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Bad Ideas File #2851

Published by on March 9, 2009 | 16 Responses

You down with OBP? Yeah, I didn’t think so. “The biggest thing I talk to Freddie about is having a certain attitude,” Lansford said. “When you’re the No. 3 hitter, you’re our best hitter. I don’t care who’s on the mound. There’s a way you walk into the box and [maintain a] thought process, the whole way you handle yourself…. Read more →

What Happened to McCovey in '64?

What Happened to McCovey in ’64?

Published by on March 9, 2009 | 5 Responses

(Click to enlarge) I’m still playing around with Baseball Projection.com’s Historical WAR Database, and it got me to thinking: What happened to Willie McCovey in 1964? In the graph above, you can see that McCovey’s age 26 season in ’64 was quite the drop off from his previous years when he really started to enter his peak years. In 1963… Read more →