TRIVIA 2019

From the SABR NYC chapter meeting:

What two players headed to spring training with the Mets are the current MLB leaders in hita and stolen bases for the decade of 2010-2018?

What two MLB players share the current lead in HRs for the decade?

my guess on hits is Cano, maybe? Had to look up the SBs but won't answer since i cheated.

stolen bases guess: rajai davis

you are both correct. had no idea Rajai had a minor-league deal w/ the Mets.

Related:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/billwill11/most-hits-since-2000-a-z

Really hard to get your mind around this...I had 8/26 and gave up with a minute to go.

xp i have a soft spot for raj, its gonna be a hard day (if he makes the team) when he is released 2 clear space for tebows callup

I don't know about this quiz ... maybe it's old? Delmon Young does not have more hits since 2000 than Christian Yelich

More hits since '10 i mean

You're probably right--that would explain a lot. Surely Trout has more hits than Tulowitzki this decade...

That quiz is from 2013, the date is sort of hidden near the bottom of the page.

decade HR leaders: Nelson Cruz and Stanton

Also from Saturday...

Bob Gibson's WS record was 7-2. What two pitchers (both starters) defeated him?

What team has defeated the Yankees all 3 times they met in a postseason series?

Lolich was one of them, game 7 in '68. The other must have been early in the '64 Series, so I'll say Ford.

yes, and close but no cigar

Are the Yankees' daddies the Angels?

no

Angels lost the 2009 ALCS to NYY

tigers

yes; my incorrect guess was Cleveland

Since clem's guess for the Bob Gibson question was wrong, I figured it had to be Bouton, since I knew he won two games in that series. But that's also wrong! So I cracked and looked it up. Great question.

I looked it up too--wish it'd been Bouton, but timely.

icymi, Mel Stottlemyre

https://www.sporcle.com/games/jfrank9/baseball-on-final-jeopardy

probably easy for most of you but every baseball-related final jeopardy question in one sporcle quiz

I just made this one up now, based on a list of decade-leaders in innings pitched that someone just tweeted. Starting with Pud Galvin, leader for the 1880s, every one of them is either in the HOF or guaranteed to be headed there. Except one--in your adult lifetime.

wild guess here: Livan?

that seems like a very good guess. otherwise . . . david wells?

who was the guy with the goatee who played up until a few years ago and wasn't great but ate a lot of innings? that guy?

lol yes please tell me who "the baseball player with the goatee" was

i'll try to remember

the shin goatee, not the stone cold stache-goat combo. kinda reddish

(my other guess was bartolo, but if you say he's not HOF i'll fight ya)

is jamie moyer hof-bound?

hahahahahaha i was thinking of aaron harang that's definitely wrong, nvm

i was gonna guess you were thinking of jeff suppan or jason marquis

Mark Buerhle? Don't think he missed any starts from '01 to '09 and he always seemed like one of those dudes who went 6 or 7 every time

so we're not trying to name all of them, right? Did Nolan Ryan lead the '70s and '80s?

buerhle's a good guess too but . . . he's not gonna make the hall, but he has a better case than many who have, and it seems like clemenza is looking for someone more outlandish

well my first guess was Bronson Arroyo, but now that I looked it up he wasn't a full-time ML starter until '04

Very nice--Livan.

Here's the tweet.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Most Innings Pitched by Decades. <a href="https://t.co/4ocILGerca";>pic.twitter.com/4ocILGerca</a></p>— Paul Moehringer (@PMoehringer) <a href="

Most Innings Pitched by Decades. pic.twitter.com/4ocILGerca

— Paul Moehringer (@PMoehringer) February 21, 2019

Actually a little surprised Bobby Matthews isn't in the Hall, based on old-school metrics: won 297 games, sub-3:00 ERA. Does pretty well in WAR, too: 62.4, a couple of seasons over 10.0. Of course, who knows what the hell they were playing back then.

It was a different game in the deadball era, but Roberts averaging 301 IP a year in the '50s is hilarious.

The low total in the '40s is cuz all (?) the best pitchers were gone 3-4 seasons.

buehrle was at 2061 (but 2220 for '01 to '10)

Allowing for a few blips, and the arbitrariness of the calendar, from Galvin to Verlander is a steep slope. I'm guessing 1,700-1,800 IP for the 2020s?

I'm reading Fantasyland, Sam Walker's account of his entry into the Rotisserie world, written in 2007. So I don't know if this is still true (and maybe he's just repeating a commonplace bit of trivia). But: who is the only major-leaguer ever with all five vowels in his first name? Somebody who played into the late '80s.

(Not mentioned on his Wikipedia page, so maybe it's not that well known.)

Wow--another amazing bit of trivia attached to him, which I'll post later.

it is not true. there are three different guys with this same first name (yes i cheated)

Right--the other two are involved in the other (bizarrely morbid) piece of trivia. So I guess the question is, supply the name or any one of the three players.

This must have been the link you landed on:

http://valueoverreplacementgrit.com/2011/12/10/5-vowel-players-a-historical-look/

Shouldn't they have renamed the site Vowels Over Replacement for that one post?

Six catchers in the modern era (1901-) have posted an OPS over 1.000 for a full season. Name them.

mauer
piazza
yogi
bench
carter
pudge-rod

Piazza (3x) and Mauer correct, not the rest

posey?

no

hints: 3 pre-expansion catchers and a more recent ringer

Fisk
Gibson
I feel like we're missing more of the PED/HGH era guys like LoDuca or the Molinas.

I peeked and I'd barely heard of that ringer.

fwiw willson contreras is at .962 this season and it kinda seems like his WAR should be higher than it is

Pre-expansion--pre-'62 or pre-'69?

I'm guessing either Dickey or Cochrane did it at least once in the '30s.

Javy Lopez in 2003?

I remember grabbing him for my fantasy squad in a desperation move early in the season off waivers and he went on to just crush it that season, 43 HR and some ridiculous BA.

shit I think that may have been in a season just shy of a full season, I feel like he missed the early part of that year?? my second guess based on WMC’s comment is a guy I randomly came across recently when checking out some ‘90s orioles squads — Chris Hoiles.

for those of you playing at home

Dickey
Gabby Hartnett
Campanella
Chris Hoiles

I always use pre-expansion to mean before the first modern one, in the AL in 1961

Kind of a pointless distinction anyway in the context of the question--no catcher was logging a 1.000+ OPS between 1961 and 1969.

(Stumped on the other two; betting that one of them came out of the 1930 season.)

Piazza, Dickey, Hartnett, Campanella, Hoiles. There are technically two others, neither of which I think anyone will get--one guy goes back to the 1900s, the other is recent but only played 61 games at catcher that year (70 PA shy of qualifying for a batting title, so you may not be counting him).

the six answers above (cribbed from a Posnanski question) are all qualifiers.

The non-qualifier was Napoli in 2011.

51 players have homered in their last major-league AB. After the best and most famous player to do this (easy), who were the next two best and most famous?

There's a guy on the list of 51 who, you could argue, was more famous than the two runners-up I had in mind. So stick with best--the other guy definitely wasn't one of the three best.

By overwhelming demand: Albert Belle and Jim Edmonds were the two answers I had in my mind, but I missed Mickey Cochrane. Tony Kubek was the one who might possibly be more famous than Belle or Edmonds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_players_with_a_home_run_in_their_final_major_league_at_bat

https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2019-09-16/baseball-trivia-contest-sabr-convention-san-diego

Billy Beane & Barry Bonds share the same middle name: Lamar

Looking at players been on three World Series winners, I don't think it occurred to me until I saw it that John Lackey is the only player to win with three different clubs (Angels, Red Sox & Cubs).

that can't be correct...

ah sorry, your criteria was 3 and only 3 (ie, not >3) world series winners.

...but even so... still not correct!

5 others (3 if you don't count BRO/LAD):

Dave Stewart (LAD,OAK,TOR)
Lonnie Smith (PHI,STL,KCR)
Bullet Joe Bush (PHA,BOS,NYY)
Clem Labine (BRO,LAD,PIT)*
Roger Craig (BRO,LAD,STL)*

Smith played for a 4th team (ATL) in the WS but they lost.

...twice! 1991 & 1992.

only got 28/48 here (missed some very obvious contemporary mgrs)

https://www.sporcle.com/games/minnmich/played-and-managed-in-a-world-series?t=baseball

ALDS was the first time this season that Arron Boone used the same lineup for more than two consecutive games.

Willie Mays hit the most career homers in extra innings, with 20.

Jack Clark is second, with 18.

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— Grant Brisbee (@GrantBrisbee) December 13, 2019

very nice. btw, i forgot to provide the answer to my 'who are the 4 cardinals who were catchers who are in the hall of fame?' trick question from the other trivia thread

the answers are:

ted simmons
roger bresnahan
joe torre
branch rickey

https://www.sporcle.com/games/gbrisbee/baseball-spoonerisms

i got four, probably should have gotten a fifth, might have taken a week and not gotten any others

That was idiotic, but Chatt Mapman made me laugh.

somehow puzzled out six before giving up with 3:30 left on the clock.

was disappointed that Schurt Killing didn't make it, but I also have no idea how'd you'd write a clue for that one