Baseballminutia

In the wake of Delmon Young’ s Bat throwing incident Wednesday I found these little tid bits concerning big brother Dmitri’s stay in Arkansas 11 years ago. Perhaps there are a few more anger management issues in the family history? (more…)

Quite the scene in Pawtucket last night, Delmon Young attempts to make the locals forget the Izzy incident. (more…)

I’m old enough to remember the Washington Senators.

Version 2.0 that is… in fact my first little league team was named the “Senators.” I also remember black and white TV and non-divisional play, but I digress.

One year into the Washington Nationals life the giant playing area of RFK Stadium still claims its victims as the Reds completed their first 2 games there without a home run, catcher David Ross finally broke that streak in the 3^rdwith an upper deck blast off Ramon Ortiz (the former RH batting tee for the 2005 Reds.)

Last season RFK logged a HR Factor of 76 for Right-handers and 99 for Left-handers, overall the park clocked in at a low 87, essentially 87% less runs are scored at RFK than at the average park in the National League. This red flag was first uttered aloud by Jose Guillen last June when he suggested the fences be moved in.

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