On Sunday evening, in the fourth inning of an 8-4 loss to the Minnesota Twins, Royals catcher Salvador Perez tied an obscure team record.
After clubbing a two-run homer in a 6-4 victory in the first game of a doubleheader, Perez started the second game at designated hitter and opened with two homers in his first two at-bats. The three blasts matched the club record for most homers in a doubleheader, set by a light-hitting utility infielder named Bill Pecota, and if that name sounds familiar, there is a reason.
It was Pecota the infielder, who struck the fancy of Nate Silver, then a young statistical wizard who developed a baseball projection system in the early 2000s and named it PECOTA.