MLB position players transition to pitcher & the reverse - Ep. 221
08/19/21 • 27 min
What Shohei Ohtani is doing this season is amazing. Just making it to the Major Leagues is incredibly difficult. How about changing positions from being a position every day player to a pitcher? Or a pitcher needing to become a position player in order to stay in the big leagues? Players like the Cardinal’s Rick Ankiel come to mind but there are plenty of other MLB players who've adapted on the fly in order to remain at the highest level of baseball.
We also talk about the Olympics again for some reason.
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What Shohei Ohtani is doing this season is amazing. Just making it to the Major Leagues is incredibly difficult. How about changing positions from being a position every day player to a pitcher? Or a pitcher needing to become a position player in order to stay in the big leagues? Players like the Cardinal’s Rick Ankiel come to mind but there are plenty of other MLB players who've adapted on the fly in order to remain at the highest level of baseball.
We also talk about the Olympics again for some reason.
Please subscribe to our podcast and thanks for listening! If you have a suggestion for an episode please drop us a line via email at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter @almostcoop or visit the Almost Cooperstown Facebook page.
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Big Trade Deadline Deals That Led to a World Series - Ep. 220
This year there were a slew of big deals for excellent players at the July 30 trading deadline. it may have even been the most good players traded ever at the deadline. We talk about the most significant trading deadline deals over the past 60 years since there were not that many before 1969 when divisional play began and there were more than two league champions.
A couple of corrections. Cliff Lee went to the Phillies at the deadline and they did make the WS again in 2009 but the Yankees won that one. Kevin Brown as Gordon said did pitch a while for the Dodgers and only pitched one year for the Padres but it was a before season move though the Padres did reach the WS.
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Complete Games are ravaged by batters watching in-game video replay - Ep. 222
There have been close to 40 complete games pitched in MLB this season so far. The modern era all-time single season record for a pitchers is 41 complete games in 1904. Since then the number has been reduced such that Shane Bieber led MLB with 3 complete games in the last full season 2019. This year 3 players already have 3 complete games. Over the years complete games have dwindled and that trend is likely to continue. Better relief pitchers compared to what used to be the case might be a reason. But hitters knowledge of the pitchers has never been better. Batters watching replay of their AB's during the game helps them refine their approach in future ABs.
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