Sunday Morning Quiz

[Frayed Knot]

Garrett it is!!
Not just a less-than obvious name but also it was the size of the margin that struck me as I was looking at this stuff!!

All of which leads to the thought - spoke here at least once by one of ira's past identities (which is why I thought he'd be the one to guess it) - that in a more Sabermetric age Garrett would have been a more appreciated player. Plus, if you were to stick 'Red' into not only a more Sabermetric age but also a more weight-lifting and "nutrition" aware age he could have been a real monster since his main drawback was that he finishes 21st out of that group of 30 in "Isolated Slugging" avg (diff between BA & Slg).

Ahh, what could have been!

1	WAYNE GARRETT	.111
2	Magadan	.099
3	Strawberry	.096
4	Milner	.094
5	Mazzilli	.093
6T	Hernandez	.090
6T	Harrelson	.090
6T	HoJo	.090
9	Hundley	.083
10T	Staub	.082
10T	Stearns	.082
12T	Piazza	.077
12T	Swoboda	.077
14	Alfonzo	.075
15T	Backman	.070
15T	Carter	.070
17	Kingman	.068
18	Agee	.067
19	Grote	.065
20	Boswell	.062
21T	McReynolds	.059
21T	C. Jones	.059
23T	Kranepool	.055
23T	Foster	.055
25	Brooks	.051
26	Millan	.048
27	Ordonez	.045
28	Mookie	.042
29	Reyes	.040
30	Flynn	.030

[Frayed Knot]

By the way, here's the same cast of characters sorted by their Isolated Power numbers (the gap between Slg Avg and BA)
Garrett is down there with Mags & Hubie slumming near the catchers and middle infielders

1	Strawberry	.257
2	Piazza	.246
3	Kingman	.234
4	Ho Jo	.208
5	Hundley	.198
6	Hernandez	.192
7	McReynolds	.188
8	Foster	.170
9	Milner	.170
10	Carter	.163
11	Agee	.157
12	Alfonzo	.153
13T	Swoboda	.145
13T	Reyes	.145
15	Staub	.143
16	Mazzilli	.132
17	C. Jones	.125
18	Mookie	.118
19	Stearns	.116
20	Kranepool	.116
21	Garrett	.106
22	Brooks	.105
23	Magadan	.094
24	Boswell	.093
25	Grote	.073
26	Backman	.061
27T	Millan	.059
27T	Ordonez	.059
29	Flynn	.058
30	Harrelson	.053

[Willets Point]

I'm surprised Bonilla never reached 2000 ab's.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm surprised Mookie and HoJo have foresworn their last names.

Edited May 28, 2007 by Guest

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

]Plus, if you were to stick 'Red' into not only a more Sabermetric age but also a more weight-lifting and "nutrition" aware age he could have been a real monster since his main drawback was that he finishes 21st out of that group of 30 in "Isolated Slugging" avg (diff between BA & Slg).

FWIW, one memorist at UMDB suggests that lifting weights might have been an issue with garrett even back in his playing days. That is, Seaver wasn't fond of Garrett because Garrett was a warning track guy who wasn;t interested in becoming more than that.