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Today’s Fun Fact

by Jeff Sullivan

Setting a minimum of zero plate appearances, there have been 589 batters in baseball this season. That is a weird sentence but you know what I mean. Tied at the very very bottom in FanGraphs’ WAR:

↵t587: -1.0, Xavier Nady
↵t587: -1.0, Brennan Boesch
↵t587: -1.0, Albert Pujols

↵I know, I know. But, what?

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