Jed Jacobsohn
Baseball Reference now allows you to search for stats leaders in a plethora of splits. I got bored one day. Alternate title for this post: Mitch Albom's nightmare.
I blame the great Rany Jazayerli for this post.
The Grantland baseball writer started playing around with a tool on Baseball Reference, then Tweeted several interesting statistics, such as how Carlos Delgado (in 2000) and Billy Herman (in 1935) had the most doubles (19) in the month of July.
So I looked up a few random, A's-relevant statistics — all in the Oakland era (1968 to now). This is apparently the only free tool on B-R, I tried looking up pitching stats, but the first 15 results are behind a paywall.
Single season OPS vs. power pitchers:
- Rickey Henderson, 1990 (1.080)
- Jason Giambi, 2000 (1.071)
- Eric Chavez, 2002 (1.044)
- Reggie Jackson, 1974 (1.018)
- Claudell Washington, 1975 (1.012)
- Reggie Jackson, 1969 (15)
- Sal Bando, 1969, Mark McGwire, 1987 (13)
- Dave Kingman, 1984, Eric Chavez, 2002, Nick Swisher, 2006 (12)
- Reggie Jackson, 1971, Dave Kingman, 1986 (11)
- Sal Bando, 1971, Terry Steinbach, 1996, Jason Giambi, 2000, Jack Cust, 2008 (10)
- Ruben Sierra, 1993, Nick Swisher, 2005 (6)
- Jose Canseco, 1988; Mark McGwire, 1995; Ernie Young, 1996; Matt Stairs, 1999; Erubiel Durazo, 2003; Jack Cust, 2009 and 2010 (5)
- Mark McGwire, 1988-1997 (24) — though he did have 31 RBIs in this situation
- Jack Cust, 2007-2010 (15)
- Mark Ellis, 2002-2010 (14)
- Jose Canseco, 1988-1997; Jason Giambi, 1995-2009; Miguel Tejada, 1997-2003 (13)
- Nick Swisher, 2004-2007 (12)
- Rickey Henderson (55)
- Mark McGwire (44)
- Sal Bando (43)
- Reggie Jackson (38)
- Dwayne Murphy (36)
- Mark McGwire (33)
- Jose Canseco (25)
- Rickey Henderson, Eric Chavez (17)
- Matt Stairs, Jason Giambi, Miguel Tejada (15)
- Terry Steinbach, Dave Kingman (14)
Batting average with runners in scoring position (min. 100 ABs):
- Adam Kennedy (.368)
- Yoenis Cespedes (.345)
- Luis Polonia (.336)
- Jason Kendall (.333)
- Jeff Burroughs (.330)
- Sal Bando (154)
- Jose Canseco (151)
- Mark McGwire (136)
- Rickey Henderson, Reggie Jackson (126)
- Eric Chavez (110)
Most intentional walks (single season) while batting seventh:
- Sal Bando, 1972 (8)
- Eric Chavez, 2001 (6)
- Jim Gosger, 1968 (5)
- Dave Duncan, 1972, Terrence Long, 2003 (4)
- Many others tied with 3
- Jack Cust, 2007 (41)
- Jack Cust, 2009 (39)
- Jack Cust, 2010; Brandon Allen, 2011; Stephen Drew, 2012 (34)
- Dick Green, 1965, Reggie Jackson, 1970 (33)
- 5 others tied with 32
- Jason Giambi (191)
- Rickey Henderson (178)
- Terry Steinbach (176)
- Mike Bordick (173)
- Mark McGwire (172)
- Mike Bordick (50)
- Mike Gallego (45)
- Mark Ellis (42)
- Walt Weiss (31)
- Cliff Pennington (28)
- Blue Moon Odom (12)
- Catfish Hunter (6)
- Lew Krausse (5)
- Jim Nash, Diego Segui, Rollie Fingers (2)
- Vida Blue, Paul Lindblad, John O'Donoghue (1)
- Mark Ellis (2)
- Nick Swisher (1)
- Kiko Calero and every other Athletic in history (0)
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