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Post by vtreds22 on Aug 27, 2012 16:19:29 GMT -5
Scott Williamson Scott Sullivan Bob Purkey Only two guesse a day, so I'll ignore Purkey. Williamson had 51 wild ones in his days with the Reds - which shouldn't be a suprise to any of us who remember watching him pitch Sullivan had 32 wild pitches. Apologies. I missed the part of your original post to two guesses per day. I see it now. I'll go with Purkey again and....... give me Seaver.
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Post by dukecrunchybagel on Aug 28, 2012 9:36:19 GMT -5
A couple of good tries, but no.
Purkey had 30 of his career 36 with the Reds.
Seaver had many wild ones in his career 126! But 81 were for the Mets, and only 26 for the Reds. (16 for the White Sox and 3 for the Red Sox).
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Post by dukecrunchybagel on Aug 29, 2012 11:04:08 GMT -5
I guess it's time for some hints:
A couple of mainstays on the BRM A star from the early, early years of the team An all-star who played on a pennant winner A 20-game loser whose best years who started and finished with the Reds but whose best years were with the Giants
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Post by vtreds22 on Aug 29, 2012 14:59:33 GMT -5
Pedro Borbon Gary Nolan
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Post by quantumfootball on Aug 29, 2012 19:23:16 GMT -5
Was the 20-game loser Christy Matthewson?
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Post by dukecrunchybagel on Aug 30, 2012 10:00:31 GMT -5
Nolan was wilder before his 1973 TJ surgery but became quite the control artist after. He had 26 wild pitches for the Reds, but only three (and 70 walks) in this two and a half seasons for the Reds following his comeback. Borbon had 21 wild pitches in his ten seasons here. Oddly, six were in 1975.
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Post by dukecrunchybagel on Aug 30, 2012 10:03:48 GMT -5
Was the 20-game loser Christy Matthewson? Mathewson only pitched in one game for the Reds (in 1916) and did give up a wild pitch. If he'd have kept up the same rate with the Giants, he'd have given up 636 wild pitches in his career. Fortuanetly for the Giants, his wild pitch per game ratio was lower - he finished with 115 in his career. Amos Rusie had twice as many WPs in his brief Reds career. His cousin did make the list though.
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Post by vtreds22 on Aug 30, 2012 14:35:31 GMT -5
Joe Nuxhall Jack Billingham
These are probably my last two guesses... took me a while to think of anyone else besides Nuxhall. lol
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Post by dukecrunchybagel on Aug 31, 2012 14:03:19 GMT -5
It was a pretty good last guess then.
Billingham (Mathewson's cousin) had 46 wild ones for the Reds in six plus season for the Reds. Interestingly enough, in the three years before The Trade, he had 19 wild pitches for the Astros.
Nuxie just missed the list at 39 wild pitches which is just over two per year in his fifteen seasons for the Reds. He had 6 for the A's in 1961!
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Post by dukecrunchybagel on Aug 31, 2012 14:06:17 GMT -5
Of the four remaining pitchers, three were southpaws.
The turn of the century pitcher was a righty and part-time outfielder.
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Post by dukecrunchybagel on Sept 5, 2012 8:57:38 GMT -5
The other four are Rube Benton and Freddie Norman with 45, Bob Ewing 42, & Jim O'Toole 41.
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