Hump-Day Trivia:

[clydepepper]

Twelve batters have amassed 1,600 Bases-on-Balls in their careers.

Nine are in the Hall-of-Fame and Three are not.

besides bonds, who are the other two non-HOF players


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[cgjackson222]

Originally Posted by clydepepper

Twelve batters have amassed 1,600 Bases-on-Balls in their careers.

Nine are in the Hall-of-Fame and Three are not.

besides bonds, who are the other two non-HOF players


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Interesting question. I'm just trying to think of guys of borderline HOFers that walked a lot...Dwight Evans or Eddie Yoost?

[Belfast1933]

Rose?

[D. Bergin]

Sheffield walked a lot and Bobby Abraeu walked a lot.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by cgjackson222

Interesting question. I'm just trying to think of guys of borderline HOFers that walked a lot...Dwight Evans or Eddie Yoost?

Yost was called the Walking Man

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by cgjackson222

Interesting question. I'm just trying to think of guys of borderline HOFers that walked a lot...Dwight Evans or Eddie Yoost?

You were mostly correct...missed one by a few letters.




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[cgjackson222]

Originally Posted by clydepepper

You were mostly correct...missed one by a few letters..

Oh wow, didn't realize Darrell Evans actually walked more than Dwight Evans over his career.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by cgjackson222

Oh wow, didn't realize Darrell Evans actually walked more than Dwight Evans over his career.

Yeah, I had to look that one up myself. Would never have guessed it in a million years.

Led the league in Walks twice earlier in his career, but nothing spectacular after that. Just consistently in the top 10 most other years.

Not a superstar by any means, but just had a remarkably long, durable, and consistent career. He also walked more than he struck out in his career...which always impresses me with a power hitter.

Looks like he flashed a pretty good glove to.

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Yeah, I had to look that one up myself. Would never have guessed it in a million years.

Led the league in Walks twice earlier in his career, but nothing spectacular after that. Just consistently in the top 10 most other years.

Not a superstar by any means, but just had a remarkably long, durable, and consistent career. He also walked more than he struck out in his career...which always impresses me with a power hitter.

Looks like he flashed a pretty good glove to.

and he was a very smart baserunner...extremely underrated.

[cgjackson222]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Yost was called the Walking Man

Yost's walk rate was crazy high at 17.6% per Played Appearance, considering he was not a power threat at all. He had over 1,600 walks but just 139 HRs.

His walk rate is higher than every member of the 500 home run club except Ted Williams (20.6%), Bonds (20.3%) and Ruth (19.4%) and is just above Mantle (17.5%).

[Beercan collector]

Off-topic - while researching this I see Ricky Henderson is fourth all time-times on base , behind two guys that had 4000 hits and Barry Bonds ,
I was kind of expecting Hank Aaron Stan Musial Yastrzemski People like that above him

[D. Bergin]

I thought this was super interesting when perusing Darrell Evans page on Baseball Reference:

June 8, 1965: Drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 13th round of the 1965 amateur draft, but did not sign.

January 29, 1966: Drafted by the New York Yankees in the 2nd round of the 1966 amateur draft (January Secondary), but did not sign.

June 7, 1966: Drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 5th round of the 1966 amateur draft (June Secondary), but did not sign.

January 28, 1967: Drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 3rd round of the 1967 amateur draft (January Secondary), but did not sign.

June 6, 1967: Drafted by the Kansas City Athletics in the 7th round of the 1967 amateur draft (June Secondary).

December 2, 1968: Drafted by the Atlanta Braves from the Oakland Athletics in the 1968 rule 5 draft.

He was drafted by 5 different teams before he eventually signed with one. Likely waiting for an eventual West Coast team to take him (A's were on their way to Oakland), since he was from Pasadena (guessing of course).


Then, before he got very far in the A's organization, he was snatched up by the Braves in the Rule 5 draft (who probably saw him playing minor league ball with A's affiliates in the Southeast), and sent back towards an East Coast major league destination anyways.

I know there's lot's of draft picks that forego their draft placement to go to college or wait for better placement in the future. I wonder if anybody's been picked by as many teams as Darrell Evans...before playing a game of minor league ball.

[judsonhamlin]

And interesting that he wound up playing for three of the six organizations that drafted him

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Yost was called the Walking Man

He is now commonly referred to as a "Dead Man Walking".