Josh Hamilton and Fun With Numbers
by Adam J. Morris on Jul 15, 2008 10:29 AM CDT
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PrintSo, I subscribed to Bill James' online site recently. Mainly because it is just $9 per quarter, and it allows me access to the Dewan +/- fielding numbers, which I think are considered pretty close to the gold standard in terms of fielding stats.
Anyway, there's a lot of other cool things in there, one of them being a detailed breakdown of RBIs and runs scored. This falls in the category of Jayson Stark/Norm Hitzges stats...stuff that doesn't necessarily mean anything, but can be interesting to look at.
So I was looking at Josh Hamilton's RBI breakdown, which I found pretty fascinating...he has 95 RBIs, with 76 of those coming from driving in Ian Kinsler, Michael Young, or himself. He's driven in Kinsler 31 times, which I'd guess is probably the highest for any pair of players in the league.
There are seven other players who have been driven in by Hamilton this season, all of whom are in single digits in terms of the number of times Hamilton has driven them in.
Can anyone of you guess (without looking it up, dammit) who those seven are?
And as a bonus question...three Rangers have been driven in just one time by Hamilton? Can you name those three?
Answers later this afternoon...
UPDATE -- Answers after the jump:
From the Bill James website...the players Hamilton has driven in, with the number of times:
| Ben Broussard | 1 |
| Frank Catalanotto | 1 |
| German Duran | 5 |
| Ian Kinsler | 31 |
| Gerald Laird | 3 |
| Jarrod Saltalamacchia | 1 |
| Chris Shelton | 2 |
| Ramon Vazquez | 6 |
| Michael Young | 24 |
| His Own Bad Self | 21 |
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3 driven in only once
Saltalmachia, Catalanato, Byrd
I'll guess
The 7: Salty, Cat, Byrd, Vazquez, Murph, Laird, Boggs
The 3: Murph, Salty, Broussard
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That doesn't make any sense
I’ll replace Brousard with Boggs
"Will the Rangers ever win...past July?" - Peter Schmidt
The three he's brought in only once
Would have had to have hit in about the 5-6-7 spots.
I’m gonna say… Murphy, Byrd and Boggs.
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The Three
I looked up the answer, well…just because I felt like it. I’ve found two of the three but can’t figure out who the third one is.
Well I can pretend to be Britney Spears. I'm already standing in urine and I'm with someone I don't like.
yeah, i'm beginning to think there may be an error in the question
as well. i’m only seeing two.
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guesses
Michael Young
Ramon Vazquez
Gerald Laird
Jarrod Saltalamacchia
Chris Shelton – just 1 time
Kevin Millwood – just 1 time
German Duran – just 1 time
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shit, forgot Cat
I’ll replace Laird with Cat
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Guesses
(I haven’t looked at the comments above me)
Single digits, multiple times
Vazquez
Duran
Cat
Laird
One RBI/R pairing
MaxRam
Botts
Salty
My guess
Cat
Vazquez
Broussard
Shelton
Laird
Duran
Salty
No clue on the one timers.
Woo hoo!
I got it! No cheating either. Although I was thinking that I might replace Broussard with a pitcher.
me too....
but I wasn’t going to just throw one out.
any chance
you can post some of those fielding stats… mainly focusing on Kinsler compared to other 2B?
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