Surprising baseball facts

[packs]

Long thread and this might have been posted, but in 1987 Don Mattingly set the record for most grand slams in a single season with six. He never hit another grand slam in any other season and those are the only grand slams of his career.

[Tabe]

Originally Posted by packs

Long thread and this might have been posted, but in 1987 Don Mattingly set the record for most grand slams in a single season with six. He never hit another grand slam in any other season and those are the only grand slams of his career.

He also tied Dale Long's record with a homer in 8 straight games that year.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Related to my Chris Sale post, Johnny Cueto who hasn't done shit in 9 years, and who many may not know is still pitching, has more wins than Sale.

[Tabe]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Related to my Chris Sale post, Johnny Cueto who hasn't done shit in 9 years, and who many may not know is still pitching, has more wins than Sale.

I looked it up, saw the stats, still think this is made up. He's gotta be 47 years old.

[BobbyStrawberry]

Not that surprising to me. Cueto was on all those winning Giants teams. Sale has been on not great teams for most of his career

Edit, looked it up: only a couple of playoff years with the Giants, actually. Some of his Reds teams were good though, too.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by BobbyStrawberry

Not that surprising to me. Cueto was on all those winning Giants teams. Sale has been on not great teams for most of his career

Edit, looked it up: only a couple of playoff years with the Giants, actually. Some of his Reds teams were good though, too.

He had an 18 win season when he first pitched for them, but then only won 21 the next five years.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Of pitchers 30 and younger, the leader is Max Fried with .. wait for it ... 73. Once the old guard as it were of Verlander, Kerhshaw, and Scherzer get in, and Cole and Sale either do or don't, there is going to be a radical shift in what it means to be a HOF pitcher.