Immaculate Grid: Show Off Your Useless Baseball Depth Knowledge!

[Deweys New Stance]

9/9 rarity score 22. I've been waiting for a little while for the chance to use Zoilo Versailles because when I was a kid I had one of his last baseball cards and used to always say "this guy won an MVP award?" I guess a lot of folks in my age bracket had the same idea because he's a much more popular answer than I would have thought.

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[YTF]

9/9 rarity score 22. I've been waiting for a little while for the chance to use Zoilo Versailles because when I was a kid I had one of his last baseball cards and used to always say "this guy won an MVP award?" I guess a lot of folks in my age bracket had the same idea because he's a much more popular answer than I would have thought.

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Yep, so many of my answers come from baseball cards from the 60s-80s.

 

[YTF]

On a same-season basis, knowing this happened with Chipper Jones in 1999 made me some good money during sports trivia a few years back. A few other prominent examples, not including 2020 or 1945 since no ASG...Harper 2021, Rollins 2007, Morneau 2006, Juan Gonzalez 1996, Pendleton 1991, Yount 1989, Stargell 1979, Parker 1978, Newcombe 1956, and Greenburg 1935.

The Pendleton fact about MVP before All-Star also has members of Greenburg and Morneau. The former made his first All-Star team in 1937, the latter in 2007.

Anyway, 13 rarity today. Easy day, pretty average here. Love the chance to use a 19th-century player at any possible opportunity.

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Good thing you clicked onto the correct BH.

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

I blew it this morning. Barry Larkin never had a 100 RBI season. Guess he did spend a lot of his career in the top two spots in the lineup. Oh well, broke a streak of 26 straight days getting 9 for 9.

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[Sad Sam Jones]

9/9
14

This was a fun one with lots of '80s flashbacks and not much to rack my brain over. I had a couple of more obscure Reds players I didn't trust my memory on, but they wouldn't have improved my score much anyway.

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[Jake Peavy's Demons]

My best one so far I think. 9/9, 49.

The Rockie/100RBI square was fun, because I always remember how few HRs Jeff Cirillo hit despite driving-in 115 in 2000.

 

[Deweys New Stance]

9/9
14

This was a fun one with lots of '80s flashbacks and not much to rack my brain over. I had a couple of more obscure Reds players I didn't trust my memory on, but they wouldn't have improved my score much anyway.

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We used 4 of the same guesses, although I had one in a different square. The guy who hit the only foul ball I've ever caught at a game. 9/9 RS score 74 because I went with three fairly obvious answers.

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[Yelling At Clouds]

In a recurring theme, I once again tried to be clever by picking Ken Griffey Jr. as a Red with a 100-RBI season, but once again, 10% of respondents had the same idea. I did get a pretty low score for remembering Eddie Murray on the Mets, though.

 

[Rudi Fingers]

Nice combination of Expos memories, reading "Ball Four", and '80s baseball in general, along with the top left person being a fantasy keeper of mine in the past Rarity 78

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[Tony Pena's Gas Cloud]

9/9
14

This was a fun one with lots of '80s flashbacks and not much to rack my brain over. I had a couple of more obscure Reds players I didn't trust my memory on, but they wouldn't have

Wow I never in a million years would have guessed Bryn Smithwas a Rockie.

 

[YTF]

9/9...RS 34...3 Red Sox. 34 was my lowest score to date. If someone would be so kind as to tell me how to post a spoilered grid I would be most appreciative.

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

9/9...RS 34...3 Red Sox. 34 was my lowest score to date. If someone would be so kind as to tell me how to post a spoilered grid I would be most appreciative.

Put your uploaded photo between [ spoiler ] and [ /spoiler ], and delete the spaces.

 

[Yelling At Clouds]

I believe this is my new high (low) score

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Only one deep cut, really:

 

[edoug]

Nice! @Yelling At Clouds!
8/9
RS- 213

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[ngruz25]

I thought Zack Greinke would be a sneaky pick for Diamondbacks Gold Glove, but 15% of respondents had the same idea.

 

[Deweys New Stance]

8/9 RS 218. I knew the 30/30 club would find a way to trip me up. Turned out Rickey never made it.

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I wish I had thought to use Willie Mays. Surprised to see Hank Aaron in the club, never thought of him as a base stealer.

 

[DeadlySplitter]

25, could have been 16

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Mookie is only 3%, ARod at a high 12% imo

 

[Max Power]

I thought Zack Greinke would be a sneaky pick for Diamondbacks Gold Glove, but 15% of respondents had the same idea.

He's the only one I could come up with.

 

[axx]

Pitchers for batting rate stats feels like cheating. Pettite was 1-3 for the whole season.

 

[edoug]

Pitchers for batting rate stats feels like cheating. Pettite was 1-3 for the whole season.

Yeah, but remembering a pitcher going 1/3 instead of 1/4 in a season is some specialized knowledge. But there are circumstances that stick out. I remember in Roger Clemen's first and only hit, and AB, as a Red Sock.

 

[ookami7m]

8/9 RS 218. I knew the 30/30 club would find a way to trip me up. Turned out Rickey never made it.

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Had the same surprise when that person didn't make it. 8/9 because of that

 

[Brand Name]

Overall rarity was an 8. Great. But two of the Yankees got me all-time elite rarities. The one in the middle-middle here is a me-only answer, seemingly, which is a Top-2 all-time achievement here in this game, behind only that one game where I finished with a 1. That middle-middle guy is dropping by rarity as more players get in.

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[Scoops Bolling]

I was shocked that

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Dante Bichette

only got a 0.5% for midde right. He immediately jumped into mind with that all time "face numbers good, advanced numbers bad" season of his.

 

[Kliq]

I was undone by Mark Grace never getting to .300 with Arizona.

 

[edoug]

I was undone by Mark Grace never getting to .300 with Arizona.

Yeah, I picked him for the Gold Glove square. And for some reason whenever I see the Diamondbacks on Immaculate Grid, I think of him. I'm not sure why.

 

[YTF]

This one was fun for me and I thought it had an all time low RS written all over it, but Arizona gave me trouble. 9/9...RS 42...(32 in the Arizona column)... 7 Red Sox

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[edoug]

This one was fun for me and I thought it had an all time low RS written all over it, but Arizona gave me trouble. 9/9...RS 42...(32 in the Arizona column)... 7 Red Sox

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Terrific score! but your spoiler isn't a spoiler.

 

[YTF]

Terrific score! but your spoiler isn't a spoiler.

Yeah I'm still navigating that. I can save the image to my downloads, but whenever I try to link it here there is nothing in my downloads. Away from here I go back and check and it's in there. Maybe it's a Chrome book thing?

 

[edoug]

Yeah I'm still navigating that. I can save the image to my downloads, but whenever I try to link it here there is nothing in my downloads. Away from here I go back and check and it's in there. Maybe it's a Chrome book thing?

That is odd. Can you save the images to a different folder and try it that way?

 

[GreenMonster49]

Got low numbers for the Yankees column Steve Sax, Red Ruffing, Easton Howard

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

Starting a new streak today. Only question in my mind is whether Mookie would have gotten a lower score in one of the other 30/30 boxes.

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[Tony Pena's Gas Cloud]

Final score 14. Had everything 1% or under until the final square. Screw you Steve Finley.

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[Brand Name]

Crossover Grid, which also does Grids (with other sports Reference hasn't yet like golf...) seems like it is going to offer a grid that I've partially designed. Possibly as soon as today?

 

[Deweys New Stance]

Sigh. 8/9 RS 141. Went with Phil Cavarretta for center right when I knew I should have gone with Cap Anson. And I was so proud of my 0.005% answer for bottom right. On the other hand, I used two cheat codes.

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[Red(s)HawksFan]

I was silly to think that recency bias would make the greatest hitter to ever live a low percentage pick. Still 9 for 9 though.

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[Yelling At Clouds]

A fun fact is that Matt Clement works for all three squares in the first column.
(Mine wasn't interesting enough to merit posting; Mark Grace was the only .300 Cub I could come up with.)

 

[bsj]

You guys are good. I'm happy when I land a 0.1 or 0.2% type.

 

[ngruz25]

Bottom right corner makes me sad because I remembered that Pedroia’s crappy last “season” dropped his career batting average under .300. To .299.

 

[Max Power]

I blew a guess on Frank Chance for the Cubs, but he didn't even hit .300 for his career as a first baseman. It turns out all of Tinker to Evers to Chance all kind of sucked. If it weren't for that dumb poem, they wouldn't have been anywhere close to the Hall of Fame.

 

[YTF]

8/9...148 RS...4 Red Sox and the boneheaded play of the year. I was a cinch for 9/9 intending to use Moises Alou for the Cubs .300 and Miggy for the Marlins, but fucked up by putting Miggy in the Cubs square

 

[Sad Sam Jones]

9/9
55

Stupid Marlins .300 hitters. I knew I should have taken a shot on Moises Alou. At least this was the first time I was confident enough in knowing I had the right Alex Gonzalez.

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[edoug]

8/9
RS- 188
It feels like it is the 15th time I've used Fred Lynn but if I had any guts I would have went with Fred Kendall

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[DeadlySplitter]

Dimelson Lamet is a 0.1% on bottom left.

 

[YTF]

Crossover Grid, which also does Grids (with other sports Reference hasn't yet like golf...) seems like it is going to offer a grid that I've partially designed. Possibly as soon as today?

@Brand Name Jess, thanks for this. I was going to start a new thread, but thought you should do it as you've had a hand in creating it. https://crossovergrid.com/mlb

Love that I now have a second MLB grid to look forward to each day because frankly I rarely get more than 5 on the other sports. Love the different twist on the stat squares. Today featured 10+ strikeout game and 1+ HR, pitcher. I was hoping for my first ever all Red Sox Grid, but couldn't think of a form Sox hurler who hit a HR for Atlanta. One big surprise was that Roger Clemens never achieved 10 K's for Toronto. 8/9...140.2... 7 Red Sox

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

Bottom right corner makes me sad because I remembered that Pedroia’s crappy last “season” dropped his career batting average under .300. To .299.

My fave Roger LaFrancois still works here, but only a .05% instead of .005% from last time.

 

[YTF]

My fave Roger LaFrancois still works here, but only a .05% instead of .005% from last time.

I think a lot of us here are trying to come up with as many Red Sox as possible and are beginning to skew things just a bit. I know that when I check to see what y'all have been posting I try to store the former Sox in my increasingly shrinking memory bank for future use.

 

[John Marzano Olympic Hero]

Despite being the Marlin’s first pick in the Expansion Draft from the Blue Jays Nigel Wilson does not work. I was wondering if Ernie Whitt would work for Sox and Jays but I don’t think so.

Edit: actually it should. He played eight games for Boston in 1976.

 

[Brand Name]

@Brand Name Jess, thanks for this. I was going to start a new thread, but thought you should do it as you've had a hand in creating it. https://crossovergrid.com/mlb

Love that I now have a second MLB grid to look forward to each day because frankly I rarely get more than 5 on the other sports. Love the different twist on the stat squares. Today featured 10+ strikeout game and 1+ HR, pitcher. I was hoping for my first ever all Red Sox Grid, but couldn't think of a form Sox hurler who hit a HR for Atlanta. One big surprise was that Roger Clemens never achieved 10 K's for Toronto. 8/9...140.2... 7 Red Sox

Thank you! I love pitchers who rake, honestly, so this (linky goodness to my work here) felt like a fun tribute to that. You're missing out on one of the 25 though to fit ex-Red Sox to homer for the Braves... Derek Lowe. You could also take one of the 25 to mean a member of the original team that won the first official/modern World Series in 1903, in which case Bill Dinneen is right, though he played for the Braves/Beaneaters first.

4.24 (listed as 5) on Ref Grid, 3.75 on Crossover for my own Grid. Can you find the pattern I did on the AVG screen for the former, and the unique, one-off stats/games associated with guys in the latter? I think at least half have unique places in baseball history for Cross over..

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[Sad Sam Jones]

The Crossover one kind of seemed too easy (9/9, rank: 1,064). I went 5/5 on the pitchers accomplishments without knowing for a fact that any of them were right. It was simply safe to assume that just about any starting pitcher with a decent career has both homered and had a 10 strikeout game at some point.

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

I like the Crossover Grid. The stat categories make it a bit different than the Immaculate Grids. 9 for 9 my first time out with one super rare (0.085%) pick.

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