Trivia -- Inner circle HOFers who never had a statistically terrible season

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Ichiro probably has the MOST negative WAR seasons on that list.

My thought was that some of the negative WAR will be when some of these guys first came up - like if a guy's first season was 20 at bats and he only got 4 singles, something like that. I figured, Ichiro hit the majors already a consistent performer.

But you might be right, I didn't look.

[bk400]

Originally Posted by Mark17

My thought was that some of the negative WAR will be when some of these guys first came up - like if a guy's first season was 20 at bats and he only got 4 singles, something like that. I figured, Ichiro hit the majors already a consistent performer.

But you might be right, I didn't look.

Ichiro does have the most number of negative WAR seasons (3) -- but he's tied with three other players: Jeter, Ken Griffey Jr., and Nolan Ryan.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by Mark17

My thought was that some of the negative WAR will be when some of these guys first came up - like if a guy's first season was 20 at bats and he only got 4 singles, something like that. I figured, Ichiro hit the majors already a consistent performer.

But you might be right, I didn't look.

Ichiro was pretty awful for his last 8 or 9 years, but he put butts in seats.

[BobbyStrawberry]

I never knew Seaver had that bad year - a 5.50 ERA and 1.62 WHIP in 1982 with Cincinnati!