ruth #1. Pete Alonso dead last.   Monday, February 14, 2022 This is a...
  • Nolan Ryan, Tom House and steroids.
    Nolan Ryan could have been using steroids and other performance enhancing drugs (PED), not just late in his career, but also in the 1970s.  ...
  • Yankees payroll with Brian Cashman as general manager 2001-2025: highest in American League in 22 of 25 years.
    The Yankees won the World Series in 2000 and in 2009. So, once in the last 25 years, the worst stretch since 1920 when Babe Ruth joined the ...
  • Pitchers winning three games in a World Series.
    Giant manager Bruce Bochy made the right decision in not panicking and starting  Madison Bumgarner in last night's game four against K...
  • Salaries: Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, Yankee teammates.
    Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig , Yankee teammates 1923-1934, had the first great home run race in 1927. They were tied in early September at 45. ...
  • In best of 5 series, not all 2-0 leads are equal.
    In tennis there is "holding serve". A player is expected to win most of the games when that player serves. In a team sport like ba...
  • Mickey Mantle Home Runs per At Bat career: detailed splits lefty/righty, home/road, both.
    Mickey Mantle Home Runs per At Bat: career career Where throws AB/HR AB HR AB% HR% AB% HR% Where throws home Left 19.51 1,483 76 37.36...
  • Aaron Judge: career, not season, triple crown. Mays (RBI) and Musial (HR) did not do it.
    Plus, it's more difficult to lead with almost double the number of American and National League teams since 1960: 8 increased to 15 per ...
  • How much did Babe Ruth pitch and bat at the same time?
    Added March 23, 2023: Shohei Ohtani is not a two way player and should not be MVP over Aaron Judge in 2022. Wednesday, October 12, 2022 Sh...
Theme images by klosfoto. Powered by Blogger.