SAN FRANCISCO—As front-office executives surveyed the injury achieved to their record-keeping facility, Main League Baseball introduced Monday that it had misplaced thousands and thousands of stats Monday in a devastating warehouse blaze. “It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I share right now the information of an unintended hearth that has decreased to ash the thousands and thousands of baseball statistics now we have collected over greater than a century,” stated MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, explaining that each one gamers and groups, previous and current, had been stripped of their titles and data, none of which may very well be independently verified with out the misplaced information. “These had been sadly the one copies of many of those stats that we had, which means there isn’t a hope of recovering the historic slugging percentages, earned run averages, or win-loss data of your favourite groups and gamers. Sadly, we not have any thought who has essentially the most profession residence runs or no-hitters, and any concept as to why Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, or Pedro Martinez had been so extremely regarded is now squarely within the area of hypothesis.” At press time, Manfred paid tribute to the courageous souls who misplaced their lives making an attempt to avoid wasting the stats for the 2003 Detroit Tigers.
