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How many times has this occured in the history of major league baseball?? Can't be much as you would think that at some point in the season, a team recognizes that they have a lemon on their hands and they take appropriate action.

For the life of me I can't understand why Chris Young is still in the majors...
 

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Seriously... I'd love to know how many times this has occured... I want to believe the D-backs aren't this pathetic, but I really struggling here... :bang:
I was just kidding. Interesting question. Someone look it up for us :)
 

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John Peter Gochnaur

Check out these stats: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=gochnjo01

Although he did not have 500 ABs, he did have over 400 in two different seasons, and is considered by some to be the worst baseball hitter of all time.

EDIT: Can someone tell me if I am reading the above website wrong? It says he made 98 errors in 1903?!?!

http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/1945

Looks like Rob Deer is the last to do it, in 1991. I love Rob Deer. Met him once. Good guy.

That is quite the list there. Deer's season wasn't a complete disaster that year either, he still had 25 homeruns and over 60 RBIs. However, batting .179 is rough.
 
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Wow... What are the D-backs waiting for?? Amazing... defies the ability to describe...
 

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Wow... What are the D-backs waiting for?? Amazing... defies the ability to describe...

If I remember correctly, CY still has an option for this year to be sent down to the minors. Why the team did not exercise that and get him some minor league at-bats to work on his swing is beyond me.

Teams like the Angels never have a problem sending down an underachieving player who still has options open. I guess that is what separates the perennial playoff teams from an organization like ours.
 

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Did Chris Young need another thread?
 
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If I remember correctly, CY still has an option for this year to be sent down to the minors. Why the team did not exercise that and get him some minor league at-bats to work on his swing is beyond me.

Teams like the Angels never have a problem sending down an underachieving player who still has options open. I guess that is what separates the perennial playoff teams from an organization like ours.


I'm trying not to over-think this... really I am... but, if you're Byrnes or Hinch, what the hell is going thru your mind? What possible reason can there be for leaving CY in the majors?? I mean really - you can stretch it as much as you like but it's impossible to come up with a valid rationale...

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Chris Young is who is. He takes too many pitches in the strike zone in all counts. He swings and misses at pitching mistakes. His power is discounted because he doesn't get on base enough and he doesn't drive in runs. He's certainly capable of a few streaks, but none of them string together long enough to amount to anything (a la Steve Finley, who would go on monster tears to pump up his numbers).

You can keep his home run tonight and the few doubles he's collected. I still want him gone. Never will be a major league hitter.
 

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The other sub.500 hero, the Giambino, was released today by the other city by the bay.
 

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Chris Young is who is. He takes too many pitches in the strike zone in all counts. He swings and misses at pitching mistakes. His power is discounted because he doesn't get on base enough and he doesn't drive in runs.
7 HRs is not power. He had one somewhat powerful season.
 

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Chris Young is who is. He takes too many pitches in the strike zone in all counts. He swings and misses at pitching mistakes. His power is discounted because he doesn't get on base enough and he doesn't drive in runs. He's certainly capable of a few streaks, but none of them string together long enough to amount to anything (a la Steve Finley, who would go on monster tears to pump up his numbers).

You can keep his home run tonight and the few doubles he's collected. I still want him gone. Never will be a major league hitter.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/finlest01.shtml

ala Steve Finley my foot!!! :)

Fins had a career .271 batting avg with some other decent stats.
But yes, CY all the time reminds one of Fins in one of his slumps.
 

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7 HRs is not power. He had one somewhat powerful season.

If you only counted the times he made contact, 7 dingers and 22 doubles is decent production. That's almost a 1/3rd of his 60 hits.

The problem is he rarely makes good contact.
 

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Finley would be hitting around .230 for a month and a half and then he'd go on a three-week tear where he'd hit .650 with frightening power and rbi numbers. To me, he was always an average hitter but for about 14 or 15 weeks a season when he was Superman.

He carried the D-Backs more than once in the slow summer months.
 

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Finley would be hitting around .230 for a month and a half and then he'd go on a three-week tear where he'd hit .650 with frightening power and rbi numbers. To me, he was always an average hitter but for about 14 or 15 weeks a season when he was Superman.

He carried the D-Backs more than once in the slow summer months.
Yep.
 
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Finley would be hitting around .230 for a month and a half and then he'd go on a three-week tear where he'd hit .650 with frightening power and rbi numbers. To me, he was always an average hitter but for about 14 or 15 weeks a season when he was Superman.

He carried the D-Backs more than once in the slow summer months.


Therefore he and CY are comparable because????

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he isn't saying they are comparable

he's saying that they are not comparable

where finley would go on long, monster streaks that could boost up the bad times; CY even when hot isn't hot long enough or with enough intensity to not be a drag down
 
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he isn't saying they are comparable

he's saying that they are not comparable

where finley would go on long, monster streaks that could boost up the bad times; CY even when hot isn't hot long enough or with enough intensity to not be a drag down


Ohhhhhhh.... duh........

Mulli gave me some of his shrooms... sorry Gadd.
 

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