On my long way back from chris w's place to ol' Cincinnati today, I was listening to 700 WLW Reds radio's daily sports trivia game, and there was a great question posed by a listener about the 500-out club: seasons in which a player managed to get themselves out 500 times.
It's an interesting concept, I think - trying to find a player who made a ton of outs (bad) and yet managed to do it five times.
I was most amused because sports radio is usually a sea of garbage: jackasses ranting with uninformed opinions, and useless interviews with players and managers that are probably taped before the beginning of the year. Yet, in true blogosphere fashion, this interesting baseball tidbit gets on the air not because of good research and thought by a radio journalist, but rather because of the good research and thought by an anonymous baseball fan.
As for the question: write your guess in the comments section of this post, and the first to answer it correctly gets a buck from me, via PayPal. Also: no googling, and you only get one guess. Good luck, and here goes
Which player leads all major leaguers in seasons in which they made 500 outs with five?
whoever this guy is, i bet matt christopher never wrote a book about him.
ReplyDeletemy guess is adam dunn because he strikes out a lot therefore is not good.
Heh....well, with no researching, I probably won't be right, but I'll guess Juan Pierre because he never walks, plays almost every day, and has lead the league in outs since 2000. Makes me think he should be on the White Sox and not the Dodgers. Ozzie would love him to death.
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