Noticed Charlie Hickman's 1899 season isn't on Whatif even though Hickman had 63 AB (minimum is 50 to be eligible)
I wonder who else is missing.

Some hypotheses:

1. the rapture has already taken place. we missed it.

2. the bermuda triangle got them

3. we are really a holographic universe and someone in the real world made a mistake and erased part of the matrix with them in it

4. it is Trump's fault

5. it is Obama's fault

6. it is Hillary's fault

7. secret rendition by the CIA to an undisclosed location

8. they got sent to the minors

9. spontaneous combusion a la Michael Jackson that time

10. baseball contraction

Hickman is listed for 1899, but as a 71 IP pitcher. As you probably know, WIS doesn't issue position player and pitcher iterations of the same player/same season.

A player is determined to be a hitter or pitcher for that year based on which position he appeared in more games at.

1899 Hickman pitched in 11 games and played the field in 8. So he's a pitcher for that year.

Posted by skunk206 on 2/29/2016 6:04:00 PM (view original):
A player is determined to be a hitter or pitcher for that year based on which position he appeared in more games at.

1899 Hickman pitched in 11 games and played the field in 8. So he's a pitcher for that year.

Damn, he batted .397 that year. Hoping to use him as a PH. Mystery solved

i like it. i used to rummage through the beehive that way

The holographic universe hypothesis has already succeeded in showing that Stephen Hawking erred in thinking that all light and information is lost in a black hole, but instead everything inside remains in 2-D form on the edge of the black hole. So somewhere the hitting stats and iterations of pitchers exist - the truth it out there somewhere !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMBt_yfGKpU

I'd say it's a stretch to say that a widely-disputed theory has disproved traditional thinking on black holes... String Theory has fallen further and further out of the favor for the past decade.

Hawking admitted his error, after having called the people with the alternative - now accepted - theory idiots in public more than once.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking-admits-the-biggest-blunder-of-his-scientific-career-early-belief-that-everything-8568418.html

First of all, Hawking doesn't represent a consensus, even if he has fully changed his mind. Second, I don't know that he's ever suggested that matter is not irreversibly annihilated in a black hole, only that radiation can escape. Although I do think most reliable pictures of black holes at this point do agree that entry into a black hole is a theoretically reversible process, IE the information is retained on some fundamental level. But that doesn't make it recognizable.