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You Tell ‘Em Gandalf

Posted by Steve Lombardi on May 13, 2010

Via Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Batting Season Finder - the non-pitchers with the most PA in a season where their Batting Average and On Base Percentage were the same:

Rk Player PA BA OBP Year Age Tm Lg G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF GDP SB CS SLG OPS Pos
1 Craig Robinson 148 .226 .226 1973 24 PHI NL 46 146 11 33 7 0 0 7 0 0 25 0 2 0 2 1 1 .274 .500 *6/4
2 Alejandro Sanchez 133 .248 .248 1985 26 DET AL 71 133 19 33 6 2 6 12 0 0 39 0 0 0 4 2 2 .459 .707 9D/78
3 Bert Adams 111 .206 .206 1917 26 PHI NL 43 107 4 22 4 1 1 7 0 0 20 0 4 0 0 0 0 .290 .495 *2/3
4 Gus Getz 102 .219 .219 1916 26 BRO NL 40 96 9 21 1 2 0 8 0 0 5 0 6 0 0 9 0 .271 .490 *5/63
5 Al Hermann 96 .237 .237 1923 24 BSN NL 31 93 2 22 4 0 0 11 0 0 7 0 3 0 0 3 2 .280 .516 4/53
6 Larry Haney 89 .236 .236 1968 25 BAL AL 38 89 5 21 3 1 1 5 0 0 19 0 0 0 2 0 0 .326 .562 *2
7 Bill Schwartz 88 .151 .151 1904 20 CLE AL 24 86 5 13 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 .174 .326 *3/5
8 Don Mueller 82 .358 .358 1948 21 NYG NL 36 81 12 29 4 1 1 9 0 0 3 0 1 0 3 0 0 .469 .827 *7/89
9 Cesar Crespo 79 .165 .165 2004 25 BOS AL 52 79 6 13 2 1 0 2 0 0 20 0 0 0 1 2 0 .215 .380 *647/89
10 Aleck Smith 79 .141 .141 1901 30 NYG NL 26 78 5 11 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 .141 .282 *2
11 Robert Perez 78 .192 .192 1997 28 TOR AL 37 78 4 15 4 1 2 6 0 0 16 0 0 0 2 0 0 .346 .538 7/9D
12 Lee Gamble 77 .320 .320 1938 28 CIN NL 53 75 13 24 3 1 0 5 0 0 6 0 2 0 1 0 0 .387 .707 /7
13 Walter Morris 77 .178 .178 1908 28 STL NL 23 73 1 13 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 .219 .397 *6
14 Dale Murphy 76 .316 .316 1977 21 ATL NL 18 76 5 24 8 1 2 14 0 0 8 0 0 0 3 0 1 .526 .842 *2
15 Lee May 75 .333 .333 1966 23 CIN NL 25 75 14 25 5 1 2 10 0 0 14 0 0 0 1 0 1 .507 .840 *3
16 Jerry Witte 73 .192 .192 1946 30 SLB AL 18 73 7 14 2 0 2 4 0 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 .301 .493 *3
17 Alex Diaz 72 .319 .319 1993 24 MIL AL 32 69 9 22 2 0 0 1 0 0 12 0 3 0 3 5 3 .348 .667 98/7
18 Pepe Frias 72 .257 .257 1977 28 MON NL 53 70 10 18 1 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 2 0 1 1 0 .271 .529 46/5
19 Tom Donovan 72 .254 .254 1901 28 CLE AL 18 71 9 18 3 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 .324 .577 *9/1
20 Mike Marshall 69 .261 .261 1991 31 TOT AL 24 69 4 18 4 0 1 7 0 0 20 0 0 0 2 0 0 .362 .623 /D397
21 Putsy Caballero 69 .279 .279 1949 21 PHI NL 29 68 8 19 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 1 0 2 0 0 .324 .603 *4/6
22 Jim McGuire 69 .232 .232 1901 26 CLE AL 18 69 4 16 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .261 .493 *6
23 Tim McCarver 68 .239 .239 1961 19 STL NL 22 67 5 16 2 1 1 6 0 0 5 0 1 0 1 0 0 .343 .582 *2
24 Paul Phillips 67 .269 .269 2005 28 KCR AL 23 67 6 18 4 1 1 9 0 0 5 0 0 0 4 0 0 .403 .672 *2
25 Willard Brown 67 .179 .179 1947 32 SLB AL 21 67 4 12 3 0 1 6 0 0 7 0 0 0 2 2 2 .269 .448 *9/8
26 Glenallen Hill 66 .136 .136 2001 36 ANA AL 16 66 4 9 0 0 1 2 0 0 20 0 0 0 3 0 0 .182 .318 *D
27 Stan Royer 66 .167 .167 1994 26 TOT ML 43 66 3 11 5 0 1 3 0 0 21 0 0 0 1 0 0 .288 .455 3/5
28 Patsy McGaffigan 66 .167 .167 1917 28 PHI NL 19 60 5 10 1 0 0 6 0 0 7 0 6 0 0 1 0 .183 .350 *6/9
29 Joe Dunn 66 .172 .172 1908 23 BRO NL 20 64 3 11 3 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 .219 .391 *2
30 Claude Rossman 65 .210 .210 1904 23 CLE AL 18 62 5 13 5 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 .290 .500 *9/8
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 5/13/2010.

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You know, as bad as Craig Robinson was at the plate in 1973, at the end of the season he was traded to the Braves (with Barry Lersch) for Ron Schueler. And, he was the Braves starting shortstop in 1974.

Dig # 21 on the list. Is that one of the all-time great baseball names that hardly anyone knows? Putsy Caballero! By the way, he was the youngest player to ever appear in a game for the Philadelphia Phillies.

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4 Responses to “You Tell ‘Em Gandalf”

  1. TheGoof Says:
    May 14th, 2010 at 9:43 am

    Glenallen Hill must have looked awful at the plate that year. How does a guy coming off a 27-homer season not draw a walk in 66 plate appearances? At least one guy would pitch him carefully, right?

  2. Chipmaker Says:
    May 14th, 2010 at 10:02 am

    Well, sure, the balrog doesn't pass. The guy's bigger than Billy Ashley -- even Steve Blass could nail that strike zone.

  3. Kahuna Tuna Says:
    May 14th, 2010 at 10:28 am

    I wonder if this guy ever got called "BAlRog."

  4. Whiz Says:
    May 14th, 2010 at 1:26 pm

    The most PA in a season for a player with OBP < BA is 131 (Ernie Bowman, 1963 -- 2 SF with no BB).

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