Good morning!
A few weeks ago Chris Kamka tweeted out this factoid about Jose Abreu:
I missed that tweet, but Sporcle stalwart KenWo4LiFe did not, and requested that I put together a Sporcle with those 61 names. It's a terrific idea, and makes for a great offseason quiz. So thanks to Ken for the idea! If you have any ideas you'd like see come to fruition feel free to let me know in the comments section. I'll try to make them happen.
As posited in the tweet above, what might have been, had Pito come to MLB earlier in his career? It's a great question and the likely answer is that he might be well on the way to the Hall of Fame, as suggested by Kevin Goldstein over at FanGraphs.
At any rate, today's Sporcle will test you on those 61 names across Major League baseball who have logged five or more seasons of 30+ home runs and 100+ RBI. The list spans from 1914 to present: how many can you fill in? Good luck!
Quiz Parameters
- I've allotted the full 20 minutes for completion attempts.
- For hints, I've provided the number of seasons a player accomplished this feat, the full length of their career, and the team(s) for which they played. One important caveat regarding teams: if a player left a team, then returned to them later in their career, that is not denoted because it made that hint column too wide. Even so, you may consider playing this one on the website rather than the embedded quiz below.
Useless information to amaze, annoy, confuse, and/or confound your friends and family:
- Thirteen players on this list donned a White Sox uniform at some point over the course of their careers.
- There is one father-son duo on this list.
- In total 361 major leaguers have had at least one 30 HR/100 RBI season in their careers.
All data from stathead.com
