I remember when Colby got started in the bigs in 2009. Part of the reason I remember that is that I was feverishly waiting to claim sponsorship of his Baseball-Reference.com page.
I stumbled on this page this morning only to find that Colby is the 86th most visited player page on Baseball-Reference. There’s really no point to this story other than the fact that it brought me a little smile. Outside of the recently re-signed Jim Edmonds (#78) and the eminent Albert Pujols (#4), Rasmus’s page is the most viewed among active Cardinals players.
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Watch out! Your ad is going to expire on May 1st of this year.
Also, how the heck is JA Happ 21st overall…?
@Jeff: lots ofviews during phillies trade talks for oswalt and hallway before that?
Wait until you see the prices to renew. This year, they have gone through the roof. Brendan Ryan, for example, is going up from $10 to $160. Gonna have to pass on the sponsorships in 2011…
Imagine if he had a good season or wasn’t exiled to the great Northwest!
Daniel Descalso clocks in at 191; Adam Wainwright doesn’t appear on the list.
You forgot Berkman, at 47th. A few other trivia:
The three ahead of AP are Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, and Roy Oswalt. Barry Bonds is #5, and Edgar Renteria is #6. One of these things is not like the others.
Stan Musial occupies slot number 71, between Ralph Houk and J. C. Boscan, whoever or whatever that is. For comparison purposes, Babe Ruth is #9, between Andre Dawson and Ichiro Suzuki. Ted Williams is #25 (flanked by Mickey Mantle and Jose Bautista) and Willie Mays is #27 (Bautista and Aubrey Huff).
They also have rankings for most visited pages on teams’ single seasons. The most visited Cardinals page is for 1985 (grrr…), at number 50. Three others (2006, 1982 and 2001) make the top 100. 12 of the top 13 pages by visit count are for teams from New York or Boston, with a weird Seattle outlier (the 2001 team that won 116 regular-season games, then got bombed by the Yankees in the ALCS — yeah, I can understand people looking at that one to try to understand what went on…) creeping in.
Update: J. C. Boscan is an Atlanta farm hand, a catcher who appeared in exactly one game this past October, drawing a walk and scoring a run. What is he doing on this list? I have no idea. He doesn’t even appear on the current Atlanta top-ten prospect lists, nor is there any reason, with a 14-year minor-league career and a .629 OPS in the minors, why he particularly should. Apparently he has a ton of friends who like surfing the net or something.
Good stuff, Gruntosaurus