9 minutes ago, Jumper_Dad said:

The moment I read the Samuel post I knew with 100% certainty that you'd make a post about De La Cruz. ? 

De La Cruz is a way better baseball player than Samuel.  But there are a lot of similarities to their games.  Both made electrifying plays on offense and defense that other players couldn't even dream of making.  And both could make just mystifying mistakes.  With talent like that, you just have to live with the warts.  The plusses outweigh the minuses.  

This stat gets memed every year, but it never ceases to amaze me.  Tony Gwynn was good.

On 4/8/2025 at 1:24 PM, PP1 said:

From 1984-1987, Juan Samuel led the NL in errors, strike-outs, and times caught stealing. Kind of like his own triple crown.

Those sound like Bob Uecker-like numbers!

5 hours ago, Bluto said:

Those sound like Bob Uecker-like numbers!

Juan Samuel was actually a really exciting player to watch, and not nearly as bad as this stat would make him out to be. He was electric on the basepaths, and a triples machine while he was in Philly. He really only had two bad defensive years, one where he had over 30 errors, and another when he had over 20. And some of his errors were due to the fact that he had great range and got to a lot of balls. Unfortunately he never made the step to superstardom, and just bounced around the league for a few different teams and was done by age 31. He was one of my favorite players in the late 80's.

Ran across a couple goofy ones today.

The Kansas City Royals (MLB) are the only team to draft 2 Hall of Fame Quarterbacks in in the same draft. In 1979 they drafted Dan Marino in the 4th Round (Pick #99) and in the 18th round (Pick #461) they drafted John ELway.

The NBA record for missed 3 pointers in a game is 16. It has happened 7 times. This first time was in 2005 by Damon Stoudamire (5 for 21.) The other 6 all belong to James Harden:

1/13/2019 - 1 for 17

3/30/2019 - 7 for 23

10/26/2019 - 2 for 18

12/3/2019 - 4 for 20

1/8/2020 - 4 for 20

1/20/2020 - 1 for 17

There was a game last year when Jake Browning was our QB where Jamar Chase led our team in tackles with 3.

Here's a fun one from yesterday:

Niners WR Deebo Samuel had 80 yards receiving with 0 receptions. Took a hook and ladder lateral for an 80 yard TD. So he gets credit for the 80 receiving yards, but not the reception.

10 hours ago, Tranquility Base said:

Here's a fun one from yesterday:

Niners WR Deebo Samuel had 80 yards receiving with 0 receptions. Took a hook and ladder lateral for an 80 yard TD. So he gets credit for the 80 receiving yards, but not the reception.

As a statistician, I love this stuff! It should be noted to all those other stat geeks out there that Evans (the receiver) caught the ball at the 23 (an initial gain of 5 yards from the 18), but loses 3 yards in his receiving total with the flip back to the 20 to Samuel. Evans gets credit for the catch, but Samuel gets the TD and the yardage from where the flip was caught. All yardage is thereby covered from the original line of scrimmage to the endzone. This is the way it reads in the box score:

Brock Purdy complete pass to Mike Evans for 2 yards, lateral to Deebo Samuel for 80 yards (Eddy Pineiro Kick)

3 plays, 80 yards, 0:52