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Seattle Mariners Opening Day Record Book
SEATTLE MARINERS OPENING DAY RECORD BOOK 1977-2012 All-Time Openers Year Date Day Opponent Att. Time Score D/N 1977 4/6 Wed. CAL 57,762 2:40 L, 0-1 N 1978 4/5 Wed. MIN 45,235 2:15 W, 3-2 N 1979 4/4 Wed. CAL 37,748 2:23 W, 5-4 N 1980 4/9 Wed. TOR 22,588 2:34 W, 8-6 N 1981 4/9 Thurs. CAL 33,317 2:14 L, 2-6 N 1982 4/6 Tue. at MIN 52,279 2:32 W, 11-7 N 1983 4/5 Tue. NYY 37,015 2:53 W, 5-4 N 1984 4/4 Wed. TOR 43,200 2:50 W, 3-2 (10) N 1985 4/9 Tue. OAK 37,161 2:56 W, 6-3 N 1986 4/8 Tue. CAL 42,121 3:22 W, 8-4 (10) N 1987 4/7 Tue. at CAL 37,097 2:42 L, 1-7 D 1988 4/4 Mon. at OAK 45,333 2:24 L, 1-4 N 1989 4/3 Mon. at OAK 46,163 2:19 L, 2-3 N 1990 4/9 Mon. at CAL 38,406 2:56 W, 7-4 N 1991 4/9 Tue. CAL 53,671 2:40 L, 2-3 N 1992 4/6 Mon. TEX 55,918 3:52 L, 10-12 N 1993 4/6 Tue. TOR 56,120 2:41 W, 8-1 N 1994 4/4 Mon. at CLE 41,459 3:29 L, 3-4 (11) D 1995 4/27 Thurs. -
Sabermetrics: the Past, the Present, and the Future
Sabermetrics: The Past, the Present, and the Future Jim Albert February 12, 2010 Abstract This article provides an overview of sabermetrics, the science of learn- ing about baseball through objective evidence. Statistics and baseball have always had a strong kinship, as many famous players are known by their famous statistical accomplishments such as Joe Dimaggio’s 56-game hitting streak and Ted Williams’ .406 batting average in the 1941 baseball season. We give an overview of how one measures performance in batting, pitching, and fielding. In baseball, the traditional measures are batting av- erage, slugging percentage, and on-base percentage, but modern measures such as OPS (on-base percentage plus slugging percentage) are better in predicting the number of runs a team will score in a game. Pitching is a harder aspect of performance to measure, since traditional measures such as winning percentage and earned run average are confounded by the abilities of the pitcher teammates. Modern measures of pitching such as DIPS (defense independent pitching statistics) are helpful in isolating the contributions of a pitcher that do not involve his teammates. It is also challenging to measure the quality of a player’s fielding ability, since the standard measure of fielding, the fielding percentage, is not helpful in understanding the range of a player in moving towards a batted ball. New measures of fielding have been developed that are useful in measuring a player’s fielding range. Major League Baseball is measuring the game in new ways, and sabermetrics is using this new data to find better mea- sures of player performance. -
56. Baseball Moves the All Star Game
theglobeandmail.com Baseball sheds unhurried image by swiftly moving All-Star Game from Atlanta over Georgia voting laws David Shribman 5-7 minutes Ground crews prepare the field at Sun Trust Park, now known as Truist Park, ahead of Game 3 of MLB baseball's National League Division Series between the Atlanta Braves and the Los Angeles Dodgers in Atlanta on Oct. 7, 2018. Baseball has never been in a hurry. It took decades to invite Black players into the game. Last week’s Opening Day contest between the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates required four hours to play nine innings. Pitchers in this era are taking an average of 23.8 seconds between pitches – an eon when you consider that it is almost exactly half the time of an entire line shift in the National Hockey League. So it was something of a shock – and an apt measure of how the sports world today is attuned to the political world – that Major League Baseball took just a week to move its midsummer All- Star Game from Atlanta in condemnation of Georgia’s new law that critics describe as a prescription for voter suppression, especially of Black voters. It is also an acknowledgement of how social activism has moved to centre court, centre circle, centre ice, the 55-yard line, and the diamond battery – and how the cause of racial justice and baseball management’s effort to enhance its relationship with the players’ union became a perfect double-play combination. This dramatic action – requiring enormous logistical and financial adjustments for a multiday sporting extravaganza scheduled years in advance, with ripples extending to airline reservations, hotel arrangements and civic celebrations – provided baseball with a chance to make an important statement for a sport that went from 18.7-per-cent Black players in 1981 to about a third of that rate today. -
2010 BIG GREEN MEDIA GUIDE the 2010 BIG GREEN
Senior Captain Robert Young Baseball America Preseason All-Ivy 2010 BIG GREEN MEDIA GUIDE The 2010 BIG GREEN Front Row (l-r): Chad Piersma, Zack Bellenger, Kyle Hunter, Ennis Coble, Spencer Venegas, Matt Peterson, Chris O’Dowd, Michael Johnson. Middle row (l-r): Ezra Josephson, Jim Wren, Robert Young, Jake Pruner, Jeff Onstott, Joe Sclafani, Kyle Hendricks, Ryan Smith, Max Langford. Back row (l-r): Assistant Coach Nicholas Enriquez, Assistant Coach Jonathan Anderson, Jason Brooks, David Turnbull, Brett Gardner, Brandon Parks, Dan Ternowchek, Colin Britton, Ben Murray, Cole Sulser, Jake Carlson, Marco Mariscal, Head Coach Bob Whalen. Sophomore Sophomore Junior Junior Kyle Hendricks Joe Sclafani Jeff Onstott Ryan Smith Baseball America Baseball America Baseball America Baseball America Preseason Ivy Pitcher of the Year Preseason Ivy Player of the Year Preseason All-Ivy Preseason All-Ivy Contents/QuiCk FaCts InformatIon 1-2 QuIck facts Table of Contents, Quick Facts . 1 Location . Hanover, N .H . Media Information . 2 Founded/Enrollment . 1769/4,200 Nickname . Big Green Colors . Green and White Conference . Ivy League President . Dr . Jim Yong Kim Acting Athletics Director . .Robert Ceplikas Home Field . Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park (1,300) the opponents 37-42 Dimensions . LF - 325, CF - 403, RF - 340 Press Box . .603-646-6937 Akron, Bethune-Cookman, Boston College, Bradley, Brown, Bucknell . 38 Head Coach . Bob Whalen (Maine ’79) Columbia, Cornell, Hartford, the Dartmouth Record at Dartmouth (Years) . 376-395-1 (20) Harvard, Holy Cross, Illinois . 39 Overall Record (Years) . 376-395-1 (20) experIence 3-12 Long Island, Northwestern, Ohio State,, Office Phone . .603-646-2477 Dartmouth College . -
Adams Changes with Students by LYN M
Adams changes with students By LYN M. MUNLEY Student priorities are "The students today seem respect for grades — more the jobs are there on a changing, and the man at the to be a more mature group concern about career devel- qualitative basis, and the "heart of the institution," than I've ever seen," Adams opment and placement. Stu- competition is rough," he Frederick G. Adams, is pick- claims, "We don't have the dents seem to be aware of says. ing up the beat. emotional kinds of issues the economic realities of the Another kind of competi- As vice president for that drain our productive country," Adams says. tion, involving student gov- student affairs and services, energies. We can facilitate "People are more concern- ernment officials, worries Adams has his finger on the the learning of the three r's ed about themselves as indi- Adams. "There's a real pulse of the ujniversity. He is much more easily this way.' viduals. Even in dancing problem with the number of in charge of the human After being at UConn for closer together the concern is working hours the officials aspect of UConn's produc- nearly 10 years, first as reflected. It's healthy," he must expend vis a vis com- tion of educated beings. ombudsman, then in the remarks. peting priorities, such as As an individual, Adams school of allied health, then Adams points to what he their academic studies. I exudes an air of idealism, into administrative duty in 60's has turned into the calls a "competitive renais- wish there were some way to optimism and total involve- 1974, Adams has certainly silence of the 70's. -
A Giant Whiff: Why the New CBA Fails Baseball's Smartest Small Market Franchises
DePaul Journal of Sports Law Volume 4 Issue 1 Summer 2007: Symposium - Regulation of Coaches' and Athletes' Behavior and Related Article 3 Contemporary Considerations A Giant Whiff: Why the New CBA Fails Baseball's Smartest Small Market Franchises Jon Berkon Follow this and additional works at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/jslcp Recommended Citation Jon Berkon, A Giant Whiff: Why the New CBA Fails Baseball's Smartest Small Market Franchises, 4 DePaul J. Sports L. & Contemp. Probs. 9 (2007) Available at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/jslcp/vol4/iss1/3 This Notes and Comments is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Law at Via Sapientiae. It has been accepted for inclusion in DePaul Journal of Sports Law by an authorized editor of Via Sapientiae. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A GIANT WHIFF: WHY THE NEW CBA FAILS BASEBALL'S SMARTEST SMALL MARKET FRANCHISES INTRODUCTION Just before Game 3 of the World Series, viewers saw something en- tirely unexpected. No, it wasn't the sight of the Cardinals and Tigers playing baseball in late October. Instead, it was Commissioner Bud Selig and Donald Fehr, the head of Major League Baseball Players' Association (MLBPA), gleefully announcing a new Collective Bar- gaining Agreement (CBA), thereby guaranteeing labor peace through 2011.1 The deal was struck a full two months before the 2002 CBA had expired, an occurrence once thought as likely as George Bush and Nancy Pelosi campaigning for each other in an election year.2 Baseball insiders attributed the deal to the sport's economic health. -
Postseaason Sta Rec Ats & Caps & Re S, Li Ecord Ne S Ds
Postseason Recaps, Line Scores, Stats & Records World Champions 1955 World Champions For the Brooklyn Dodgers, the 1955 World Series was not just a chance to win a championship, but an opportunity to avenge five previous World Series failures at the hands of their chief rivals, the New York Yankees. Even with their ace Don Newcombe on the mound, the Dodgers seemed to be doomed from the start, as three Yankee home runs set back Newcombe and the rest of the team in their opening 6-5 loss. Game 2 had the same result, as New York's southpaw Tommy Byrne held Brooklyn to five hits in a 4-2 victory. With the Series heading back to Brooklyn, Johnny Podres was given the start for Game 3. The Dodger lefty stymied the Yankees' offense over the first seven innings by allowing one run on four hits en route to an 8-3 victory. Podres gave the Dodger faithful a hint as to what lay ahead in the series with his complete-game, six-strikeout performance. Game 4 at Ebbets Field turned out to be an all-out slugfest. After falling behind early, 3-1, the Dodgers used the long ball to knot up the series. Future Hall of Famers Roy Campanella and Duke Snider each homered and Gil Hodges collected three of the club’s 14 hits, including a home run in the 8-5 triumph. Snider's third and fourth home runs of the Series provided the support needed for rookie Roger Craig and the Dodgers took Game 5 by a score of 5-3. -
Openwar: an Open Source System for Overall Player Performance in MLB
OpenWAR: An Open Source System for Overall Player Performance in MLB Ben Baumer1 Shane Jensen2 Gregory Matthews3 1 Smith College 2 The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania 3 University of Massachusetts Joint Mathematical Meetings Baltimore, MD January 17th, 2014 Baumer (Smith) openWAR JMM 1 / 21 Introduction Motivation WAR - What is it good for? WinsAboveReplacement Question: How large is the contribution that each player makes towards winning? Four Components: 1 Batting 2 Baserunning 3 Fielding 4 Pitching Replacement Player: Hypothetical 4A journeyman I Much worse than an average player Baumer (Smith) openWAR JMM 2 / 21 Introduction Motivation Units and Scaling In terms of absolute runs: Me Replacement Average Miguel Cabrera 10 40 90 140 In terms of Runs Above Replacement( RAR): Me Replacement Average Miguel Cabrera −30 0 50 100 In terms of Wins Above Replacement( WAR): Me Replacement Average Miguel Cabrera −3 0 5 10 Baumer (Smith) openWAR JMM 3 / 21 Introduction Motivation Example: 2012 WAR leaders FanGraphs fWAR BB-Ref rWAR Mike Trout 10.0 Mike Trout 10.9 Robinson Cano 7.8 Robinson Cano 8.5 Buster Posey 7.7 Buster Posey 7.4 Ryan Braun 7.6 Miguel Cabrera 7.3 David Wright 7.4 Andrew McCutchen 7.2 Chase Headley 7.2 Adrian Beltre 7.0 Miguel Cabrera 6.8 Ryan Braun 7.0 Andrew McCutchen 6.8 Yadier Molina 6.9 Table : 2012 WAR Leaders Baseball Prospectus also publishes WARP There is no ONE formula for WAR! Baumer (Smith) openWAR JMM 4 / 21 Introduction Motivation WAR is the Answer Baumer (Smith) openWAR JMM 5 / 21 Introduction Related -
Baseball Prospectus, 1997, 1997, Gary Huckabay, Clay Davenport, Joe Sheehan, Chris Kahrl, 0965567400, 9780965567404, Ravenlock Media, 1997
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Heroes and Rallies Baseball
Heroes and Rallies Baseball Setup Pick two teams to go head to head, and fill out your lineups on the scoresheet. Each team receives 8 skill assignments to give to individual players. All of the skill assignments listed below must be used within your starting lineup for a total of 8. A player may possess two assignments if you wish. Rate your lineup by placing the appropriate notation beside a player’s name on the scoresheet. 1) star hitter (H) 2) star slugger (S) 3) star runner (R) 4) star fielder (F) 5) poor hitter (H-) 6) weak hitter (S-) 7) slow runner (R-) 8) poor fielder (F-) Once a player has a skill assignment, he cannot transfer it to another player. There is one additional skill assignment available for an ace pitcher (X). You may, however, choose not to start one. Make any pitcher a poor hitter as well (H-), so there will be two poor hitters if a pitcher is in the lineup. Game Play Roll the dice for each player who comes up to bat, reading the colored die first and the white die second. If a result occurs on the Batting chart which displays an image of a ballplayer, the inning is considered finished with no further scoring. Draw an X in the box on the scoresheet representing the current hitter’s at-bat. When his team next comes up to bat, the next player in the lineup will hit. If the color of a chart result corresponds to the color of the skill assignment of the player who is currently up to bat, the result changes to the one shown on the bottom of the Batting chart. -
Twar: Introducing a Method to Actually Calculate Wins Above Replacement
tWAR: introducing a method to actually calculate wins above replacement Daniel J. Eck March 21, 2019 1 Introduction Wins above replacement (WAR) is meant to be a one-number summary of the total contribution made by a player for his team in any particular season. As stated by Steve Slowinski of Fangraphs, WAR offers an estimate to answer the question, \If this player got injured and their team had to replace them with a freely available player of lower quality from their bench, how much value would the team be losing," where this value is expressed in number of wins [Slowinski, 2010]. That being said, nobody actually calculates WAR in a manner that properly answers the above question as posed. This is not by any explicit fault of the metric and those who calculate it. One problem is that it is impossible to simultaneously quantify the value of a player when the player is available and the value of a replacement to that player when the player is unavailable. The player in question is either available to play or unavailable to play, never both. Instead of confronting the problems raised in this factual-counterfactual world, people have attempted to calculate a hypothetical replacement player to implicitly compare every player with using the machinery of a proprietary black box [Baumer et al., 2015]. Three widely used versions of WAR that are calculated in this manner are Baseball Reference's bWAR [Reference, 2010], Fangraphs's fWAR [Slowinski, 2010], and Baseball Prospectus's bWARP [Prospectus, 2019]. Through the incorporation of ideas from causal inference, we propose methodolody to directly estimate wins above replacement. -
Pine Tar and the Infield Fly Rule: an Umpire’S Perspective on the Hart-Dworkin Jurisprudential Debate
Pine Tar and the Infield Fly Rule: An Umpire’s Perspective on the Hart-Dworkin Jurisprudential Debate William D. Blake, Ph.D.1 Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Indiana University, Indianapolis (IUPUI) [email protected] Abstract: What is law? Though on its face this question seems simple, it remains an incredibly controversial one to legal theorists. One prominent jurisprudential debate of late occurred between H.L.A. Hart, a positivist, and Ronald Dworkin, an interpretivist. While positivism, at its core, holds the law is a set of authoritative commands, Dworkin rejects this reflexive approach and instructs judges to incorporate and advance communal norms and morals in their decisions. In baseball, umpires utilize both legal theories, depending on the type of rule they are asked to interpret or enforce. I conclude that, like umpires, most citizens are not dogmatic about either legal theory. 1 I wish to thank Justice George Nicholson of the California Court of Appeal for encouraging my participation at this Symposium. I am eternally grateful to former Major Leaguer Jim Abbott for taking the time to respond to my questions. Finally, to the 13 year-old pitcher whom I discuss in this paper: your courage and enthusiasm are inspiring, but, for Pete's sake, please practice coming set. Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2403586 Bill Klem, one of the 2 first umpires inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, once wrongly called a runner out at home plate. A lucky newspaper photographer snapped a shot, which demonstrated Klem’s mistake. The next day, reporters demanded to know how the batter could be out in light of the incontrovertible photographic evidence.