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Monday, March 04, 2013
New York Tribune, March 4, 1913: Hugh Jennings, manager of the Detroit Tigers, feels indifferent about the refusal of Sam Crawford, the veteran outfielder, to sign a contract. Hughie intimates that Crawford may be relegated to the bench when he does get in line, in favor of Rabbit Powell, the youngster from St. Joseph, in the Western League.
Sure, Hughie. That’s exactly what you’ll do. You’ll bench a guy who, over the last two seasons, has hit .352/.406/.498 and averaged 57 XBH, 40 SB, 95 runs, and 112 RBI.
Powell, by the way, actually was a pretty good ballplayer. Career OPS+ of 102 in nine seasons, appears to have been a decent center fielder, led the league in triples once. He just wasn’t Sam Crawford.
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1. Neutral Milk Dotel (Dan Lee) Posted: March 04, 2013 at 07:22 AM (#4380013)C: Emil Gross
1B: Al McCauley
2B: Cass Michaels
3B: Jack Hannahan
SS: Bob Johnson
LF: Lefty O'Doul
CF: Red Murray
RF: Bruce Aven
SP: Dazzy Vance
SP: Jeff Pfeffer
SP: Johnny Enzmann
SP: Cory Luebke
SP: Jack Fisher
RP: Sergio Romo
Manager: Sam Perlozzo
General Manager: Tom Grieve
Fun Names: Hiram Bocachica, Rubby De La Rosa
There are three players who have been active for at least 5 years, and whose career totals for walks and extra base hits both exceed their career totals for strikeouts. Name them.
Now to check and see how I did.
Yes. Not extremely shocking in his case. (He only makes it because of his 267 IBB, though - he has 20 fewer UBB than strikeouts.)
Edit: Of course you do.....
None of these. At least two of them were also guys I guessed when I was asked this question.
Helton qualifies on walks, but not XBH. If he'd had a few more years like 2000...
Edit:
Prado is not even close.
And of course someone gets the ridiculous answer almost immediately. 179 walks, 176 XBH, 173 strikeouts. (He also wouldn't qualify on UBB - he's been intentionally walked 8 times. The other answer doesn't need his intentional walks.)
Nope.
He's the only guy in the league right now who I know has an extremely low number of strikeouts.
There are a few others, but Keppinger is one of the better hitters of the group, hence the walks and extra-base hits.
I imagine most people have already seen it, but did anyone ever link to this catch? 'Cause, holy smokes - and right after missing a year with a knee injury (Brett Williams, NC State).
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Pedroia
Pedroia is the third answer. (Well, I thought of him as the second answer, but he was guessed third.)
Juan Pierre was one of my guesses when I was doing the guessing. He pulled it off in a few individual seasons ('01, '03, and '04), but his power has proved to be more limited than his strikeouts (353 XBH vs. 452 K). He's only one walk short, though.
B-Ref also tells me that a journeyman relief pitcher named Brandon Lyon has two big-league plate appearances, with a walk and a double, for a 1.000/1.000/2.000 career line.
He didn't have more XBH than Ks though.
angels cut kobayashi.
The Sledge-Hamner combo is sure to strike fear into the hearts of...fans of their team.
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