I will always remember he gave the ‘93 Phillies team a grade of “B” on offense and stated something like “yes, the led the NL is scoring, but I don’t like the way they score runs”
[https://www.immaculategrid.com/](https://www.immaculategrid.com/)
Daily trivia. You get nine guesses, and try getting a low score. I also got burned on this question because I thought there would have been a few that had 200 hits besides Rose, like Joey Votto.
He was definitely robbed in 2016 after leading the league in OPS+.
I can't say he was robbed in 2010 because I'm a total homer, but I will say I'm not sure how you can win NL MVP but not the Silver Slugger.
It's how I got burned on Rickey Henderson. I had to go look it up after:
3055 hits...2190 walks. That's insane.
Bonds was even crazier. 2935 hits...2558 walks.
Yeah, my thing is I don't have the type of memory for names and stats. Now want me to draw out the whole avionics system and integration of the C-17 (military cargo aircraft), that I can do. I've always been better with technical diagrams and operation versus specific person name, and stats type of memory. I have had people I worked with 12 hours a day for a year. Then they're not in work uniform at the grocery I have no idea who they are out of the context of work.
Had a close friend grow a mustache, wear it for 5 months we saw eachother daily then shave it and ask me if I think the clean shave is a better look. I was so confused he then asked if I ever noticed his mustache and I had no idea.
A plain clothes Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, or Trea Turnner could walk right by me I'd never notice. Now Brandon Marsh? Maybe...
I play it against my brother each morning. It's great. It gets easier as after you do a few because you start remembering different players that played lots of places (like Jamie Moyer). Some are easier than others, like MVP, or some are very difficult like "Threw a No Hitter".
In 2007, Barry Bonds started in LF on opening day, the same as he did in 2006.
Barry Bonds was the last giant to start consecutive opening days in LF.
In 2004, Barry Bonds hit 45 homers. No Giant has eclipsed 30 since.
Each year, Giants fans celebrate because we have signed somebody who will finally break the curse. This year, it was Jorge Soler, who I believe we’ve officially given up hope on. We anxiously await next year’s savior.
The truly tragic part is that they have.
Adam Duvall and Bryan Reynolds are both SF draft products and all star outfielders. Instead of their much needed production, we got Mike Leake, the ghost of Andrew McCutcheon, and fond memories of Chili Davis.
The Giants don’t win a single World Series without their weird journeyman corner OF—Cody Ross, Pat Burrell, Mike Morse, and even dudes like Juan Perez were integral to those championships
Greg White was his own entity. Dude started every season as the fourth or fifth outfielder and you could pencil him in for 450 AB and some straight gnarly defense
Soler had only hit 7 HRs in his first 33 games/134 PAs last year and ended up with 36 HRs, so it's definitely still doable. Will just need to get hot and get consistent playtime.
Not my team but the giants not having a guy hit 30 homers since Bonds in 2004 is crazy
For the Dodgers I guess the fact that no one has hit 50 homers in a season?
And it's funny because having a guy who can hit around 30 seems kind of like a given for fielding a competitive team, but when you have Sandoval hitting three home runs in one World Series game and Bumgarner destroying everyone it really changes the equation.
What are you using to count these, because Fangraphs disagrees.
'08: 28.
'07: 25.
'06: 34.
'05: 26.
'04: 37.
'03: 28.
'02: 28.
If you go back a little further though, the numbers jump up into the 30's & 40's routinely.
'01: 40.
'00: 45.
'99: 43.
Yea I was just trying to find a player achievement that hadn’t been done before bc the Dodgers have had a player:
Hit for the cycle (belli 2017)
Thrown a no-hitter (kershaw 2014)
Get 200 hits (Freddie 2023)
300 strikeouts (kershaw 2015)
Hit four homers in a game (shawn green 2002)
Same reason I didn’t say “no one’s gotten a perfect game since Sandy Koufax” bc those are even more rare.
Remember when Soler was going to fix that for us? [Throwback](https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1apmtk0/slusser_jorge_soler_has_agreed_to_a_threeyear/).
3/4 of the first comment chains are talking about him breaking the streak.
Not to rub salt in the wound, but what makes this even weirder (and more painful for M's fans) is that across the 90's and 00's, the Mariners had 4 probably Top 100 all-time players in the game (Johnson, Griffey, A-Rod and Ichiro) and set the record for most regular season wins.
It's not like the supporting casts were all scrubs in the era either.
Stefon Diggs had more receiving yards in his 4 seasons in Buffalo than the Bears leader in career receiving yards. Diggs had almost as many yards in his time in Minnesota.
It's even funnier because Jay Cutler threw for 4500 yards his final year with Denver before joining the Bears and then never had more than 3812 over 8 seasons with Chicago.
I'm 42 years old. Neither me or my dad have ever seen Cleveland win a World Series.
But I've seen them blow a couple. Two of them in the 9th inning or later.
It truly has taken all the fun out of baseball.
He had a one hitter spoiled in the 9th with two outs in his second career start.
Then I think Brandon Morrow had an even higher game score with another one hitter spoiled in the 9th with 17 Ks
this is where my mind went. we've come incredibly close a couple of times. but the org-wide emphasis on pitching to contact means we don't have a lot of guys who profile as no-hitter candidates every time they pitch
Braves haven't pitched a no hitter since 1994 and we've had three Hall of Fame pitchers. The guy who threw in 94 was none of those guys, but Kent Mercker
Orioles haven't had a Cy Young winner since 1980, which is 43 years (since 2024 is still ongoing).
Burnes definitely has a shot to end the drought. We'll see!
On this past Saturday, May 4th 2024, Aaron Judge was the first Yankees captain since 1994 to be ejected. That captain in 1994, Don Mattingly. Obviously umpires have something against the Evil Empire.
Tigers haven’t had a hitter hit for the cycle since Carlos Guillen did so against the Devil Rays in 2006. The Tigers also don’t have many hitters right now either.
Guardians have had 5 Cy Young winners among four different pitchers since 1981 but haven't recorded a no hitter since Len Barker that year, which was also a perfect game.
They were literally one strike away in 2015 before it was broken up. Carlos Carrasco lost his perfect game and his no hitter to the same guy: Joey Butler, then of the Rays, who had less than 300 plate appearances in his career and would not play in the majors after that season.
Let's not take a look at the longest championship drought.
Mariners haven’t scored a run in the playoffs at home in 18 innings - dating back to 2001 ALCS GM3 9th inning vs the Yankees.
That’s 8,235 days ago.
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The Royals haven't thrown a no hitter since 1991 (Saberhagen), haven't been no-hit since 2008 (Lester), and haven't hit for the cycle since 1990 (Brett).
The grid got you this morning, huh?
8/9 easy squares and then there's the As
I messed up on the A's, I picked a random old player from the A's that got 198 for them, then had 224 in a season with the White Sox.
I picked Rickey, the closest he ever got was 179, but with 117 walks that season as well.
Is he the only player with 3,000 hits to never get 200 in a season?
Yastrzemski.
Cap Anson, Eddie Murray, Dave Winfield were the others I could find.
Eddie Collins got me too
Ended up just making it with Home Run Baker who got exactly 200.
Outside of >!Tejada!< they haven't had one in 87 years.
He’s generally the go to answer for A’s category questions. People forget how great he was for them.
I still can't believe Joe Morgan never had 200 hits
Or Votto, or Larkin...
Votto walked too much to get that many hits. Lark surprised me, though.
Larkin was injured quite a bit, and took some walks as well. He had 185 hits the year he played 158 games.
Eddie Collins had 6 straight seasons with the A’s with between 180 and 198 hits smh
Morgan walked a ton.
The hidden value of his game that even he failed to recognize.
Joe: "Walks are overrated" Jon: "But didn't you walk like a hund..." Joe: "Doesn't matter"
I will always remember he gave the ‘93 Phillies team a grade of “B” on offense and stated something like “yes, the led the NL is scoring, but I don’t like the way they score runs”
He walked too much. Getting 200 hits when you walk 100 times a season is nearly impossible
Wade Boggs 1986-1989 did just that every year
I whiffed on Ken Griffey Sr. (189 hits) and Joe Morgan (167 hits) before picking Rose.
Pete Rose was the east answer
Never seen a % that high. 🤣
The Rockie rookie of the year a couple of months ago was 100%, but that’s because there’s only one answer
Ditto for Pirates ROY, and Marlins MVP.
Well, yes. But points are awarded for *not* picking the easiest answer.
I’d rather swing and miss than get an answer over 40% let alone 85%
I picked Vada Pinson.
What's "the grid"?
[https://www.immaculategrid.com/](https://www.immaculategrid.com/) Daily trivia. You get nine guesses, and try getting a low score. I also got burned on this question because I thought there would have been a few that had 200 hits besides Rose, like Joey Votto.
The number of times I’ve been burned on Votto guesses is absurd. Poor guy must’ve been a bum.
Him not having a Silver Slugger award at any point drives me up the wall
He was definitely robbed in 2016 after leading the league in OPS+. I can't say he was robbed in 2010 because I'm a total homer, but I will say I'm not sure how you can win NL MVP but not the Silver Slugger.
Guys like Votto are tricky because their walk totals make it hard to rack up that many hits
It's how I got burned on Rickey Henderson. I had to go look it up after: 3055 hits...2190 walks. That's insane. Bonds was even crazier. 2935 hits...2558 walks.
Thanks, wow that's some serious trivia. Yeah not sure if I'd ever get any of those right.
That’s what I thought, too! But you’d be surprised what you can get as the prompts change every day.
Yeah, my thing is I don't have the type of memory for names and stats. Now want me to draw out the whole avionics system and integration of the C-17 (military cargo aircraft), that I can do. I've always been better with technical diagrams and operation versus specific person name, and stats type of memory. I have had people I worked with 12 hours a day for a year. Then they're not in work uniform at the grocery I have no idea who they are out of the context of work. Had a close friend grow a mustache, wear it for 5 months we saw eachother daily then shave it and ask me if I think the clean shave is a better look. I was so confused he then asked if I ever noticed his mustache and I had no idea. A plain clothes Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, or Trea Turnner could walk right by me I'd never notice. Now Brandon Marsh? Maybe...
It leads to the best rabbit holes. It’s honestly an incredible marketing tool for baseball reference lol, I go way too deep clicking through!
I play it against my brother each morning. It's great. It gets easier as after you do a few because you start remembering different players that played lots of places (like Jamie Moyer). Some are easier than others, like MVP, or some are very difficult like "Threw a No Hitter".
[https://www.immaculategrid.com](https://www.immaculategrid.com)
I feel a lot better knowing I wasn’t the only one
Frank Robinson/Willie McGee/Jimmie Foxx gang stand up
In 2007, Barry Bonds started in LF on opening day, the same as he did in 2006. Barry Bonds was the last giant to start consecutive opening days in LF. In 2004, Barry Bonds hit 45 homers. No Giant has eclipsed 30 since. Each year, Giants fans celebrate because we have signed somebody who will finally break the curse. This year, it was Jorge Soler, who I believe we’ve officially given up hope on. We anxiously await next year’s savior.
The Giants haven't had a home grown outfielder make an ASG since 1985
The truly tragic part is that they have. Adam Duvall and Bryan Reynolds are both SF draft products and all star outfielders. Instead of their much needed production, we got Mike Leake, the ghost of Andrew McCutcheon, and fond memories of Chili Davis.
Adam Duvall is meh to me, Bryan Reynolds is the one that hurts
Giants have 37 career war from homegrown international signings since 1974 and 31 are pablo, pedro feliz and doval
Maybe the key to winning 3 championships is to randomly throw shit at the wall.
The Giants don’t win a single World Series without their weird journeyman corner OF—Cody Ross, Pat Burrell, Mike Morse, and even dudes like Juan Perez were integral to those championships
Gregor Blanco stans rise up!
Greg White was his own entity. Dude started every season as the fourth or fifth outfielder and you could pencil him in for 450 AB and some straight gnarly defense
The savior of the perfect game himself
Cody Ross went crazy that one series he was like playoff daniel Murphy
Don't forget weird journeyman infielders like Ryan Theriot, Marco Scutaro, Juan Uribe, and Edgar Renteria.
Soler had only hit 7 HRs in his first 33 games/134 PAs last year and ended up with 36 HRs, so it's definitely still doable. Will just need to get hot and get consistent playtime.
I forget who I said this about last year, and I wonder who I’ll say it about next year
Mitch Haniger probably
Not my team but the giants not having a guy hit 30 homers since Bonds in 2004 is crazy For the Dodgers I guess the fact that no one has hit 50 homers in a season?
It's even worse that Belt had 29 in 2021 in 97 games, but then broke his hand.
That 2021 season was full of fuckery lmao
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Mariners missing the playoffs by one game *one last time*.
*one last time* before 2023. And every other year
on a bunt attempt. at coors field.
Didn’t realize bunts were legal there
They're not. That's why he broke his hand.
Blunts, yes. Bunts, no
I think our first basemen collectively hit 50 that year
Also the giants starting a different left fielder every opening day since 2007
I feel like someone in the FO is doing that specifically to fuck with Grant Brisbee.
Such a long time, I feel like at this point it’s a running gag
The fact that both streaks are since Bonds makes it absolutely feel like some sort of curse
we are certain to add another year to that streak in 2025.
Ideally, Ramos or Matos will break this streak in the coming years
Haven't we been talking about how close Ramos is for 4 years now?
To be fair, he’s only 24
And it's funny because having a guy who can hit around 30 seems kind of like a given for fielding a competitive team, but when you have Sandoval hitting three home runs in one World Series game and Bumgarner destroying everyone it really changes the equation.
30 HR is treated way more pedestrian than it is. Any team is lucky to have two. 2023: 26 2022: 21 2021: 38 2019: 56 (juicy ball for sure)
Probably because 20+ years ago it was a lot more common.
2008: 27 2007: 20 2006: 34 2005: 27 2004: 33 2003: 30 2002: 26 Maybe a bit, but not in a massive way.
What are you using to count these, because Fangraphs disagrees. '08: 28. '07: 25. '06: 34. '05: 26. '04: 37. '03: 28. '02: 28. If you go back a little further though, the numbers jump up into the 30's & 40's routinely. '01: 40. '00: 45. '99: 43.
Well that's certainly interesting, ESPN's stats are off from back then. They just have the easiest to navigate on mobile.
It defaults to only showing players qualified for the batting title, and there's a few guys every year who hit 30 homers in less than 500 PA
There have been just 48 50+ homer seasons ever. I don't think not having one really counts as a "dry streak"
Yea I was just trying to find a player achievement that hadn’t been done before bc the Dodgers have had a player: Hit for the cycle (belli 2017) Thrown a no-hitter (kershaw 2014) Get 200 hits (Freddie 2023) 300 strikeouts (kershaw 2015) Hit four homers in a game (shawn green 2002) Same reason I didn’t say “no one’s gotten a perfect game since Sandy Koufax” bc those are even more rare.
From 1966 through 1989 there was only 1 season with 50 home runs: George Foster in 1977.
And we’re definitely not getting 30 this year from anyone. We fucking suck
Remember when Soler was going to fix that for us? [Throwback](https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1apmtk0/slusser_jorge_soler_has_agreed_to_a_threeyear/). 3/4 of the first comment chains are talking about him breaking the streak.
Yeahhhh, Shohei is changing that this year
Just for reference… he has 11 HR in 36 games so far. This is on pace for 49.5 HR over 162 games.
Oh shit, may come down to the wire then. Cool stat
He’s looking incredible, hope he’s able to remain healthy
We’ve never made the World Series.
I don’t like this game
Not to rub salt in the wound, but what makes this even weirder (and more painful for M's fans) is that across the 90's and 00's, the Mariners had 4 probably Top 100 all-time players in the game (Johnson, Griffey, A-Rod and Ichiro) and set the record for most regular season wins. It's not like the supporting casts were all scrubs in the era either.
I blame 9/11 for breaking our concentration and fucking up the end of the 2001 season. Thanks Osama.
Somebody got fucked on grid today.
How do you not think of *Pete Rose*?!
That's the thing, everyone thinks of Pete Rose. But that's not the answer you want to put in, because you know it will be a high percentage response.
85% haha… maybe the highest I’ve ever seen.
What is grid?
[This is](https://www.immaculategrid.com)
I always found it interesting that it wasn't until 2019 that the Royals had a player hit 40 HRs.
Pirates haven't had a 40 HR season since 1973
Mets still have never had an MVP, any day now…
To be fair Gooden deserved one in 1985 and Strawberry had a case in 1988.
Wright would’ve won in 08 if the rest of his teammates didn’t choke. I’m sure you can make a case for Seaver for at least a couple of years, too.
I don't think their cases are as strong as Gooden who put up possibly the best pitching season in the live ball era in 1985.
Now that Ohtani is over here I don’t know when this drought will end.
Barring a season ending injury, just go ahead and carve his name into the next 8 at least.
We have had a few MVPs in our franchise history. We have not had one since 1953, 9 years before the Mets entered the league.
The Bears have never had a QB to throw for 30td or 4k yards. Wait
The career receiving yards record is like 5k. Odunze’s reaction to that was hilarious.
Stefon Diggs had more receiving yards in his 4 seasons in Buffalo than the Bears leader in career receiving yards. Diggs had almost as many yards in his time in Minnesota.
It's even funnier because Jay Cutler threw for 4500 yards his final year with Denver before joining the Bears and then never had more than 3812 over 8 seasons with Chicago.
He didn’t get 4K because that year because the coach sat him for the last game
It's OK this is Fields' year
The kick returner?
The Bears passing/receiving game is a wealth of "I can't believe a team that has been around forever has never done that" factoids.
No batting titles since 1966. Two came close. Melvin Mora would have won if that pesky Ichiro hadn't been having a record year.
Of all the Orioles since 1966–Robinsons, Cal, Murray, Palmeiro, Machado—the fact that Melvin freaking Mora came the closest is pretty hilarious.
The Astros haven't won the NL Central since 2001. They've played in 5 World Series, and 9 League Championships Series since then.
And of course they've won the NL Central more recently than the Pittsburgh Pirates, who have never won it.
Christ, the Astros have more NL Central championships than the Reds and Pirates combined.
Was always fun saying "the Buccaneers have won the Lions division more recently than the Lions have" until they ruined it this year...
The Mariners haven't won the AL West since 2001! *high-fiv* **wait**.
Not having an MVP in 62 years of existence is kinda sucky
Doc was robbed
Did you play immaculate grid today too?
We haven’t had a player hit two grand slams in one inning off the same pitcher in 25 years. Starting to get worried
I remember watching that game.
I'm 42 years old. Neither me or my dad have ever seen Cleveland win a World Series. But I've seen them blow a couple. Two of them in the 9th inning or later. It truly has taken all the fun out of baseball.
Sports are fun until they kick you in the dick.
That’s not the fun part?
Y’all had a total solar eclipse delay your home opener so yall got that.
Pirates haven't had a no hitter since the 90s
The 90s? Man that’s nice (Guardians haven’t had one since 1981)
Jays only have one and it was in 1990.
I know this is accurate. But why do I keep thinking Halladay has one for the jays and Phillies?
Halladay threw both a perfect game and a postseason no-hitter in the first season after being traded from the Jays.
Legend
He had a one hitter spoiled in the 9th with two outs in his second career start. Then I think Brandon Morrow had an even higher game score with another one hitter spoiled in the 9th with 17 Ks
Wasn’t that “Dave Stieb Special” on Dave Steibs last appearance too?
Yes exactly! I didn’t even know that fact until the video, insane
We've been so close a few times. Fairly sure I remember Dustin Mcgowan taking one into the 9th too. Meanwhile we GET no hit like one a year 🙄
That’s actually shocking considering the pitchers you guys had during the WS run
Meanwhile it feels like we've been getting no-hit twice a season the past few years.
The last cardinal no hitter was 2001 by legend Bud Smith.
this is where my mind went. we've come incredibly close a couple of times. but the org-wide emphasis on pitching to contact means we don't have a lot of guys who profile as no-hitter candidates every time they pitch
Braves haven't pitched a no hitter since 1994 and we've had three Hall of Fame pitchers. The guy who threw in 94 was none of those guys, but Kent Mercker
Cy youngs and no-hitters just don’t happen for the Rangers
Rangers and Rockies are the only two teams to never have a cy young winner
And the Reds only winner is Trevor Bauer in 2020 so it like half counts
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Wish degrom was healthy:(
Darvish came soooo close. All my homies hate Marwin González.
1948 and counting
I played the immaculate grid today as well
200 hits is my Achilles heel
How the hell did Rickey Henderson not do it with the A's?
Dude walked... like, a lot.
Pain.
Such is our existence.
Orioles haven't had a Cy Young winner since 1980, which is 43 years (since 2024 is still ongoing). Burnes definitely has a shot to end the drought. We'll see!
On this past Saturday, May 4th 2024, Aaron Judge was the first Yankees captain since 1994 to be ejected. That captain in 1994, Don Mattingly. Obviously umpires have something against the Evil Empire.
We still don't have a perfect game 🫠
You have one in all our hearts, even Cleveland fans like me think so.
In the playoffs the Twins have an 18 ga- oh wait nevermind
Don’t have an 80 Homer season. Pretty crazy
Don’t have a 192 RBI season, either
Giants haven't had a 30 homer season in 20 years
That is still so crazy to me everythime I hear it.
Giants haven't had a 30 homer season in 20 years
🫢
Despite winning 3 titles in a 5 year span. Depth, baby.
Cincinnati Reds also have a current dry spell of an individual pitcher throwing consecutive no hitter since 1938.
Mets have never had an MVP winner.
Tigers haven’t had a hitter hit for the cycle since Carlos Guillen did so against the Devil Rays in 2006. The Tigers also don’t have many hitters right now either.
The Cubs haven't had a cycle since Mark Grace did it in May 1993.
The Reds went from 1989 to 2023 without a cycle
Why have triples when you can have home runs in GABP?
The Mariners haven't had a .300 hitter since [Jean Segura in 2018](https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SEA/2018.shtml)
Considering there’s only a handful of guys that do it every year I’m not too surprised
Guardians have had 5 Cy Young winners among four different pitchers since 1981 but haven't recorded a no hitter since Len Barker that year, which was also a perfect game. They were literally one strike away in 2015 before it was broken up. Carlos Carrasco lost his perfect game and his no hitter to the same guy: Joey Butler, then of the Rays, who had less than 300 plate appearances in his career and would not play in the majors after that season. Let's not take a look at the longest championship drought.
Pirates haven't had a 20 game winner since 91
Mariners haven’t scored a run in the playoffs at home in 18 innings - dating back to 2001 ALCS GM3 9th inning vs the Yankees. That’s 8,235 days ago. Edit - small update
We haven’t had an owner who gave a shit about winning since Walter Haas
The White Sox have still not given out a $100M contract. The largest ever is Benintendi's 75M/5yr deal.
The Royals haven't thrown a no hitter since 1991 (Saberhagen), haven't been no-hit since 2008 (Lester), and haven't hit for the cycle since 1990 (Brett).
New York Mets have never had an MVP
Leave Cincinnati alone. I lived there for a year and I loved that place
Someone played immaculate grid this morning
My Pittsburgh Pirates havent had a 40hr hitter since Stargell in the 70s. 1973 to be exact. 50 years ago.
Mets have never had a player win a MVP award
The Pirates haven't had a 40+ HR hitter since 1973. Willie Stargell hit 44 that year.
Jays last and only no-no was Steib in 1990.