More trivia

[VikingFan2k2]

Where does Joe Mauer set on the career most games caught list?
After you look up the answer, acknowledge this: His HOF qualification determination was driven by the fact that he was a 'catcher'. This is just one more indication of the continuing eroding of the HOF voting think tank.

Even when he was a full-time catcher, he almost always DHed on day games after night games.

I didn't think he would get in on the first ballot and I can see an argument that he shouldn't have. The last 5 years of his career he was an average 1st Baseman with little power.

He takes a lot of heat locally because he was given such a massive contract that he never lived up to, because concussions drove him out from behind the plate. He also was not the most engaging personality. Just a boring guy and not the team leader that he should have been at that rate of pay.

It also doesn't help that he was never on a roster that won even a single playoff game.

But, it's not his fault that the Twins owners decided that was going to be their only big contract that they gave out and virtually ignored signing expensive pitchers. Opting for mid level cast aways like Phil Hughes and Ricky Nolasco.

The argument for him is that he did what hadn't been done in the AL ever. Win a batting title as a catcher and he did it 3 times. Only Posey and two other guys back in the 1930s were able to do it in the NL.

I could go either way with it, but I don't see it as a joke that he got in.

 

[VikingFan2k2]

So far Judge, Bonds, Cruz, Freeman, Howard, Sosa


One left. And he is active and playing tonight

Bo Bichette?

 

[Cedrique]

Bo Bichette?

Not Bichette

 

[Cedrique]

The last name we were looking for was Austin Riley

 

[TheGoodMan19]

I'll try this one

Of the multitude of numbers retired by the NY Yankees, 11 are players not in the Hall of Fame. Name them

A couple clues. No player who debut before WWII in on the list. And only four were lifetime Yankees

 

[msgkings322]

I'll try this one

Of the multitude of numbers retired by the NY Yankees, 11 are players not in the Hall of Fame. Name them

A couple clues. No player who debut before WWII in on the list. And only four were lifetime Yankees

The easy one is Thurman Munson

 

[Think McFly Think]

I'll try this one

Of the multitude of numbers retired by the NY Yankees, 11 are players not in the Hall of Fame. Name them

A couple clues. No player who debut before WWII in on the list. And only four were lifetime Yankees

Don Mattingly

 

[TheGoodMan19]

The easy one is Thurman Munson

Thurman Munson's #15 is one.

 

[TheGoodMan19]

Don Mattingly

Donnie Baseball's #23 is the 2nd

 

[msgkings322]

Thurman Munson's #15 is one.

Ron Guidry? Dwight Gooden? Darryl Strawberry?

 

[TheGoodMan19]

Ron Guidry? Dwight Gooden? Darryl Strawberry?

Guidry's #49 is correct. Three down

Gooden and Straw are not

 

[msgkings322]

Guidry's #49 is correct. Three down

Gooden and Straw are not

Dang 11 is a lot, trying to think of Yankees who were really good but not HOF good lol

Giambi? Bernie Williams? David Cone? David Wells?

 

[TheGoodMan19]

Dang 11 is a lot, trying to think of Yankees who were really good but not HOF good lol

Giambi? Bernie Williams?

Bernie's #51 is the fourth. All the lifetime Yanks. Not Giambi

 

[msgkings322]

Bernie's #51 is the fourth. All the lifetime Yanks. Not Giambi

Added after, David Cone or David Wells?

 

[TheGoodMan19]

Added after, David Cone or David Wells?

Neither. And I miscounted. It's 10,with six left

 

[msgkings322]

Neither. And I miscounted. It's 10,with six left

I'm running out of ideas, maybe many are from the 50s and 60s?

 

[Cedrique]

Paul O'Neill?

 

[Think McFly Think]

I'm running out of ideas, maybe many are from the 50s and 60s?

Yeah that’s not in my wheelhouse so much I’m trying to think of more recent ones

 

[TheGoodMan19]

I'm running out of ideas, maybe many are from the 50s and 60s?

One who's playing career was almost completely in the 50's. Two mostly in the 60's

 

[TheGoodMan19]

Paul O'Neill?

Paul O"Neill's 21 is right. can't figure that one out