What would you have thought if it had to be the same season? I kind of wanted to be like this ideally, meaning the player would've had to have had a 10+ K start and a home run that same year, rather than wide-spacing career margins. I fathom the concern was that this might be genuinely too hard. All about balance and ensuring the lack of barriers to entry and play.
All I could come up with is A,B,C for the former and I've no idea about the latter.
Just needs to have done both at least once, although same game would be fun for an added challenge, but by no means required.
I think the same season probably would be a little too difficult or random since it's not really a feat anyone would take notice of. I'm not opposed to an easy category – I enjoy recalling a number of nondescript players and going with the one I feel is least memorable – but I think in this case it was two categories that were at least borderline too easy in the same grid. I don't know how much control you have over such things or if the categories are all just entered ahead of time and then randomly generated. Probably my fix would be to change the "pitcher 1+ home run" category because even terrible hitting pitchers almost always did it eventually if they spent a few years in the NL or pre-DH majors. For example, Charlie Puleo randomly popped into my head from baseball card collecting 35 years ago... he pitched for several years in "The Launching Pad" and is a guy few people remember, so I went with him. It turns out he couldn't hit, even for a pitcher, but sure enough, he homered once. I would probably adjust that one to a pitcher who hit 3 or 5 home runs or something that's more of an accomplishment.
I almost chose him but instead went with Pete Harnischthe guy he was traded for.
You know, I once said to myself that if there was ever a Braves-Red Sox square, I’d pick your pick, but in the moment I forgot and went with Nick Esasky instead. Still a sub-1%, presumably all SoSH lurkers.
Now that's just being lazy. I just randomly picked 1965 and there was a guy on the Pirates with well over 200 Ks.
I didn't bother posting mine today (Cristian Guzman screwed me by coming up 2 stolen bases short), but that's some crazy odds that we both picked Mack, Jeltz and Samuel.
