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  • #1

    Choose your statistical anomaly...

    Option A: A 162-game hitting streak... with a .219 average, 0 homeruns.

    Option B: A 2.89 ERA, 277 K's, in 219 innings... but a record of 0-27 with a record-shattering 371 bases-on-balls (BB) and 102 wild pitches.

    Option C: A record 81 homeruns (with no skepticism of PED's)... but only 84 hits on the season in 635 AB's.

    Option D: A .402 batting average in 657 AB's... but only infield singles.

    Option E: 171 singles... despite hitting every ball off the outfield fence.
    21
    Option A - The Hitting Streak
    19.05%
    4
    Option B - The Best Worst Pitcher
    19.05%
    4
    Option C - All He Hits is Homeruns
    23.81%
    5
    Option D - Mr. Can't-Get-It-Out-of-the-Infield
    23.81%
    5
    Option E - Warning Track Power - No Wheels
    14.29%
    3
    Swing and a drive! This one is deep! This one is... over the fence and into the neighbor's yard!
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  • #2
    Good dilemmas, but I'm guessing I'll own record A FOREVER
    Mythical SF Chronicle scouting report: "That Jeff runs like a deer. Unfortunately, he also hits AND throws like one." I am Venus DeMilo - NO ARM! I can play like a big leaguer, I can field like Luzinski, run like Lombardi. The secret to managing is keeping the ones who hate you away from the undecided ones. I am a triumph of quantity over quality. I'm almost useful, every village needs an idiot.
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    • #3
      I think either C or D would help your team the most, but I chose D.

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      • #4
        These are all pretty silly but I'll take the one that gives the single-season HR record to a non-PED's user.
        Buck O'Neil: The Monarch of Baseball

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        • #5
          D is possible, if Jason Giambi would just learn how to bunt the ball down the often-vacant third-base line.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by ipitch View Post
            D is possible, if Jason Giambi would just learn how to bunt the ball down the often-vacant third-base line.
            Him and Thome both.
            Swing and a drive! This one is deep! This one is... over the fence and into the neighbor's yard!

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            • #7
              Option A - Tommie Agee who once had a 20 game hitting streak in which his average dropped.

              Option B - Dick Such who almost led his minor league in ERA despite an 0-12 record or Steve Dalkowski who also had seasons like this.

              Option C - Mark McGuire in his last season ( except for the PEDS ) Dave Kingman? Rob Deer?

              Option D - Wee Willie Keeler in his .400 years

              Option E - Ernie Lombardi

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              • #8
                I choose option D, because to bat .402 this way, I have to be the fastest man to ever play the game.

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                • #9
                  Why would anyone choose B or E, they're not (good) records or even "umpteen years since someone has done x"
                  Mythical SF Chronicle scouting report: "That Jeff runs like a deer. Unfortunately, he also hits AND throws like one." I am Venus DeMilo - NO ARM! I can play like a big leaguer, I can field like Luzinski, run like Lombardi. The secret to managing is keeping the ones who hate you away from the undecided ones. I am a triumph of quantity over quality. I'm almost useful, every village needs an idiot.
                  Good traders: MadHatter(2), BoofBonser26, StormSurge

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by RuthMayBond View Post
                    Why would anyone choose B or E, they're not (good) records or even "umpteen years since someone has done x"
                    I wrote the options and I chose E. The reasoning is that I picture it as more of a "bad luck" situation. I'm roping the ball off the fence, but it just one-hops right to the outfielder and he throws a bullet to 2nd base, limiting me to a single.

                    It would really get old after 50 or so, and I'd get annoyed, but at least I'm hitting the ball hard. No one could say I'm a terrible hitter, despite only hitting singles.
                    Swing and a drive! This one is deep! This one is... over the fence and into the neighbor's yard!

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                    • #11
                      "or Steve Dalkowski who also had seasons like this."

                      'Cept Steve's ERA was generally through the roof.
                      "They put me in the Hall of Fame? They must really be scraping the bottom of the barrel!"
                      -Eppa Rixey, upon learning of his induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

                      Motafy (MO-ta-fy) vt. -fied, -fying 1. For a pitcher to melt down in a big game situation; to become like Guillermo Mota. 2. The transformation of a good pitcher into one of Guillermo Mota's caliber.

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