Baseball Toaster: The Griddle : Vern Ruhle: 1951-2007

Rank	Team	W	L	PCT	Division
1	Chicago Cubs	53	36	.596	C1
2	Philadelphia	48	42	.533	E1
3T	Arizona	44	45	.494	W1
3T	Los Angeles Dodgers	44	45	.494	W1
5	St. Louis	50	40	.556	C2
6	Milwaukee	49	40	.551	C3
7	Florida	46	43	.517	E2
8	New York Mets	45	44	.506	E3
9	Cincinnati	43	47	.478	C4
10	Atlanta	42	48	.467	E4
11	Pittsburgh	41	47	.466	C5
12	Houston	41	49	.456	C6
13	San Francisco	39	50	.438	W3
14	Colorado	38	52	.422	W4
15	San Diego	35	55	.389	W5
16	Washington	34	56	.378	E5

American League

Rank	Team	W	L	PCT	Division
1	Tampa Bay	55	33	.625	E1
2	Los Angeles Angels	54	35	.607	W1
3	Chicago White Sox	51	37	.58	C1
4	Boston	53	39	.576	E2
5	Minnesota	50	39	.562	C2
6	Oakland	48	41	.539	W2
7	New York Yankees	47	42	.528	E3
8	Texas	46	44	.511	W3
9	Baltimore	44	43	.506	E4
10	Detroit	44	44	.5	C3
11	Toronto	42	47	.472	E5
12	Kansas City	40	50	.444	C4
13	Cleveland	37	51	.42	C5
14	Seattle	35	54	.393	W4

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Comments

2007-01-21 13:45:06

1. Linkmeister

I remember Ruhle as a pretty darned good pitcher, at least against the Dodgers.

Another intimation of my own mortality. When former athletes who're younger than I am die of "natural causes" I start twitching.

2007-01-21 13:49:09

2. Bob Timmermann

Would you be surprised to find out that in his career, Ruhle was 1-10 against the Dodgers with an ERA of 3.93?

2007-01-21 14:26:07

3. twerp

1. I don't get the "natural causes" reference. Multiple myeloma is a rare form of cancer which claimed my own father.

I'm not taking offense, but if your point is that cancer is a natural cause, it might be a tough case to make.

2007-01-21 14:43:02

4. Eric L

Cancer, for better or worse, is a natural cause. I know it doesn't make sense, because cancer seems like something that isn't natural.

Pretty much anything that happens in your own body that kills you is a natural cause.

2007-01-21 14:59:23

5. Bob Timmermann

Yeah, I think 2 was referring to someone dying at a relatively young age and not having it be something like a car accident.

2007-01-21 15:35:26

6. twerp

4 I'm not looking to argue and am done with this after this comment.

But it's been proven that many cancers have external causes, or at least are externally influenced or triggered. Smoking has led to many, many cases of lung cancer. Different environmental factors have been linked to various types of other cancers.

In the past smallpox has been a major worldwide killer as have bubonic plague and Spanish Flu, among other diseases. Infection and complications from disease happen inside the body, but diseases are hardly natural causes.

So in that sense things in "your own body that kill you" which came in from outside really couldn't be said to be from natural causes.

Granted, there's a whole lot unknown about cancer, including the specific cause of multiple myeloma.

I now officially lighten up. Probably about time.

2007-01-21 16:20:45

7. Andrew Shimmin

Natural causes is a coroner's accounting term. The causal options are natural, accidental, suicide, homicide, unknown, or pending.

2007-01-21 21:15:49

8. Linkmeister

That lifetime record surprises me. I'd have sworn he pitched well against us.

2007-01-21 21:50:57

9. das411

Sad. Ruhle was the target of oh-so-many shoutings at the tv during his time in Phila, but seeing someone like him gone so young really puts things in perspective, doesn't it?