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Baseball Tangents S2E3 Recently Rizzo: Somebody start banging for me (https://twitter.com/espn/status/1234592376288686083?s=20) Trevor Bauer Purposefully tipping his pitches (https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2878912-video-trevor-bauer-intentionally-tips-pitches-to-dodgers-after-astros-cheating) Trevor Bauer on pine tar and more (https://blogs.fangraphs.com/trevor-bauer-might-have-conducted-an-experiment/) Center Fielders Jackie Bradley (https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bradlja02.shtml) Alex Verdugo (https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/verdual01.shtml) Episode 1 of S2 featured a discussion of Alex Verdugo, I am not a time traveler as much as I wish I was. Mike Trout (https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/troutmi01.shtml) George Springer (https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/springe01.shtml) Ronald Acuna Jr (https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/acunaro01.shtml) Victor Robles (https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/roblevi01.shtml) CF/SS Kiké Hernández (https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hernaen02.shtml) Ketel Marte (https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/marteke01.shtml) Ketel Marte in 2019 (https://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/bqbyV) Scott Kingery (https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kingesc01.shtml) OPS+ (http://m.mlb.com/glossary/advanced-stats/on-base-plus-slugging-plus) More Center Fielders Jason Heyward (https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/heywaja01.shtml) Manuel Margot (https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/margoma01.shtml) Real or Not? Burton Williamson (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/untrue) or Bill Bruton (William) (https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brutobi01.shtml) SABR Bio (https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/66910bf0) Career 26.1 WAR & OPS+ of 96 4th in ROY voting, Jim Gilliam )won that year, career 40.7 War) | Year | League | Stolen Bases (rank)| |:----:|:--:|:-------:| | 1953 | NL | 26 (1st) | 1954 | NL | 34 (1st) | 1955 | NL | 25 (1st) In 1954 also led NL in CS! | Year | League | Errors as CF (rank)| |:-----:|:--:|:--------:| | 1953 | NL | 9 (2nd) | 1954 | NL | 7 (3rd) | 1955 | NL | 14 (1st) | 1956 | NL | 13 (1st) | 1957 | NL | 4 (4th) | 1958 | NL | 5 (4th) | 1960 | NL | 5 (4th) | 1961 | AL | 5 (5th) | 1962 | AL | 7 (1st) | Career | | 77 (28th) | Year | League | Putouts as CF (rank)| |:-----:|:--:|:--------:| |1953 | NL | 389 (4th) |1955 | NL | 382 (3rd) |1956 | NL | 395 (3rd) |1959 | NL | 297 (5th) |1960 | NL | 352 (3rd) |1961 | AL | 406 (1st) |1962 | AL | 396 (1st) |1963 | AL | 342 (2nd) | Career | | 3,808 (33rd) Bill Bruton’s Obscure Record - Most innings in a game without an opportunity Box score from the record day (https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET196206240.shtml) Further Reading from SABR (https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/june-24-1962-yankees-outlast-tigers-22-inning-game) Fangraphs (https://www.fangraphs.com) “The Game” ✅ Cincinnati Reds RF (https://www.fangraphs.com/players/nicholas-castellanos/11737/stats?position=3B/OF) ✅ Cincinnati Reds LF (https://www.fangraphs.com/players/jesse-winker/13590/stats?position=OF) ✅ Colorado Rockies SS (https://www.fangraphs.com/players/trevor-story/12564/stats?position=SS) ✅ Ian Desmond (https://www.fangraphs.com/players/ian-desmond/6885/stats?position=SS/OF) ✅ Colorado Rockies 1B (https://www.fangraphs.com/players/daniel-murphy/4316/stats?position=1B/2B) Projected WAR for Rockies 1B is 0.4 (not 1.5 per Kyle's guess) ? Baltimore Orioles SS (https://www.fangraphs.com/players/jose-iglesias/10231/stats?position=SS) Bonus rambling: Nationals SS (https://www.fangraphs.com/players/trea-turner/16252/stats?position=SS) is not Avisaíl García (https://www.fangraphs.com/players/avisail-garcia/5760/stats?position=OF) Boston SS: Xander Bogaerts (https://www.fangraphs.com/players/xander-bogaerts/12161/stats?position=SS) Phillies SS: Didi Gregorius (https://www.fangraphs.com/players/didi-gregorius/6012/stats?position=SS) San Diego Padre OF/1B: Wil Myers (https://www.fangraphs.com/players/wil-myers/10047/stats?position=1B/OF)