I have lived in or near Denver during their entire existence, and I struggle with them, too. Part of the problem is I have watched Extra Innings only for many years, and always been blacked out from watching the Rockies. Other part of the problem is they're so boring and generally cycle forgettable players on and off their roster.
Detroit, too. I’m not sure I can name 5 current Tigers and I watched a three game series of theirs within the month.
I feel fortunate that i even got 2 former Rockies today, atlhough pretty well known former players. And props to whoever got Octavio Dotel today for the Col-Det spot, while Sean Manea could've gone in 2 squares today (Oak-SD and SF-SD) and wish i had put him in SF-SD so that i could've gone Ricky Henderson for Oak-SD (SF-SD took me a little while and eventually gave up on Det-Col) Spoiler: hello EDIT: Damnit, can't believe i forgot about my college classmate Matt Anderson for Det-Col ;)
Same, I’m decent at the baseball history stuff, but haven’t been enough of a fan recently to track or remember who switched teams.
Neifi Perez, Mike Hampton, Todd Helton and Larry walker are the only Rockies players I can name off the top of my head. Such a boring franchise
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Today tougher than yesterday with my east coast bias. Spoiler Idk why but I thought Rich Hill pitched for the A's at some point in his long ass career. On the flip side, I got kind of lucky with Finley - I wasn't too confident that he played for the Rockies. Can't remember the other incorrect guesses I made.
love this game so much. I was obsessed with baseball starting in the late 80s through late 90s, then tailed off really hard and pretty much stopped paying attention all together around 2002-2003. So when filling out these grids I'm thinking about all the baseball cards from back in the day. I'm really enjoying the NFL version of this too.
I actually struggled a lot with the Jays HOFer. Turns out they had a few guys who you wouldn’t think at the end of their career but I was just happy to get the obvious one.
Guessed wrong on ATL-PIT but was super excited to get to use Pokey Reese, one of my all time favorite players. Had been waiting for a Reds-Pirates square for that.
When you think of famous Jays you immediately go Joe Carter but I was pretty sure he didn’t get there.
My first thought was Joe Carter, but I wasn’t sure. Went Fred McGriff, but doubted it for a second because he hasn’t officially been inducted.
going fast this morning and my dumb ass typed in Barry Bonds for Pirates HOFer, because I was just trying to think of the best player to be a Pirate.
Joe Carter has 19 career wins above replacement (average HOFer is 71) and a career OPS+ of 105 while playing corner outfield and 1B. Joe Carter was not very good at baseball.
Former Astros great Billy Hatcher FTW :) And can't believe there were 276 and 262 possible answers for Pit-Atl and Pit-Cincy, respectively Spoiler: hello
Do those guys not work? Did the rules change when they joined baseball reference? Or has it always been that way? Edit: I’m an idiot and forgot about the stupid baseball writers. So dumb.
Went back to see if Greg Maddux would work in the bottom right square since he hit .333 in 20 ABs his first season. Didn't work. I guess a certain number of ABs is required or something.
They updated some rules since baseball reference joined. It is now a requirement that they qualify for the leaderboards for rate stats. For example, Jeff Francouer also doesn’t work because the only time he hit .300 was his rookie year where he played 70some games. Here are the full updated rules: Select a player for each cell that matches the criteria for that cell's row and column. You have nine guesses to fill out the grid. Each guess, whether correct or incorrect, counts as a guess. There is a new grid every day. A player cannot be used twice. Players may be active or inactive. Previous names of franchises will qualify. For example, Expos players will match for the Nationals and Browns players will match for the Orioles. For player and team cell: player must have played at least one major league game for that team. For team and award cell: The player must have won the award in a season he appeared for that team. The exception is All-Star selections, which are only associated with a single team. For example, Joey Gallo was an All-Star in 2021 and split the season between Texas and New York. He represented the Rangers in the All-Star game, so he would match for Rangers All-Stars but not Yankees All-Stars. However, other award winners that played for multiple teams can match any team they played for. In 2019, Zack Greinke won the Gold Glove and Silver Slugger while playing for both Houston and Arizona. He would qualify for those awards for either team. Hall of Famers can be inducted from any category (player, team, umpire, executive/pioneer) but must have played a major league game. World Series winners must have appeared in a postseason game (or on the postseason roster) that season for the team to qualify. For team and season stat: The player must have recorded the stat while on that team. For players who played on multiple teams in a season, the stat must have been recorded with that team. For example, in 2017 J.D. Martinez hit 45 home runs in a season split between Detroit and Arizona. He would not match for 40 HR for either team because he hit 16 with Detroit and 29 for Arizona. For team and career stat: The player who reached the career stat simply had to play for the team at any point. For example, Randy Johnson would match for 3,000 strikeouts even though he had 2,162 for Seattle and 2,077 for Arizona. New 7/11/2023: If one of the stats is a rate stat (BA, ERA, etc.), the player must have qualified for the season’s rate stat leaderboards. For two stat/awards cells: The player did not necessarily need to accomplish the stats/awards in the same season. For example, Willie McCovey would qualify for 40+ HR and Rookie of the Year.
Feller easily would be on the list if not for WWII. He lost 3 1/2 seasons in his prime. He led the AL in wins the three seasons before he left and his his two seasons back. 24 in 1939 27 in 1940 25 in 1941 26 in 1946 20 in 1947