MW: Only in Seattle.

Why does Jerry and Alan criticize J.P and Rogers Inc. and you always defend their actions.

MW: I’d have a really good answer for that if your assertion were true. But it isn’t.

I hope that the above link works. If you scroll down to the “Bases Occupied” section you will see that Joe Carter had 634 AB for SD in 1990. 321 were with the bases empty, and 313 with men on base. 188 ABs with one on, 86 with two on, and 21 with the bases full. A total of 423 runners (188+172+63).

At least thats how I see their numbers.

Steve

MW: Don’t look at at-bats, look at plate appearances. I did the math above.

MW: Who, me or the commenter? It says on your ticket that you’re not allowed to throw objects onto the field. Even in parks where tossing back an opposition home run ball is a tradition, the tosser gets tossed.

I am trying to be serious. the fact is joe carter never came up with 542 runners on.

MW: I don’t know if that’s a fact. In fact, according to baseball-reference.com, Carter came up with a runner only on first 130 times, only on second 52 times and only on third 23 times (and only drove that runner in FIVE times, by the way). He came up with runners at first and second 65 times, runners at first and third 33 times, runners at second and third 33 times and with the bases loaded 25 times. So that’s 130+52+23+(65*2)+(33*2)+(33*2)+(25*3) which comes out to 542 in my books, unless there’s some double-counting going on that I’m not seeing.

I see where you get the number mike, but sorry it is wrong. they are making the same mistake I just explained. I emailed the site. I’ll let you know if they fix it. but please dont tell me you still actually believe it?

just in case you do. I’ll put it as simply as I can

1+2=3

2+3-5

1+2+3=8 WRONG

you cant simply add the totals.

MW: Are you sure that 1+2+3 isn’t 8?

And I like Cito, I really do, but if I were the President or GM, I’d fire him just because he’s really hurting my chances of finding out whether or not Ruiz, Phillips, and Snider have anything to offer at the Major League level.

But we don’t have a President or GM who actually has the ability to do something as radical as firing anybody, do we?

MW: A president, yes.

Stupid follow up question, but what do you mean by ‘comps’?

MW: Complimentary tickets.

I’m sorry mike, but you are clearly wrong. do you really think ANY player would come up with 3.3 runners on every game? first there is no category on baseball reference that shows those numbers so I surmise you simply added the categories in “bases occupied” section. but what you did wrong was double count the categories. the section “men on” totals 361 PA which includes every possible combination and equals the sum of the 7 possible combinations. so joe carter came up with 361 total runners on, not 542. what you did wrong was double count the categories. ex –2 and -23 you added to get 1 number, then you added –3 and -23 to get another number then combined the two, but the -23 category you added twice, one for runners on second and another for runners on third. if you dont believe me then add up every combination individually, the total is 361, not 542.

MW: Go look on the 1990 game log page for Joe Carter.

MW: When there are two out and nobody on and you hit a guy who has just hit three homers with the first pitch, you’re not really disguising your intentions.