More Impossible Trivia

[Guest Edgy DC]

Valadius wrote: Fathead Sabathia hasn't had a 20-win season, has he?

No. Nor has he had any poor-ERA seasons.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Valadius wrote: 4. Or maybe it's that other tub of lard, David Wells?

It's bad form not waiting for one guess to get answered before trying another. No.

[Guest Edgy DC]

metsmarathon wrote: 6. garret atkins

Try harder.

[metsmarathon]

but i don't want to...

[metsmarathon]

well, garrett atkins is more correct than ryan howard...

elvin clark adams

[Guest Edgy DC]

Who?

1. Most Career RBI without ever leading his league?
   
   Wrong Guesses:
   Valadius (Baines, Perez, -2 Point)
   Gwreck (Palmeiro, -1 Point)


Correct Answer:
Valadius (Mays, 5 Points)


2. Who had the most career double-plays grounded into?
   
   Correct Answer:
   Frayed Knot (Ripken, 5 Points)



3. Who, with at least 100 games, was the easiest to strike out?
   
   Correct Answer:
   Johnny Dickshot (Deer, 5 Points)


Wrong Guesses:
Rottblatt (Dunn, -1 Point)
Hahn Solo (Kingman, -1 Point)


4. Who had the highest ERA in a 20-win season?
   
   Wrong Guesses:
   Yancy (Niekro, -1 Point)
   Hahn Solo (Erickson, -1 Point)
   Gwreck (Burkett, -1 Point)
   metsguyinmichigan (Gullickson, -1 point)
   Valadius (Sabathia, Wells, -2 point)



5. Who had the most errors by a modern-day third baseman?
   
   Wrong Guesses:
   Yancy (Williams, -1 Point)
   Hahn Solo (Steinfeldt, -1 Point)



6. Who had the fewest lifetime RBI for a player with a 100-RBI season?
   
   Wrong Guesses:
   Hahn Solo (Howard, -1 Point)
   Yancy (Charboneau, -1 POint)
   Frayed Knot (Wright, -1 POint)
   metsmarathon (Atkins, -1 Point)



7. Who has the lowest career batting average by a pitcher?
   
   Wrong Guesses:
   metsmarathon (Leiter, -1 Point)



8. Who has the most games played in a losing cause (since 1957)?
   
   Wrong Guesses:
   Yancy (Banks, -1 Point)
   Hahn Solo (Kranepool, -1 Point)

[Guest Edgy DC]

Score:
Johnny Dickshot: 5
Frayed Knot: 4
Valadius: 1
rottblatt: -1
metsguyinmichigan: -1
Gwreck: -2
metsmarathon: -2
Yancy: -4
Hahn Solo: -5

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

OK, for the highest ERA in a 20-win season, I decided it had to be an older guy since if would be legendary if it happened from the 1970s on.

Then I thought about the war-era since there were some pretty strange things going on, like Prince Hal Newshowser winning two MVPs.

Newhouser then got me thinking about Bobo Newsome, who had some 20-win seasons. I checked, and he had one that was above 5.00. That's gotta be the winner.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Five points for the Michigander:

Score:
Johnny Dickshot: 5
Frayed Knot: 4
metsguyinmichigan: 4
Valadius: 1
rottblatt: -1
Gwreck: -2
metsmarathon: -2
Yancy: -4
Hahn Solo: -5

[Guest Iubitul]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: 6. Joe Charboneau?

That was my first thought, too.

[DocTee]

4. Mike Norris
5. Mike Schmidt
6. Tommy Herr
7. Atlee Hammaker
8. Richie Hebner

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wow, DocTee enters late and rockets into last:


Score:
Johnny Dickshot: 5
Frayed Knot: 4
metsguyinmichigan: 4
Valadius: 1
rottblatt: -1
Gwreck: -2
metsmarathon: -2
Yancy: -4
Hahn Solo: -5
DocTee: -5

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

4. Mike Torrez

[nymr83]

5. Ken Caminiti?

[DocTee]

Just returned from the dentist--still under the influence.

[Guest Edgy DC]

No, but that's why I love Dickshot. Others might play it safe until his lead is challenged. But JD shoots for the green.

Though he should have noted that we actually have a correct answer for number four.

Score:
Johnny Dickshot: 4
Frayed Knot: 4
metsguyinmichigan: 4
Valadius: 1
rottblatt: -1
Gwreck: -2
metsmarathon: -2
Yancy: -4
Hahn Solo: -5
DocTee: -5

[Guest Edgy DC]

Nymr is incorrect with Caminiti. Cam peaked with 27 errata.

Score:
Johnny Dickshot: 4
Frayed Knot: 4
metsguyinmichigan: 4
Valadius: 1
rottblatt: -1
Nymr: -1
Gwreck: -2
metsmarathon: -2
Yancy: -4
Hahn Solo: -5
DocTee: -5

[nymr83]

oh you wanted single season? somehow i misread the question as most career errors

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

As for the third baseman...speaking of Tigers. Wasn't Sheffield a brutal glovesman with the Padres?
That's my guess. And he'll blame the flaxseed oil.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Not Sheffield (apparently the incorrect answer to every trivia question), though he did make a soccertastic 34 boots between two teams in 1993.

You are no longer tied for first.

Score:
Johnny Dickshot: 4
Frayed Knot: 4
metsguyinmichigan: 3
Valadius: 1
rottblatt: -1
Gwreck: -2
metsmarathon: -2
Yancy: -4
Hahn Solo: -5
DocTee: -5

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

OK, you have to define the modern era. Some Giant from 1900 who had 86 or something nuts like that?

[metsmarathon]

metsmarathon wrote: well, garrett atkins is more correct than ryan howard... 6. elvin clark adams

[HahnSolo]

If I'd known the grading scale had been so harsh, I wouldn't have thrown out such wild guesses.

[Guest Edgy DC]

And I asked you who that was. But a little digging has told me Elvin is Buster and Buster is Elvin.

Wrong, but he was in third, with 43.8% of his RBI coming in 1945.

Score:
Johnny Dickshot: 4
Frayed Knot: 4
metsguyinmichigan: 3
Valadius: 1
rottblatt: -1
Gwreck: -2
metsmarathon: -3
Yancy: -4
Hahn Solo: -5
DocTee: -5

[metsmarathon]

missed the who. sorry. i figured war-year fill-ins was the right ticket...

[HahnSolo]

#8 has to be an everyday player, right? Pitchers who were on the losing team but not in the game don't count? Or do they?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Number eight is "games played...," so earning your pay and your losses by sitting on the bench --- in the dugout or in the bullpen --- wouldn't count.

[metsmarathon]

8. ed kranepool

[Guest Edgy DC]

Nope. Been guessed.

Score:
Johnny Dickshot: 4
Frayed Knot: 4
metsguyinmichigan: 3
Valadius: 1
rottblatt: -1
Gwreck: -2
metsmarathon: -4
Yancy: -4
Hahn Solo: -5
DocTee: -5

[Benjamin Grimm]

This is getting confusing. Can we see a list of correctly answered questions?