Trivia time: who had this season?
Posted by Andy on September 14, 2007
PI subscribers and non-subscribers alike can try to find out who had the following season, although it's obviously pretty easy if you have a PI subscription.
G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG *OPS+ TB SH SF IBB HBP GDP +---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+ 151 565 68 135 25 1 19 75 0 1 50 117 .239 .300 .388 93 219 0 5 0 1 19
Once you figure out who had this season, then try to figure out what's interesting about it.
September 14th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Is it Deron Johnson's record in 1975?
September 14th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Deron Johnson...Significance being that it was the first year of the DH and he was a pretty good DH that year?
September 14th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
It is Deron Johnson, but that's not the significance.
Clue: my interest in it is more of an amusement than any actual interesting baseball thing.
1973 was the first year of DH use in MLB, by the way.
September 15th, 2007 at 6:11 am
I believe that
Scott Brosius,Willie Upshaw, Ryne Sandberg, Carney Langford, Ritchie Hebner, Willie Horton
had similar type seasons.
September 15th, 2007 at 6:24 am
Yes! nmorrow14 has got it right....now who can figure out what he or she is talking about?
As a clue, Sandberg did it in 1984.
September 15th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
If i had to guess I'd say it had to do with their 100+ strikeouts and
September 15th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
less than 19 strikeouts.
that's weird, i got cut off
September 15th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Nope.
September 15th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Does it have anything to do with him being traded to the WS bound Red Sox the last week of the season?
September 15th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Nope....keep trying. Look at some of the other players nmorrow14 mentioned.
September 17th, 2007 at 7:10 am
I find it funny that with these simular stats, Ryne Sandburg won an MVP and the other guys weren't really considered.
September 17th, 2007 at 8:03 am
Are you kidding? In '75, the season in question, Deron Johnson's OPS+ was 93, while Ryne's was 139. You want to give the MVP of the league to a guy who is 7% below average offensively, be my guest...
September 17th, 2007 at 8:34 am
Well since nobody has posted the actual answer about what's interesting about Johnson's 1975 season, here it is:
In 1975, he had 19 homers and 75 RBI. 19/75 in 1975.
As you can see from the comments above, other players have done it in other years, such as Scott Brosius' 1998 when he had 19 HR and 98 RBI.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:07 am
Cap Anson got RBI #1896 in 1896, likewise for Babe Ruth in 1932, and Hank Aaron in 1972.
Bonds is currently at 1996 so he has an outside shot at getting 2007 this year.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:27 am
THAT is really unusual...for all those guys at the top of the RBI career leaderboard to have all accomplished that.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:11 am
Cool stat
September 17th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
It's a cool stat, but not all that hard to figure. When you get to the 1900's you're going to have a good chance of reaching that figure in the year in question. Ty Cobb got RBI 1928 in 1928 and Lou Gehrig got RBI 1938 in 1938 and Stan Musial played one more year he would have gotten RBI 1964 in 1964. If Bonds doesn't get 2007 this year and he plays next year, he'll easily reach 2008 in 2008.
September 17th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
At first I thought wbunchpike's comment was totally wrong, but then I realized that s/he's absolutely right.
Here's the thinking:
Imagine that Barry Bonds does get his 2007th RBI in 2007. Then you could say--well it wouldn't have happened if his career started 2 years earlier...he would have gotten to 2007 in 2005, then. But, then we would be noting that he got his 2005th RBI in 2005, not his 2007th in 2007.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:46 am
Hey guys - here's one from the pitching side of the aisle - in 1960, Ike Delock - had a winning %age of .473 and an ERA 4.73. Not the same as the year career totals I grant you - but who out there want's to find similar type seasons?