Test Your MLB Stat Geek Quotient...If You Dare What it is, good people? With the kickoff of the football season and an abyssmal Mets team, my attention hath been deflected from the diamond. My apologies. I will re-engage come playoff time, but, for now, I can only concern myself with the occasional Baseball Tonight snippet and keeping up with the stats. Which brings us to our latest whuddathunk it-style rundown.It's almost the end of the year, and while names like Pujols, Howard, Fielder, Greinke, Lincecum and Carpenter, are more-than-familiar (and expected) by now among the League's leaders, there are still quite a few surprises. To reiterate said fact, I took a stroll around the league leaderboards.I tried to make these a bit challenging, while simultaneoulsy highlighting some of the facts that might not lend you to have these names on the tip of your tongue. Scores of 8-10 indicate a high degree of stat geekiness and the need to leave one's house and/or quit your fant...
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