Hump-Day Trivia:
 

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?

Rose?

Sheffield walked a lot and Bobby Abraeu walked a lot.

Yost was called the Walking Man

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




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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.

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

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%).

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

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


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.

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

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