One lopsided stat I’ve always found interesting is baseball’s longest winning streak. In 1916, the New York Giants won 26 consecutive games, an all-time record. Yet, they finished in fourth place and won just 86 games overall. The craziest part is that they had a separate, 17-game winning streak that same year.

@thebaseballprofessor

Жыл бұрын

You’re reminding me that I need to read up on the 1916 Giants. What a curious team

@big8dog887

Жыл бұрын

Funny thing is, all 26 games of that winning streak were at home, while all 17 games of that other winning streak were on the road. Evidently homestands and road trips were much longer back then.

@doppelplusungutmensch1141

9 ай бұрын

Interesting. Just looked it up, they started 2-13 and were dead last. Then they won 17 games in a row, were 19-13 standing on second after 32 games. They became average, had a 59-62 record (that's 40-49 after the 17-wins streak) and were stuck on fourth place, and at that point they began their 26-game winning streak, staying at 85-62 without leaving fourth place at all but only five games behind first. But with only five games left that couldn't work out and they lost four of the last five games. A very curious season.

Outside of watching my San Francisco Giants win all those World Series in the early 2010s, I didn’t really watch or think of baseball that much until recently. It’s videos like this that help me get caught up on 100+ years of very interesting and cool stuff I never knew about this sport I now love. Great work and keep up the engaging content!

@thebaseballprofessor

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the encouragement!

Dude love the insane prime series… keep up the good work the subscribers will come… can you do a insane prime for a Bluejay please?

If Philly had an even above average offense Lefty should have had over 30 wins that season.

@thebaseballprofessor

3 ай бұрын

One certainly wonders what his win total would have been on a team like the As or Reds.

"every time I see an Angels highlight it's like "Mike Trout hit three homes runs and raised his average to .528 while Shohei Ohtani did something that hasn't been done since 'Tungsten Arm' O'Doyle of the 1921 Akron Groomsmen, as the Tigers defeated the Angels 8-3" Not my joke but I think about it all the time

@thebaseballprofessor

11 ай бұрын

Once in a century players are interesting.

I read where Old Hoss couldn't raise his arm high enough to comb his hair after pitching

Babe Ruth very famously outhomered every other team in the league in 1920, but here's something you didn't know. In 1927, Ruth and Lou Gehrig combined for 107 homers, the entire American League hit 439, so those two hit very close to 1 out of every 4 homers hit that year. In 2000, Roger Clemens had an ERA of 3.70, which was second in the American League. Pedro Martinez was nearly 2 runs better at 1.74. The worst pitcher who qualified for the ERA title was Chris Carpenter at 6.26. Clemens in second place wasn't quite closer to last than first, but he was close, add the difference and he would have been third from the bottom. That's pretty lopsided.

@thebaseballprofessor

Жыл бұрын

Pedro was a pitching unicorn at a time of historically high batting averages and home runs. He and Randy Johnson were so dominant for that era.

You also have to have teammates that are just horrible pitchers,, lol!

@big8dog887

Жыл бұрын

Woodie Fryman had a decent 18 year career, close to league average overall (ERA+ of 95), and made two All-Star teams. He got off to a horrible start in 1972, but was turning things around when the Phillies put him on waivers and the Tigers claimed him. He went 10-3 with a 2.06 ERA in Detroit, helping them to the AL East title.

Why are your videos so short? You have so much potential.

@thebaseballprofessor

Жыл бұрын

Did you watch my video from early July on Moneyball (20 minutes) or the lecture about baseball salaries (30 minutes) from earlier this year? I tend to mix up length