Kwiz

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

metirish wrote: Javier Vazquez has been around forever it seems

Good guess

1. Livan 457 (batmagadanleadoff)
2. Wakefield 444 (batmagadanleadoff)
3. Javy Vasquez 421 (MetIrish)
4.
5. Kevin Millwood 406 (centerfield)
6. Barry Zito 356 (MetIrish)
7. Tim Hudson 355 (TransMonk)
8.
T9. Derek Lowe 334 (TransMonk)
T9. CC Sabathia 334 (EdgyDC)

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ted Lilly?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Was trying to come up with Vasquez's name.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Ted Lilly?

18th with 296

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Crazy-ass Carlos Zambrano

[batmagadanleadoff]

This quiz got me to wondering whatever happened to Dontrelle Willis? (I know he's not a top tenner)

[metirish]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Ted Lilly? 18th with 296

Good guess and I'm going with Pavano but if Lilly is not there then Pavano probably isn't.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Crazy-ass Carlos Zambrano

26th with 269

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Brad Penny

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

metirish wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Ted Lilly? 18th with 296 Good guess and I'm going with Pavano but if Lilly is not there then Pavano probably isn't.

30th place

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Brad Penny

19th

[metirish]

not a good guess.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Jason Marquis

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Jason Marquis

29th. You're getting killed in this competition.

[HahnSolo]

AJ Burnett

[Ceetar]

Josh Beckett?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

HahnSolo wrote: AJ Burnett

20th

Ceetar wrote: Josh Beckett

?

28th

[Ceetar]

the other of the 'big three' Mark Mulder? Think injuries probably keep him out though.

edit: guess he's not active. I just assumed he was on the DL somewhere.

[HahnSolo]

Jon Garland

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Ceetar wrote: the other of the 'big three' Mark Mulder? Think injuries probably keep him out though. edit: guess he's not active. I just assumed he was on the DL somewhere.

yeah not there.

Of the two remaining guys, one I think shoulda been guessed by now even if the guy tends to fly under the radar some. The other one is a name we all know and hate but hard to imagine he ranks where he does, definitely a surprise.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Jeff Suppan, are you active anywhere?

Chan Ho Park, is that you I spy on the fringes of this question?

[Frayed Knot]

Mark Burly/Beuhrle/Curlique ... or however he spells it?

[HahnSolo]

Cole Hamels

[metirish]

Frayed Knot wrote: Mark Burly/Beuhrle/Curlique ... or however he spells it?

ahhhh , couldn't think of him or Garland.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Thanks for playing.

1. Livan 457 (batmagadanleadoff)
2. Wakefield 444 (batmagadanleadoff)
3. Javy Vasquez 421 (MetIrish)
4. Jeff Suppan 411 (EdgyDC)
5. Kevin Millwood 406 (centerfield)
6. Barry Zito 356 (MetIrish)
7. Tim Hudson 355 (TransMonk)
8. Mark Burhle 345 (FrayedKnot)
T9. Derek Lowe 334 (TransMonk)
T9. CC Sabathia 334 (EdgyDC)

[metirish]

Would never have guess Suppan was still active...

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wow, Jeff Suppan, minor-leaguing it with the Omaha Royals.

[metirish]

Jesus he even looks different, wasn't implying that I would have guessed him either cos I wouldn't have.

[Frayed Knot]

There was a chart in the Sunday NYTimes about team leads for stolen bases (prompted, of course, by the monumental achievement of St. Jeter wresting the MFY record from Rickey - who himself took it from Wee Willie Small Balls). I'm not going to make a big quiz over it but it does fit in with the recent hits and runs kwizzes that have been running here.

The upshot is that, because the running game was so popular in the early years of baseball, the reigning team record for four different franchises (Phillies, Reds, Giants & Braves) still dates back to the 19th century, while seven more (Tigers, Cubs, Senators/Twins, Red Sox, Browns/Orioles, ChiSox, Pirates) had their record set prior to 1925. Then, as if to emphasize how the power game took over, NO records were set from 1925-1965. Since '65 only the expansion teams (duh!) plus the Dodgers (Maury Wills - 490), Cardinals (Brock - 888), Athletics (Rickey - 967), Indians (Kenny Lofton - 452), and now the Yanx have had their records set or re-set.

The last side-note is that Eric Young first held the Rockies' SB record when he stole a base in their inaugural game, still holds it today with 180, and has only NOT held it for a 16 day period in between when OFer Alex Cole (I have no memory of him) became the only other player in Colorado history to have it.

Y'all here of course know that Reyes took the NYM record from Mookie a couple of seasons back leaving his current mark of 348 as a mark for the next guy since we all know that Jose's current leave will be extended by an airport walkway injury which will in turn keep him out of action until he's dealt away at the trading deadline to the Yanx for Francisco Cervelli.

[Guest Edgy DC]

If you're so fatalistic to believe that Jose is imminently due for an injury, at least add in the extra detail that it will occur days (hours?) after signing him to a seven-year contract.

Jose, by the way, is amazing --- slugging .493 despite having only one homer. A gen-u-ine MVP candidate we have here.