TRIVIA 2020

But that was a weird situation heading into the 1987 season, collusion etc, and he signed a much better deal the year after that.

Swear I read about an example of this just the other day--I just have to get through the clutter in my brain to remember who it was.

from r/baseball, i thought this one was good (should be easy for you lot):

73 Phil Niekro
52 Tim Wakefield
43 Hoyt Wilhelm
38 Charlie Hough
32 Wilbur Wood
30 Joe Niekro
24 Dutch Leonard
24 Tom Candiotti
18 Felix Hernandez
18 R.A. Dickey

Name the stat

hit batsmen?

that's a good guess, and maybe right?

what's throwing me is king felix. did he throw a knuckleball?

well for Niekro i know that's how old he was when he retired but the other guys don't line up with that

I’m out of my depth in this thread but dying to know what Felix has in common with the knuckleball guys!

so is this a top 10 list and the numbers are their career totals? or is this just a random pull of some stat for a bunch of knuckleballers plus king felix?

maybe... most wild pitches in a season?

i think that's one of the mysteries of the trivia question!

dutch leonard's presence is also throwing me a bit, because it means it would have to be some sort of stat that goes back to the old timers era

(if that's a top-10 list)
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maybe... most wild pitches in a season?

thought this might be right, because 18 is the highest number of WP's that Felix threw in a season. but phil niekro topped out at 19 in a season (in 1967)

it's got to be something along those lines

Didn't Felix throw a "slow curve" sometimes? It could be a list of "most pitches thrown under 50 mph in a season"?

its a top ten, yeah. wild pitch is along the right lines

HBP was my first guess, but that's not right

Passed balls?

please expand

PB + WP (season)

PB and/or WP + X + X (career)

or* not and/or

but Felix had 156 WP's in his career?

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

oooh, gotcha!

maybe X is with the bases loaded or a runner on third?

basically, most runs scored on the pitcher via passed ball or wild pitch?

no, getting closer

Most strikeouts where the batter reached base via WP or PB or dropped third strike (catcher error) or ...?

bingo

i think most strikeouts while allowing a runner is the best way to put it

so wp/pa would be inferred

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?

Iirc it was in the 50s…

59? I know Howard hit 58, not sure about Stanton or Greenberg.

Stanton and the Babe hit 59

51

johnny mize hit 51 HRs. for some reason i always remember that.

55 HRs?

plus Cecil Fielder, Andruw Jones, Willie Mays, and Ralph Kiner!

55 is correct

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

*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).

(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.)

Are we talking 20+ years?

Believe it or not, coming up on 50.

I guess this team moved into the #1 slot when Soler finally hit 40 for the Royals.

Is it the Pirates or am I blanking on one of their guys who hit 40?

Very good--Stargell in '73 (also hit 40 doubles that year, the first 40/40 guy, I think).

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

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