doug_tucker10 wrote:Some baseball trivia during our rain delay...
In 1941 Lefty Gomez of the Yankees led the AL in WP with a 15-5 WL record .750 percent. Lefty's WHIP of 1.625 is the 3rd worst pitching performance for a season in the entire history of the Yankees franchise. Minimum of 125 innings pitched for a starting pitcher.
I'm putting together all time rosters for all 30 MLB teams for my SOM computer game..i'm up to the Yankees so far which is how I came upon Lefty's less then steller overall numbers..thank you Baseball Reference. The Yankees are one of my least favorite sports franchises period and i was getting bored with always having their roster overflowing with superstar seasons soooo while i did mix the offense up a bit ranking their hitters by batting average for the pitchers i'm ranking them by WORST WHIP first
. Top 100 for hitters, top 60 pitchers 40 sp/20 rp..each franchise with only the Yankees getting the special treatment
..otherwise each teams player seasons i'm ranking by OPS and for pitchers BEST WHIP. Final season rosters for each team will be 10 hitters and 6 pitchers 4/2. I figure i have enough possible replays to last beyond my lifetime lol.
From each groupings of 100/60 i will mix the team player roster from season to season so players wont be selected from exact order of how they rank with the numbers i'm using.
To lessen my anti-Yankee bias I changed the pitching criteria..i now am ranking them by games started SP and games relieved RP