• The single-season home run record was set in 1961, and still stands... 73 home runs, hit by Gordy Coleman.
  
• Gordy Coleman also holds the career home run record, with 600 in a 13-year career. Adam Dunn is the only active player in the top 10, with 563.
  
• The career hits leader is Ed Delahanty, with 3883, 2795 of which were singles (also a record). Pete Rose retired with 2182 hits.
  
• Lou Gehrig tore his labrum and retired after only 7 seasons with the Pirates, but not before putting up a .398/.501/.769 line in 1928, still the best single-season OPS.
  
• The last player to hit over .400 was Jim Bottomley, in 1922.
  
• Barry Bonds remained skinny for his entire career, putting up a .255/.380/.496 line with 464 HR and 818 SB. He retired in 2004, and is not in the Hall of Fame.
  

• Don Drysdale ascended into godhood, pitching from 1956 to 1980 and putting up a career line of 403-317 (record for both wins and losses) with 5066 strikeouts (1st place by some 1400 K's) in 6908 IP, with a 2.98 ERA and 1.12 WHIP.
  
• The single-season strikeout record? 355, set by Mark Prior in 2005
  
• Most of the top ERA and WHIP seasons are still from the dead-ball era... with the exception of Mark Prior's 1.53 ERA and .825 WHIP in 2005.
  
• Nobody has ever reached 30 wins in a single season.
  
• The career saves leader is Tom Niedenfuhr, with 679. The closest active player is Pedro Martinez, with 571.
  
• Babe Ruth had a mediocre 15-year pitching career.
  

• Harmon Killebrew is the all time HR king, finishing his career with 791 home runs. Ruth finished with 753, after converting him to a hitter when he was supposed to make the conversion.
  
• Mark McGwire finished 4th with 665 homers, Sam Horn(!) finished 6th with 632 homers.
  
• Just as a 'what if' scenario: I added Josh Gibson when his career started, and Sadaharu Oh when his career started. Gibson ended with 721 homers(3rd all time), and Oh finished with 618 homers, placing him 8th behind Lou Gehrig(7th, 628).
  
• Ken Griffey Jr(652, 5th), Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams(both with 593, tied for 9th) rounded out the top 10. Bonds finished 11th with 577. David Ortiz is the highest active home run hitter, with 538(16th)
  
• Babe Ruth and Ralph Kiner both hold the single season home run record with 65. David Wright came close in 2007, putting up 58 for the Rockies. There have been a lot of players in recent seasons that looked like they would shatter the record, but hit 1-3 home runs in August or September, and end up sputtering around 50. Wright was one of the few threats that were consistent all season.
  
• As mentioned above, Jim Bottomley had 3 .400 seasons. Ed Delahanty had 3 as well, and Ted Williams and Willie Keeler had 2.
  
• No one had 4000 career hits, though Tony Lazzeri finished with 3978. Garret Anderson, at the age of 39 is within striking distance and with 3812 hits could very well overtake him as he still has decent attributes. Pete Rose faired far worse in my game, retiring after only 3 seasons thanks to torn ankle ligaments. He did have over 170+ hits in each of his three seasons, though.
  
• I started my sim earlier, so the stolen bases are a bit out of whack. Nobody's gonna catch Billy Hamilton, who finished with 1707 stolen bases. Lou Brock did finish with 1654, and Luis Aparicio finished with 1444. I don't think any current player is going to come close to 1000. Rickey Henderson finished with 688.
  

• Larry Corcoran finished with 482 wins, followed by Joe Wood with 473, and Charlie Geggus with 463. Geggus was pre-1900.
  
• Lefty Gomez(459), Alex Voss(433), Robin Roberts(417), Don Drysdale(409), Nolan Ryan(403), Matt Kilroy(401), and Bob Lemon(400) rounded out the top 10. Voss and Kilroy were before 1900.
  
• Doc Gooden stayed away from the drugs, finishing with 399 wins, and 5962 strikeouts. I decided to watch his last game play out, as he had announced his retirement during the season. He lost.
  
• Bob Feller finished with 7318 strikeouts. Yea, he pretty much broke the game at one point. Gooden's a distant 2nd. Nolan Ryan was third(5712). Pedro Martinez(5613 - still active!), Bert Blyleven(5571), and Don Drysdale(5139) were the only others with over 5000 Ks.
  
• Nolan Ryan finished with 101 shutouts. Closest modern pitcher is Pedro Martinez, with 48. That record's likely never falling.
  
• Feller not only has the most career strikeouts, he also had the most career walks with 3255.
  
• Most recent pitcher with 30+ wins was Bert Blyleven with 33 in 1978.
  
• Rob Dibble finished as the all time saves leader with 491. Will Cunnane is the leading active player with 436. Mariano Rivera finished with 425. Tom Niedenfuer finished with 479. Sounds like he might be a dominant closer in most cases.
  
• There were 9 perfect games. Ray Collins in 1915, Robin Roberts in 1954, Don Drysdale in 1969, Tom Griffin in 1970, Jim Palmer in 1973, Bert Blyleven in 1983, Ed Correa in 1999, Pedro Martinez in 2005, and Josh Beckett in 2008.
  
• The Mets have had 5 no hitters. Roger Craig, Kevin Tapani, and Pedro Martinez had 3, including the perfect game mentioned above. He also had a no hitter in the postseason.
  

Armitage fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Feb 10, 2012

• Nobody has ever hit 4 home runs in a single game. The only player to hit 3 home runs in a postseason game is Jimmy Bloodworth. "Who the gently caress is Jimmy Bloodworth?" is probably the question you are asking yourself right about now.
  
• Ryan Braun won the batting Triple Crown in 2011 (.340 AVG, 48 HR, 139 RBI). Justin Morneau did it in 2007 (.360 AVG, 62 HR, 158 RBI).
  
• The record hitting streak is 45 games, set in 1938 by Hank Greenberg. Second place is Roberto Alomar, with 40 games in 1994.
  
• Three pitchers (Randy Johnson, Cole Hamels, and Kerry Wood) have struck out 18 batters, the record for a 9-inning game. The record for any length is 22 Ks, by Rube Waddell; this was done in 18.1 IP.
  
• Plenty of no-hitters have been thrown (the most in a single year is 6, in 1914), although nobody has pitched more than two. Only three pitchers have tossed perfect games (Hersh Freeman, 1959; Jim Palmer, 1979; Floyd Bannister, 1985).
  
• Multiple franchises have never won a World Series: the Rockies, Royals, Angels, Brewers, Mets, Padres, Mariners, Rays, Rangers, and Blue Jays. The longest championship drought belongs to the White Sox, who won their lone title in 1927, although they have made the playoffs five times in the past decade. The Twins have not won since 1944, when they were still the Washington Senators. The Athletics have won 13 titles, eight of which came between 1978 and 1993; they also made the playoffs 15 straight years, from 1977 to 1991. The Yankees are second with 10 championships.
  

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Moe_Rahn fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Feb 12, 2012

• Lots of fictional players breaking records. The new single-season OPS record belongs to "Bo Peterson", who put up a truly Bondsian .389/.506/.834 line in 2034. Two fictional players have also hit 75 home runs, while another hit .392 in 2023.
  
• Adam Dunn is the all-time home run leader, with 1175. The only other real players in the top 10 are Albert Pujols (5th, 774), Justin Morneau (6th, 770), and Carlos Pena (8th, 636). Alex Rodriguez retired in 2012 with 522 dingers (23rd overall), below Miguel Cabrera (537, 19th), Jose Reyes (544, 17th), Adrian Gonzalez (554, 16th), and Jay Bruce (597, 13th).
  
• Adam Dunn is also now the all-time leader in hits (3899), runs scored (2922), rbi (2817), total bases (7998), and walks (3132). The highest number of intentional walks he drew in a single season was 20. He hit 60 or more home runs in a season five times. He had two 30/30 seasons.
  
• Adam Dunn has a career WAR of 207.60. The closest real player is Albert Pujols, with a 126.64 WAR.
  
• Nobody has hit ever 4 home runs in a single game.
  

• Mark Prior is the new career strikeout leader, with 5105. He also has a 380-162 W-L, good for the second-most wins all-time. Prior and Drysdale are the only pitchers with over 5000 Ks, although Yovani Gallardo had 4502 and Clayton Kershaw had 4442 (the only real players with over 4000).
  
• Rick Ankiel had a long and fruitful pitching career, winning 184 games and fanning 3174.
  
• Joba Chamberlain is 2nd place all-time on the saves leaderboard with 579.
  
• Kerry Wood has the second and third-most strikeouts in a single season, with 344 (2004) and 340 (1999). Wood has 3466 strikeouts, a 3.83 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, and 189-135 W-L. He is not in the Hall of Fame.
  
• Nobody has thrown a perfect game since 1985.
  
• Jordan Zimmermann has pitched three no-hitters.
  

• The Royals, Angels, Brewers, Mets, Padres, Rays, Rangers, and Blue Jays still have not won a World Series. Both of the championship droughts from my previous post are intact.
  
• Carlos Zambrano is a Hall of Famer.
  
• ADAM "loving" DUNN. .302/.443/.619 CAREER
  

Armitage fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Feb 12, 2012