We talked a little baseball last night. It got me looking into some stats. I have 2 trivia questions at the end of this little diversionary post.
Highest 6:
NY Yankees – .569
San Francisco Giants – .538
Los Angeles Dodgers – .525
St. Louis Cardinals – .520
Boston Red Sox – .516
Chicago Cubs – .511
Lowest 7:
Baltimore Orioles- .476
Texas Rangers – .476
Florida Marlins – .468
Seattle Mariners – .468
Colorado Rockies – .467
San Diego Padres – .464
Tampa Bay Devil Rays – .464
Remarkably, there is only one team that has a winning record against the Yankees (in regular season games.) Can you name them? (Hint: Interleague play is a factor.)
Which team in the American League has given the Yankees the most trouble in their career?
My uneducated guess as to the answers:
1. Mets
2. Angels
0 for 2. I’m batting the same as Albert Pujols this week.
Stinking Yankees!
If I ban myself can I say what I’m really thinking?
Have you ever been to a Mets game at the Stadium?
I live 1700 miles from NY and have never been.
Oakland A’s all day long.
Dodgers or Mets.
You bet yah. Lowest payroll in baseball with consistently the highest performing team for the money.
Assuming that the stats include all the games for each franchise including when the were located elsewhere (like the San Fran Giants were originally the NY Gothams in the late 1800’s and then the NY Giants before moving to San Fran) it is interesting that the top 7 teams are all well over 100 years old while most of the bottom 7 were more recent expansion teams.
The exception being the Orioles who started as the Milwaukee Brewers in the late 1800’s and became the St. Louis Browns for several decades (which is likely where most of the losses came from) before being moved to Baltimore in the 1950’s.
The St. Louis Browns were so bad, in an effort to put people in the seats, one of the more eccentric owners tried all kinds of stunts including using a midget as a player for a single at bat (the number on his jersey was “1/8”).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Gaedel
Here in Washington State:
State Flower: Rhododendron macrophyllum
State Insect: Dragonfly
State Bird: American Goldfinch
State Embarrassment: Entire Mariners Pitching Staff…
Arizona Diamondbacks?
Oops – Read entire page before giving your answer!
Kansas City for AL.
Phillies? Thanks for the hint.