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Thursday, June 03, 2010Visual Baseball: Homage to Ken Griffey Jr.Posted by Kevin DameLost in all the controversy about yesterday's (im)perfect game was the sleepy retirement of Ken Griffey Jr. Here's a look at the pitchers he took deep throughout his career.  "The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing." - Edward Tufte. Feel free to send comments, questions, and suggestions to Kevin via email. Comments
Kevin Dame said...
Rusch gave up 4 dingers to the Kid. Posted 06/03 at 04:12 PM
Clave Jones said...
How I admired this guy when I was a kid! This is a fun idea. Would’ve been nice if it was shaped like a baseball though. Posted 06/03 at 04:27 PM
Kahuna Tuna said...
Here’s a bit of Ken Griffey, Jr. home-run trivia, courtesy of Baseball Reference’s “Vs. Pitcher” feature. Billy Brewer (about 1:30 in the diagram) surrendered three homers in seven plate appearances, which is the highest HR/PA rate for any pitcher who faced Junior 5+ times. Two pitchers faced Griffey twice and served him up gopher balls both times: Brad Pennington and Mel Rojas. Most times facing Griffey without giving up a home run: Todd Stottlemyre, 40, and Roy Oswalt, 38. Kenny Rogers allowed one HR in Griffey’s 56 plate appearances against him. Posted 06/03 at 04:32 PM
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Looks great, Kevin. Obviously, lots of really good pitchers with long careers, but one name that jumpes out for me is Glendon Rusch, who didn’t have that long a career but looks to have a pretty big font size.