Drasen Johnson gets listed in the Records Book for leading the Big Ten in strikeouts in 2014 Admittedly, there isn’t a lot that goes on news-wise with Big Ten baseball in between the Orange and Blue World Series in the Fall and the Hot Stove Banquet in January. This year…
Last week, the Big Ten has updated their Record Book. For those who have not perused the Record Book, it’s a plethora of sports information such as yearly standings, yearly statistical team and individual records, awards, and 2013 Year in Review. It’s really quite thorough in its treatment in all…
The 2013 Illini Baseball Record Book is now online! I know that new assistant sports information director Matt Wille has been hard at work putting this together. From what I can tell so far, it looks great. There is a LOT to devour and I just started to delve into…
Kevin Johnson throws some warm up tosses by the left field wall I trotted out to the ballpark after work on Monday and got to see the ballplayers in practice. Note the new unis. Here are some photos I took while I was out there. Don’t forget, the Orange and…
The Baseball Cube which tracks MLB and Minor League stats, updated their site so that the University of Illinois Fighting Illini have their own page. In the past, the Cube has done ok as far as posting college stats when they can but this is the first time I’ve seen…
The Big Ten Records Book has now been updated to reflect the 2011 season. For those of us interested in Big Ten Baseball here is their Baseball Records page. The Records Book includes records of every type of category. It begins with an overview of the 2011 season then includes…
Justin Parr is hitting .346 and an even tastier .486 against Big Ten teams This coming weekend, the Illini will be making their last road trip of the year… not including the Big Ten Tournament, of course. They will be traveling to West Lafayette, Indiana to play the offense-laden Purdue…
Good news! The Big Ten Records Book has been updated and is now available to everyone in pdf format. I love this kind of stuff. If we want statistics from Major League Baseball’s past, we only need to go Retrosheet.org or BaseballReference.com and we have it all. It’s all there……
To start the new year, I thought I’d throw out some helpful links that might be useful in getting news and information on Illinois Baseball and Big Ten Baseball this year. So bookmark the ones you find interesting or useful. They may come in handy down the road during the…
I’m posting about this now while it’s still relevant (i.e before this weekend’s series with #1 LSU). Note the disparity of team ERAs among the Big Ten teams: from the Big Ten stats page: TEAM PITCHING G ERA —————————— Illinois………… 6 2.72 Minnesota……….. 7 4.50 Penn State………. 7 4.89 Indiana………….…