(also i have no other guesses if colon isn't in there)
― challops trap house (Will M.), Friday, 29 June 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
dotel is a good try; he's in the high 600s
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 June 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
As far as I can tell, new Boston 1B/OF Steve Pearce will be just the 5th player to play for every team in a division, with Kelly Johnson (AL East), C. Izturis (NL Central), Mark McLemore (AL West), Steve Finley (NL West).— Tyler Kepner (@TylerKepner) June 29, 2018
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 June 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
Also Matt Herges in the NL West. (Thanks to Rob Morse of the Yankees' PR dept. for the correction.) https://t.co/KYOKvl5qnm— Tyler Kepner (@TylerKepner) June 29, 2018
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 June 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
1. Terry Mulholland 791 (11 teams)2. Edwin Jackson 763 (13 teams)3. Matt Stairs 725 (12 teams)4. Rickey Henderson 725 (9 teams, not counting the A’s four times)5. Carlos Beltrán 719 (7 teams)6. LaTroy Hawkins 703 (11 teams)
(Octavio Dotel 654 (13 teams))
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 June 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
whoa, weird to see Beltran in there
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 30 June 2018 00:31 (five years ago) link
My guesses weren't very good--all I thought about was longevity, overlooked the multiple-teams factor. Ted Lyons spend hit entire career (21 seasons) with the White Sox. I think I may have actually been thinking of multiple-teams with him but got him confused with Bobo Newsom.
― clemenza, Saturday, 30 June 2018 12:30 (five years ago) link
spend hit = spent his...
Weird question, in that technically there's not a correct answer. But there's a link on Baseball Reference for "Historical Deadline Deals" where you can look at all the transactions on July 31 year-by-year. There's one year where I think there's an unmistakable spike in the number of transactions, and from that point forward it's never not an exceptionally busy day again.
What year? (Recent enough that you might have been aware of the spike at the time.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
I remember Randy Johnson getting traded literally minutes before the deadline in 1998, for whatever reason that year really stands out for me.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
It was '95. Till '86, there are annually one or two transactions on July 31. There are four in '87, and it stays in that range for the next few years. In '95, there are suddenly 10 deadline transactions, and it's stayed that way ever since (with a high of 20 in 2015).
http://www.baseball-reference.com/friv/transactions.cgi?month=7&day=31
I don't know what brought on the change. You had a couple of expansion teams added in 1993--that was probably a factor. (I'd discount 1994 because of the impending mid-August strike.) Past that, I don't know, but something changed.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
It must have been the wild card -- more playoff spots, more teams looking for help at the deadline, more deals.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
more delusions, more trades
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
Wild card, of course. Duh...(Assume the spike would have happened a year earlier if the strike hadn't been looming.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
juan soto can become the fourth *national league* rookie to hit .300/.400/.500 (minimum 250 PA) since 1945
name the other three
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
First two guesses: Pujols and F. Robinson.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
pujols is correct!
the other two are harder -- one was in the 70s, one was earlier this century
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
Yeah, just looked up Robinson--monster year, but short on the slash stats.
.290/.379/.558, 38 HR, 143 OPS+ (lower than Soto right now...).
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
Scott Rolen? Bellinger?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
i guessed buster posey, but he came up a little short in OBP. i cheated and looked up the 2000s answer and never would have guessed it, ever
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
...or the other one, from the 70s.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
yeah, the other two are pretty obscure -- and neither won rookie of the year!
bernie carbo, 1970austin kearns, 2002
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
austin kearns, 2002: .315/.407/.500, monster defense in the OF
2002 NL rookie of the year Jason Jennings: 16 wins
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link
bernie carbo, 1970: .310/.454/.551 in f'in 1970 hitting environment
1970 NL rookie of the year Carl Morton: 18 wins
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
wins: forming the primary element of terrible arguments since before john smoltz was even born
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
morton was at least fairly close in WAR; jennings was not
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
today's trivia, part 2
name the one player in baseball history has won AL LCS MVP, NL LCS MVP and World Series MVP
note: LCS MVPs have only been named since 1977 (NL) and 1980 (AL)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
Cu*t Sch*ll*ng?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
solid guess, but n0
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
Never would have guessed Bernie Carbo in a million years. Not sure I even knew who Austin Kearns was.
I don't think the voters were wrong in 1970. Carbo had 365 AB; Morton threw 284 innings, and in a huge hitter's year and pitching for a 73-win, second-year expansion team, was under a hit per inning--barely, albeit--and had an ERA of 3.60.
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 August 2018 01:45 (five years ago) link
yeah, i guess. he also led the league in walks, but that's a *lot* of solid innings
― mookieproof, Thursday, 9 August 2018 02:39 (five years ago) link
in f'in 1970 hitting environment
You would think so, but while surrounded by big pitchers' years (including '68), 1970 was some kind of bizarre blip--probably the biggest hitters' year of my lifetime until either 1987 or the PED-era.
Average runs scored per team in the NL:
1968 - 5581969 - 6581970 - 7311971 - 6331972 - 605
No idea why--it was '69 when they lowered the mound, and I don't think there were any changes along those lines in '71 or '72--but '70 has always fascinated me.
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 August 2018 02:53 (five years ago) link
yeah, i was just looking into that here: https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/bat.shtml i was totally wrong! i had always just assumed that the year of the pitcher kind of extended on a bit through the early 1970s, but that's not the case at all. baseball is weird
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 August 2018 03:10 (five years ago) link
With his next hit, Albert Pujols will be the ninth player to get 1000 hits in both leagues. Who are the other eight?
Clues: three are HOFers, two were on the HOF ballot this year but weren't elected, two others have yet to appear on the ballot (one of whom has a very good HOF case), and one retired in 2011 and was primarily a shortstop.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 9 August 2018 08:10 (five years ago) link
Frank RobinsonBill Buckner
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 August 2018 11:56 (five years ago) link
Robinson yes, Buckner no.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 9 August 2018 12:55 (five years ago) link
Is Beltre the "very good case"?
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 August 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
No, he's not--949 hits in the NL.
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 August 2018 13:02 (five years ago) link
Raines must be one of them.
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 August 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link
I should clarify that all eight of these guys are retired.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 9 August 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link
Not Rained or Beltre.
Raines
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 9 August 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
Raines had 966 AL hits. I'm evidently working on a shadow list of the guys who came the closest without actually doing it.
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 August 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
Anyway, the three HOFers are Robinson, Winfield, and Vlad Guerrero. The two guys who weren't elected to the HOF this year are McGriff and Carlos Lee. The two not yet eligible are Alfonso Soriano and Carlos Beltran. The last one is Orlando Cabrera.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
I remember p much nothing about Cabrera and Lee.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
btw the AL LCS + NL LCS + WS MVP was . . . orel hershiser
― mookieproof, Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link
I gave up after my near misses. If I'd thought about it, I'm sure I would have gotten Winfield and Vlad eventually. McGriff, probably not. The others, no. Good question.
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
A friend gave me this the other night: who was the last Cy Young winner to win 20 and hit .300? (Prompted by Max Scherzer, who was hitting .288 going into tonight's game--he's 1 for 2 tonight.) Not that hard if you think about it--I missed on my first guess, got it on the second. I found a page that list all seven HOF pitchers who did both in the same season (including the answer to the question). The page says seven non-HOF pitchers did it too. So a second question: who was the last guy (maybe--the last HOF'er, anyway) to win 20 and hit .300 in the same season?
― clemenza, Saturday, 18 August 2018 00:51 (five years ago) link
my go-to for 'pitchers who could hit' is always former pirate great rick rhoden, who never won 20 games or had a significant cy young showing (fifth once)
so what i'm saying is that i have no idea
― mookieproof, Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:00 (five years ago) link
first guess that come to mind was dontrelle willis
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:40 (five years ago) link