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A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 9:51 am
by tennbengal
This one is suitable for sitting around and shooting the shit with baseball fans...and I came up with this one on my own:
There are 32 members of the 3000 hit club in MLB - but only one never had 180 or more hits in a season...
Name that player
(and don't look it up - this one is fascinating (to me anyway))
Re: A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 9:52 am
by mister d
First instinct is to say its Rickey because he walked so much.
Re: A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 9:55 am
by tennbengal
mister d wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 9:52 am
First instinct is to say its Rickey because he walked so much.
I hate you.
Re: A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 9:56 am
by brian
- [+] spoiler
- My first guess was Eddie Murray and I was close! (His highest ever was 186 and only topped 180 three times).
Re: A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 9:57 am
by tennbengal
And...yup.
This came up because of the hits after 40 question last week - I didn't go with Rickey because I wasn't sure if he fit the "2000 and after" limiter so I looked him up afterwards.
His career high in hits was just 179. His only other time even above 170 was one other year when he had 172.
That...when I looked at his stats, that just blew me away. I would have figured he fell into 200 hits at some point. The other limiting factor in looking at his games played was he missed a good chunk of time in a LOT of seasons.
Re: A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 9:57 am
by Nonlinear FC
- [+] spoiler
- Cal Ripken the younger
Only guessing this due to what would make you, personally, interested.
Re: A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 9:58 am
by brian
Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 9:57 am
Cal Ripken the younger
Asked and answered.
Re: A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 9:58 am
by tennbengal
brian wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 9:56 am
- [+] spoiler
- My first guess was Eddie Murray and I was close! (His highest ever was 186 and only topped 180 three times).
That's who I would have guessed if I had been given this. With a second glance at Dave Winfield.
Re: A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 9:59 am
by Joe K
mister d wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 9:52 am
First instinct is to say its Rickey because he walked so much.
Bonds didn't quite get to 3K hits but he topped out at 181 in a season for this same reason.
Re: A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 9:59 am
by tennbengal
I am bad at this - I prob should have let more people guess. Mr D made me think it was too obvious in hindsight - but maybe it wasn't.
Mostly I want to marvel at Henderson's weird and awesome career.
Re: A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 10:11 am
by mister d
tennbengal wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 9:58 amThat's who I would have guessed if I had been given this. With a second glance at Dave Winfield.
Winfield was my second guess. Biggio would have been ideal.
Re: A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 10:12 am
by mister d
tennbengal wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 9:59 am
I am bad at this - I prob should have let more people guess. Mr D made me think it was too obvious in hindsight - but maybe it wasn't.
Mostly I want to marvel at Henderson's weird and awesome career.
He's a great counterbalance to "how were pre-analytics players supposed to know walking was good".
Re: A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 10:14 am
by brian
Henderson was somewhat unique though because of his speed. He could (and did) turn walks into triples.
Re: A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 10:18 am
by A_B
brian wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 10:14 am
Henderson was somewhat unique though because of his speed. He could (and did) turn walks into triples.
I just did a quick back of the napkin calculation and if you take the caught stealings, his modified OBP drops 25 points. Still good, but drops about 150 spots 0n the all time list. But the threat of the speed mattered as much as the steals, too.
Re: A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 10:21 am
by brian
A_B wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 10:18 am
brian wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 10:14 am
Henderson was somewhat unique though because of his speed. He could (and did) turn walks into triples.
I just did a quick back of the napkin calculation and if you take the caught stealings, his modified OBP drops 25 points. Still good, but drops about 150 spots 0n the all time list. But the threat of the speed mattered as much as the steals, too.
Yeah, it was a different era and his CS puts the lie to the argument that he had some kind of inherent knowledge of analytics (not that anyone is arguing that), but he was a frustrating guy when your team was playing against him because of the threat of the steal.
Re: A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 10:28 am
by Pruitt
brian wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 10:14 am
Henderson was somewhat unique though because of his speed. He could (and did) turn walks into triples.
He was such an amazing threat.
Re: A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 10:33 am
by mister d
A_B wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 10:18 amI just did a quick back of the napkin calculation and if you take the caught stealings, his modified OBP drops 25 points. Still good, but drops about 150 spots 0n the all time list. But the threat of the speed mattered as much as the steals, too.
Is this without demeriting anyone else for baserunning?
Re: A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 10:34 am
by tennbengal
Joe K wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 9:59 am
mister d wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 9:52 am
First instinct is to say its Rickey because he walked so much.
Bonds didn't quite get to 3K hits but he topped out at 181 in a season for this same reason.
Huh. Fairly early on his career too (altho not as early as Henderson's highwater mark which was year two) - which makes sense. Bonds' batting eye showed itself fairly early.
Altho, man, while he was young for the first four years of his career, he didn't really have the breakthrough until 1990 at age 25 (altho his age 23 season in 1988 was damn fine).
Re: A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 10:39 am
by Joe K
tennbengal wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 10:34 am
Joe K wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 9:59 am
mister d wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 9:52 am
First instinct is to say its Rickey because he walked so much.
Bonds didn't quite get to 3K hits but he topped out at 181 in a season for this same reason.
Huh. Fairly early on his career too (altho not as early as Henderson's highwater mark which was year two) - which makes sense. Bonds' batting eye showed itself fairly early.
Altho, man, while he was young for the first four years of his career, he didn't really have the breakthrough until 1990 at age 25 (altho his age 23 season in 1988 was damn fine).
I think there's a significant chance MLB would still condone rampant steroid use if not for Bonds basically breaking the sport with how good he got. During the ten-year stretch in which he's believed to have been juicing (1998-2007), he had a .496 OBP (with more walks than hits), a .697 SLG, and struck out in only 11% of PAs. Even though he wasn't running anymore, that hitting profile is a total joke.
Re: A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 10:49 am
by L-Jam3
A couple weeks ago I was explaining how good Bonds was even before he started juicing (which I took as 1999 in response to McGwire/Sosa). I explained that in 1998 he was intentially walked with the bases loaded with a two-run lead, and even then, well before the widespread acceptance of analytics, the near-universal response to that decision was “yeah, that makes total sense.”
Re: A Random Baseball Trivia Question - Bar Bet stlye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 10:58 am
by mister d
Yup. Just using his Pirate tenure (age 21-27), he led all hitters in WAR. The whole "Bonds only became great with PEDs" is insane revisionism.