Wednesday Trivia

[Frayed Knot]

I think most here know that David Wright sits just 10 HRs short of the NYM career record and that he already holds many of the team records including most hits and most RBIs.
And just this past week, Wright's fellow SE Virginian Ryan Zimmerman passed Tim Wallach as the all-time hits leader for the Montreal/Washington franchise, a feat which makes
Zimmerman one of [u:2wys2kpv]seven players to hold a franchise's career mark in Hits, HRs, and RBI[/u:2wys2kpv]

Who are the other six?

[Fman99]

Couple of gimmes in this list, first one being Hammerin Hank of course.

[Centerfield]

Todd Helton.

[Fman99]

[HahnSolo]

Brett

[Frayed Knot]

Aaron is correct, as are Brett & Helton (when in doubt, go for newer franchises) but Mays is NOT.
Willie left the Giants [u:35qbyqmt]One RBI short[/u:35qbyqmt] of Mel Ott's team record!!

[MFS62]

Rusty Staub

Later

[Frayed Knot]

MFS62 wrote: Rusty Staub Later

Not sure which franchise you're aiming at here, but it doesn't matter since he's not an answer for any of them.
Rusty played for five different orgs but none for particularly long which makes him an unlikely candidate for this type of answer.

[stevejrogers]

Yaz in Boston?

[Frayed Knot]

SteveJRogers wrote: Yaz in Boston?

Not as long as Teddy Ballgame (or at least his frozen head) still haunts the hallways of Fenway Park he isn't.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Ernie Banks?

[Guest sharpie]

Longoria for the Rays.

[Edgy MD]

Cal Ripken.

Junior.

[Frayed Knot]

Neither Banks nor Longoria is correct.

While Longoria does hold both TB's HR & RBI marks, he was just nine hits short of Carl Crawford when he was dealt from the Rays last winter.
Banks holds none of the three records for the Cubs, sitting behind Cap Anson in career hits & RBIs and in back of Slammin' Sammy Sosa in HR


AARON
HELTON
BRETT
RIPKEN

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BANKS
LONGORIA
MAYS
YASTREMSKI


Ripken is correct for the Browns/Orioles

[Edgy MD]

Ted Williams.

Senior.

[Edgy MD]

Nope. Yaz. Duh.

[Frayed Knot]

Yaz holds the Boston marks for both hits (by a LOT, Ted both walked and flew planes too often) & RBI (by just FIVE!) but Ted leads the HR race 521-475



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BRETT
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BANKS
LONGORIA
MAYS
YASTREMSKI
TED WILLIAMS



Two teams/players remain

[Centerfield]

Edgar Martinez

[MFS62]

Gary Carter - Montreal.

Later

[Edgy MD]

Centerfield wrote: Edgar Martinez

I thought of him, but Ichiro has to have the franchise hit record.

I mean, if he didn't, he'd play into his nineties trying to get it.

[Centerfield]

Edgy MD wrote: Centerfield wrote: Edgar Martinez I thought of him, but Ichiro has to have the franchise hit record. I mean, if he didn't, he'd play into his nineties trying to get it.

Oh right. Geez. Completely forgot Ichiro.

[Frayed Knot]

Seeing as how it's already been established that Ryan Zimmerman holds the Montreal/Washington record in all three categories, you would do well to stop guessing ex Ex Pos

And while Edgar does have more RBIs for Seattle than anyone else, Mister Suzuki leads in hits (by 295 over Edgar) and Mr. Griffey is well ahead in HR.


AARON
HELTON
BRETT
RIPKEN

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BANKS
LONGORIA
MAYS
YASTREMSKI
TED WILLIAMS
EDGAR MARTINEZ
GARY CARTER



Two teams/players remain

[G-Fafif]

Luis Gonzalez, Diamondbacks.

[MFS62]

Stan Musial

Later

[Frayed Knot]

HANK AARON - BRAVES
TODD HELTON - ROCKIES
GEORGE BRETT - ROYALS
CAL RIPKEN JR. - ORIOLES
LUIS GONZALEZ - DIAMONDBACKS
STAN MUSIAL - CARDINALS

That breath Luis Gonzalez feels on the back of his neck is that of Paul Goldscmidt who currently sits 24 HR and 86 RBIs behind him in Arizona lore.
And no one comes that close without passing them ... unless they simultaneously come down with spinal stenosis, a shredded shoulder, Lupus, Hand/foot/mouth disease, gout, and whatever else Wright
has contracted recently.

Albert Pujols left the Cardinals 30 HRs shy of Musial's mark.


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BANKS
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MAYS
YASTREMSKI
TED WILLIAMS
EDGAR MARTINEZ
GARY CARTER



Two teams/players remain

[stevejrogers]

Frank Thomas, White Sox?

[Frayed Knot]

There were six answers (in addition to Zimmerman who makes it seven) and Gonzalez & Musial rounded out the six, so please hold all future calls.

HANK AARON - BRAVES
TODD HELTON - ROCKIES
GEORGE BRETT - ROYALS
CAL RIPKEN JR. - ORIOLES
LUIS GONZALEZ - DIAMONDBACKS
STAN MUSIAL - CARDINALS



Although for the record, Thomas does hold the ChiSox record from HR & RBI but Luke Appling is their leading hit maker (Thomas is 4th behind also Nellie Fox and Paul Konerko).

[Edgy MD]

I guess the next challenge is finding which teams have a different character holding each of those three marks.

Off the top of my head I guess Florida/Miami, with Castillo (hits), Stanton (homeruns), and Conine (RBI) as a good candidate, but I may be way off with Conine.

[Frayed Knot]

FLA/MIA = Castillo, Stanton and Stanton

Conine is 3rd in RBI behind Stanton & Mike Lowell

[Edgy MD]

Yankees!

Jeter (hits), Ruth (homers), Gehrig (ribbies)