THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Ted Williams had an 84 game streak.  I learned this as I watched Orlando Cabrera reach in 63 straight last summer.

Yes, that Orlando Cabrera.

HEre is the 2006 streak and former-Expo Orlando Cabrera with… 63 straight.  Wow.  What pure luck.

Joe D got a walk, followed by another hit streak, so he’s at least at 73 games. 

Teddy having the record at 84 is almost anti-climactic.

Amazing luck, in that his OBA during the streak was only .372

My guess is he probably had a bigger percentage of games reaching base once and only once than anyone who’s ever put up a monster streak (40+ games)

I know that in Joe D’s hit streak, 56 games, 91 hits. Average of 1.63.

Cabrera had 103 H+BB (don’t know HBP) in his 63 games.  Average of 1.63.

Boggs 123/57=2.16
Raines 90/44=2.04
Rose 89/48=1.85, 98/46=2.13, 66/41=1.61

Rose had a .389 OBP.

I’d like to figure out a way to search for the longest streak maintaining a set of rate stats…

Like what’s the longest period of time during which someone has slugged 1.000 or better? Or had a .500 OBP or better?

You are asking for too much.  Sean processes things on a game-by-game basis.  What you are suggesting would require 5 times more processing speed.  For a web app, that’s alot.  But, ask on Sean’s blog, and see what he says.

Saw this blog entry while doing a google search researching the subject.  As of today, 5/2/2007, Derek Jeter has a 70-game on-base streak.  It will be interesting to see if he catches Ted Williams 84-game streak.  Anyone know if Ted’s streak is actually the record?