tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post2398515338466108572..comments2024-03-28T19:45:50.194-07:00Comments on the joy of sox: Given 600 Plate Appearances In An MLB Season, Could You Get 1 Hit?allanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-79677142238991790302017-09-04T13:13:32.172-07:002017-09-04T13:13:32.172-07:00The comments are almost as entertaining as the art...The comments are almost as entertaining as the article:<br /><br />sadtrombone<br />As a kid I did (once) make contact with major-league level velocity (if not the required movement or control) and fouled it off. I was so shaken I didn't lift the bat off my shoulder the rest of the game. ... What I want to know is how the absolute worst minor league hitter ever (over any sample size and including pitchers) would do in the major leagues. That person is still probably a better hitter than me, but that at least establishes my ceiling.<br /><br />Doug Lampert<br />I would be very very unlikely to get a hit, because I would never swing. IIRC the conclusion of a previous article of this sort is that even a batter who the pitcher absolutely positively knows will not swing will get a walk about 10% of the time (throwing a strike is hard). See Jeff Sullivan's <a href="https://www.sbnation.com/2011/8/15/2364354/santiago-casilla-batting-video-jose-ceda-giants-marlins" rel="nofollow">article</a>.<br /><br />WalterBishop<br />I was a high level high school player over 20 years ago when I got to face Mark Mulder in a summer league game. It was like swinging at a Bugs Bunny curveball.<br /><br />Barney Coolio<br />I more frequently mull over my chances of getting a stolen base. If I were somehow on an MLB roster and was a pinch runner every single game and was ordered to attempt a steal every single time, how often would I be successful? ... Stealing a base seems more attainable and a simpler thing to do. Even if I am slow and dumb, eventually a catcher will just make a bad throw and I would luck into an SB.<br /><br />jimbo22s<br />The [White Sox] set up a stolen base challenge with one of their beat writers and AJP [old "friend" Pierzynski] in ST a few years ago when the beat writer was on AJP for not throwing runners out. The writer was probably about 40 yo and well under 200 lbs so he was in some semblance of shape and yet he could only make it about 1/2 way to second before AJP got the ball down there. ... It might be on YT. [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1QpAv1N2_4" rel="nofollow">It is!</a>]<br /><br />TKDC<br />Could you get a strike on a major league hitter? Maybe. A strike that is not a foul ball? Probably not.<br /><br />Brandon Warne<br />In the summer of 2008, I played in an alumni game at my high school. I was coming off the only year of D3 ball I played — was on the roster, didn't play much ... but I had played amateur ball all summer and had my swing in good working order. A former big leaguer from my school was there. His name is Kerry Taylor, and he hadn't pitched anywhere in 10 years. He still absolutely blew me away on three straight pitches. Not even a prayer. I say no, Chris Hayes would not get a hit in 600 PA.<br /><br />***<br /><br /><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tayloke01.shtml" rel="nofollow">Kerry Taylor</a> pitched in 36 games for the 1993 Padres (and made one start in 1994). His career ERA was 6.56 and his WHIP was 1.803. After that, he spent five seasons in the minors, mostly AAA.allanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.com