To distract us from the recent unhappy trend in the Red Sox record, I came up with a teeny little quiz, inspired by the question Jayson Stark asked today on "Mike and Mike" (which was "name the 3 active players who had 4 consecutive seasons of 40 HRs." I only named 2 of them correctly -- the answers to Jayson's question can be found at the end of this post.)
The three Red Sox players with the largest number of career home runs are Ted Williams, David Ortiz, and Carl Yastrzemski. Of course, some of Ortiz' home runs came when he played for the Twins, but I'll ignore that distinction, and just ask about any home runs these players hit.
Your job is to look at the graph below, which shows the annual total of HRs for each player during his active years in the majors, and identify which player is represented by "A", which "B", and which "C".
Think you know the answer? Good. If not, perhaps this next graph will provide extra clues. In the following graph, I show the same data -- HRs hit per year -- but this time, sorted by the number of HRs.
Okay, got it?
The answers are:
And the answers to Jayson Stark's question are
The three Red Sox players with the largest number of career home runs are Ted Williams, David Ortiz, and Carl Yastrzemski. Of course, some of Ortiz' home runs came when he played for the Twins, but I'll ignore that distinction, and just ask about any home runs these players hit.
Your job is to look at the graph below, which shows the annual total of HRs for each player during his active years in the majors, and identify which player is represented by "A", which "B", and which "C".
Think you know the answer? Good. If not, perhaps this next graph will provide extra clues. In the following graph, I show the same data -- HRs hit per year -- but this time, sorted by the number of HRs.
Okay, got it?
The answers are:
A = Ortiz, B = Yaz, C = Williams
And the answers to Jayson Stark's question are
ARod, Pujols, Ryan Howard