On every weeknight throughout the year, one of the TYA writers will post a trivia question as the nightly open thread. The blog administrators will keep track of the winners, and the commenter with the most correct answers will win a prize that has yet to be decided upon. The answers will be posted in the following evening’s open thread.
Yesterday’s Question: WITHOUT CHEATING, name the 25 men on the World Series roster for the 1996 Yankees.
Answer: Tino Martinez, Mariano Duncan, Derek Jeter, Wade Boggs, Darryl Strawberry, Bernie Williams, Paul O’Neil, Joe Girardi, Jimmy Key, Cecil Fielder, Tim Raines, Jim Leyritz, Andy Fox, Luis Sojo, Charlie Hays, Mariano Rivera, John Wetteland, Graeme Lloyd, Jeff Nelson, David Weathers, Brian Boehringer, Andy Pettitte, David Cone, Kenny Rogers, Mike Aldrete
Today’s Question: Babe Ruth holds the Yankee record for most Home Runs hit by a left hander (659). Without cheating, name the four lefty-Yankee sluggers that round out the Top 5 behind him.
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10 Responses to TYA Trivia Open Thread For 3-4-11
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Lou Gehrig’s got to be second. Yogi’s on the list, too, I’ll bet. Mattingly’s probably up there as well. I wonder if Mantle rounds out the list. Does it include home runs hit lefthanded, or just home runs by lefties?
Good call, I didn’t even think about Yogi
Just home runs by lefties.
I thought Banuelos looked great against the Red Sox, every time I see this kid pitch his mechanics always stic out as being so silky smooth. The impressive thing though is his ability to throw and execute 2-0 curveballs for strikes and 1-0 changeups for strikes, he just has such an awesome feel for pitching so young it’s kind of scary.
His changeup was the most impressive pitch he threw all night and time and time again guys were swinging and missing on what they clearly thought was a fastball, while saying that though he maintained good control with the fastball and showed the ability to locate down and in to righties and up and out of the zone for the K pitch like Pettitte did so well, he was able to hit 96 on the last pitch of his 2 inning outing and his velocity looks like it comes out of his playing catch, looks like any time he wants he can reach back for a little more.
Not looking at other comments, my guess is:
Gehrig, Maris, Mattingly, Tino Martinez
Gehrig, Maris, Giambi and…..Mattingly?
I can imagine the Yanks bringing Banuelos up for the last part of the season and the post-season and using him as a LH relief pitcher. I think he might be a better pitcher than the lefties now in the relief corps. And, using Banuelos in relief would help him stay within his innings limits.
I doubt it, his inning limit should be around 140 so I imagine he will pitch most of that in double A and get 40 or so in triple A before being shutdown.
He’d have to be up and make a pretty big difference to get on the major league roster, at only 19 (20 in March) he’ll probably tire toward the end of the year anyway and not be as strong as a guy who has pitched deeper into a season and who’s ligaments are more mature.
Also playoff innings are highly stressful and I really don’t want a 20 year old kid, with a month or less of major league time, pressing against an innings limit pitching high stress, highly important innings for the playoffs.
Besides all that the last thing I want is for Banuelos to skip a bunch of triple A experience to come up and be a LOOGY when we already have 2 of those and one on the DL to boot, let’s leave Banuelos alone and allow him to develop, it’s a huge mistake in my opinion to even have him factor into playoff decisions.
i’ll go with
ruth
gehrig
berra
dickey
jackson
Ruth
Gehrig
Berra
Nettles
O’Neil
Best guess.