General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

[soccer10k]

7 hours ago, cl smooth said:

[cl smooth]

for years, i've been searching for a baseball player who had more walks than strikeouts every year of their career. the closest i could find was ted williams; he had one year where he had the same number of walks as strikeouts.

a few moments ago, i found a player who has done exactly that. and, from what i can tell, he is the only player to accomplish this feat in mlb history.

that player? mr. slumpbuster himself: 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gracema01.shtml

[Rcal10]

15 hours ago, cl smooth said:

for years, i've been searching for a baseball player who had more walks than strikeouts every year of their career. the closest i could find was ted williams; he had one year where he had the same number of walks as strikeouts.

a few moments ago, i found a player who has done exactly that. and, from what i can tell, he is the only player to accomplish this feat in mlb history.

that player? mr. slumpbuster himself: 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gracema01.shtml

I looked up Nellie Fox. He did it every year until his last year where he struck out twice and didn’t take a walk. Just thought of him randomly. Wonder if Grace is actually rhe jbkh one. I imagine yiu have to put some sort of length of time in baseball into the equation. I mean there may have been a guy who had one year in baseball where he had 5 PA and walked once and didn’t strike out. Can anyone confirm Grace is the only player who did this in mlb history? 

Edited February 23 by Rcal10

[We Got The Whole 9]

Wow, thought for sure Boggs did it, but he fell off the streak in his 2nd to last year lol

 

He damn near had a 2.0 BBK for his career 

[cl smooth]

6 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

I looked up Nellie Fox. He did it every year until his last year where he struck out twice and didn’t take a walk. Just thought of him randomly. Wonder if Grace is actually rhe jbkh one. I imagine yiu have to put some sort of length of time in baseball into the equation. I mean there may have been a guy who had one year in baseball where he had 5 PA and walked once and didn’t strike out. Can anyone confirm Grave is the only player who did this in mlb history? 

i originally thought it was going to be someone like tony gwynn or wade boggs like we got the whole 9 mentioned. in my mind, it's someone who had a lengthy mlb career (10+ years). 

i found the info here and it's from 2024 so i don't think anyone who has retired in the past three seasons would have joined him. page 12 is where grace is mentioned about being the only player in history to do this: 
https://sundaybaseballtidbits.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Baseball-tidbits-1.28.2024.pdf

 

[cl smooth]

7 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

Wow, thought for sure Boggs did it, but he fell off the streak in his 2nd to last year lol

 

He damn near had a 2.0 BBK for his career 

nellie fox had a 3.33:1 BB/K ratio. borderline video game numbers right there!

[Bertz]

I'm not sure if I'm more surprised Grace did it or more surprised none of the superstars from the golden era Yankees did it.  Looks like Berra came really close.  And Gehrig/Dimaggio did it every year after their rookie year.

[We Got The Whole 9]

1 hour ago, Bertz said:

I'm not sure if I'm more surprised Grace did it or more surprised none of the superstars from the golden era Yankees did it.  Looks like Berra came really close.  And Gehrig/Dimaggio did it every year after their rookie year.

Yeah the rookie year is the bugaboo. I was shocked to see Boggs outlier season. He must have been hurt or trying sobriety or something. 

[WrigleyField 22]

2 hours ago, cl smooth said:

for years, i've been searching for a baseball player who had more walks than strikeouts every year of their career. the closest i could find was ted williams; he had one year where he had the same number of walks as strikeouts.

a few moments ago, i found a player who has done exactly that. and, from what i can tell, he is the only player to accomplish this feat in mlb history.

that player? mr. slumpbuster himself: 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gracema01.shtml

Ted Williams missing out on a year with 2:2 on a year with 12 PA is rough, lol

 

Ozzie Smith is another who misses only on a tie 37:37 on 649 PA in 1979

 

Searching for other possibilities.... 

[WrigleyField 22]

Sorry Gracey

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/randowi01.shtml?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hargrmi01.shtml?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gilliji01.shtml?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/ashburi01.shtml?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/ashburi01.shtml?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/galanau01.shtml?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/vaughar01.shtml?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool

If 0:0 tie on 26 PA counts 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/applilu01.shtml?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool

Honorable mention to Mr I Hate Walks Even Though I Walked A Lot (on two very low PA seasons) 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/morgajo02.shtml?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool

 

The end or the career misses might be more prevalent than the rookie ones... Damn. A very modest PA minimum would turn up at least another dozen. 

 

Source list I used to find possible candidates (didn't search all 200, focused on biggest differentials, so may be more) 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/tools/share.fcgi?id=Egf3A

[cl smooth]

26 minutes ago, WrigleyField 22 said:

Sorry Gracey

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/randowi01.shtml?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hargrmi01.shtml?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gilliji01.shtml?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/ashburi01.shtml?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/ashburi01.shtml?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/galanau01.shtml?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/vaughar01.shtml?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool

If 0:0 tie on 26 PA counts 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/applilu01.shtml?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool

Honorable mention to Mr I Hate Walks Even Though I Walked A Lot (on two very low PA seasons) 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/morgajo02.shtml?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool

 

The end or the career misses might be more prevalent than the rookie ones... Damn. A very modest PA minimum would turn up at least another dozen. 

 

Source list I used to find possible candidates (didn't search all 200, focused on biggest differentials, so may be more) 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/tools/share.fcgi?id=Egf3A

this is great, thank you!

[We Got The Whole 9]

Augie Galan was an absolute monster in old Baseball Mogul

 

Arky Vaughn with a hair under a 6 BBK in one season. Thats crazy.

Edited February 23 by We Got The Whole 9

[WrigleyField 22]

7 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

Augie Galan was an absolute monster in old Baseball Mogul

 

Arky Vaughn with a hair under a 6 BBK in one season. Thats crazy.

He might be the funnest in terms of edging out his place on the list. While many fail on like 1:3 rookie cup of tea he maneges to sneak by with multiple low PA seasons of 

16:15

5:3

9:2 (on 36 PA!) 

 

Even his partial season with the 1941 Dodgers makes the list at 3:1 at 31 PA. So two teams in one season. 

[JHBulls]

On 2/18/2026 at 10:43 AM, cl smooth said:

Eh, Ryan Giggs was horsefeathers his sister in law for 8 years. 

[WrigleyField 22]

Texted this as a challenge to the biggest baseball nerd I know and he came back pretty quick with this one to the list (he's a Cleveland fan, so makes sense).  These are sick strikeout numbers

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/seweljo01.shtml

Edited February 23 by WrigleyField 22

[We Got The Whole 9]

If only Nico would cut his chase rate by a third or so

[Sammy Sofa]

 

 

[JHBulls]

School kids trying it at home

[CubinNY]

On 2/24/2026 at 10:30 AM, Sammy Sofa said:

 

 

Yes, that is the occipital lobe back there. He could get vision problems for life if he got hit. But I'm kind of thinking this is some AI creation. 

[Sammy Sofa]

18 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

But I'm kind of thinking this is some AI creation. 

One the one hand: more than likely.

One the other hand: Brewers

[sweetpeteman]

Or it's just old school video editing...

[We Got The Whole 9]

It is some damn good editing. Pretty clever. Got a lot of buzz. 

[We Got The Whole 9]

So im still doing a little Uber on the weekends until commissions start popping off at my new job.

 

I pull up and my passenger comes to the window and says he's just waiting for a couple of his friends to come out of the bar. Im like no worries. I recognized dude's face immediately and his name was Jeff. Him and his friends pile in and they start talking baseball. So i waited for a pause in the conversation and I said, hey you're this guy, aren't you. He confirmed and we had a cool chat. I told him my Ernie Clement story. Then I said hey would you do something really cool?

 

Unfortunately he didn't want to blow up his spot by shouting me out on a tweet/blue sky. But Mr Passan has my number now lol

 

[Bertz]

Just brutal spring training for the Braves good lord

 

[JHBulls]

4 hours ago, Bertz said:

Just brutal spring training for the Braves good lord

 

Jurickson Profar took PED’s?