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.
Monday’s Question: In the 1994 strike shortened season Paul O’Neill led the AL in batting with a .359 average while Tony Gwynn paced the NL with a ridiculous .394 average. Who came in 2nd place in each league?
Answer: Albert Belle (.357) and Jeff Bagwell (.368).
Today’s Question: This afternoon, Andrew Brackman made his spring debut for the Yankees. If the 6’ 11” right hander makes an appearance during the regular season, he’ll become the tallest Yankee pitcher in history. Without using a database, can you name the eight pitchers in franchise history who were 6’ 7” or taller and appeared in at least 50 games? (Hint: Only one pitched before 1984).
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15 Responses to TYA Trivia Open Thread for 3-8-11
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Lee Gutterman, Tim Stoddard, and Dennis Rasmussen leap to mind, how’s that?
Randy Johnson is one. For sure.
Gutterman, Stoddard, Rasmussen, Unit and Graeme Lloyd.
I got Lee Guetterman, Jeff Nelson, Graeme Lloyd, Randy Johnson and CC Sabathia. Ban Bud’s right about Stoddard and Rasmussen. Who’s the pre-1984 tall guy?
CC and Jeff Nelson as well. Sadly Jeff Juden doesnt fit the criteria but I remember that crazy dudes short time with the Yankees…
Bobby Munoz just misses the cutoff too..
Same with Mike Witt. Just 25 or so games. Why I remember all these early 90s tall guys I have no idea…
So far so good…that just leaves our friend from way back when. I’ll be impressed if anyone gets it, but you never know. I happened to mention him in a post a few months back, but didn’t realize he was that tall.
before 1984 it was Steve Hamilton and his folley floater…. I’m pretty sure.
Hamilton was “only” 6′ 6″, but did pitch in 311 games for the Yankees.
At this point I am willing to say that if we had to go with the plan Cashman layed out for Montero before the Martin signing (having Montero catc close to 100 games) he could do it. There would be growing pains and he would have a fair share of errors and passed balls I’m sure (he leaves his legs wide blocking balls in the dirt), but if forced into I don’t think he would be so bad it would be too much overcome.
He’s a free swinger but he can handle the ball on all sides of the plate, he might struggle to start the year focusing so much on catching but he will hit and put up numbers that will be acceptable at catcher.
The only question now is if he is better off going to Scranton for a couple of months, or being around Posada, Girardi and Pena all year as backup catcher and DH. I actually think between him and Martin we might make one good catcher for the year with having the two split time, it takes pressure off of Martin’s health issues, it saves Montero pressure of starting and it allows both to get playing time.
I think I got it is it Stefan wever
At one time Wever was the tallest Yankees pitcher at 6′ 8″, but he only pitched in one game (1982).
Well then it’s got to be one of my favorite names a baseball player has had Slim Love
ees offered Aroldis Chapman a deal worth 54 million dollars total, a 23 million more (30.25 M) than he accepted with the Reds. I wonder what would make the kid turn down that kind of offer from a better team for Cinncinati?