This marks the first time I’ve seen our stats looking clean on a spreadsheet. I always used to keep them on legal paper, with all of the entries made with a pencil. As soon as the game was over, I’d go home and take the information from the scorebook, erase the entries and pencil in the new totals. I had a computer back in 1990….but there was just something COOL to me about the whole pencil and eraser thing. After I was done, I’d call the L.A. Times and phone in all of the new stats. I did a good job of keeping up on all of that and enjoyed doing it.
I will post the pitching stats for ’92 as well later this week. Don’t worry…all of the stats for every season will be posted at some time, and eventually I will calculate career stats and other All-Time records. I have had a lot of fun the past week going over all of the scorebooks. Just going over them has given me lots of ideas for other story-lines of Verdugo lore. But there is something special about the stats on this page. This was our breakthrough season and some of the numbers I am seeing here are just staggering to me. There were plenty of coaches around the League who would “pad” the stats for their players in order to get some extra attention from the scouts. I never did that. All of your stats are REAL. And I made sure the L.A. Times and Daily News sportwriters knew this. If someone hit a ground ball to the shortstop and he blew the play I didn’t give you a base hit for it, like a lot of the other coaches around the league did. Nope…our numbers don’t lie……and to the guys on the ’92 team I tip my cap to all of you…….even the rookies……..
absolutely incredible!!!
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