22/30, made some dumb choices
https://www.mlb.com/news/active-home-run-leaders-quiz
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
27/30
a couple of blind guesses that got lucky w/some of those rebuilding teams
― omar little, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
24
lol marlins
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
24/30. Got the Jays one right, although I had to think about it a bit!
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 13 February 2020 05:46 (three years ago) link
25/30, a few lucky guesses--missed the Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Mets, Rays, and Rangers. Yeah, the Jays was hard.
― clemenza, Thursday, 13 February 2020 06:01 (three years ago) link
22/30
i got the cardinals question wrong
;(
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!π (Karl Malone), Thursday, 13 February 2020 06:24 (three years ago) link
26... perfect until the marlins and then STL NYM and TEX fucked me up
― βΊ β½ β β (β), Thursday, 13 February 2020 11:54 (three years ago) link
25/30. I mostly just went with whoeverβs been on the team longest.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 13 February 2020 13:34 (three years ago) link
things i didn't know about macho man randy savage:
Baseball careerSavage was signed by the St. Louis Cardinals organization as a catcher out of high school.[15] He was placed in the minor leagues to develop, where he mostly played as an outfielder[16] in the St. Louis Cardinals, and Cincinnati Reds farm systems.[5] Savage was 18 when he began playing minor league baseball; one of his teammates on the 1971 Gulf Coast League Cardinals was Larry Herndon who was also his roommate.[15] Savage would swing a bat into a hanging car tire as a regular training exercise in order to strengthen his hands and make sure he utilized his legs during swings. The technique was so effective that Herndon adopted it and used it during his own career as a baseball coach.[15] Savage injured his natural (right) throwing shoulder after a collision at home plate, and he learned to throw with his left arm instead. Savage's last season was 1974, when he played for the Tampa Tarpons.[16] He played 289 games in four minor league seasons, batting .254 with 16 home runs and 66 RBIs.[15]
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!π (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
Oooooooooh yeeeeeeeaaahh
― The Jesus Luzardo (Jimmie Lovefoxxxxxx), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 23:05 (three years ago) link
Got this from a FB baseball group--I didn't know the answer, but I have a feeling it's a well-known question.
Who played for both the Pilots and the Mariners in their first games?
― clemenza, Saturday, 21 March 2020 14:32 (three years ago) link
hint: His son played ~1.5 seasons for the Mariners as well.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 21 March 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
You've got it. Also won an ERA title with a not-Seattle team.
― clemenza, Sunday, 22 March 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
I'm trying to remember him in Ball Four, and I think I can just vaguely recall one or two mentions.
― clemenza, Sunday, 22 March 2020 00:20 (three years ago) link
The RadioShack (!!!) Trivia Question of the 2001 All-Star Game was: "Who are the 3 players still active from Cal Ripken's first All-Star Game in 1983?"Can you get it?— Joe Trezza (@JoeTrezz) April 1, 2020
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
I guessed 2... but full disclosure I had to check that one of them ever made an all-star game and sure enough that was his only appearance.
No idea on the 3rd, even after scanning the rosters!
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
rickey, rickey and rickey
― βΊ β½ β β (β), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
Yeah, the other one was my guess as he had a juggernaut career spanning 4 decades.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
there have been 4 teams which had 3 different position players put up 7+ fWAR in a single season. what are they?(hint: obviously one of these teams is the cardinals. sorry. i can also give you the decades for each of these 4 seasons, if wanted)
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Sunday, 19 April 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
One of them must be a Gehrig-Ruth team, since there were so many seasons where those two did it.
― clemenza, Sunday, 19 April 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
For the Cardinals, I'll guess it's a Pujols-Rolen-Edmonds team, although I'm not sure if there was a season where they were together.
― clemenza, Sunday, 19 April 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
Man, I'm good.
I don't think the Big Red Machine ever extended beyond Morgan/Bench, although Rose may have edged over 7.0 somewhere in there, so that's my third guess. Fourth would be the 2001 Mariners.
― clemenza, Sunday, 19 April 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
was thinking one would be griffey/a-rod/edgar but gar only put up 7 once, before a-rod debuted
― βΊ β½ β β (β), Sunday, 19 April 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
before his first full season, rather
those three did combine for 24.8!!!!!!!!!!!!! in 96 though
― βΊ β½ β β (β), Sunday, 19 April 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
didn't happen with the killer b's or bash bros, though biggio and bagwell both had 8+ in 97
― βΊ β½ β β (β), Sunday, 19 April 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
Not any of those Reds teams either...I don't think the '98 Yankees; they were deep, but I don't think they had huge star seasons in their everyday lineup. Maybe one of the A's teams from around 1930?
― clemenza, Sunday, 19 April 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
the 27 yankees are incredible for this - ruth/gehrig/combs combined for 32.3........ and combs was still under 7
― βΊ β½ β β (β), Sunday, 19 April 2020 18:26 (three years ago) link
Oh--then I was wrong about the '27 Yankees. Combs is at 7.0 on Baseball Reference...and I see now the question has to do with Fangraphs.
― clemenza, Sunday, 19 April 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
spoiler alert
it did happen 2 years later - ruth/gehrig/lazzeri did it with exactly 10 fewer WAR than the 27 trio (7.8/7.3/7.2)
― βΊ β½ β β (β), Sunday, 19 April 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link
what bums
Hey, trivia guy, we need two more answers.
― clemenza, Monday, 20 April 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
This gave me much to ponder on my morning walk. Possibility, which I will check after posting--wondering if Bonds/Kent/fluke-season Rich Aurilia were in alignment?
― clemenza, Monday, 20 April 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
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― mookieproof, Monday, 20 April 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
see thread for example questions
― mookieproof, Monday, 20 April 2020 18:57 (three years ago) link
(xpost) No on Bonds/Kent/Aurilia, at least on Baseball Reference. '29 Yankees, '04 Cardinals...
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
The St. Louis hint makes me think it's a red-herring, like the Blues or something.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
errr Browns
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link
shit, sorry! i thought i had this thread bookmarked, so when it didn't come up i assumed no one cared about the trivia question. OOPS!
you've got 2 of the 4:
1929 Yankees (Ruth, Gehrig, Lazzeri)2004 Cardinals (Rolen, Edmonds, Pujols)
the other two are much more difficult. i'll give you two clues, once for each:
1) post-war 1940s league champion featuring a top 10 joe posnanski player2) while mantle and maris were hogging the attention, this team with a pair of slugging outfielders was...also playing (alex trebek i am not)
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
1) post-war 1940s league champion featuring a top 10 joe posnanski player
evil hint, had to figure this one out through blunt force
― βΊ β½ β β (β), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 23:49 (three years ago) link
and i got the last one, mostly through cheating, but i've never really been good with the early 60s.
― βΊ β½ β β (β), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
None of the Williams-Red Sox, Musial-Cardinals, or Mantle/Maris-Yankees teams check out on Baseball Reference.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
those were my first two thoughts
the second one is 1961 but not expressly mantle/maris, as hinted
― βΊ β½ β β (β), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
and only one of the 2 teams passes the threshold in rWAR
― βΊ β½ β β (β), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
Okay, now I get it--'61 Tigers.
Going through Fangraphs is too much work; is the other one a Williams or Musial team?
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 04:07 (three years ago) link
nope!
it's really hard. it would be astounding if you got this (or anyone else).
all three of the players' first names are three letters long.
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 04:11 (three years ago) link
and the legendary top 10 player was a 42-year old at the beginning of his MLB career
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 04:29 (three years ago) link
AhJoe/Ken/Lou...?
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 04:33 (three years ago) link
i'd never even heard of ken keltner
― βΊ β½ β β (β), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 04:34 (three years ago) link
Me neither
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 04:35 (three years ago) link
That's what threw me: you don't say so, but I mistakenly assumed the Posnanski guy was one of the three players.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 06:26 (three years ago) link
X are added conditions (one stat but also this and also that put together) i hope i'm making sense lol, you guys'll get it
― francisF, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 21:04 (ten months ago) link
oooh, gotcha!
maybe X is with the bases loaded or a runner on third?
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 21:07 (ten months ago) link
basically, most runs scored on the pitcher via passed ball or wild pitch?
no, getting closer
― francisF, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 21:18 (ten months ago) link
Most strikeouts where the batter reached base via WP or PB or dropped third strike (catcher error) or ...?
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 21:23 (ten months ago) link
bingo
― francisF, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 21:35 (ten months ago) link
i think most strikeouts while allowing a runner is the best way to put it
― francisF, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 21:36 (ten months ago) link
so wp/pa would be inferred
― francisF, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 21:38 (ten months ago) link
wp/pb*
easy counting stat one:
starting w/Sammy Sosa's 66 HR season and going down from there, only one number hasn't been the final total of home runs for any batter in MLB history. what is that number?
― omar little, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 22:25 (ten months ago) link
Iirc it was in the 50sβ¦
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 23:38 (ten months ago) link
59? I know Howard hit 58, not sure about Stanton or Greenberg.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 23:40 (ten months ago) link
Stanton and the Babe hit 59
― omar little, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 23:59 (ten months ago) link
51
― francisF, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 00:11 (ten months ago) link
johnny mize hit 51 HRs. for some reason i always remember that.
55 HRs?
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 00:17 (ten months ago) link
plus Cecil Fielder, Andruw Jones, Willie Mays, and Ralph Kiner!
55 is correct
― omar little, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 00:42 (ten months ago) link
53 wasn't landed on til Chris David did it (and Pete Alonso did a bit later), and 57 was first landed on by sluggin' Luis Gonzalez
― omar little, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 00:44 (ten months ago) link
*Davis
A-Rod also hit 57
Judge was the first to hit 62
FB wall this morning--surprised me. Team with the longest stretch since they had a 40-HR guy (I've lost the post now, but I think it was almost 10 years longer than anyone else).
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:24 (nine months ago) link
(Should a true trivia question have a fixed answer? The answer to that one will change when this team gets their next 40-HR guy.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:46 (nine months ago) link
Are we talking 20+ years?
― omar little, Saturday, 4 February 2023 19:34 (nine months ago) link
Believe it or not, coming up on 50.
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 February 2023 19:35 (nine months ago) link
I guess this team moved into the #1 slot when Soler finally hit 40 for the Royals.
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 February 2023 19:37 (nine months ago) link
Is it the Pirates or am I blanking on one of their guys who hit 40?
― omar little, Saturday, 4 February 2023 20:11 (nine months ago) link
Very good--Stargell in '73 (also hit 40 doubles that year, the first 40/40 guy, I think).
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 February 2023 20:25 (nine months ago) link
for some reason i was thinking pedro alvarez hit 40 at some point for the pirates, but not quite. josh bell also came quite close in recent years
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 4 February 2023 20:44 (nine months ago) link
some specific-ass trivia, but here we go
of pitchers with more than 100 PAs in a season since 1900, who was the only pitcher to hit .400 or better?
even more specific: who were the only two pitchers since 1950 to hit .350 or better (again, at least 100 PAs in the season)
hint: you've heard of all three
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 00:05 (nine months ago) link
I got nothin'...While you mull over KM's question, try this: most career HRs by first letter of first name. I'll hide the answers here: twitter.com/CodifyBaseball/status/1622077683575422983. Don't bother with Ruth; he's counted as Babe rather than George, so he's not on the list. Home run range of answers: 27 (U) to 762 (B).
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 21:13 (nine months ago) link
i ran across that one the other day, so i'll stay mum.
here are the answers to my silly question:
walter johnson, 1925, .433 in 107 PAsdon newcombe, 1955, .359 in 125 PAscatfish hunter, 1971, .350 in 109 PAs
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 21:16 (nine months ago) link
I should have had the middle one; first and third, no chance. (Thinking the third is an anomaly? I don't recall him ever being mentioned as a great hitter.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 21:17 (nine months ago) link
Minus his big season, .204 lifetime--still pretty decent for a pitcher.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 21:19 (nine months ago) link
i didn't realize don was such a good hitter! he put together some excellent seasons in 58 and 59 as well, hitting well above league average
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 21:21 (nine months ago) link
Somehow I did know he was really good. .268/.336/.361 for his career, hit .300 or better six times. Sent up to pinch-hit 88 times.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 21:24 (nine months ago) link
Sent up to pinch-hit 88 times
damn, that's impressive. now i want to know the record for THAT, heh
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 21:27 (nine months ago) link
i saw a mention of jim abbott's no-hitter today and took a look at the arc of his career. i didn't realize quite how good he was at his peak (1991: 18-11 with 2.89 ERA and 5.5 fWAR, 243 IP, and very good in 1992 as well), but also how bad things got in the late 90s. his ERA was 7.48 in 1996 (he went 2-18 for the angels) over 142 IP. i checked, and yes - that is the highest ERA for a pitcher who has thrown 140+ innings in a season since integration
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 12 February 2023 00:48 (nine months ago) link
and he was 28 during that season! he retired, took 1997 off to listen to ok computer, and then came back for 2 more seasons before retiring for good at age 31. what happened to him?
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 12 February 2023 00:49 (nine months ago) link
there was no coming back again after Kid A
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 12 February 2023 01:25 (nine months ago) link
jim abbott listened to treefingers for the first time and, honestly, he hated it. he didn't understand what was even going on and why it was taking so long. but on the third and fourth listen, something changed, and so he retired again
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 12 February 2023 01:26 (nine months ago) link
The best he could was good enough
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 12 February 2023 01:54 (nine months ago) link
Turned up on my FB feed (from MLB's FB page): the 15 African American pitchers to win 20 games. Here's the link if you want to check yourself (I glanced at the post before trying it myself): https://www.facebook.com/mlb/posts/pfbid02vFMJgGhradC5fUcMLfcen5cSSYQ7TrjdnT5tAwD3SK1C4tH6Kq7PefRAaN8Bi6w4l.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 02:14 (nine months ago) link
Stealing this from FB: of the 33 players with 3,000 hits, which five never had a 200-hit season?
― clemenza, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 04:00 (four months ago) link
Answer: Anson, Yaz, Murray, Winfield, Henderson.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 04:01 (four months ago) link
ted williams?
still seems crazy tho
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 04:04 (four months ago) link
oh shit ted didn't even get to 3000 hits; he sucked
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 04:05 (four months ago) link
Nice question, I only got two right (the first and fourth you listed).
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 05:24 (four months ago) link
Impressed that you got the first one, one I never would have gotten. I saw the answers concurrent with the question, so didn't get to try it. I think I might have gotten the last three with enough thought--last two for sure--but never would have guessed Yaz, who I would have just assumed got 200 hits in '67. Pretty sure I knew Williams wasn't a 3,000 hit guy because of the two Ws, walks and wars.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 13:46 (four months ago) link
Who made the last out in Johnny Vander Meer's second no-hitter? (One or two of you may have seen my FB comment--don't answer.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 7 September 2023 01:00 (two months ago) link
(Needless to say, someone famous.)
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