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A fifth club exists for relief pitchers that have recorded 300 saves over a career. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In addition, milestones achieved in a single season include hitting 50 home runs , [ 3 ] while three other single-season statistical clubs—the 20–20–20 club , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] 30–30 club [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and 40–40 club — include achievements from ...
Pages in category "Major League Baseball statistics" ... 0–9. 20–20–20 club; 20–20–20–20 club; ... List of Major League Baseball players with a home run ...
David Nemec's The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Major League Baseball includes players' National Association statistics in their major league totals; Nemec states that his compendium "is not bound by major league baseball's decision to treat its statistics separately", points out that "the National Association contained most of the ...
Baseball statistics include a variety of metrics used to evaluate player and team performance in the sport of baseball. Because the flow of a baseball game has natural breaks to it, and player activity is characteristically distinguishable individually, the sport lends itself to easy record-keeping and compiling statistics .
Sabermetrics reflected a desire by a handful of baseball enthusiasts to expand their understanding of the game by revealing new insights that may have been hidden in its traditional statistics. Their early efforts ultimately evolved into evaluating players in every aspect of the game, including batting, pitching, baserunning, and fielding.
Negro Leagues statistics will officially become part of Major League historical record on Wednesday. The more than 2,300 players who played in the seven iterations of the Negro Leagues from 1920 ...
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Some researchers, including Nate Silver, dispute the major-league status of the Union Association by pointing out that franchises came and went and that the St. Louis club was deliberately "stacked"; the St. Louis club was owned by the league's president and it was the only club that was close to major-league caliber.