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[Cedrique]

Le Grand Orange

Just looked it up. That is correct! (Rusty Staub)

 

[msgkings322]

Nope. Hint. One of the teams was the Astros, who were in the NL at the time.

Jeff Kent?

 

[msgkings322]

No surprise, Babe Ruth lead his league in home runs more times than anyone in history (12 times)

Who is second in that achievement, with 8 times?

 

[Pure Steel]

No surprise, Babe Ruth lead his league in home runs more times than anyone in history (12 times)

Who is second in that achievement, with 8 times?

Kiner?

 

[msgkings322]

Kiner?

no, decent guess though

 

[Cedrique]

No surprise, Babe Ruth lead his league in home runs more times than anyone in history (12 times)

Who is second in that achievement, with 8 times?

Michael Jack Schmidt

 

[Cedrique]

Jeff Kent?

no the other guy got it. It was Rusty Staub

 

[Pure Steel]

no, decent guess though

Kiner had 7

 

[msgkings322]

Michael Jack Schmidt

I feel like he's an underrated superstar. Like possible top 15 all time player who no one really talks about that way.

 

[Cedrique]

I feel like he's an underrated superstar. Like possible top 15 all time player who no one really talks about that way.

Yeah we got into that recently in another thread. I always thought of him as one of the Most Valuable Players of his era because he was so good on defense and could carry a team offensively by hitting home runs at a time when not everybody was hitting them. This is my favorite MVP season

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just look at his offensive stats and the stats of his teammates. Yup, that's an MVP.

 

[Cedrique]

Name the 4 active players who have hit for the cycle multiple times.

Hint- the cycle is kind of a random feat but these are all very good players. One or more could even end up in the hall of fame some day.

 

[DrewScott]

Some guesses..... Yelich, Acuna, Freddie Freeman, or Mookie Betts?

 

[msgkings322]

Name the 4 active players who have hit for the cycle multiple times.

Hint- the cycle is kind of a random feat but these are all very good players. One or more could even end up in the hall of fame some day.

Looked it up, good one. 3 dudes and a rando

 

[catman]

I think that's right but I don't remember that particular nickname

Le Grand Orange was his nickname in Montreal.

 

[msgkings322]

Looked it up, good one. 3 dudes and a rando

Correction 4 dudes

 

[Cedrique]

Some guesses..... Yelich, Acuna, Freddie Freeman, or Mookie Betts?

Freeman and Yelich are correct

 

[msgkings322]

Freeman and Yelich are correct

Since no one is biting I'll add the other 2: Trea Turner and Nolan Arenado

Good one

 

[Cedrique]

Since no one is biting I'll add the other 2: Trea Turner and Nolan Arenado

Good one

Yeah I was surprised at how many really good/great players were on the all-time list. Dimaggio, Gehrig,Klein, George Brett, and of course the legendary Brock Holt.

 

[msgkings322]

Yeah I was surprised at how many really good/great players were on the all-time list. Dimaggio, Gehrig,Klein, George Brett, and of course the legendary Brock Holt.

But there are many more legends who don't even have one, it's pretty random.

 

[Cedrique]

But there are many more legends who don't even have one, it's pretty random.

That's true. And to do it twice there's a better chance that you played for a while. The list of guys that did it once includes a good amount of Randos.