HOF benchmarks for one club
Posted by Raphy on September 9, 2008
Players who had 500+ home runs for a franchise:
Franchise Number Players Matching +---------------------------------+------+-----------------------------------------+ San Francisco Giants 3 Barry Bonds / Willie Mays / Mel Ott Chicago Cubs 2 Ernie Banks / Sammy Sosa New York Yankees 2 Mickey Mantle / Babe Ruth Atlanta Braves 1 Hank Aaron Boston Red Sox 1 Ted Williams Minnesota Twins 1 Harmon Killebrew Philadelphia Phillies 1 Mike Schmidt
Players who had 3000+ hits for a franchise:
Franchise Number Players Matching +---------------------------------+------+-----------------------------------------+ Detroit Tigers 2 Ty Cobb / Al Kaline Atlanta Braves 1 Hank Aaron Baltimore Orioles 1 Cal Ripken Boston Red Sox 1 Carl Yastrzemski Cincinnati Reds 1 Pete Rose Houston Astros 1 Craig Biggio Kansas City Royals 1 George Brett Milwaukee Brewers 1 Robin Yount Pittsburgh Pirates 1 Roberto Clemente San Diego Padres 1 Tony Gwynn San Francisco Giants 1 Willie Mays St. Louis Cardinals 1 Stan Musial
Players who had 300+ wins for a franchise:
Franchise Number Players Matching +---------------------------------+------+-----------------------------------------+ Atlanta Braves 2 Kid Nichols / Warren Spahn Minnesota Twins 1 Walter Johnson San Francisco Giants 1 Christy Mathewson
I was surprised how few there were.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
I have no insights but I find this very interesting.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
OK, it gets more interesting when you lower the bar. Three teams have 8 players with 2000+ hits. One team has 5 players with 400+ home runs. Two teams have 4 pitchers with 200+ wins. Can you name the teams?
Answers are in my next post.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
2000+ hits
*8 players - NYY: Gehrig, Jeter, Ruth, Mantle, BWilliams, DiMaggio, Mattingly, Berra
*8 players - CHC: Anson, Banks, BWilliams, Sandberg, Grace, Hack, Santo, JRyan
*8 players - PIT: Clemente, Wagner, PWaner, Carey, Traynor, LWaner, Stargell, Mazeroski
*7 players - DET: Cobb, Kaline, Gehringer, Heilmann, Crawford, Whitaker, Trammell
*6 players - BOS: Yaz, TWilliams, Rice, Evans, Boggs, Doerr
*6 players - MIN: SRice, Puckett, Judge, Milan, Carew, Killebrew
*5 players - CIN: Rose, Larkin, Concepcion, McPhee, Bench
*4 players - BAL: Ripken, BRobinson, Sisler, Murray
*4 players - CHW: Appling, Fox, Thomas, Collins
*4 players - STL: Musial, Brock, Hornsby, Slaughter
*3 players - PHI: Schmidt, Ashburn, Delahanty
*3 players - ATL: Aaron, CJones, Mathews
*3 players - LAD: Wheat, Reese, WDavis
*3 players - SFG: Mays, Ott, Terry
*2 players - HOU: Biggio, Bagwell
*2 players - MIL: Yount, Molitor
*1 player - CLE: Lajoie
*1 player - LAA: Anderson
*1 player - SEA: EMartinez
*1 player - SDP: Gwynn
*Honorable mention - COL: Helton currently has 1957 hits
September 11th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
400+ HRs
*5 players - SFG: Mays, Bonds, Ott, McCovey, MWilliams
*3 players - ATL: Aaron, Mathews, CJones (the same three who had 2000+ hits!!)
*2 players - BOS: TWilliams, Yaz
*2 players - CHC: Sosa, Banks
*1 player - BAL: Ripken
*1 player - CHW: Thomas
*1 player - PHI: Schmidt
*1 player - HOU: Bagwell
*1 player - STL: Musial
*1 player - PIT: Stargell
September 11th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
200+ wins
*5 pitchers - ATL: Spahn, Nichols, Neikro, Glavine, Smoltz
*5 pitchers - SFG: Mathewson, Hubbell, Marichal, MWelch, Rusie
*4 pitchers - DET: HOOKS DAUSS, George Mullin, Lolich, Newhouser
*3 pitchers - CLE: Feller, Harder, Lemon
*2 pitchers - PHI: Carlton, Roberts
*2 pitchers - NYY: Ford, Ruffing
*2 pitchers - STL: Gibson, Haines
*2 pitchers - CHW: Lyons, Faber
*2 pitchers - LAD: Sutton, Drysdale
*1 pitcher - BAL: Palmer
*1 pitcher - PIT: Wilbur Cooper
*1 pitcher - CHC: Root
*1 pitcher - MIN: WJohnson
*1 pitcher - OAK: Plank
September 12th, 2008 at 1:36 am
BWilliams had 2000 hits for both the Yankees and the Cubs? Oh, wait - never mind. CJones is very close to being an unfortunate abbreviation. Thanks for posting these lists.
September 12th, 2008 at 8:45 am
kingturtle--
Is there a way to prepare these lists by searching each team at once, or ddi you have to take the time to search them all one team at a time?
September 12th, 2008 at 10:13 am
spartanbill if you click the links on top of my lists it tells you what was done. If you don't understand from the link, please let me know.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
gerry. i had a hour to spare, so I did it by hand, using baseball-reference. I think Raphy explains how to do it the easier way.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Wow kingturtle, that's a lot of work!
Matt Williams doesn't belong on you home run list. 3 Yankees (Gehrig, Ruth and Mantle) do.