Friday, July 08, 2011

Some Perhaps Meaningless 2011 Lists

Playing with baseball-reference.com's Play Index is like having your own sandbox. You can play all you want and interesting things just always seem to pop up. Here are a few interesting lists for 2011 just for the sake of play.

Most games in 2011 with at least two plate appearances with no hits, no walks and no HBP:

  • Dan Uggla - 30
  • Alexis Rios - 28
  • Yuniesky Betancourt - 27
  • Chone Figgins and Rajai Davis - 26

Last year's leaders - Brendan Ryan and Cesar Izturis with 51. All time leader (since 1919) - Hal Lanier (1968 Tigers) with 68.

Most games in 2011 with at least two plate appearances with two or more hits:

  • Jose Reyes - 43
  • Adrian Gonzalez - 38
  • Ichiro Suzuki - 36

Last year's leader: Ichiro Suzuki with 69.

Most games in 2011 with at least two plate appearances with two or more walks:

  • Jose Bautista - 20
  • Joey Votto - 18
  • Ian Kinsler - 14

Last  year's leader: Prince Fielder - 28

Most games in 2011 with at least two plate appearances with no walks. This one is interesting:

  • Adrian Beltre - 72
  • Michael Young - 71
  • Alcides Escobar - 71
  • Starlin Castro - 71

Last year's leaders - Alexei Ramirez and Yuniesky Betancourt with 130! Yuni is just behind the leaders this year.

Most games in 2011 with more than five total bases in the game:

  • Matt Kemp - 15
  • Curtis Granderson - 15
  • Richie Weeks - 14

Last year's leader: Josh Hamilton with 27.

Most games in 2011 with more than two plate appearances and at least one run scored:

  • Curtis Granderson - 52
  • Richie Weeks - 51
  • Ian Kinsler - 48

Last year's leader: Albert Pujols with 86.


Most games in 2011 with more than two plate appearances and no runs scored:
  • Omar Infante - 64
  • Cliff Pennington - 63
  • Casey McGehee - 63
  • Aurbrey Huff - 61

Last year's leader: Cesar Izturis with 111.

Most games in 2011 with two or more plate appearances and at least two strikeouts:
  • Drew Stubbs - 36
  • Adam Dunn - 34

Last year's leader: Mark Reynolds with 66. Dunn was in second last year too.

Most games in 2011 with two or more plate appearances and no strikeouts:
  • Juan Pierre - 61
  • Troy Tulowitzki - 60
  • Ichiro Suzuki - 60
Last year's leader: Juan Pierre - 116.

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