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On July 8, 1979, at the age of 26, he made his major league debut with the Kansas City Royals against the Chicago White Sox, pitching 2 + 2 ⁄ 3 scoreless innings, and surrendering just two hits and no walks. Quisenberry appeared in 32 games and posted a 3–2 record with a 3.15 earned run average and five saves. [3]
In 2021, baseball reference website Baseball-Reference.com began to include statistics from those seven leagues into their major-league statistics. [39] In May 2024, Major League Baseball announced that it was "absorbing the available Negro Leagues numbers into the official historical record." [40]
The NL was joined by the American League (AL) in 1903; together the two constitute contemporary Major League Baseball. New advances in both statistical analysis and technology made possible by the " PC revolution " of the 1980s and 1990s have driven teams and fans to evaluate players by an ever-increasing set of new statistics, which hold them ...
The last Major League Baseball (MLB) player to do so, with enough plate appearances to qualify for the batting championship, was Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox, who hit .406 in 1941. [4] Note that batting averages are rounded ; [ 5 ] entering the final day of the 1941 season, Williams was at 179-for-448, which is .39955 and would have been ...
In Major League Baseball (MLB), records play an integral part in evaluating a player's impact on the sport. Holding a career record almost guarantees a player eventual entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame because it represents both longevity and consistency over a long period of time. (For Japanese baseball records see Nippon Professional Baseball)
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 ...
List of Major League Baseball records includes the following lists of the superlative statistics of Major League Baseball ...
In Major League Baseball (MLB), a player in each league wins the "RBI crown" [4] or "RBI title" [5] [6] each season by hitting the most runs batted in that year. The first RBI champion in the National League (NL) was Deacon White; in the league's inaugural 1876 season, White hit 60 RBIs for the Chicago White Stockings. [7]