Whew, OK, had me worried for a second. DH games are
the problem, for AL AND NL pitchers. I don't exactly
remember the source of the data those years (Sean or
Sean?), but I'm guessing the source accounted for
pitcher batting games in AL rule games differently
from what had been done in the Lahman database in
prevous years.

Now the question is - which methodology is right, if
there even is a 'correct' methodology? What does
mlb.com have?

THANKS,
Kevin

--- Clem Comly <ccomly@...> wrote:

> I went thru the dailies at Retrosheet for a couple
> of these Phillies Ps--it looks like the missing Gb
> are for games on the road against AL teams so it
> appears to be the DH that is the problem for those
> years.
>
> Clem Comly
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Clem Comly
> To: baseball-databank@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 11:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [baseball-databank] Re: Games played
>
>
>
> No. I found 8 Phillies pitchers from 2004 with Gp
> > Gb. Cormier was 5 low (per Retrosheet.org his P
> games were correct but his batting games were low).
> Wagner and Myers were 3 low. Abbot was 2 low. 4
> were 1 game low.
>
> Clem Comly
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: KJOK
> To: baseball-databank@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 3:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [baseball-databank] Re: Games
> played
>
>
>
>
> 2. Batting.G < Pitching.G 2,521 cases (All but 6
> of
> these are 1997-2004. 2005 has none of these
> cases)
>
> I believe these are mostly all American League
> pitchers. If the pitcher batted (such as in an
> interleague game, or where team lost the DH) or
> he
> Pinch Ran/Pinch Hit/played another position,
> then he
> got a batting game from 1997-2004. On games
> where he
> didn't bat, he did not get a batting game, but a
> pitching game only. Ideally either 1973-1996 &
> 2005
> should be consistent with that, or else
> 1997-2004
> should all be "re-done" to be consistent with
> 1973-1996 & 2005.
>
>
>
> .
>
>
>
>


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