Entering Friday night’s game against the Tigers, Jose Abreu is tied for the MLB lead in RBI at 119. A hot week could give him an outside shot at the franchise’s first 130 RBI season since 2002. 119 is also the most a Sox player has knocked in since that same 2002 season.
Today, we’re celebrating Abreu’s achievement by examining the other 100+ RBI seasons in franchise history. In all, there have been 64 player seasons: how many can you name? Good luck!
Quiz Parameters
- I’ve allotted 10 minutes for completion attempts.
- For hints, I’ve provided the number of RBI and the year.
Useless information to amaze, annoy, confuse, and/or confound your friends and family:
- The average triple-slash of the players on this list: .306/.385/.526
- The youngest player on this list was 23 (3 players), while the oldest was 37 (1 player).
- Just 5 players on this list also recorded 200+ hits.
All data from baseballreference.com
52/64. Gave up when I was left with only old guys. I probably could have guessed a few more if I stuck with it.
58/64. Very sorry to have missed 1956.
That was the one I missed, too.
A couple of them I got because of I’d thought of guys with the same last name. I knew 1962 because it came up in a Twitter conversation about great low-homer/high-RBI seasons, and that unlocked a couple more.
That’s the trickiest one, just for remembering what he did in a Sox uniform.
64/64, with an accidental hit on
53/64, and I did the same thing with that name. I also have zero recollection of the guy with 101 RBIs in 1996 ever playing for the White Sox since the post-strike years I stopped watching baseball for a while, though I do remember him being a stalwart for the Royals.
I got 60/64. Missed the usual suspects
Boomer got 59. Chalk another one up for the bad guy.
63/64. Missed the leader from 1930.
I’m ashamed that I could not recall the great summer of 2008’s leader.