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MLB 2022: Playing Ball, But Is Anyone Still Watching?

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SonofSouthie said:
Quiz Time(hats off if anybody knows one): Name three Cy Young Award winners who hit 20 or more career home runs.
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Ruth, Glavine, Ohtani


Edit. Sh*t, Cy Young award started in the '50s.

Scratch Ruth. Replace with Sandy Koufax.
 
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If you only count the homeruns hit while pitching*, Ruth may not have 20 homeruns. Since Ohtani does not bat when he pitches AFAIK, he neither.

* I've always thought those records should be the ones that are relevant.
 
SonofSouthie said:
Quiz Time(hats off if anybody knows one): Name three Cy Young Award winners who hit 20 or more career home runs.
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That's a good question. For some reason I seem to recall that Bob Gibson hit a bunch of home runs, but I don't know if he hit 20. Madison Bumgarner has hit a bunch of home runs, too. If I had to bet a modern guy, I'd bet on him. My guess is that it's a bunch of guys from the 50's to the 70's when pitchers from both leagues were hitting.
 
SonofSouthie said:
Warren Spahn (35), Don Drysdale (29), and Bob Gibson (24).
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I mean, I get it, it's all NL pitchers and all in the golden era of Baseball. But still... none since?
 
Kepler said:
If you only count the homeruns hit while pitching*, Ruth may not have 20 homeruns. Since Ohtani does not bat when he pitches AFAIK, he neither.

* I've always thought those records should be the ones that are relevant.
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Ohtani hits when he pitches. They re-did the DH rule for him to allow him to stay in games as a DH after he leaves the mound.

I'm surprised by the number of people who might think Koufax, because as good has he was over the latter half of his career as a pitcher, he was just that bad as a hitter (hit below .100 for his career). In fact he may be the worst hitter among all the Cy Young winners (at least those who took a regular turn at the plate).
 
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Assuming Koufax, to me, because I don't know a lot of the historical details of players and assumed "known name pitcher + national league + dominant team for era."
 
aparch said:
Assuming Koufax, to me, because I don't know a lot of the historical details of players and assumed "known name pitcher + national league + dominant team for era."
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Don Newcombe was probably the best hitter among those pre-DH Cy Young winners. Not the home run power of some, but he finished his major league career as a .268 hitter, and slugged .361. Drysdale was the better hitter among those dominant Dodger teams of the 1960s, but outside of that occasional pop and 1965 when he was a .300 hitter in 138 plate appearances, he was just a career .186 hitter in almost 1200 at-bats.
 
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