2007 College Stats, 2006 Japanese Stats and a new Stats Page Feature

+ The Oregon State Beavers won their second consecutive College World Series Championship back in July. OSU's statistics as well as stats for about 280 other Division I schools from their spring schedule are now available on the site.

+ I've also finally gotten around to compiling 2006 Japanese league statistics as well. I don't actually follow the Japanese leagues myself but I think a decent portion of the TBC population does so enjoy and sorry its so late!

+ The stats pages also have a new feature which might look familiar if you've ever been to Baseball-Reference. I use my stats pages a lot and I've always found them a bit overwhelming, especially for teams where pitchers were able to hit. I tried sorting them by At Bats and Innings Pitched but it still looks slightly unorganized. So I took a first step and assigned a "role" to each player and sorted accordingly. For now, batters with the most at bats for each position are considered to be that position's "Starter" and these players will be listed at the top of the batting stats. For Pitchers, I have denoted Starting Pitchers (ST), Closers (CL) and Relief Pitchers (Those with > x# games where x is a certain % of his team's games). I'll be trying to pigeon hole the other players on the team with certain roles so that its easy to tell the backup catcher, the utility infielder and so on.

+ Fernando Tatis is the only MLB player to have hit two grand-slams in an inning but there have been 12 instances of a player hitting two grand salamis in a game.

And what would a section full of lists be without a list of Hall of Famers.