Players who fell off a cliff

[Donscards]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Has anyone had a worse dropoff than Norm Cash from .361 in 1961 to .243 the following year?

Norm Cash used a corked bat for the whole year, guess in 1962, the cork came out

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Donscards

Norm Cash used a corked bat for the whole year, guess in 1962, the cork came out

Better that than the table leg he took to the plate as the final out in a Nolan Ryan no-hitter, saying it would be as good as anything else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEboSkPUgUo

[scooter729]

Nick Esasky had 30 HR (5th in AL) and 108 RBI (3rd in AL) in 1989 with Boston. Ended up getting struck with vertigo, played in 9 games in 1990 and his career was over.

[packs]

Grady Sizemore was a 30-30 player at age 25. Couldn't stay on the field after.

[lumberjack]

Well, Roy Campanella never dropped off of a cliff, but the last six or so years of his career were more like a rollercoaster with 100 point jumps/dips in batting averages. Mickey Vernon...the guy would hit .260, win a batting title, then hit .260 again. And these were people who could really play.

Chuck Klein, like Campy a HOFer, went from being this astounding hitter for six years to being a, what?... nice hitter (this isn't a complement) with no power after he left the Phillies. Of course, leaving Baker Bowl didn't help much.

Norm Cash? He put up those good numbers the first year of expansion in the AL. Tiger Stadium was built for left-handed power hitters (jeez, Lou Whitaker could hit homers in Detroit). I always figured the ball club wanted Cash to sacrifice average for power.

lumberjack

[Cliff Bowman]

Steve Blass Disease