Q. Who was the
first pitcher to win the Cy Young Award in four consecutive seasons?
Hint: He finished
in the top five in Cy Young Award voting an additional five times.
Hint: He won the
Gold Glove Award for fielding by pitcher eighteen (18!) times.
- 1st GG
in 1990; final one in 2008
FCR - Michael Craig,
Gilbert, Arizona
Incorrect guesses: Randy
Johnson, Jim Kaat
MONDAY-MONDAY
Q. Who is the
only pitcher who can claim 150 pitching victories and 300 saves, all in the
same career?
Hint: He won a Cy
Young Award and Most Valuable Player Award in the same season.
Hint: He might be
better known for two home runs he surrendered.
- 197 W; 390 S
- Threw the pitch
that Kirk Gibson pinch-hit in 1st G
of the 1988 WS and threw the pitch
that Roberto Alomar hit in G 4 of the 1992 ALCS that was the high point
helping send TOR to the WS.
FCR - Gary Stone,
Centerport, New York
Incorrect guesses: John
Smoltz, Rollie Fingers
TUESDAY
Q. What former Senator
was traded for Bartolo Colon before winning his first Cy Young Award?
Hint: In his Cy
Young season, he won 19 of his first 21 decisions.
Hint: He led the
majors in WHIP the same year he played for the former Senators.
Hint: Was in the
top seven of Cy Young Award voting five times in his thirteen career years in
the majors.
Hint: His name
sake had earlier played for the Phillies and Indians.
- In 2002, Lee played for the Double-A Harrisburg
Senators compiling a 7–2 record with a 3.23 ERA in the Eastern League. Traded by MON with Brandon Phillips, Grady Sizemore and Lee Stevens to CLE for Bartolo Colon and Tim Drew.
- Won 19 of 1st 21 in 2008.
- Played 15 of his 28 G in 2010 for TEX who
before 1972 were the Washington Senators.
FCR - Kevin Mix, Chicago
Incorrect guesses: Dennis Martinez, Jim Bunning, Pedro Martinez,
Max Scherzer, Orel Hershiser
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who was the first Kansas City Royals
pitcher to start an All-Star game?
Hint: In his first three innings of All-Star
competition, he faced six future Hall of Fame batters, surrendering zero runs.
Hint: In the early part of his career he was
brilliant in odd-numbered years and only his team’s ace in even-numbered
seasons.
- 1987 ASG; faced Ryne Sandberg, Andre Dawson, Mike
Schmidt, Gary Carter, Ozzie Smith & Tony Gwynn. Of those, only Dawson reached base.
- Better years were 1985, 87, 89 & 91 of his
seasons 1984-92.
FCR - Phil Hertz, North Bethesda, Maryland
Incorrect
guesses: Dennis Leonard, Steve Busby,
Catfish Hunter
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Of the five Cy Young Award winners who
became convicted felons, who was the only one ever traded for Bucky Dent?
Hint: He was the first player to receive the Arch
Ward Memorial Award as All-Star game MVP when it was reintroduced.
Hint: He led the Padres in complete games the
year after their first National League pennant.
Hint: He had led the majors in wins the
year before the Padres won their first pennant.
- Traded by NYY w/minor leaguer Robert Polinsky, Oscar Gamble & $200K to CHW for Dent on 05-Apr-1977. Other CYA winners who suffered felony
convictions were Denny McLain, Vida Blue, Dwight Gooden & Ferguson Jenkins. Most charges were drug-related.
- AWMA as ASG MVP reinstated in 1985.
- 8 CG in 1985
- 24-10 in 1983 w/CHW a year where they played postseason ball for
only the second time since the Black Sox scandal. (AL crown in 1959)
FCR - Patrick Roth, Chicago
Incorrect
guesses: Denny McLain, Steve Trout, Andy
Hawkins, Randy Jones
THURSDAY
Q. What hurler took the All-Star Game loss
in the only All-Star Game he ever played in and that after only pitching a
third of an inning?
Hint: He faced three batters giving up two
singles after inducing a ground out to 2b.
Hint: He had been the Yankees first choice in the
June Amateur draft.
Hint: At one point Baseball America ranked
him as the best minor league pitching prospect in the game, ahead of Tim
Lincecum and Clayton Kershaw.
- 23rd over-all in the 2004 draft.
- The Baseball America ranking was following
the 2006 season.
FCR - Joe O’Neill, London, Ontario
Incorrect
guesses: Joba Chamberlain, Dave Stieb
FRIDAY
Q. Who was the last active player from the
original Seattle Mariners?
Hint: He is still the only pitcher to win an American
League ERA title who finished that season playing for the Dodgers.
Hint: He was traded for a pitcher who became a
World Series MVP.
Hint: Was originally drafted by the Orioles but
volunteered to go to college. However,
when he was next drafted four years later, he had dropped by three rounds in the
draft.
- ERA of 2.42 in 1983. Was traded by TEX to LAD for a player to be
named later, Dave Stewart
(1989
WS MVP) and $200,000. LAD sent Ricky Wright (16-Sep-1983) to TEX to complete the trade.
- Drafted by BAL in the 14th round
of
the 1972 MLB June Amateur Draft from Lakeview HS (Fort Oglethorpe, GA). Later by PIT in the 17th round of the 1976 MLB June
Amateur Draft from University of Tennessee.
FCR - R.D. Lerner, Silver Spring, Maryland
Incorrect
guesses: Mike Kekich, Charlie Hough,
Diego Segui, Glenn Abbott, Mike Marshall, Red Schoendienst
TGIF BONUS
Q. Who was the last 20th century
pitcher to earn a win in both games of a double header?
Hint: He was the first post-expansion pitcher to
surrender home runs to brothers in the same game.
Hint: They turned out to be future teammates.
Hint: He once won a game where every opposing
batter went 0-for-3 that day.
- Cal & Billy Ripken both took him to
Souvenir City (…actually SkyDome) on 15‑Sep‑1990.
He was their teammates on BAL in 1996.
FCR - Bill Deane, Cooperstown
Incorrect guesses: Wilbur Wood, Tom Seaver, David Cone, Lindy
McDaniel, Wes Stock, Catfish Hunter
SATURDAY
Q. Who is the only Cubs’ pitcher with a
20-win season in the first 14 years of this century?
Hint: He surrendered Ichiro Suzuki's 1,000th
career hit in the majors.
Hint: He was the first pitcher to face the
Washington Nationals in a regular-season game.
- Had a record of 20-6 in 2001 for CHC.
The next Cubs P w/20+ W was Jake Arrieta in 2015 w/22-6.
They remain the only 20-win seasons for either.
FCR - Doug Wedge, Edmond, Oklahoma
Incorrect
guesses: Kerry Wood, Jon Lieberman, Carlos
Zambrano, Greg Maddux, Jon Lester
WEEKEND BONUS
Q. Who surrendered Shohei Ohtani’s first
MLB home run?
Hint: No Cleveland Indians’ pitcher has ever
given up more home runs in a single season (except that one year when Luis
Tiant gave up even more.)
Hint: He attended the same high school as did the
NFL’s quarterback phenom, Patrick Mahomes.
- Tomlin gave up 36 in 2016. Tiant still holds the franchise record. He led the majors in 1969 w/37.
FCR - John Michael Pierobon, Fort Lauderdale
Incorrect guesses: Corey Kluber, Trevor Bauer
SUNDAY
Q. When Eric Young coaxed a bases-on-balls during
a game in 1993, whose streak of 55⅓ consecutive
innings pitched without a walk, did he break?
Hint: He (the pitcher) made it onto the Hall of
Fame ballot but not convincingly enough to coax even a single vote from the
electors.
Hint: In an interesting circumstance in his final
year in professional baseball, he and the opposing pitcher each had perfect
games through the first four innings of the same game, the last such occurrence
of the 20th century.
Hint: In the 20th century, the only
other starting pitchers with better career ratios of walks per inning are Babe
Adams and Cy Young. (Minimum 300 games)
- Young’s BB = 22-Jul-1993.
That streak was remarkable, but far from the record of 83⅓ innings by Bill Fischer of KCA in 1962.
- Tewksbury owns the third lowest ratio of BBs/inning
pitched for any starting pitcher in MLB since the 1901 w/3.8%. Young’s number is 3.3% and Adams’ 3.6%.
FCR - Rich Klein, Plano, Texas
Incorrect guesses: Orel Hershiser, Bret Saberhagen, Greg Maddox
WEEK’S
FINALE
Q. Whose 74 pitches thrown in a nine-inning
complete game is the fewest in the expansion era?
Hint: The team he beat that day threw almost 100
pitches more.
Hint: Two seasons after being converted from a
reliever to a starter, he led MLB in inducing balls hit into double plays.
Hint: Unfortunately, he led the majors in home
runs surrendered the following season.
- Short G = 20-May-2005. MIL’s 5 P threw a total of
173 pitches. HOWEVER! Additional research has shown that Aaron Cook
equaled this performance 25‑Jul‑2007.
- Gave up 38 HR in
2006.
FCR - Patrick Ray, Paradise Valley, Arizona
Incorrect
guesses: Randy Jones, Red Barrett, Tom
Browning, Greg Maddux, Ryan Dempster, Phil Niekro, Curt Schilling, Wilbur
Wood
WEEKLY THEME – Pitchers
who qualified for the ERA title with twenty or fewer bases‑on‑balls surrendered
in a season in the expansion era.
Pitcher BB IP Year Team CG ERA Most By
Silva 9 188.1 2005 MIN 2 3.44 100 S.
Kazmir
Saberhagen 13 177.1 1994 NYM 4 2.74 89 M. M./T. Van P.
Hughes 16 209.2 2014 MIN 1 3.52 96 A.J. Burnett
Honeycutt 17 127.2 1981 TEX 8 3.31 78 J. Morris
Lieber 18 176.2 2004 NYY 0 4.33 119 B.
Webb
Lee 18 212.1 2010 TOT 7 3.18 96 J.
Sanchez
Eckersley 19 169.1 1985 CHC 6 3.08 120 P. Niekro
Hoyt 20 210.1 1985 SDP 8 3.47 120 P.
Niekro
Tewksbury 20 233.0 1992 STL 5 2.16 144 R. Johnson
Tewksbury 20 213.2 1993 STL 2 3.83 122 W. Alvarez
Maddux 20 232.2 1997 ATL 5 2.20 100 S. Estes
Wells 20 213.0 2003 NYY 4 4.14 106 V.
Zambrano
Wells 20 195.2 2004 SDP 0 3.73 119 B.
Webb
Tomlin 20 174.0 2016 CLE 0 4.40 86 J.
Nelson
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – No one.
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Wed - Players
to have had a season that led the National League and another that led the
American League in strikeout to walk ratio during their careers.
- Multiple
Cy Young winners who are not in the HOF
Sun - Players
since WWII with under 1.00 BB/9 innings
- Fewest
walks per 9IP
- Expansion
era pitchers with lowest walks/9IP
- Complete
games with less (sic) than 80 pitches in the expansion era
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