One thousand
Posted by Andy on June 9, 2010
Most at bats in a season (1901-present), batting average of 1.000:
| Rk | Player | AB | Year | Age | Tm | Lg | G | PA | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | Pos | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Hale | 4 | 1.000 | 1974 | 20 | LAD | NL | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.250 | 2.250 | /*9 |
| 2 | Jose Morales | 3 | 1.000 | 2007 | 24 | MIN | AL | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.333 | 2.333 | /*2 |
| 3 | Manny Aybar | 3 | 1.000 | 2001 | 29 | CHC | NL | 17 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | *1 |
| 4 | Sparky Lyle | 3 | 1.000 | 1971 | 26 | BOS | AL | 50 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | *1 |
| 5 | John Paciorek | 3 | 1.000 | 1963 | 18 | HOU | NL | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | /*9 |
| 6 | Jim Brideweser | 3 | 1.000 | 1953 | 26 | NYY | AL | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.667 | 2.667 | /6 |
Most wins in a season (1901-present), winning percentage of 1.000:
| Rk | Player | W | Year | Age | Tm | Lg | G | GS | CG | SHO | GF | SV | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom Zachary | 12 | 1.000 | 1929 | 33 | NYY | AL | 26 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 119.2 | 131 | 43 | 33 | 30 | 35 | 2.48 | 156 |
| 2 | Dennis Lamp | 11 | 1.000 | 1985 | 32 | TOR | AL | 53 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 105.2 | 96 | 42 | 39 | 27 | 68 | 3.32 | 129 |
| 3 | Aaron Small | 10 | 1.000 | 2005 | 33 | NYY | AL | 15 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 76.0 | 71 | 27 | 27 | 24 | 37 | 3.20 | 133 |
| 4 | Howie Krist | 10 | 1.000 | 1941 | 25 | STL | NL | 37 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 114.0 | 107 | 57 | 51 | 35 | 36 | 4.03 | 94 |
| 5 | Frank DiPino | 9 | 1.000 | 1989 | 32 | STL | NL | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 88.1 | 73 | 26 | 24 | 20 | 44 | 2.45 | 148 |
| 6 | Ken Holtzman | 9 | 1.000 | 1967 | 21 | CHC | NL | 12 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 92.2 | 76 | 31 | 26 | 44 | 62 | 2.53 | 141 |
| 7 | Joe Pate | 9 | 1.000 | 1926 | 34 | PHA | AL | 47 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 6 | 113.0 | 109 | 38 | 34 | 51 | 24 | 2.71 | 155 |
| 8 | Carlos Silva | 8 | 1.000 | 2010 | 31 | CHC | NL | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67.2 | 60 | 24 | 22 | 12 | 47 | 2.93 | 150 |
| 9 | Rheal Cormier | 8 | 1.000 | 2003 | 36 | PHI | NL | 65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 84.2 | 54 | 18 | 16 | 25 | 67 | 1.70 | 235 |
| 10 | Arthur Rhodes | 8 | 1.000 | 2001 | 31 | SEA | AL | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 68.0 | 46 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 83 | 1.72 | 243 |
| 11 | Pat Mahomes | 8 | 1.000 | 1999 | 28 | NYM | NL | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 63.2 | 44 | 26 | 26 | 37 | 51 | 3.68 | 121 |
| 12 | Kirk Rueter | 8 | 1.000 | 1993 | 22 | MON | NL | 14 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 85.2 | 85 | 33 | 26 | 18 | 31 | 2.73 | 155 |
| 13 | Grant Jackson | 8 | 1.000 | 1973 | 30 | BAL | AL | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 9 | 80.1 | 54 | 18 | 17 | 24 | 47 | 1.90 | 198 |
| 14 | Ted Wilks | 8 | 1.000 | 1946 | 30 | STL | NL | 40 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 95.0 | 88 | 41 | 36 | 38 | 40 | 3.41 | 102 |
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Me, with 1,000!
Yup, the blog is 3 years old and this is my one thousandth post. How many have you read?
Hopefully the next 1,000 will be just as much fun.
June 9th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Doyle Alexander was 9-0 for Detroit in 1987 after coming over from Atlanta where he was 5-10.
At the time, it may have semed like a good trade, as Alaexander helped Detroit to the AL East 1/2 pennant.
The player Detroit gave up in exchange? Minor-leaguer John Smoltz.
Maybe it wasn't such a good trade after all.
June 9th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Congrats Andy. Lord knows I wouldn't have nearly enough trivial information without these posts. Great insight on each one
June 9th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Keep up the good work Andy, you are truly one of the best baseball bloggers out there. In addition to the great information, your blogs sure make the work day go by much faster (don't tell my boss).
June 9th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Answers:
1) Congrats
2) Most of them
Thanks for giving some personality to unforgiving facts.
June 9th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Congrats, Andy. I am fairly new to this medium, but I hope to see a LOT more of this!
June 9th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
I salute you Andy, and I think in all 1000 posts, you only had to admonish me once.
Tom Browning, Ralph Terry and Vincente Padilla also salute you.
June 9th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Congrats Andy-
You guys do fantastic work. I hope you're enjoying it...
June 9th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Congrats on your 1000th post. You do nice work! (Although you still shouldn't count incomplete seasons in "percentage in a season" records 🙂 Not buying Silva here).
June 9th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
Of course, that's 1000 posts since 1901. Seriously, though, well done - may we read ten thousand more.
June 9th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
you really dish some entertainment. Accumulating lots of grey ink
June 9th, 2010 at 7:14 pm
Kelly, you win the prize. I was waiting for someone to point out Silva.
And Gerry, you made me laugh.
Thanks to everyone for your kind words. The only reason I write here is to add a little bit around the edges to the massive impact that B-R.com has on baseball fandom--so it's for you folks that I do this.
June 9th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
Congratulations on your 1,000th post. I look forward to reading a lot more from you.
For many years, before discovering Baseball-Reference.com, I had wondered what the highest number of wins without any losses in a season was. I owned some copies of The Sporting News' record book in the 1970s, and it always puzzled me that this particular bit of information was not included (nor was the corresponding record of most losses without any wins in a season - and it wouldn't have been Terry Felton back then). I read somewhere, maybe in the 1980s, that Tom Zachary held the record at 12-0. At first, this excited me, because I knew that Zachary was the Washington Senators pitcher who gave up Babe Ruth's 60th home run in 1927. It would have been great to have a Senators pitcher hold this record. But my heart sank as I read on and learned that Zachary had joined the Yankees by 1929, and that's where he won 12 games without a loss.
June 9th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
Just wanted to say "thank you" for all the great posts. As a complete stat geek, it's one of the first blogs I look at in Google Reader every day, and I've learned countless things I would have never thought of before. It's like playing with the Franklin Baseball Encyclopedia, except with 1000x more info!
June 10th, 2010 at 12:35 am
Perfect Andy
I remember Moret doing it for the Sox. The 70s. Rogerio Moret went 9-0 and it was a phemonmenon, for a kid especially.
Though...... Aaron Small takes the prize for his season in 2007
June 10th, 2010 at 9:00 am
Congrats on the 1000th post!
June 10th, 2010 at 10:04 am
Andy,
Congratulations.
The whole Carlos Silva thing is a real head-scratcher, as the Cubs still can't find the high side of .500! How many of those perfect records came while playing for losing teams?
John Paciorek's serves as the heartbreaker, as those were the only plate appearances (one game, three hits, two walks) of his Major League career, before his back injury prematurely ended it.
In looking at his record, it's kind of surprising that he got the call, as he was hitting just .219 in Class-A ball at Modesto.
Still, how's that for a variance (.209 career Minor League average, perfect in the Bigs)?
June 10th, 2010 at 11:59 am
Tom Browning, Ralph Terry and Vicente Padilla also salute you.
I swear, Spartan Bill, this thread had only three posts at the time I looked that up. It was spooky to read those names in someone else's post!
Andy, I also bring kind regards from Joe Gordon — 1,000 games as a Yankee, 1,000 base hits.
June 10th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Boy, that must have been some magic carpet ride for Howie Crist. He didn't start or close exclusively, had no real role. His ERA+ was below 100, and his K/9 and K/BB make even John Lannan cringe.
June 10th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
How many of those perfect records came while playing for losing teams?
None. There are some pretty good teams on that list, though only one World Series winner.
1929 Yankees (Zachary): 88-66, second in AL
1985 Blue Jays (Lamp): 99-62, lost ALCS
2005 Yankees (Small): 95-67, lost ALDS
1941 Cardinals (Krist): 97-56, second in NL
1989 Cardinals (DiPino): 86-76, third in NL East
1967 Cubs (Holtzman): 87-74, third in NL
1926 Athletics (Pate): 83-67, third in AL
2003 Phillies (Cormier): 86-76, third in AL East
2001 Mariners (Rhodes): 116-46, lost ALCS
1999 Mets (Mahomes): 97-66, lost NLCS
1993 Expos (Rueter): 94-68, second in NL East
1973 Orioles (Jackson): 97-65, lost ALCS
1946 Cardinals (Wilks): 98-58, won World Series
June 10th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
To let everybody in on the joke, Browning, Terry, and Padilla all have 1,000 career strikeouts.
Padilla's first name, however, is Vicente, not Vincente.