Cal Raleigh and Ken Griffey Jr are the only players to hit 56+ home runs and have 14+ stolen bases and not win an MVP award.

Players whose 2025 regular season stats were matched or surpassed fewer than 10 times in MLB history.

Roight, swirlies! @swirlies11.bsky.social
What's all this then?
Have fun! (not the band)

Shohei Ohtani and Corbin Carroll had unique seasons in 2025. Ohtani's third unique season knocked off Willie Mays (#3).
Interesting to consider how the list of unique seasons shrinks or grows over its history and where it might stabilize.
If anyone can point me toward that info, I'm interested.

Geraldo Perdomo is the 5th player with a 33/5/20/27 & 94 BB season.
Perdomo joins Barry Bonds, Bobby Abreu, Grady Sizemore, & Mike Trout.
Not bad. And only Perdomo has 100 RBI & 170 Hits too.

Played 163 games and recorded 100+ BB in a single season:
Harmon Killebrew, Rocky Colavito, Rafael Devers & Pete Rose.

The Seattle Mariners are the second team in MLB history to have two players with 30 2B, 25 HR, & 30 SB - Randy Arozarena & Julio Rodriguez. They join the 1996 Colorado Rockies - Dante Bichette & Ellis Burks.

With an RBI double in the 8th, Rafael Devers becomes the second player in MLB history to hit 15 2B and 15 HR for two teams in one season. He joins Carlos Beltran.

Rafael Devers has 33 extra-base hits for two team in the same season. 5th player to do so in MLB history.

I have to learn about candlepin bats from New York City [email protected] @swirlies11.bsky.social NYY have a physicist, Aaron Leanhardt, on the payroll from the Institute of Massachusetts Technology. We must not allow a candlepin bat gap! (even if they seem lame), in case Mookie embraces it.

coast to coast. with swell art.

So I am registering to you what my take is: it's good DRC has been so transparent with the world, it's good this set off alarm bells, it's good people are still generating new data, and all of that will continue to have been worth it even if it is seasonal flu, because next time it won't be.

Update: 10/12 samples from outbreak in DRC tested positive for malaria. WHO rightly acknowledges that there may be multiple causes. www.who.int/director-gen...

map of health areas mentioned.

The location of the Kitenda health zone, west of the Panzi hz in the Kwango province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. as mentioned (Katenda) in AP reporting. apnews.com/article/cong...

The location of the Panzi health zone within the Kwango province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: