Trivia Thursday

[Willets Point]

Julio Franco was released by the Braves yesterday.

In his long career, how many pitchers do you think he's faced?

Bonus questions:
How many of those pitchers are already retired?
How many of the pitchers Franco faced are now in the Hall of Fame?

No looking up the answers! Closest without going over wins.

Once some folks have taken some guesses, I'll share the great resource that was the source of this trivia question.

[metirish]

Pitchers faced = 1289

[seawolf17]

Let's see. He's played 23 seasons. Figure an average of about 110 games a season, because he's been a part-timer the second half of his career. That's about 2500 games. Figure 3+ ABs a game, so let's say that's 8000 ABs. I think Irish's guess is pretty close, but I'll go lower; say 1200 even.

Of those, let's say 50% are retired. 600.

How many HoFers? 9.

[Guest Edgy DC]

He's faced 617 pitchers, 489 of which are retired, 9 of which are in the Hall of Fame

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I have no clue.

I'll say 600 pitchers, 20 Hall of Famers, 450 retired.

[TransMonk]

1200 total pitchers sounds about right per seawolf's math above, I would think closer to 75% have retired, so I'd say 900, 8 HOFers.

[nymr83]

Willets Point wrote: Julio Franco was released by the Braves yesterday. In his long career, how many pitchers do you think he's faced? Bonus questions: How many of those pitchers are already retired? How many of the pitchers Franco faced are now in the Hall of Fame? No looking up the answers! Closest without going over wins. Once some folks have taken some guesses, I'll share the great resource that was the source of this trivia question.

I'll guess he faced about 2600 different pitchers, that 2400 of them are now officially retired, and that 6 of them are now in the Hall of Fame

Hall of Famers that I would guess he faced: Steve Carlton, Dennis Eckersley, Ferguie Jenkins, Nolan Ryan, Bruce Sutter, Phil Niekro.
that last number should skyrocket soon as I'm sure he has faced Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, Roger Clemens, whatever modern era relievers get in (Rivera? Hoffman?) and the 3-5 starters currently pitching that aren't locks yet but will get there

[Willets Point]

TransMonk wrote: 1200 total pitchers sounds about right per seawolf's math above, I would think closer to 75% have retired, so I'd say 900, 8 HOFers.

Monk gets 1 point for correctly guessing the HOF pitchers.

I'll take guesses on who those 8 pitchers are for more points.

[DocTee]

1100 pitchers, 966 retired.

HoF:

Ryan
Carlton
Sutter
Seaver
Eckersley
Perry
Niekro
Jenkins

[Benjamin Grimm]

8 Hall of Famers?

Namor listed six: Steve Carlton, Dennis Eckersley, Ferguie Jenkins, Nolan Ryan, Bruce Sutter, Phil Niekro


I'm going to guess that he faced Tom Seaver and Rollie Fingers.

Are those the correct eight?

[Willets Point]

1. Carlton (.125 points NYMR)
2. Eckersley (.125 points NYMR)
3. Fingers (.125 points Yancy)
4. Niekro (.125 points NYMR)
5. _____________
6. Perry (.125 points DocTee)
7. Seaver (.125 points DocTee)
8. _____________

[HahnSolo]

Jim Palmer?

[Gwreck]

Don Sutton.

[Willets Point]

1. Carlton (.125 points NYMR)
2. Eckersley (.125 points NYMR)
3. Fingers (.125 points Yancy)
4. Niekro (.125 points NYMR)
5. Palmer (.125 points HahnSolo)
6. Perry (.125 points DocTee)
7. Seaver (.125 points DocTee)
8. Sutton (.125 points Gwreck)

Good job.

Any more guesses on total # of pitchers and number of retired pitchers.

[Willets Point]

Guess I shouldn't run a trivia quiz against a day game.

The answers:
Julio Franco faced 1167 different pitchers in his career (DocTee's guess of 1100 is closest without going over).
857 of those pitchers are now retired (Seawolf's guess of 600 is closest without going over)

Final Score:
DocTee 1.25
TransMonk 1
Seawolf 1
Nymr .375
Yancy .125
HahnSolo .125
Gwreck .125

And the source of this trivia is the Baseball-Reference weblog Stat of the Day.