You've likely been following Jim's review of the team's starting pitcher decisions and its depth. If you haven't, go check the posts out! If you have, then you've no doubt been hankering, as I have been, for a review of lots of starting pitchers. For example, oh, just off the top of my head, every single pitcher to start a game for the team going back to 2000. Now, by sheer coincidence, that happens to be the theme of this week's Sporcle!
When you run the numbers, 96 different pitchers have suited up and started a game for the White Sox going back to 2000. You'll, of course, be able to name the stalwarts of current and past rotations, but can you also get the guys who only started a game or two? This is likely to be equal parts maddening and saddening, so if you need to throw a little whiskey in your coffee to get you through, I won't blame you. Good luck!
Quiz Parameters
- I've allotted the full 20 minutes for completion attempts.
- For hints, I've provided the length of tenure and the number of starts for each pitcher. Players are grouped by starts, in descending order.
Useless information to amaze, annoy, confuse, and/or confound your friends and family:
- By decision, pitchers on this list are 30 games below .500, 1269-1299.
- Skewed by some pretty terrible one-off starts, the average triple-slash against of the pitchers on this list: .284/.360/.475.
- Those 96 pitchers have also combined for 34 saves in their career.
All data from baseballreference's stathead.com
