Random Fun Stat

[Sam Sanchez]

Was just listening to a podcast where they were talking about greatest hitters in extra inning history (yes very specific) and was interesting to hear the Top 3 hitters with the highest OPS with a minimum 100 plate appearances:

1. Mickey Mantle - 1.305

2. Justin Upton - 1.202

3. Ted Williams - they didn't give his OPS unfortunately

 

 

That's some pretty random elite company to be sandwiched in between for Upton. Hopefully some of that carries over to us this year, could use some fun walk offs.

[Blarg]

Hopefully Bedrosian and company does their job better and we see fewer extra inning games. 

[totdprods]

I think Upton is going to have a great year. Half the board seemed to even forget he was on the team as the offseason progressed. 

That's exactly the type of under-the-radar attention I believe he needs to thrive.

[tdawg87]

Pujols is ranked 394th behind Jeff Mathis.

[Sam Sanchez]

Was funny to see who was the worst of all time: Carlos Gomez with an impressive .354 ops.

[KevinJ14]

31 minutes ago, Sam Sanchez said:

Was just listening to a podcast where they were talking about greatest hitters in extra inning history (yes very specific) and was interesting to hear the Top 3 hitters with the highest OPS with a minimum 100 plate appearances:

1. Mickey Mantle - 1.305

2. Justin Upton - 1.202

3. Ted Williams - they didn't give his OPS unfortunately

 

 

That's some pretty random elite company to be sandwiched in between for Upton. Hopefully some of that carries over to us this year, could use some fun walk offs.

Do you mind sharing which podcast you got this from?

[Sam Sanchez]

Effectively Wild. Its a Fangraphs podcast with Ben Lindbergh who has recently been on MLB Network doing the Top 10 countdown and Jeff Sullivan.

[Angel Oracle]

1 hour ago, Sam Sanchez said:

Was funny to see who was the worst of all time: Carlos Gomez with an impressive .354 ops.

He's exhausted from trying to pick fights during regulation innings.

[krAbs]

1 hour ago, Sam Sanchez said:

Effectively Wild. Its a Fangraphs podcast with Ben Lindbergh who has recently been on MLB Network doing the Top 10 countdown and Jeff Sullivan.

I love this podcast. I wonder who the guest for the Angels will be - hoping for Jeff Fletcher.

[Sam Sanchez]

Yeah I just barely started listening a couple months ago. I used to listen to the Ringer MLB Show with Ben Lindbergh but not knowing he had another podcast. Easily my favorite baseball podcast now. Really like Jeff Sullivan's sense of humor on it too. "Mike Trout Hypotheticals" tend to be a staple of the show.

Have also been curious on who'll they'll get for the Angels, maybe Pedro Moura if not Fletcher? They got Andy McCollough for the Dodgers and Ben seemed to be familiar with the Sportswriters Blues podcast with McCollough and Moura.