MONDAY —25-Oct
Q. Who is the only
player to never finish lower than fifth in MVP voting in every full season he
played in the majors, nine straight years?
Hint: #1 He
is the only player to be named All-Star Game MVP in back-to-back years.
Hint: #2 He
joined the 30/30 Club in his rookie year.
A. MIKE TROUT [B-R Bio]
- Ans. In
2012-20 Trout finished 2nd, 2nd, 1st, 2nd, 1st, 4th, 2nd, 1st & 5th respectively.
- #1 Voted
ASG MVP in 2014 & 2015.
- #2 in 2012
he hit 30 HR and led the majors w/49 SB.
FCR - Doug Christy,
Sarasota
Incorrect guesses: Jackie
Robinson, Fred Lynn, Roberto Clemente
TUESDAY —26-Oct
Q. Which position player has the most walks and
strikeouts in the history of the Angels’ franchise?
Hint: #1 He ranks second in nineteen career
offensive categories for the Angels.
Hint: #2 During his time in the majors, he led weekly
chapel services.
A. TIM SALMON [Wiki Bio]
- Ans. 970 BB, 1, 360
K
- #1 Check
‘em out here.
- #2 Salmon
is known to be very spiritual. Before
going pro, he attended Grand Canyon College, established by the Arizona
Southern Baptist Convention.
FCR - Preston Salisbury, Starkville, Mississippi
Incorrect guesses: Troy Glaus, Brian Downing, Vlad Guerrero,
Garret Anderson, Bobby Grich, Mike Carp, Albert Pujols
WEDNESDAY —27-Oct
Q. Who broke Mark McGwire’s major league record
for home runs by a rookie, but lost it two years later?
Hint: #1 He still holds that record, but just for his
league.
Hint: #2 In a scant five-season period, he managed to
amass thirty-one postseason hits.
A. AARON JUDGE [B-R Bio]
- Ans. Hit
52 HR in 2017 for NYY. IN 2017
NYM’s Pete Alonso hit 53 HR in his rookie MLB campaign.
- #1 Alonso
now holds the record for MLB rookies, but Judge’s 52 looks good for now.
- #2 Judge
ha played in at least 1 postseason game in every one of his 5 full seasons.
FCR - Doug Christy, Sarasota
Incorrect
guesses: Giancarlo Stanton, Sammy Sosa
MIDWEEK BONUS —27-Oct
Q. Who was the first player to hit thirty home
runs in each of his first four seasons in the major leagues?
Hint: #1 He is the only player ever to average sixty
home runs per season over any four-year period while playing for multiple teams
in the majors.
Hint: #2 His career record for ratio of at bats per
home run, is better even than Babe Ruth’s.
A. MARK McGWIRE [B-R Bio]
- Ans. Big
Mac hit 30+ HR 1987-91: 49,
32, 33 & 39. He also hit 40 or more
6 X.
- #1 From
1996 thru 1999, McGwire totaled 245 HR, averaging 61.25 HR per season.
- #2 McGwire’s
10.61 HR per AB is the best all-time followed by Ruth’s 11.76, Bonds’s 12.92
& Thome’s 13.76.
FCR - Leonard Epstein, Dallas
Incorrect
guesses: Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, Josh
Gibson, Ralph Kiner
THURSDAY —28-Oct
Q. Who was the first American League player to
hit a home run in each of his first three major league games?
Hint: #1 After Mark McGwire in 1987, he was the next rookie
to lead his team in batting average, home runs, runs scored and walks for the
season.
Hint: #2 He is the only player from the Southern
Conference to win the Baseball America College Player of the Year Award.
Hint: #3 He is also the only player from the Southern
Conference to win the Golden Spikes Award.
A. KYLE LEWIS [B-R Bio]
- Ans. 1st
3 HR = HR 10-Sep, 11-Sep & 12-Sep-2019
- #1 Led
SEA 2020 w/ .262 AVG, 11 HR, 37 R & 34 BB.
- #2 &3
BB America CPOY & Golden Spikes for the Mercer University Bears in Macon, GA in 2016.
FCR - George Alfano, Redlands, California
Incorrect
guesses: Lance Berkman, Robin Ventura,
Chipper Jones, Frank Thomas, Trevor Story, Juan Gonzalez, Ricky Weeks
THOR’S DAY —28-Oct
Q. Which twenty-seven year-old BRTR first baseman
led the majors in slugging and OPS+ as a rookie?
Hint: #1 That year he also led his team in hits, doubles
(tie), home runs, RBIs, batting average, on-base percentage, OPS, total
bases, hit-by-pitch and intentional bases on balls.
Hint: #2 The first time he parents saw him play in
the majors was in an All-Star game.
A. JOSE ABREU [B-R Bio]
- Ans. In
2014, Abreu led MLB in SLG w/.581 & OPS+ w/173.
- #1 His
number were 176, 35, 36, 107, .317, .383, .964, 323, 11 & 15 respectively.
- #2 Abreu
made the ASG for the AL as a rookie . His parents had left Cuba only a few weeks
before.
FCR - Warren Kent, Whitehall, Michigan
Incorrect
guesses: Jackie Robinson, Walt Dropo,
Frank Thomas, Pete Alonso
FRIDAY —29-Oct
Q. Who is the only player to hit two grand slams
in one game in his home stadium?
Hint: #1 He is in a “club” whose only other members
are Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski and Wade Boggs.
Hint: #2 He claims that the wrist injury he suffered
was not as a result of the public wrist massaging he gave himself during at-bats.
A. NOMAR GARCIAPARRA [SABR Bio]
- Ans. GS X2 at Fenway on 10-May-1999, 1st & 3rd innings.
- #1 Only
those 4 have won consecutive AL batting titles for BOS.
- #2 While
bending, unbending and re-bending his wrists during at-bats as he tightened and
re-tightened his batting gloves, he left the world to wonder whether is was a
healthy activity. In September 1999, he was
hit by a pitch on his right wrist.
FCR - Madison McEntire, Bryant, Arkansas
Incorrect
guesses: Tony Cloninger, Fernando Tatis,
Joe Pepitone, Jim Gentile, Bill Mueller, Manny Ramirez, Mark Whiten, Fred Lynn,
Mike Greenwell, Von Hayes, Jim Northrup
T.G.I.F.SPECIAL —29-Oct
Q. Who was the first player to win the All-Star
MVP and World Series MVP awards in the same season?
Hint: #1 He led the majors in hits twice—once near
the beginning of his career and once near the end.
Hint: #2 His name translates to one of the things he
is best at.
A. DEREK JETER [SABR Bio]
- Ans. He won the ASG MVP & WS MVP in 2000.
- #1 Jeter
led MLB in H in 1999 w/219 (his 4th full season) and
in 2012 w/216 (the 18th season of his 20-season
career).
- #2 The
verb jeter in French means “to throw”.
FCR - John Null Sugar Land, Texas
Incorrect
guesses: Ichiro Suzuki, Kirby Puckett
SATURDAY —30-Oct
Q. Who played slightly more than 18,500 innings
at catcher in his career in the majors?
Hint: #1 Six more runs batted in would have him on
top of the career RBI list for catchers. (Minimum 85% G @ C.)
Hint: #2 After making the All-Star team nine times,
he was almost traded to the Yankees to be their full-time designated hitter.
A. CARLTON FISK [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Had
18,506 innings at C playing for 2 AL teams.
- #1 W/1,330
career RBI, Fisk lines up very close behind Mike Piazza (1,335) and the other
Pudge (1,332).
- #2 Negotiations
for a trade for Fisk’s services between CHW & NYY, in exchange for former
MVP Don Baylor, ended in a stalemate. Fisk
ended his career 9 years later still with the Pale Hose and still catching.
FCR - Elliott Frankfother, Rock Falls Illinois
Incorrect
guesses: Ivan Rodriguez, Mike Piazza, Joe
Mauer, Ted Simmons, Gary Carter
SATURDAY BONUS —30-Oct
Q. Which All-Star infielder had his AK-47 stolen
from his rented home?
Hint: #1 He played for a college where Latin-X
students comprise more than three fourths of the student population.
Hint: #2 He hit the 300th home run that
Max Scherzer surrendered.
A. EVAN LONGORIA [B-R Bio]
- Ans.
Stolen from his spring training residence in Port Charlotte, Florida in late
March 2011. Longoria called the AK-47,
which he owned legally, “a personal item”.
- #1 Played
at Rio Hondo College in North Whittier, California.
- #2 Longo’s HR provided the only scoring in SFG’s W in G #3 of the 2021 NLDS.
FCR - Mike Sparks, Sarasota
Incorrect
guesses:
WEEKEND BONUS —30-Oct
Q. Who broke Ted Williams’ record as the quickest
to tote up fifty career RBI?
Hint: #1 In his second season in the majors, he
played in only two games.
Hint: #2 He is the first player in his franchise’s
history to homer in his first two games in the majors.
A. YORDAN ALVAREZ [Wiki Bio]
- Ans. Not promoted to the big club until the second
week of June, 2019, Alvarez quickly caught up.
By the time he had played 45 G, he had 51 RBI, beating the previous
record of 47 set by Ted Williams in 1939.
- #1 Álvarez
sat out the beginning of the 2020 season after testing positive for COVID-19. He returned 14-Aug-2020. After
the 2nd G he had arthroscopic surgery on both
knees & didn’t play the rest of the season.
- #2 HR
in 09-Jun-2019 & 11-Jun-2019. He
ended with 28 even though he hadn’t joined the parent club until June.
FCR - David Ramsden, Barcelona, Spain
Incorrect
guesses: Walt Dropo, Andruw Jones, Kyle
Schwarber, Willie Mays
SUNDAY
—31-Oct
Q. Which one-time New York Mets player is the
only major leaguer whose younger brother was voted MVP of an All-Star game?
Hint: #1 A former Padre, he became the first American
League rookie to start the All-Star game at catcher, well before his time with
the Dodgers.
Hint: #2 His daughter sang the national anthem ahead
of the MLB All-Star Futures Game one year.
A. SANDY ALOMAR [SABR Bio]
- Ans. One year after Sandy had the honor in 1997, hermanito Robbie was the ASG MVP in 1998. He
ended his career w/NYM in 2007.
- #1 In
the 1990 ASG at Wrigley Field in Chicago, the starting AL
catcher was Sandy Alomar, Jr. He played 27
G w/LAD in 2006.
- #2 Brianna Alomar had sung the anthem at least once a year since
age 13 for CLE home games. The Future
Games’ honor came in 2019 at Progressive Field in Cleveland.
FCR - Tom Lee, Nashville
Incorrect
guesses: Roberto Alomar
WEEKLY THEME – American
League rookies elected Rookie of the Year unanimously:
Rookie Team Year
Abreu.............. CHW........ 2014
Alvarez............ HOU......... 2019
Alomar............ CLE.......... 1990
Fisk................. BOS......... 1972
Garciaparra...... BOS......... 1997
Jeter................ NYY.......... 1996
Judge.............. NYY.......... 2017
Lewis.............. SEA.......... 2020
Longoria.......... TBR.......... 2008
McGwire......... OAK......... 1987
Salmon............ ANA.......... 1993
Trout............... ANA.......... 2012
First
Correct Respondent identifying theme – David Washburn, Marietta, Georgia (After
Judge)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - Players
with nicknames associated with a place, i.e., Mike "Millville Meteor"
Trout
- Players
with animal names
- Highest
WAR w/no postseason wins
Tuesday - Fish
- Angelfish
- Angel
All-Star outfielders
- Select
players with fishy names
- Players
with fishy names
- Angels
in the outfield
- Players
whose names are types of fishes
- Angel
fish
Wed - Unanimous
rookies of the year
- Rookies
who won all first place votes for ROY
- Rookies
of the year with over 100 strike outs
- Unanimous
Rookies of the year with > 100 strike outs
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