This week marked 28 years since Cheers went off the air. We commemorated the occasion with a review of Sam Malone’s career pitching line on (oh God, is he going to plug his podcast within a main board post?) our (no, he wouldn’t dare) podcast (Can you believe this guy? He actually did it!).
Did you know that Sam Malone pitching stats exist? Neither did I! Sports Illustrated ran a fictionalized piece on his career and gave him the following line:
Top 20 results below. I am sorry. I am so very, very sorry.
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Did you know that Sam Malone pitching stats exist? Neither did I! Sports Illustrated ran a fictionalized piece on his career and gave him the following line:
Because we have no life, we used Bill James’ similarity scores to ask the question: What actual MLB pitchers were most similar to Sam Malone?312 and two-third innings over the course of his career with a 16-30 lifetime record over 207 games with 40 strikeouts and 109 walks
Top 20 results below. I am sorry. I am so very, very sorry.
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sim_score | player | year_first | Sox? |
981.7005 | Mike Schooler | 1988 |
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979.8335 | Joe Biagini | 2016 |
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974.9134 | Brandon Maurer | 2013 |
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974.8383 | Bruce Cunningham | 1929 |
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974.7429 | Mike Lincoln | 1999 |
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973.7829 | Rick Lysander | 1980 |
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973.4783 | Jesse Winters | 1919 |
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973.3993 | Ernie Camacho | 1980 |
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973.0657 | Vinnie Chulk | 2003 |
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972.0012 | Scott Strickland | 1999 |
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971.9621 | Wally Whitehurst | 1989 |
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971.3623 | Bob Heffner | 1963 | BOS |
971.2927 | Rich Loiselle | 1996 |
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971.1821 | Eddie Butler | 2014 |
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970.6573 | Julio Santana | 1997 |
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970.4909 | Dave Keefe | 1917 |
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970.254 | Ken Holcombe | 1945 | BOS |
970.2273 | Bo McLaughlin | 1976 |
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969.906 | Jeremy Accardo | 2005 |
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968.6425 | Billy Taylor | 1994 |