BUSINESS INQUIRIES: [email protected] ______________________________________ Jamie Moyer played 25 seasons in Major League Baseball. He took the mound in 50 different stadiums, and pitched against 8.9% of all batters. Ever.
He also let up 522 homers in his career. That’s not surprising, given that he pitched over 4,000 innings. Moyer has a reputation as a "compiler": someone who pads his stats by hanging on past his prime.
Does Moyer fit that description? Maybe. But there are plenty of pitchers who top out in the mid-80s, and none of them made it to the fifth-longest career in MLB history. So then, what was the secret to Jamie Moyer’s inexplicable longevity? Let’s dig into it. ______________________________________ SOURCES: Major League Baseball Baseball Reference/Stathead Retrosheet SABR Baseball Biography Project Fangraphs The Seattle Times The Philadelphia Inquirer SB Nation The Washington Post Fox Sports NPR ______________________________________ SOUNTRACK: “East” - Silent Partner “Celebration” - Otis McDonald “Open Road” - Audionautix “New Day” - JHS Pedals “Like Lee” - The Mini Vandals “In The West” - Kevin MacLeod “Hey There” - half.cool “Epic Unease” - Kevin MacLeod “Chasin’ It” - Audionautix
