Almost exactly 38 years ago, on July 20, 1987, the Yankees’ Don Mattingly tied the nine-inning, AL record for putouts as a first baseman, with 22. The landmark achievement, which had been accomplished twice before in the league (both occurrences coming in 1906), gave Mattingly a line in the record […]
When the 2014 regular season shut down for the fall and winter, a comber through the game’s history books (or more relevantly, the magic of Baseball Reference) would have found that there were exactly 20 left-handed hurlers who had made at least one appearance in at least 20 campaigns. 10 […]
A few days ago, I felt a twinge of surprise upon learning that Rich Hill had just thrown 1.1 scoreless innings for the Red Sox to mark his entry into his 20th big league season.