The Thursday Thinker: Best Hitting Pitchers
by Fatter than Joey on Feb 18, 2010 12:01 PM CST
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One of the drawbacks of the Brewers switching to the NL in 1998, is having to endure watching pitchers hit. Most of the Brewers have not fared well at the plate, in fact some have been historically bad, however 15 pitchers have managed to wrangle up enough hits to garner an OPS of over .500 for a season (min. 20 PAs.)
A few ground rules.
- The quiz only covers pitchers from 1998-2009. There are no AL Brewer pitchers in this quiz (apologies to Skip Lockwood, Ken Brett, Bobby Bolin, and BIll Parsons).
- 20 PAs were needed to qualify
- I have entered 2 "poison pills" into this quiz, if you guess these pitchers you will have to add negative points to your score. If you have been watching Brewer baseball, and reading your Daily Advents (especially the FtJ ones), you should manage to avoid these pitfalls.
How many Brewer pitchers since 1998 that had an OPS .500 or over in a season can you name?
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I got 11
Gave up after five minutes. I probably wouldn’t have guessed the others, given all day.
That's all I've got for you today, unless you're interested in some Chris Capuano/Tom Haudricourt Fan Fiction.
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"That's not a weird stat. Rickie is a run-scorer," Yost said. "It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter," Yost told reporters. "See, you guys have no concept. He's a run-scorer. So there's nothing weird about it. That's what he does."
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but proper spelling would have netted me 9.
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I knew which two would be the poison pills, so I typed them in just to make sure, so I guess if you want to count my curiosity against me I got -593.
You were smart
then stupid
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by Fatter than Joey on Feb 18, 2010 12:41 PM CST up reply actions
Same boat
Can’t believe I missed the last one on the list
BCB, the preferred above replacement level sarcasm supplier.
by MadJimiBrewha on Feb 18, 2010 2:01 PM CST up reply actions
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I had to check the poison pill ones. They were pretty funny!
Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, "That’s all they need is another home run hitter".
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i got one of the poisons, but it was when I was off in random guessie land after the first 4 were right.
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Or -591 if count the poison pills, which I purposley guessed
"A D+ Grade? That must have been a Wittardo grade"- @73_MC
if you* count the poison pills
"A D+ Grade? That must have been a Wittardo grade"- @73_MC
by BrewHaHeather on Feb 18, 2010 2:10 PM CST up reply actions
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But I gave up pretty quickly. Might have got 1 more if I kept trying.
And seriously…2001, (.500), wow. I’m not sure how he did it, but wow.
Applying Simpsons and Star Wars quotes to Brewers discussions since 2009.
11-600
I swear I guessed the 1998 guy and it didn’t take it. I should’ve come up with one (two) more.
About five seconds in
I gave up on the real names and just went for the poison pills. They didn’t take long.
-589
I got stuck on 11, and then hit the two poison pills in 2 tries.
What begins in fear usually ends in folly.
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Feb 18, 2010 7:39 PM CST reply actions
I protest
If you wanted to enter Kane Davis’s last name, you get a poison pill.
"I will agree that the attitude [at BCB] is ridiculous and they have done so much to instigate animosity and then block us from responding. Real mature!"
by roguejim on Feb 19, 2010 2:22 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
That's true --
And truth be told, I had considered this — but then I realized that any true Brewer fan would quickly realize that Kane Davis was a reliever, and never got into many games, therefore would not have accumulated the minimum 20 PAs. (He had zero).
Please add a -300 to your score for your weak protest.
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by Fatter than Joey on Feb 20, 2010 5:04 AM CST up reply actions
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