Rank baseball feats/records in order of impressiveness

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So basically. If someone were to ever beat this record, they would need to be a great power/contact hitter, who doesn’t strikeout a lot (I guess for productive outs?), who has three high OBP, speedy, no-power hitters in front of him. (Aka this will never happen)

FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 3 October 2022 00:50 (one year ago) link

All of this has given me a reason to look at the 1999 Cleveland batting stats and Jesus if those guys had even remotely decent pitching beyond the merely pretty good season Bartolo Colon had (he went 18-5 w/an ERA just under 4) they would’ve won 110 games. As it was, the rotation was otherwise poor.

Charles Nagy, 17-11 with a 4.95 era!

omar little, Monday, 3 October 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link

In their everyday nine, they had 1) three HOF'ers (even though Baines shouldn't be); 2) Manny, who'd be in except-except; 3) Lofton, who should be; and 4) Vizquel, who probably would have eventually made it except-except. That'd be six HOF'ers. (I don't know why Baseball Reference has Baines as their everyday DH--he had 96 PA with Cleveland. Baseball Reference still lists Zack Collins as the Jays' everyday DH this year, and he hasn't been with the team for months.)

clemenza, Monday, 3 October 2022 02:31 (one year ago) link

And Travis Fryman and David Justice on the downsides of their careers.

clemenza, Monday, 3 October 2022 02:32 (one year ago) link

Plus Richie Sexson, whose stats that year were pretty impressive.

omar little, Monday, 3 October 2022 02:37 (one year ago) link


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