Don’t Ask NotGraphs

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April 3, 2013

In this column, I will look on Twitter for baseball-related questions that no one is asking me to answer, and I will answer them.

Probably not, although I suppose it does depend on the points system in your league. If you get 25,000 points per out recorded by a pitcher, and an additional 25,000 points per strikeout, then you indeed would have earned 1,000,000 fantasy points from Darvish’s start last night– and that’s even though he missed the perfect game! If he had succeeded, you would have earned 1,025,000 points, or 1,050,000 if Marwin Gonzalez had struck out. In most leagues, however, you would not have earned a million fantasy points even if Darvish succeeded in throwing a perfect game. In a points league I am in, Darvish’s owner earned 79 points. Which is 999,921 points less than a million.

Actually, it was a 96% perfect game.

Good question, Twitter user. I think the people who run Twitter should be pretty excited that their application is so relied upon that someone would sooner think to post such a question on Twitter than to type it into Google and instantly find out the answer from any of 50,000 websites that might be reporting on such news. For someone to think that the most efficient way to find out if Darvish threw a perfect game is to Tweet the question and hope than one of his followers will reply with an answer makes me think I do not appreciate the power of Twitter nearly enough.

Anyone? Anyone at all? My only friend fell asleep in the 8th and so he doesn’t know either!

Pitching is a stressful activity for the arm. By applying ice to the arm after pitching, swelling is minimized. The ice reduces pain and soreness. Also, they were trying to prevent it from falling off.





 

Jeremy Blachman is the author of Anonymous Lawyer, a satirical novel that should make people who didn't go to law school feel good about their life choices. Read more at McSweeney's or elsewhere. He likes e-mail.

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Saguenay Harry
11 years ago

Do you think Gonzalez’s parents gave him a W instead of V in Marwin because they knew he’d be a winner, but not a victor?

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