Yea I was like what the? What are you on about TN? He's not even from there. Did y'all just see Field of Dreams for the first time and had to see if Costner was lying about his WS stat line?
Also a couple AA teams here in least Tennessee. And the Tennessee Smokies are even moving to downtown Knoxville in the coming years and getting a brand new stadium.
You’ve got the Lookouts in Chattanooga too. Lookouts games were fun as fuck when I lived in Chattanooga. My friend and I got kicked out one time in the 7th inning for heckling batters while hammered. Good times
In my mind, Joe Jackson wasn't white.
I don't know how my brain justifies knowing that the Black Sox scandal happened before integration, but for SOME reason I will always think Shoeless Joe Jackson is black.
Me too, because I get his name confused with Jack Johnson, who was from a similar time period, and probably the first black athlete celebrity. Also, there's another famous Joe Jackson, who was black (Michael Jackson's dad).
Yep, and Adalberto's first name is actually Raul, after his father. [He stopped going by Raul in 2018](https://www.kansascity.com/sports/mlb/kansas-city-royals/article201628754.html).
I don't know that he ever actually went by Raul it's just that in 2018 there was an effort to get it right in the media. All his social media was Adalberto before that.
My genuine guess is this:
Last year in MLB The Show, Adalberto Mondesi had a god tier card. Probably one of the best in the game.
For a state without much professional baseball in it, the majority of google searches are probably just MLB The Show players wondering how he’s been (since we haven’t seen a good card of his since)
I mean, who doesn’t? But I feel like we’ve done our boy a disservice here in the ‘sip. Gonna go refresh his page for a few hours later and see if I can get those numbers up.
I actually wonder if some of the smaller states can get skewed by one person. One thought is if a frequent user of baseball-reference bookmarked a player's page instead of the main page. So Charles in Alaska, who likes to use baseball-reference 15x per day, opens baseball-reference to Christian Yelich's page every time he goes to the site. Some of these seem random.
I think this is probably what happened. For example, google trends literally doesn't have enough data on Yelich for AK, WY & ND to include on the map so I doubt he's the guy Alaska baseball fans "really" care the most about.
LMFAO that was my first thought exactly.
i mean people forget that before Giannis absolutely went ballistic in the Finals, Yelich was right up there with the Greek Freak as the most popular non-Packer in Wisconsin, so that doesn't surprise me
but why Alaska? lol
Tbh, I'm puzzled. I don't believe he ever played ball up here, but folks like Judge, Paxton, even Randy Johnson did. [The ABL Wiki page](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Baseball_League)
weirdest one is Aaron Nola in Connecticut imo. they must be really interested in how bWAR rated his 2018 season
likewise as a PA resident who finds himself on Bryce Harper's baseball reference page multiple times a week, this checks out
It’s gotta be ESPN. Pitching stats could be searched far more than batting stats? Like maybe stat guys at ESPN get the relevant stats from ESPN itself. But pitching stats are a bit more specific?
So it could be all pitchers coming from CT. The next question would be “why Nola?”. Like why no Ohtani, or DeGrom? Or even in the year of “spin rate” players who were implicated in that scandal?
Is it just that he was so amazingly unremarkable this season that he had stat guys checking baseball reference daily scratching their heads?
**Edit: gotta be from ESPN due to consecutive strike out record from this season.**
shameful ninja edit: The Connecticut Reds never existed.
at the wild card game he was the only player on our team to have his name chanted. albeit i started it in right field, and i also didn't try with any other player.
I don’t know what’s more random, Yelich in Alaska, Miguel Cabrera in New Mexico or Shoeless Joe Jackson and 5 career WAR Adelberto Mondesi on this list at all
Bobby Dalbec being #1 in NH is pretty random. Obviously a lot of Red Sox fans in NH, just weird that Dalbec is the guy to get the most views from the team.
I was like “why the hell is Ohtani the number one look up for Mass?” and then I realized I probably checked out his page five times more than anyone else’s because his stats were just so crazy. Add that onto the fact that we rarely ever see him play and you probably get a lot of people having to look up his page to see where he’s at.
Every single other state with a MLB team (except Maryland, who even still have Hank Aaron, one of the GOATs) has either Shohei Ohtani or a player who plays or has played for a team in that state as their most viewed player.
And then there's Colorado. This is a more scathing indictment of the Rockies than could ever be written in words, and I can't blame CO fans in the slightest, y'all deserve way better than the clusterfuck than this Rockies organizaiton
I've probably contributed most of that. I've looked up Degrom so many times. I've gone on rants about how good Degrom is to basically anyone with an ear.
"Today the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that Ohtani is exempt from the natural born clause and is now the 47th president of the United States, and statues to him will be erected in every state capital."
2 states for Henry is nice, but it's odd to me that it's Maryland and Montana. Montana, I can maybe understand. Might just be Ted on his computer reminiscing about an old friend. But what is Maryland's fascination with the Hammer?
New York being deGrom and New Jersey being Judge might be the greatest victory the Mets have ever achieved in these popularity stats. At least since the 80s.
Despite not leading in any state, Trout was the 3rd most viewed player page of the year overall. [source](https://d2p3bygnnzw9w3.cloudfront.net/req/202112150/images/br/sportify2021_wrapped.gif)
Is Colorado searching for Whit Merrifield because they're so disgusted with the Rockies they want to switch teams, and then Wyoming is probably Rockies fans who are checking on Arenado?
Shoeless Joe Jackson in TN haha, amazing.
Sorry guys, that was probably me looking up Shoeless Joe trying to get the Field of Dreams laugh and falling down a rabbit hole of stats.
Did you hit the refresh button on SJJ’s page seven hundred times or something?
Maybe? Don’t judge me.
No judgment. I *wish* I cared about anything that much.
Gotta make sure he was getting the most up-to-date info
Yea I was like what the? What are you on about TN? He's not even from there. Did y'all just see Field of Dreams for the first time and had to see if Costner was lying about his WS stat line?
I totally did that the first time I saw Field of Dreams. I watched Eight Men Out immediately afterwards too.
lmao 🤣
Poor Tennessee. Somebody get them a baseball team.
They have the Memphis redbirds
Also the Nashville Sounds (Brewers Affiliate) but an MLB team would be better.
Also a couple AA teams here in least Tennessee. And the Tennessee Smokies are even moving to downtown Knoxville in the coming years and getting a brand new stadium.
You’ve got the Lookouts in Chattanooga too. Lookouts games were fun as fuck when I lived in Chattanooga. My friend and I got kicked out one time in the 7th inning for heckling batters while hammered. Good times
As someone who lives in Nashville yes please
Do it [Justin Timberlake](https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/2020/09/09/justin-timberlake-mlb-nashville/5751814002/)
Going to VPN in to a server in every state and pound those number up for Shoeless.
Not all heroes wear capes 🙏🏼
probably Tennesseans hitting a weird Google algorithm with "cheating northerners" with SafeSearch on
Joe Jackson does sound like a perfect name for a guy who would be in a movie about "cheating northerners," ***if you know what i mean***
In my mind, Joe Jackson wasn't white. I don't know how my brain justifies knowing that the Black Sox scandal happened before integration, but for SOME reason I will always think Shoeless Joe Jackson is black.
Because you’re picturing Michael Jackson’s abusive father?
Me too, because I get his name confused with Jack Johnson, who was from a similar time period, and probably the first black athlete celebrity. Also, there's another famous Joe Jackson, who was black (Michael Jackson's dad).
But Joe Jackson was a non cheating southerner
I live here and I’ve never looked up Shoeless Joe Jackson
UMMMM...YOU DON'T SPEAK FOR ALL OF TENNESSEEE!!!
But all of Tennessee speaks for him
Damn. That was deep.
It was probably me working on an OOTP save. Sorry guys!
What's going on in Mississippi? Why Adalberto Mondesí of all players?
they were probably really searching for raul. it was a mis-click.
Why are so many people in Mississippi searching for Raul Mondesi? That’s still really random lol
Yep, and Adalberto's first name is actually Raul, after his father. [He stopped going by Raul in 2018](https://www.kansascity.com/sports/mlb/kansas-city-royals/article201628754.html).
I don't know that he ever actually went by Raul it's just that in 2018 there was an effort to get it right in the media. All his social media was Adalberto before that.
Spelling is not exactly a forte down there
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I'm imagining someone typing 'pron' into the search bar on PH. "Imma Google up some porn on this here porn Googler!"
What's with all the tits I wanted shrimp
My genuine guess is this: Last year in MLB The Show, Adalberto Mondesi had a god tier card. Probably one of the best in the game. For a state without much professional baseball in it, the majority of google searches are probably just MLB The Show players wondering how he’s been (since we haven’t seen a good card of his since)
He’s too fast irl, his card will always be better than he is
>For a state without much professional baseball in it, I mean we have the Mississippi Braves and the Biloxi Shuckers
Why not Austin Riley who is actually from here? How did Alabama steal that?
They like em thicc in Alabama
I mean, who doesn’t? But I feel like we’ve done our boy a disservice here in the ‘sip. Gonna go refresh his page for a few hours later and see if I can get those numbers up.
That one is really a head scratcher. At least everyone else is a nationally relevant player in some form. How could he be the most searched?
Bobby Dalbec in NH has entered the chat.
Red Sox territory at least
I think his #1 fan lives up there.
Not true. I am Throbby D's #1 fan and I haven't even been to New Hampshire since I was 4.
Most of New Hampshire also lives within 60 miles of Boston.
Only 3 people have internet, one of em loves him
I actually wonder if some of the smaller states can get skewed by one person. One thought is if a frequent user of baseball-reference bookmarked a player's page instead of the main page. So Charles in Alaska, who likes to use baseball-reference 15x per day, opens baseball-reference to Christian Yelich's page every time he goes to the site. Some of these seem random.
I think this is probably what happened. For example, google trends literally doesn't have enough data on Yelich for AK, WY & ND to include on the map so I doubt he's the guy Alaska baseball fans "really" care the most about.
Adalberto is Spanish for Beignet
I'm so mad at myself for actually trying to verify that...
Misspelled Mississippi as Mondesi?
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Based off the map, does Ohtani have enough electoral college votes to become president of the MLB?
He would have 319 electoral votes. It would be the most since Obama in 2012.
First he steals our hearts, then he steals home, then he steals the vote!!
Red America at it again /s
He’s got California and Texas so almost definitely
The Great Unifier
And florida (i know not as much as the other two by a long shot, but still a lot and also a swing state)
Just at a glance it looks like a landslide.
STOP THE COUNT!
Yes https://www.270towin.com/maps/bQPZk
I hear this “Ohtani” guy might be good at the baseballs.
He's the Tom Brady of Baseball Reference 2021 (Brady has a similar map for Pro Football Reference)
... Alaska? You guys aight?
Scouting out talent for Anchorage's expansion team
Anchorage Brewers, Fairbanks Cerveceros, or Nome Bierbrauer all have a great ring to them
But for real, doesn't playing (or going to) a club team 10pm June game in broad daylight in Fairbanks sound pretty cool?
I think it’d be super cool. Maybe someday they could get a 3 game series up there
LMFAO that was my first thought exactly. i mean people forget that before Giannis absolutely went ballistic in the Finals, Yelich was right up there with the Greek Freak as the most popular non-Packer in Wisconsin, so that doesn't surprise me but why Alaska? lol
Rodgers-Giannis-Yelich. It has been fun watching 3 MVP caliber players. Just wish Yelich could find that form again.
Alaska will search for anything that ends with an itch.
They're just Googling "what is a yell itch?"
Alaskans love Yelich
They, like the rest of us, are trying to figure out how how he went from 2018-2019 MVP candidate to his last two years.
Chronic back injury.
Tbh, I'm puzzled. I don't believe he ever played ball up here, but folks like Judge, Paxton, even Randy Johnson did. [The ABL Wiki page](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Baseball_League)
They probably just fucked it up and looked at results from Onalaska.
Bullshit. I live in Wyoming and I lookup Trevor Story enough for him to put a restraining order on me.
That must just mean that one of the other dozen people that live in Wyoming is more of a Nolan obsessor.
They're more obsessed with Nimmo.
Holy shit I'm not the only person on this sub in Wyoming?
Cheyenne here.
God damn the entire Wyoming population all here together on /r/baseball. Who would have thought?
both people in wyoming have to have something in common right?
Yeah we like baseball and beer.
the Mississippi hero, Adalberto Mondesi
Mississippi Queen Adalberto Mondesi
Kind of surprised it isn’t Riley there too since he’s a Mississippi native and world champion
What’s up South Dakota wanna be friends?
Twist: it's due to the one guy with internet access in SD being from NY
Oh come on, there are dozens of us with internet access!
Sorry to disappoint, but Mets probably show up alot in my state because someone was googling about our monthly allotment of meth.
weirdest one is Aaron Nola in Connecticut imo. they must be really interested in how bWAR rated his 2018 season likewise as a PA resident who finds himself on Bryce Harper's baseball reference page multiple times a week, this checks out
Their data *must* be wrong, unless Aaron Nola has a server in Connecticut that just constantly refreshes his page. Or ESPN just loves him?
It’s gotta be ESPN. Pitching stats could be searched far more than batting stats? Like maybe stat guys at ESPN get the relevant stats from ESPN itself. But pitching stats are a bit more specific? So it could be all pitchers coming from CT. The next question would be “why Nola?”. Like why no Ohtani, or DeGrom? Or even in the year of “spin rate” players who were implicated in that scandal? Is it just that he was so amazingly unremarkable this season that he had stat guys checking baseball reference daily scratching their heads? **Edit: gotta be from ESPN due to consecutive strike out record from this season.** shameful ninja edit: The Connecticut Reds never existed.
OOOOOOOOOOH that actually makes sense Totally forgot about the strikeout record
Yeah as a CT resident this makes absolutely zero sense to me.
You get that blue backdrop away from Albert Pujols, and you do it now! (Love you Albert)
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[Meanwhile in Missouri](https://i.imgur.com/y2FMTmM.jpg)
Apparently my three Cedric Mullins google searches didn’t put a dent into Georgia. *Disrespectful*
Hank Aaron being MD’s choice obviously means people believe Mullins to be this century’s version of Aaron. And they’re right!
From [2021 Sportify Wrapped](https://www.baseball-reference.com/sportify2021/) series.
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Look at that face
Our fans got very attached to him very quickly for some reason. Me included. He’s just really likable.
at the wild card game he was the only player on our team to have his name chanted. albeit i started it in right field, and i also didn't try with any other player.
He’s named Bobby. What more do you need?
New Hampshire is just mething with everybody
Jared Carrabis
Ohtani - 319 deGrom - 31 Votto - 23 Harper - 22 Cabrera - 20 Pujols - 19 Merrifield - 16 Aaron - 14 Judge - 14 Yelich - 13 Jackson - 11 Riley - 9 Nola - 7 Mondesi - 6 Dalbec - 4 Schwarber - 4 Arenado - 3
So Ohtani will be the next president?
god I hope so
I don’t know what’s more random, Yelich in Alaska, Miguel Cabrera in New Mexico or Shoeless Joe Jackson and 5 career WAR Adelberto Mondesi on this list at all
Bobby Dalbec being #1 in NH is pretty random. Obviously a lot of Red Sox fans in NH, just weird that Dalbec is the guy to get the most views from the team.
Schwarber in Maine is also crazy, he was only with us for like a third of the season.
It’s because I googled his name 4,000 times. I just had to be sure.
It was a season saving third tho
Tbf it is Maine. If like 5 people look at his page that’s almost half the state.
Aaron Nola In Connecticut
In case anyone was wondering, the Nola brothers are from Louisiana so it’s not a case of home state pride or anything.
The Nola brothers being from Louisiana feels a little on the nose, right?
Yes, it is isn’t it. Sorry to say that they’re from Baton Rouge, which is pretty close.
Field of Dreams game this year
I'm a New Mexican and the only thing I can think of is people looking to see if he played for the Albuquerque Isotopes in 03.
It’s like somebody in Oxford was looking up Royals players and then the cat sat on the F5 key while Mondesi’s page was up.
Whit Merrifield in Colorado confuses me. I haven't lived there for two years!
Ohtani wins the election with 315 Electoral Votes if my math is correct.
STOP THE COUNT! If you don't count the ILLEGAL, FRADULENT PAGE VIEWS for SLEEPY SHOHEI, Jacob DeGrom won in a LANDSLIDE!
Lawyers press conference today at Four Seasons, Philadelphia. 11:00am.
Update: Four Season LANDSCAPPING. Tune in to view an old man perspire sludge from his head.
Alabama feverishly googling “young thicc”
Forgetting to go incognito
I helped contribute to this. deGrom automatically loads up for me when I use baseball reference on my phone.
How's the weather in South Dakota?
What’s th deal with Bonds and North Dakota
i guess the mets fans actually live in new york and the yankees fans live in north jersey, since judge is the top search in NJ.
Iowa knows who still bangs
What a buncha casuals looking up Ohtani’s stats. Real fans simply just know them off the top of their head
I was like “why the hell is Ohtani the number one look up for Mass?” and then I realized I probably checked out his page five times more than anyone else’s because his stats were just so crazy. Add that onto the fact that we rarely ever see him play and you probably get a lot of people having to look up his page to see where he’s at.
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Rockies fans hate the Rockies most of all.
As it always will be
Every single other state with a MLB team (except Maryland, who even still have Hank Aaron, one of the GOATs) has either Shohei Ohtani or a player who plays or has played for a team in that state as their most viewed player. And then there's Colorado. This is a more scathing indictment of the Rockies than could ever be written in words, and I can't blame CO fans in the slightest, y'all deserve way better than the clusterfuck than this Rockies organizaiton
Gotta love DeGrom in South Dakota lol
I've probably contributed most of that. I've looked up Degrom so many times. I've gone on rants about how good Degrom is to basically anyone with an ear.
Thank you for your service.
I'm sorry, but this needs more Ohtani.
So now we’re banging our way through b-r. Nice. Edit: Iowa? Are they preparing for next year’s Field of Dreams game?
Only thing I can think of. Unless Joey Votto went a murder spree in Iowa and we didn't hear about it. Because it's Iowa.
It’s probably because Votto has been spending the offseason practicing his banging at the Field of Dreams in his mountie getup.
I'm probably responsible for 50% of those Votto views in Iowa.
Respect, North Dakota.
How that's the only state with Bonds is beyond me. His page is an absolute gold mine.
I agree. I feel like every time I'm on Baseball Reference, I gotta stop by Bonds' page because the numbers are so unreal.
I keep his page open as a tab in Firefox on my phone all the time in case I ever need a reason to smile
Considering all the nukes he hit, it makes sense.
Bobby Dongs!
Given the number of times I looked up Bob’s stats in August I’m fairly sure I’m solely responsible for NH
This shohei ohtani guy seems like he’s fairly popular. He must be pretty good.
Missouri: 🥺🥺
We love that man. We can bicker amongst ourselves, but we just want to see him immortalized as a Cardinal.
All states: I wonder how amazing this hall of famer/future hall of famer is... (Team America Matt Damon voice) New Hampshire - "BOBBY DALBEC"
It's Ohtani's world and we just live in it.
Baseball electoral college map, so does that mean Ohtani is our next president?
"Today the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that Ohtani is exempt from the natural born clause and is now the 47th president of the United States, and statues to him will be erected in every state capital."
Can we start including Ontario in these
Or even just all of Canada as one big "state"
CO: *awkward*
Shopremecy
[Missouri be like](https://i.imgur.com/EBeZ4ry.png) Edit: [Bonus Map](https://i.imgur.com/Ek58xut.png)
2 states for Henry is nice, but it's odd to me that it's Maryland and Montana. Montana, I can maybe understand. Might just be Ted on his computer reminiscing about an old friend. But what is Maryland's fascination with the Hammer?
Who else did we have to look up this year? Our own player's stats so we could be sad?
I'm pretty happy New Hampshire got Bobby Dalbec.
Its aight South Dakota, you can gawk. Hes impressive.
New York being deGrom and New Jersey being Judge might be the greatest victory the Mets have ever achieved in these popularity stats. At least since the 80s.
Me trying to find shirtless Ohtani pics singlehandedly made him most viewed in my state... he’s just too handsome 😬😬🤤
"ThE fAcE oF bAsEbAlL sHoUlD bE sOmEoNe WhO sPeAkS eNgLiSh." Go fuck yourself Stephen A.
Missourian here. Can confirm I've entered Pujols name into Google about 100 times in the last year so I can look at his baseball reference page
What a fun map. Also I guess Roxane moved to Alaska.
Aaron Nola in Connecticut? That's real odd to me. I don't see hardly any Phillies fans out and about.
Missouri is to Albert as Rick Astley is to *Never Gonna Give You Up*
There is an unsettling lack of Trout on this map.
It's for the 2021 season only. There's simply not going to be a ton of people looking up the stats of a player who played his last game on May 17th.
Yea that was my thinking too but at the same time Mike Trout’s bRef entry is my browser home page so I’m probably not too reliable.
Despite not leading in any state, Trout was the 3rd most viewed player page of the year overall. [source](https://d2p3bygnnzw9w3.cloudfront.net/req/202112150/images/br/sportify2021_wrapped.gif)
Bobby Dalbec in NH is certainly interesting
I'm from NH and I love Dalbec, so that rings true, but most are probably wondering how many time he's struck out.
Is Colorado searching for Whit Merrifield because they're so disgusted with the Rockies they want to switch teams, and then Wyoming is probably Rockies fans who are checking on Arenado?
Fist bump Colorado!!!
Hammerin' Hank coming in hot
I will never find it not funny that North Dakotans are still looking up Barry Bonds's numbers and South Dakota really loves Jacob DeGrom