Friday Kwiz

[Frayed Knot]

A little thing to jump-start your brains on a Friday morning.

This latest hamstring issue could keep Captain Dave from taking over the NYM franchise lead in career HRs this season although, given the length of his contract and all, that he will eventually hit the 22 more he needs to pass Strawberry is in little doubt. Wright already holds the Mets mark for singles and doubles but, alas, is so far behind in triples [in 9th place with 26, far behind Jose's 99] that it's virtually impossible for him to get that record.

But can you name the FOUR players who DO hold their franchise's career record for Singles, Doubles, Triples, and Home Runs?
These are [u:22v13bho]franchise[/u:22v13bho] records so they include any locations prior to the current ones but include stats only since 1900

[HahnSolo]

Ripken
Griffey
Aaron
Mays

[Edgy MD]

Brett
Mays
Aaron

Ummm...

Yount

[Frayed Knot]

Mays is correct for the Giants (although if you include pre-1900 players he loses out on the triples)
and George Brett is the Royals champ in all four categories.

Not Aaron (Rabbit Maranville had 7 more triples), not Griffey (either one of them), not Teddy boy (it's the triples that usually trip you up), not Ripken

[Edgy MD]

I changed my mind on Teddy.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Banks

[Frayed Knot]

Banks leads the Cubs in all but four of those categories (how soon we forget Slammin' Sammy)

[MFS62]

Mike Schmitt

Later

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

L-Gon?

[Frayed Knot]

Luis Gonzalez is a good guess, but again those triples. Stephen drew actually holds the DBacks record there.
Schmidt doesn't hold the Philly triples record either (Ed Delahanty), plus he was passed not long ago in doubles by Jimmy Rollins.

[MFS62]

Frank Robinson - Reds version?

Later

[Guest sharpie]

Tony Gwynn?

[Edgy MD]

Hey, man, you missed when I quickly changed Ted Williams to Robin Yount.

That's Hall-of-Famer Robin Yount.

[Frayed Knot]

Frank Robinson - Reds version? -- A guy with half a career as a Cincy Red with more singles or doubles or triples than Pete?!? He didn't out-HR Bench either.

Tony Gwynn? -- Has all of SD's marks but HRs which Nate Freakin' Colbert still holds at just 167 (Adrian Gonzalez got traded trailing Colbert by 4)

[Frayed Knot]

Yount is correct!!

Plots/Brewers = Robin Yount

Royals = George Brett

New York/SF Giants = Willie Mays (once we ignore pre-1900 sensation Mike Tiernan who out-tripled Willie 162-139)

and one more to go

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Jeff Conine was with the Marlins forever. Him?

[Ceetar]

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: Jeff Conine was with the Marlins forever. Him?

Just saw a tweet that Giancarlo took over the HR lead.

Does he also have the triples lead?

[Frayed Knot]

Giancarlo's HR [u:sz595hrw]last night[/u:sz595hrw] was the one that gave him the Marlins lead but it was over Mike Lowell, not Conine.
Luis Castillo has the Marlins triples record by a big margin.

Edited April 17, 2015 by Guest

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Helton?

[Frayed Knot]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Helton?

4th in triples. The still active (and quite young) Dexter Fowler is Rockies all-time club leader ahead of Neifi Perez & Larry Walker.



The remaining answer is from a NON-expansion franchise!!

[MFS62]

Stan the Man.
Later

[Frayed Knot]

MFS62 wrote: Stan the Man. Later

There ya go!

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Good quiz!

[Frayed Knot]

Sir Albert of Pujolia, btw, bailed on the Cardinals 30 HRs short of Musial's mark of 475.
Stan is well ahead in each of the other categories: [u:229733eg]725 Doubles[/u:229733eg] (Pujols = 455); 177 Triples (Hornsby = 143) which totals to 1,377 XBHs (3rd all time behind Aaron & Bonds).
Then for good measure he threw in 2,253 Singles

[Zvon]

Excellent quiz. Rabbit Maranville, huh? What a name.

[Frayed Knot]

Dusting off this early season quiz, Ryan Braun has since passed Robin Yount for the Brewers/Pilots career HR title, so the quiz is back down to three answers.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I think Braun should be disqualified for having been a juicer.