2025 Shortstop Double Play Rankings Sports Info Solutions/Fielding Bible (source of DRS) Success Rate Starting the Double Play 1) Zach Neto, LAA (.765) 2) JP Crawford, SEA (.758) 3) Corey Seager, TEX (.732) 4) Brayan Rocchio, CLE (.727) 5) Jacob Wilson, ATH (.700) Pivot on the

Bonus facts: Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 400th career home run on his father's 50th birthday, on April 10, 2000. Manny Ramirez came one day away from hitting #500 on his birthday in 2008, doing so on May 31 (birthday: May 30) off of former teammate Chad Bradford.

Not enough people talk about Bobby Jenks • 173 saves, 2005 WS Champ with CWS • Back-to-back AS selections 2006-07 • Back-to-back seasons with 40+ SV • Retired 41 straight batters in 2007 • 5 saves in 7 postseason games • 8.8 K/9, 1.251 WHIP, 131 ERA+ • Intimidating at

Led ind. league or MLB at season's end, not All-Star* that season: -League: Bo Bichette, 2022, 191, AL. Trea Turner led at 195. -MLB: Adrian Beltre, 2013, 199. Tied with at 199 (Matt Carpenter). -Solo MLB leader: Willie Wilson, 1980, 230. *In seasons where ASG was played.

Good catch, this is correct. Previous tweet was not a full list but yeah. Thank you! :)

1898 is also the last time the Cubs did so at least this often through 90 games without a loss. Last team overall with 16+ 10 run games through 90 GP, no losses: 2003 Cardinals (16). On July 4, St. Louis *also* got #16 at Wrigley Field!

Exclusively descriptive, let's talk a stat I created. Expected No-Hitter! Today, Expected Perfect Game, since 0 BB. Solve for this with the product of 1-xBA (from Savant) for each batter. Strikeouts and xBA of .000 equals 1. #Phillies Zack Wheeler today? ~1.63%, or 1/~61.23.

Entering Sunday: An average team per team game (MLB, not NL) has a 8.26 SO per 33.67 AB. Or about ~24.53% K/AB. Arraez is 8 out of 335, or ~2.39%. 2.39/24.53 is about 9.73% of the average. Keeler in 1899 has him beat: 2 strikeouts, 570 AB. That's even with a ~6.13 K/AB%

Not enough people talk about Vernon Wells • 270 HR, 958 RBI, 3051 TB, 15 seasons • 3x All-Star, 3x Gold Glove, 28.6 WAR • Silver Slugger-winning year in 2003 • Had at least 4.0 WAR in 4 seasons • Never struck out more than 90x • Reached 20 HR 8x, 100 RBI 3x • Hit 3

Not enough people talk about Chuck Knoblauch • .289/.378/.406, 1839 H, 407 SB, 44.6 WAR • 4x All-Star, 2x Silver Slugger, 1991 AL ROY • More walks (804) than strikeouts (730) • 4x WS Champion (MIN 1991, NYY x 3) • Had 30 2B 4x, 30 SB 7x, 100 runs 6x • Never struck out 100x

This is hardly Jomboy's fault or similar, but this tweet's responses concern me. These teams are likely chosen so Reynolds can get additional earnings if he waives his partial no-trade of teams most likely to deal for him. Wise. Not because he doesn't want to play for a winner.

Team's first pitch seen is an ITP homer under Statcast (since start of 2015): -Lawrence Butler, #Athletics, Tuesday -Kevin Kiermaier, Rays, May 24, 2022 -Denard Span, Giants, August 19, 2017 -Byron Buxton, Twins, October 2, 2016 -Alcides Escobar, Royals, WS Game 1, 2015

Padres beat the D-Backs 1-0. It took only until July 8th to surpass 2024's total of 1-0 games. 39 1-0 games so far this season! 38 1-0 games all of 2024.

#SFGiants Patrick Bailey just hit the first walk-off inside-the-park home run when trailing by multiple runs since Bob Dernier on May 15, 1989. Dernier, of course, did it for the Phillies... to beat the Giants, because baseball happens.

Today is the first day in MLB history to feature both a leadoff inside-the-park HR (Lawrence Butler) and a walkoff inside-the-park HR (Patrick Bailey).