Oh boy, Baseball Reference has added 2004 stats. Check out the Padres page. You can see that Sean Burroughs compares well to Edgardo Alfonzo and Brooks Robinson at the same age, among others.

You can also find weird pieces of information. For example, you probably know that Ryan Klesko hit just 9 homers this year, the fewest he’s hit in a full season. But did you know that his OPS+ (OPS relative to league) of 127 was identical to his OPS+ in 1995, when he hit a career-high 34 home runs? Well, now you do. Aren’t you the lucky one!

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Due to a fortuitous set of circumstances, my band Chin Waggers has seven shows in the next 30 days (including two this weekend). So if you can pry yourself away from Baseball Reference for a while, come out and see us.

Okay, just one more plug and then I’ll let you go. If you do the Bloglines thing, you can subscribe to the Ducksnorts feed.

That’s all for now. Thanks for reading. The next post won’t be quite so fluffy, I promise.

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