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2020 MLB Ump Media Guide
the 2020 Umpire media gUide Major League Baseball and its 30 Clubs remember longtime umpires Chuck Meriwether (left) and Eric Cooper (right), who both passed away last October. During his 23-year career, Meriwether umpired over 2,500 regular season games in addition to 49 Postseason games, including eight World Series contests, and two All-Star Games. Cooper worked over 2,800 regular season games during his 24-year career and was on the feld for 70 Postseason games, including seven Fall Classic games, and one Midsummer Classic. The 2020 Major League Baseball Umpire Guide was published by the MLB Communications Department. EditEd by: Michael Teevan and Donald Muller, MLB Communications. Editorial assistance provided by: Paul Koehler. Special thanks to the MLB Umpiring Department; the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum; and the late David Vincent of Retrosheet.org. Photo Credits: Getty Images Sport, MLB Photos via Getty Images Sport, and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Copyright © 2020, the offiCe of the Commissioner of BaseBall 1 taBle of Contents MLB Executive Biographies ...................................................................................................... 3 Pronunciation Guide for Major League Umpires .................................................................. 8 MLB Umpire Observers ..........................................................................................................12 Umps Care Charities .................................................................................................................14 -
Chadwick Documentation Release 0.9.0
Chadwick Documentation Release 0.9.0 T. L. Turocy Jan 04, 2021 Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Command-line tools 3 i ii CHAPTER 1 Introduction Chadwick is a collection of command-line utility programs for extracting information from baseball play-by-play and boxscore files in the DiamondWare format, as used by Retrosheet (http://www.retrosheet.org). 1.1 Author Chadwick is written, maintained, and Copyright 2002-2020 by Dr T. L. Turocy (ted.turocy <aht> gmail <daht> com) at Chadwick Baseball Bureau (http://www.chadwick-bureau.com). 1.2 License Chadwick is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. If the GPL doesn’t meet your needs, contact the author for other licensing possibilities. 1.3 Development The Chadwick source code is managed using git, at https://github.com/chadwickbureau/chadwick. Bugs in Chadwick should be reported to the issue tracker on github at https://github.com/chadwickbureau/chadwick/ issues. Please be as specific as possible in reporting a bug, including the version of Chadwick you are using, the operating system(s) you’re using, and a detailed list of steps to reproduce the issue. 1.4 Community To get the latest news on the Chadwick tool suite, you can: • Subscribe to the Chadwick Baseball Bureau’s twitter feed (@chadwickbureau); 1 Chadwick Documentation, Release 0.9.0 • Like the Chadwick Baseball Bureau on Facebook; • Read the Chadwick Baseball Bureau’s blog at (http://www.chadwick-bureau.com/blog/) 1.5 Acknowledgments The author thanks Sports Reference, LLC, the Society for American Baseball Research, and XMLTeam, Inc. -
2020 Wildcat Baseball
2020 WILDCAT BASEBALL TABLE OF CONTENTS ATHLETIC PHONE DIRECTORY 1 All Area Codes (402) Staff Directory/Table of Contents ............................. Administration About Wayne State College ....................................2 Dr. Marysz Rames, President’s Offi ce .............375-7200 WSC Athletic Administration ....................................3 Mike Powicki, Athletic Director ........................ 375-7520 Pete Chapman Baseball Complex...........................4 Mike Barry, Associate Athletic Director / Sports & Rec Wayne State Facilities ..........................................5-6 Facilities Director .............................................375-7521 Athletic Training Services ........................................7 Linda Anderson, Assistant Athletic Director Wildcat Head Coach Alex Koch ...............................8 for Internal Affi ars/Senior Woman Administrator .... 375-7308 Wildcat Coaching Staff ............................................9 Megan Finn, Director of Athletic Development .....375-7543 Wildcat Coaching History ......................................10 Jeni Kemnitz, Athletic Business Manager ....... 375-7183 2020 Season Preview............................................ 11 Chuck Parker, Faculty Athletic Representative .... 375-7036 2020 Wildcat Roster ..............................................12 Deb Harm, Athletic Administrative Assistant .... 375-7520 Wildcat Player Profi les......................................13-28 Athletic Department FAX .................................375-7120 Wildcat Scrapbook.................................................29 -
Time Between Pitches: Cause of Long Games? by David W
Time Between Pitches: Cause of Long Games? By David W. Smith Presented June 29, 2019 SABR49, San Diego, California The length of the average game continues to be a major topic for MLB and the baseball press as it has been above three hours for several years. Many factors have been suggested to account for the longer games and I addressed several of these last year by looking at patterns over the past 110 seasons (https://www.retrosheet.org/Research/SmithD/WhyDoGamesTakeSoLong.pdf). The two strongest connections I found were increases in the number of strikeouts and the overall number of pitches. One possibility that has received a great deal of attention is the time between pitches and in fact MLB has considered instituting a 20-second clock with the bases empty although that has not been implemented. At last year’s SABR convention, Eliza Richardson Malone presented the results of her study of 31 starting pitchers in 2017. Although her data set was limited, her conclusion was clear, namely that she found very few pitch intervals exceeding 20 seconds. Therefore the proposal to force pitchers to throw within 20 seconds would not have a significant impact on game length. With the help of Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM), I have the precise time down to the second that each pitch was thrown in every game in 2018 with the exceptions of the two games played in Puerto Rico and the three in Mexico. Therefore I had 717,410 pitches to study. By the way, that works out to just under 148 pitches per team per game. -
National Pastime a REVIEW of BASEBALL HISTORY
THE National Pastime A REVIEW OF BASEBALL HISTORY CONTENTS The Chicago Cubs' College of Coaches Richard J. Puerzer ................. 3 Dizzy Dean, Brownie for a Day Ronnie Joyner. .................. .. 18 The '62 Mets Keith Olbermann ................ .. 23 Professional Baseball and Football Brian McKenna. ................ •.. 26 Wallace Goldsmith, Sports Cartoonist '.' . Ed Brackett ..................... .. 33 About the Boston Pilgrims Bill Nowlin. ..................... .. 40 Danny Gardella and the Reserve Clause David Mandell, ,................. .. 41 Bringing Home the Bacon Jacob Pomrenke ................. .. 45 "Why, They'll Bet on a Foul Ball" Warren Corbett. ................. .. 54 Clemente's Entry into Organized Baseball Stew Thornley. ................. 61 The Winning Team Rob Edelman. ................... .. 72 Fascinating Aspects About Detroit Tiger Uniform Numbers Herm Krabbenhoft. .............. .. 77 Crossing Red River: Spring Training in Texas Frank Jackson ................... .. 85 The Windowbreakers: The 1947 Giants Steve Treder. .................... .. 92 Marathon Men: Rube and Cy Go the Distance Dan O'Brien .................... .. 95 I'm a Faster Man Than You Are, Heinie Zim Richard A. Smiley. ............... .. 97 Twilight at Ebbets Field Rory Costello 104 Was Roy Cullenbine a Better Batter than Joe DiMaggio? Walter Dunn Tucker 110 The 1945 All-Star Game Bill Nowlin 111 The First Unknown Soldier Bob Bailey 115 This Is Your Sport on Cocaine Steve Beitler 119 Sound BITES Darryl Brock 123 Death in the Ohio State League Craig -
Applied Operational Management Techniques for Sabermetrics
Applied Operational Management Techniques for Sabermetrics An Interactive Qualifying Project Report submitted to the faculty of the WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science by Rory Fuller ______________________ Kevin Munn ______________________ Ethan Thompson ______________________ May 28, 2005 ______________________ Brigitte Servatius, Advisor Abstract In the growing field of sabermetrics, storage and manipulation of large amounts of statistical data has become a concern. Hence, construction of a cheap and flexible database system would be a boon to the field. This paper aims to briefly introduce sabermetrics, show why it exists, and detail the reasoning behind and creation of such a database. i Acknowledgements We acknowledge first and foremost the great amount of work and inspiration put forth to this project by Pat Malloy. Working alongside us on an attached ISP, Pat’s effort and organization were critical to the success of this project. We also recognize the source of our data, Project Scoresheet from retrosheet.org. The information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet. Interested parties may contact Retrosheet at 20 Sunset Rd., Newark, DE 19711. We must not forget our advisor, Professor Brigitte Servatius. Several of the ideas and sources employed in this paper came at her suggestion and proved quite valuable to its eventual outcome. ii Table of Contents Title Page Abstract i Acknowledgements ii Table of Contents iii 1. Introduction 1 2. Sabermetrics, Baseball, and Society 3 2.1 Overview of Baseball 3 2.2 Forerunners 4 2.3 What is Sabermetrics? 6 2.3.1 Why Use Sabermetrics? 8 2.3.2 Some Further Financial and Temporal Implications of Baseball 9 3. -
Triple Plays Analysis
A Second Look At The Triple Plays By Chuck Rosciam This analysis updates my original paper published on SABR.org and Retrosheet.org and my Triple Plays sub-website at SABR. The origin of the extensive triple play database1 from which this analysis stems is the SABR Triple Play Project co-chaired by myself and Frank Hamilton with the assistance of dozens of SABR researchers2. Using the original triple play database and updating/validating each play, I used event files and box scores from Retrosheet3 to build a current database containing all of the recorded plays in which three outs were made (1876-2019). In this updated data set 719 triple plays (TP) were identified. [See complete list/table elsewhere on Retrosheet.org under FEATURES and then under NOTEWORTHY EVENTS]. The 719 triple plays covered one-hundred-forty-four seasons. 1890 was the Year of the Triple Play that saw nineteen of them turned. There were none in 1961 and in 1974. On average the number of TP’s is 4.9 per year. The number of TP’s each year were: Total Triple Plays Each Year (all Leagues) Ye a r T P's Ye a r T P's Ye a r T P's Ye a r T P's Ye a r T P's Ye a r T P's <1876 1900 1 1925 7 1950 5 1975 1 2000 5 1876 3 1901 8 1926 9 1951 4 1976 3 2001 2 1877 3 1902 6 1927 9 1952 3 1977 6 2002 6 1878 2 1903 7 1928 2 1953 5 1978 6 2003 2 1879 2 1904 1 1929 11 1954 5 1979 11 2004 3 1880 4 1905 8 1930 7 1955 7 1980 5 2005 1 1881 3 1906 4 1931 8 1956 2 1981 5 2006 5 1882 10 1907 3 1932 3 1957 4 1982 4 2007 4 1883 2 1908 7 1933 2 1958 4 1983 5 2008 2 1884 10 1909 4 1934 5 1959 2 -
Sports Figures Price Guide
SPORTS FIGURES PRICE GUIDE All values listed are for Mint (white jersey) .......... 16.00- David Ortiz (white jersey). 22.00- Ching-Ming Wang ........ 15 Tracy McGrady (white jrsy) 12.00- Lamar Odom (purple jersey) 16.00 Patrick Ewing .......... $12 (blue jersey) .......... 110.00 figures still in the packaging. The Jim Thome (Phillies jersey) 12.00 (gray jersey). 40.00+ Kevin Youkilis (white jersey) 22 (blue jersey) ........... 22.00- (yellow jersey) ......... 25.00 (Blue Uniform) ......... $25 (blue jersey, snow). 350.00 package must have four perfect (Indians jersey) ........ 25.00 Scott Rolen (white jersey) .. 12.00 (grey jersey) ............ 20 Dirk Nowitzki (blue jersey) 15.00- Shaquille O’Neal (red jersey) 12.00 Spud Webb ............ $12 Stephen Davis (white jersey) 20.00 corners and the blister bubble 2003 SERIES 7 (gray jersey). 18.00 Barry Zito (white jersey) ..... .10 (white jersey) .......... 25.00- (black jersey) .......... 22.00 Larry Bird ............. $15 (70th Anniversary jersey) 75.00 cannot be creased, dented, or Jim Edmonds (Angels jersey) 20.00 2005 SERIES 13 (grey jersey ............... .12 Shaquille O’Neal (yellow jrsy) 15.00 2005 SERIES 9 Julius Erving ........... $15 Jeff Garcia damaged in any way. Troy Glaus (white sleeves) . 10.00 Moises Alou (Giants jersey) 15.00 MCFARLANE MLB 21 (purple jersey) ......... 25.00 Kobe Bryant (yellow jersey) 14.00 Elgin Baylor ............ $15 (white jsy/no stripe shoes) 15.00 (red sleeves) .......... 80.00+ Randy Johnson (Yankees jsy) 17.00 Jorge Posada NY Yankees $15.00 John Stockton (white jersey) 12.00 (purple jersey) ......... 30.00 George Gervin .......... $15 (whte jsy/ed stripe shoes) 22.00 Randy Johnson (white jersey) 10.00 Pedro Martinez (Mets jersey) 12.00 Daisuke Matsuzaka .... -
The 3-6-3 Double Play
The 3-6-3 Double Play By Christopher Chestnut January 5, 2010 E-mail: [email protected] Purpose The purpose of this study is to determine which major league first baseman turned the most 3-6-3 double plays. Data Sources The information used in this study was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet. Interested parties may contact Retrosheet at www.retrosheet.org. Definitions 3-6-3 Double Play – the first baseman fields a ground ball and throws to the shortstop to retire the runner on first. The shortstop returns the throw to the first baseman to retire the batter/runner. Opportunity – all ground balls (including bunts, excluding base hits) fielded by the first baseman with a runner on first (additional runners may be on second and/or third) and less than two outs. Attempt – all opportunities where the first play by the first baseman is a throw to the shortstop. Methodology I used play-by-play data from Retrosheet to support my analysis. The available data includes the American and National Leagues for 1952-2009. I processed the data for each season to generate a list of all players with at least one opportunity in any one of these eight situations: No outs, runner on first No outs, runners on first and second No outs, runners on first and third No outs, bases full One out, runner on first One out, runners on first and second One out, runners on first and third One out, bases full 1 of 7 The 3-6-3 Double Play January 5, 2010 Results Filtering out the non-ground balls and base hits, I found: 1,319 players -
The First Baseman Fields a Ground Ball and Throws to the Shortstop to Retire the Runner on First
The 3-6-3 Double Play By Christopher Chestnut July 2, 2008 Definitions 3-6-3 Double Play – the first baseman fields a ground ball and throws to the shortstop to retire the runner on first. The shortstop returns the throw to the first baseman to retire the batter/runner. Opportunity – all situations with a runner on first (additional runners may be on second and/or third), less than two outs, and a ground ball fielded by the first baseman. This excludes line drives and pop-ups, but includes bunted grounders. In addition to the double play, other play results include base hits, errors, or some combination of runners retired. Data Sources The information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet. Interested parties may contact Retrosheet at www.retrosheet.org. The available Retrosheet data includes the National League for 1911, 1921, 1922, and 1953 and the American and National Leagues for 1954-2007. Additional data was used from www.mlb.com and www.baseball-reference.com. Summary The available data shows 4,538 3-6-3 double plays turned by 1,297 different first basemen in 72,097 opportunities. The overall percentage of 3-6-3 double plays turned is 6.29%. Left-handed first basemen converted 6.51% (1,784 out of 27,387) while right-handers converted 6.16% (2,754 of 44,710). Gil Hodges holds the single season record for most opportunities with 117 in 1954 (he converted six). Albert Pujols has converted the most in a single season, with 13 in 2007 (in 58 opportunities). -
1994 Topps Baseball Card Set Checklist
1994 TOPPS BASEBALL CARD SET CHECKLIST 1 Mike Piazza 2 Bernie Williams 3 Kevin Rogers 4 Paul Carey 5 Ozzie Guillen 6 Derrick May 7 Jose Mesa 8 Todd Hundley 9 Chris Haney 10 John Olerud 11 Andujar Cedeno 12 John Smiley 13 Phil Plantier 14 Willie Banks 15 Jay Bell 16 Doug Henry 17 Lance Blankenship 18 Greg W. Harris 19 Scott Livingstone 20 Bryan Harvey 21 Wil Cordero 22 Roger Pavlik 23 Mark Lemke 24 Jeff Nelson 25 Todd Zeile 26 Billy Hatcher 27 Joe Magrane 28 Tony Longmire 29 Omar Daal 30 Kirt Manwaring 31 Melido Perez 32 Tim Hulett 33 Jeff Schwarz 34 Nolan Ryan 35 Jose Guzman 36 Felix Fermin 37 Jeff Innis 38 Brent Mayne 39 Huck Flener RC 40 Jeff Bagwell 41 Kevin Wickander 42 Ricky Gutierrez Compliments of BaseballCardBinders.com© 2019 1 43 Pat Mahomes 44 Jeff King 45 Cal Eldred 46 Craig Paquette 47 Richie Lewis 48 Tony Phillips 49 Armando Reynoso 50 Moises Alou 51 Manuel Lee 52 Otis Nixon 53 Billy Ashley 54 Mark Whiten 55 Jeff Russell 56 Chad Curtis 57 Kevin Stocker 58 Mike Jackson 59 Matt Nokes 60 Chris Bosio 61 Damon Buford 62 Tim Belcher 63 Glenallen Hill 64 Bill Wertz 65 Eddie Murray 66 Tom Gordon 67 Alex Gonzalez 68 Eddie Taubensee 69 Jacob Brumfield 70 Andy Benes 71 Rich Becker 72 Steve Cooke 73 Bill Spiers 74 Scott Brosius 75 Alan Trammell 76 Luis Aquino 77 Jerald Clark 78 Mel Rojas 79 Billy Masse, Stanton Cameron, Tim Clark, Craig McClure 80 Jose Canseco 81 Greg McMichael 82 Brian Turang RC 83 Tom Urbani 84 Garret Anderson 85 Tony Pena 86 Ricky Jordan 87 Jim Gott 88 Pat Kelly 89 Bud Black Compliments of BaseballCardBinders.com© 2019 2 90 Robin Ventura 91 Rick Sutcliffe 92 Jose Bautista 93 Bob Ojeda 94 Phil Hiatt 95 Tim Pugh 96 Randy Knorr 97 Todd Jones 98 Ryan Thompson 99 Tim Mauser 100 Kirby Puckett 101 Mark Dewey 102 B.J. -
Greenberg and Interleague Play Tigers in Danger from Train Fire
Official Publication of Retrosheet, Inc. Volume 5, Number 4 December 1, 1998 Greenberg and Interleague Play As we come to the close of another year, it is conventional to summarize the big events of the last 12 months. We have done a lot this The last issue of TRS carried an article concerning interleague play year, for example, as discussed in the late 1950s. Hank Greenberg was the originator passing the 50,000 of the idea and our crack staff has tracked down the information. In View from mark in total May 1954, Greenberg, then GM of the Indians, offered a plan for games entered, games that count in the standings to be played between all NL and the Vault AL clubs. gathering David Smith, thousands more President Greenberg’s plan included four games between each AL and NL game accounts club, with two at home and two away. The intraleague contests from many sources would be cut from eleven to nine (home and away) to and increasing our visibility with the general accommodate these new games. However, that arrangement public as well as many Major League teams. would have to be modified each year since the eight game inter- league sets would add 32 games while the intraleague reductions However, this is also a good opportunity to would only account for 28 games. Greenberg said that the details think of ways to improve the organization in could be worked out later but the idea was to have a home and the coming year. To me there is one area away engagement with each club.