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Thursday, October 22, 2009Most recent consecutive pennants for all franchisesCongrats to the Philadelphia Phillies, who just won consecutive pennants for the first time in their history. That brings up the question: what are the most recent back-to-back pennants for all 30 teams? Well, obviously not all 30 teams have done it, but which ones have? Before checking, can you name: - The only two pre-expansion teams who haven't won consecutive pennants? - The only expansion team to have ever done it? Here they are: most recent repeat pennants from all the franchises who have done so, ordered from the present on backwards, broken up in groups of five to make it easier to read: PHI 2008-2009 NYY 1998-2001 ATL 1995-1996 TOR 1992-1993 OAK 1988-1990 LAD 1977-1978 CIN 1975-1976 BAL 1969-1971 STL 1967-1968 NYG 1937-1938 (now SFG) DET 1934-1935 WAS 1924-1925 (now MIN) BOX 1915-1916 CHC 1906-1908 PIT 1901-1903 If you really want to go back, some now dormant teams like the 1890s Baltimore Orioles also won consecutive pennants, but how cares - they're dormant now. Cleveland and the White Sox have never done it. Blame the Yankees - both teams tallied up a slew of second place finishes during New York's most dominant stretch, 1949-1964. The Phillies were thus the last pre-expansion NL team to do it. Kudos to them. Wednesday, October 21, 2009Testing your knowledge of sabermetric historyEvery college student knows about the wonders of Sporcle. For the uninitiated, it's essentially millions of different quizzes about anything and everything you could think of. For example, you could be asked to name every Adam Sandler movie or the 20 most populated cities in Iowa (with a time limit of course). A reader named Ben Lindbergh sent me a quiz he and his friend created, on the history of sabermetrics. Basically, you have to name the inventor of a whole bunch of baseball stats and concepts, from +/- to Zone Rating, in ten minutes or less. Here's the link if you'd like to try your luck. Let us know how you did in the comments section. Here's a quick hint to get you started: Our own Dave Studeman is the proud owner of three of the answers. What typesetters knowI'm almost done typesetting the statistics section of the 2010 Hardball Times Annual—over 150 pages of stats and graphs, including Defensive Runs Saved from John Dewan and other cool stuff you can't hardly get anywhere else—and I have to get something off my chest. Isn't it weird that all the Rangers' position players with long names catch? I mean, Saltalamacchia, Teagarden, Rodriguez and Richardson—the guys who caught for Texas this year—all have last names with at least nine letters. Not a single Ranger position player at any other position has that many. In fact, the only one with more than seven letters is Josh Hamilton, and that hardly counts because it's easy to squeeze an "ilt" into a small space. What's with that? And what's with the Mariners' pitching staff? Jakubauskas? Rowland-Smith? Don't they know how hard they're making it for me? Never fear. The THT Annual will be sent to the printer late next week, on time for its mid-November delivery to you. Long names and all. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||