Addenda: Cardinal Oddity, Omar and Ozzie

Three Cardinal pitchers get hits Something happened in Wednesday's schlocky tilt between the Giants and the Cardinals in San Francisco that I couldn't let pass, though I'm not exactly sure what to do with it, other than marvel at its novelty: The Cardinals had three different pitchers hit safely (Jason Marquis, Adam Wainwright and Braden Looper). Seemingly an oddity in itself, the feat was made stranger because none of the three hitting pitchers was the game's starter, and one of the hits was a home run -- hit on the first pitch that the batter ever saw in the big leagues. As if that weren't enough zaniness, with Marquis hitting a triple, Wainwright his homer and Looper a double, the slugging hurlers were a single shy of a cycle. (I should note that Marquis never actually pitched in the game, as his lone at-bat was to pinch hit for the starter, Brad Thompson, so technically he wasn't a pitcher in this game.) Anyway, just thought that was worth passing along. Oh, and one final rarity: Albert Pujols did not homer (though he hit a 365-foot single). More Metrics on Omar and Ozzie SABRen JP Caillault had the same idea that I wrote about yesterday, wondering whether Omar Vizquel is HOF-worthy. Whereas I used WARP3, EQA and FRAR as metrics, JP chose WARP3, Win Shares and BFW (batting wins plus fieding wins, formerly known as Total Player Rating, TPR):

Shortstop	WS	BFW
Cal Ripken	427	44
Barry Larkin	347	43
Ozzie Smith*	325	46
Alan Trammell	318	32
Lou Boudreau*	277	44
Dave Bancroft*	269	36
Phil Rizzuto*	231	19
Omar Vizquel	229	12

Using slightly different measures, JP arrives at the same conclusion: Larkin and Trammell deserve to be in the Hall of Fame before Vizquel.