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Kerry Wood Strikes Out One Final Batter And Walks Away

I distinctly remember talking about Kerry Wood’s 20K game right after it happened during high school baseball practice. That was his rookie year. 1998.

This stat is crazy:

Among pitchers with at least 1,000 innings, Kerry Wood is one of three in MLB history whose strikeouts per nine innings was 10.0 or higher.

He’s just ahead of Pedro Martinez and just behind Randy Johnson.

Perhaps even crazier is a stat they just put up on Sportcenter: since his debut in 1998, no pitcher has given up fewer hits per nine innings on average than Wood. 

It’s one of those what-might-have-been stories (along with former teammate Mark Prior), but he’ll always be remembered for that 20K game. 

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“Here’s something that might blow your mind: In 1990, the Royals’ team payroll was $23.2 million … and was the highest payroll in Major League Baseball.”

Rob Neyer talking about baseball contracts and payrolls in the wake of Prince Fielder’s $214 million deal with the Tigers.

I’m not sure what’s crazier: that Fielder’s $23.77 million a year average salary is roughly the same as the top team payroll in 1990. Or that the Kansas City Royals had the top payroll in 1990.

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 Source mlb.sbnation.com

Anyone else always read this as “elb” when they were a kid? I thought it was some weird French Canadian way of abbreviating “Expos”. I later heard it’s in fact an “M”, but that they wanted the red part to look like an “e” and the blue part a “b” so that the whole thing could be “Montreal expos baseball”. It will always be “elb” to me.

Anyone else always read this as “elb” when they were a kid? I thought it was some weird French Canadian way of abbreviating “Expos”.

I later heard it’s in fact an “M”, but that they wanted the red part to look like an “e” and the blue part a “b” so that the whole thing could be “Montreal expos baseball”.

It will always be “elb” to me.

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Reblogged from Jodie Creations  Source jodiecreations