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 (eleven months 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 (eleven months ago) link
24
lol marlins
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 20:17 (eleven months 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 (eleven months 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 (eleven months ago) link
22/30
i got the cardinals question wrong
;(
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 13 February 2020 06:24 (eleven months ago) link
26... perfect until the marlins and then STL NYM and TEX fucked me up
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Thursday, 13 February 2020 11:54 (eleven months ago) link
25/30. I mostly just went with whoever’s been on the team longest.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 13 February 2020 13:34 (eleven months 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!😂 (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:18 (ten months ago) link
Oooooooooh yeeeeeeeaaahh
― The Jesus Luzardo (Jimmie Lovefoxxxxxx), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 23:05 (ten months 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 (nine months 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 (nine months ago) link
You've got it. Also won an ERA title with a not-Seattle team.
― clemenza, Sunday, 22 March 2020 00:19 (nine months 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 (nine months 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 (nine months 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 (nine months ago) link
rickey, rickey and rickey
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 19:09 (nine months 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 (nine months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months ago) link
was thinking one would be griffey/a-rod/edgar but gar only put up 7 once, before a-rod debuted
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Sunday, 19 April 2020 17:49 (eight months ago) link
before his first full season, rather
those three did combine for 24.8!!!!!!!!!!!!! in 96 though
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Sunday, 19 April 2020 17:52 (eight months ago) link
didn't happen with the killer b's or bash bros, though biggio and bagwell both had 8+ in 97
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Sunday, 19 April 2020 18:01 (eight months 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 (eight months ago) link
the 27 yankees are incredible for this - ruth/gehrig/combs combined for 32.3........ and combs was still under 7
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Sunday, 19 April 2020 18:26 (eight months 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 (eight months 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)
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Sunday, 19 April 2020 18:41 (eight months ago) link
what bums
Hey, trivia guy, we need two more answers.
― clemenza, Monday, 20 April 2020 16:13 (eight months 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 (eight months ago) link
Online version is Thursday night. Register here: https://t.co/HOspy6gXGu pic.twitter.com/lPy66C1Pnp— Ted Berg (@OGTedBerg) April 19, 2020
― mookieproof, Monday, 20 April 2020 18:56 (eight months ago) link
see thread for example questions
― mookieproof, Monday, 20 April 2020 18:57 (eight months ago) link
(xpost) No on Bonds/Kent/Aurilia, at least on Baseball Reference. '29 Yankees, '04 Cardinals...
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 20:58 (eight months 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 (eight months ago) link
errr Browns
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 21:10 (eight months 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 (eight months 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
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 23:49 (eight months ago) link
and i got the last one, mostly through cheating, but i've never really been good with the early 60s.
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 00:00 (eight months 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 (eight months ago) link
those were my first two thoughts
the second one is 1961 but not expressly mantle/maris, as hinted
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 01:16 (eight months ago) link
and only one of the 2 teams passes the threshold in rWAR
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 01:17 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months ago) link
AhJoe/Ken/Lou...?
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 04:33 (eight months ago) link
i'd never even heard of ken keltner
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 04:34 (eight months ago) link
Me neither
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 04:35 (eight months 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 (eight months ago) link
my revised guess is 1981!
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 25 June 2020 02:29 (six months ago) link
Yeah, the AL leaders only had 21 that year. Strike season, yada yada.
Armas OAK 22Evans BOS 22Grich CAL 22Murray BAL 22
Grich did it in the least appearances with only 325 AB
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 25 June 2020 02:50 (six months ago) link
most HR 60 or fewer games
Player Year Games Team HR
Matt Olson 2017 59 OAK 25 Gary Sánchez 2016 53 NYA 20 Aristides Aquino 2019 56 CIN 19 Rhys Hoskins 2017 50 PHI 18 Troy Glaus 2004 58 ANA 18
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 June 2020 17:06 (six months ago) link
Matty Olse! I love that
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 25 June 2020 17:48 (six months ago) link
So which uni numbers have seen the most value in MLB history? Uni numbers, ranked.(wear 13, cowards)MORE-> https://t.co/TxU2SrJP1j pic.twitter.com/SDtosahjQm— Mike Petriello (@mike_petriello) July 16, 2020
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 July 2020 17:44 (six months ago) link
why are there 2 points at zero? did someone generate 4 WAR with a uni that said 0.1?
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Friday, 17 July 2020 02:42 (five months ago) link
0 and 00 are counted as different numbers
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 17 July 2020 02:44 (five months ago) link
I Want To Believe
https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/eddie-gaedel-jersey.jpg
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Friday, 17 July 2020 02:55 (five months ago) link
damn you ottovino
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 July 2020 03:14 (five months ago) link
Players to homer in consecutive games for the same team with more than two years between them:1. Hank Greenberg (1941-45)*2. Joe DiMaggio (1942-46)*3. Harry Chiti (1952-55)*4. Yoenis Céspedes (2018-20)*Gap was due to military service.Source: STATS, Inc.— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) July 25, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:14 (five months ago) link
The starting 4 infield of Vlad Guerrero Jr., @doinitBIGgio23, @BoFlows, and @travis_shaw21 consists of all sons of former @MLB players. This is just the 2nd time in big league history this has happened (Van Slyke, Hairston Jr., De Jesus Jr., Gordon on 6/1/12). h/t: @EliasSports— MLB Stats (@MLBStats) July 25, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:15 (five months ago) link
just came across ken reitz, a third baseman who hit .260/.290/.359 over 1300+ games, primarily with the cardinals in the 70s. career bWAR: -3.1
best tidbit is that he was the starting 3B for the NL all-stars in 1980 -- a season in which he was worth -0.6 bWAR -- ahead of ray knight and mike schmidt, who hit .286/.380/.624 with 48 homers that year to win the first of his three MVPs. reitz went 0-for-2 and schmidt never got in the game.
― mookieproof, Thursday, 30 July 2020 21:26 (five months ago) link
i remember Reitz, and possibly ridiculing my Cardinal fan cousin re his abilities
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 July 2020 21:30 (five months ago) link
I'm buying some Sports Illustrateds from a friend to fill gaps; who was the first baseball player on the cover in the '80s?
― clemenza, Saturday, 22 August 2020 23:02 (four months ago) link
Either Pops or The Cobra...?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 23 August 2020 02:26 (four months ago) link
You're close in that Stargell shared the last cover of the '70s with Terry Bradshaw (co-Sportsmen of the Year). It was a player who was like turning the page from the previous decade; he would be a name all through the '80s, and provided one of the decade's two or three signature moments.
― clemenza, Sunday, 23 August 2020 02:59 (four months ago) link
rickey on his way to stealing 100?
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:29 (four months ago) link
He got his first cover in '82.
― clemenza, Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:40 (four months ago) link
Nolan Ryan?
― syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:43 (four months ago) link
Not Ryan...If you think of the decade's two or three most famous moments, you should get it.
― clemenza, Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:45 (four months ago) link
george brett
― mookieproof, Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:51 (four months ago) link
bill buckner through the legsthe pine tar gamekirk gibson 1988 WS homer
?
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:54 (four months ago) link
ozzie smith's NLCS HR in 1985 ("go crazy folks, go crazy!" call by jack buck) is a famous one in cardinals lore, but i don't think it surpasses any of those in terms of fame
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:55 (four months ago) link
Has to be a rookie Gibson. I can’t imagine Buckner on the cover.
― syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:59 (four months ago) link
Gibson.
KM's three signature moments are exactly the three I had in mind--so it comes down to Gibson or Brett.
Bizarre thing I found out: in '81, SI used an identical Brett/Schmidt cover twice.
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/tAUAAOSwMnJc9b8y/s-l500.jpg
― clemenza, Sunday, 23 August 2020 04:02 (four months ago) link
Those aren't alternate covers...okay, duh, I just realized; that was the strike year.
― clemenza, Sunday, 23 August 2020 04:03 (four months ago) link
81 strike broke my heart. That is the last run of the Big Red Machine, they somehow had best record in baseball and missed the playoffs. That's so totally Cincy.
― earlnash, Sunday, 23 August 2020 06:27 (four months ago) link
You'd think this would be easy, but my first four guesses were wrong: who are the four players who hit HR at 19 and after turning 40? (From a FB group.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 December 2020 20:21 (one month ago) link
Of the four, only one is obvious.
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 December 2020 20:22 (one month ago) link
hmm
guesses:
alex rodriguez
not sure if they played when they were 19:ted williamsbarry bonds
not sure if they played when they were 40:
mel ott
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:08 (one month ago) link
A-Rod is the easy one. (So easy, he wasn't one of my guesses...) The other three, no.
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:11 (one month ago) link
yarg, i missed another kind of obvious one that i almost mentioned (an old schooler)
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:11 (one month ago) link
Bonds went to college (ASU) so nope.
I was thinking Rickey, Hornsby & Cobb but those are way too obvious so I really have no idea.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:12 (one month ago) link
I had no idea A-Rod was still playing at age 40!
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:13 (one month ago) link
Meaning you checked? Cobb, yes, the only one I got right--I actually don't he's obvious. My joke on FB was that those were the only two homers he hit, spaced 21 years apart.
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:14 (one month ago) link
"don't think"
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:15 (one month ago) link
barry, mel ott?
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:28 (one month ago) link
No to both.
A-Rod, Cobb, two more (neither in the HOF).
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:34 (one month ago) link
wait, neither one in hall of fame?
...oh shit! i was thinking babe ruth was an answer, because he played when he was 19. but he didn't hit a HR that year.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:37 (one month ago) link
Somewhat misleading--one may end up there. (The other a Veteran's Committee-type guy whose moment has passed.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:39 (one month ago) link
ok, I have some time now and I was pretty damn close with my incorrect guesses!:
Rickey: first HR came at age 20, last at 44 Hornsby: first HR came just after his 20th birthday (+17 days), last at age 41
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:12 (one month ago) link
one of my other guesses was close too (KGriffeyJr), but just checked and he had no HRs in his final season as a 40 year old.
I still have no idea who the other ones are.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:15 (one month ago) link
One of my incorrect guesses, Kaline, was close at the other end: hit his first HR at 18, his last two months shy of 40.
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:22 (one month ago) link
Also guessed Aaron: last HR at 42, first one a little over two months past his 20th birthday.
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:24 (one month ago) link
Beltre, another incorrect guess, wasn't quite as close: first at 19, but his last was seven months shy of his 40th. My fourth, Yaz, wasn't close: 44 (!) when he hit has last, but his first didn't come till he was almost 22.
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:30 (one month ago) link
julio franco?
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 11 December 2020 00:55 (one month ago) link
should have been andruw but alas
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 December 2020 01:20 (one month ago) link
Someone else guessed him...no. I'm going out for a bit; let me know if you want the last two (or, it's searchable on Google).
― clemenza, Friday, 11 December 2020 01:21 (one month ago) link
The other two (the only time I will ever use this): Rusty Staub, Gary Sheffield. The second might make you think "Yeah, of course"; I doubt anyone would think of the first.
― clemenza, Friday, 11 December 2020 17:27 (one month ago) link
That was a good question. Had me sifting through my memory banks for sure.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 11 December 2020 17:34 (one month ago) link