who's on first?
this HOFer became the first player to hit 50+ home runs in a season, doing so in 1920 with 54 home runs.
who is babe ruth?
in 2014, this player became the first NL pitcher to win a regular season MVP award since bob gibson in 1968.
who is clayton kershaw?
this player is nicknamed "mr november" for his performance in the 2001 world series, a play on reggie jackson's "mr october" nickname.
who is derek jeter?
this pitcher was the last pitcher to toss a perfect game before domingo german's in 2023.
who is felix hernandez?
in 1985, pete rose achieved his 4,192nd hit, breaking the MLB record set 57 years earlier by this HOF center fielder.
who is ty cobb?
this active two-time gold glove played ten years as the diamondbacks' shortstop, despite never having an OPS+ above 100 in a season, which may be the reason he currently finds himself on one of the dbacks' divisional rivals.
who is nick ahmed?
miguel tejada won his only career MVP award for being a large reason the "moneyball" athletics won 20 games straight, a winstreak that occurred in this season.
what is 2002?
in 1967, this cardinals pitcher became the second pitcher to win multiple world series MVPs, joining sandy koufax, who himself had achieved it just two years earlier.
who is bob gibson?
what is the 2012 season?
in addition to being the only pitcher to ever reach 500 wins, he also holds almost every pitching counting stat record; he faced 29,565 batters in his 22-year long career which also included 749 games started.
who is cy young?
this first ballot HOFer and lifelong oriole third baseman won world series MVP in 1970, to add to his 1964 regular season MVP award.
who is brooks robinson?
barry bonds is well-known for his four straight MVP awards from 2001-2004, but his first MVP came well before the steroids, in this year.
what is 1990?
jose altuve is currently second place all-time in postseason home runs, with 27. this steroid-era slugger currently sits in first place, having 29 dingers across 493 postseason plate appearances.
who is manny ramirez?
in addition to his 2010 perfect game, this HOF pitcher also threw one of only three postseason no-hitters in history.
who is roy halladay?
taken in the 62nd round of the 1988 draft, this 12x all-star and eventual HOFer still holds the record for most home runs hit as a catcher, at 399.
who is mike piazza?
originally drafted by the rays, this royals reliever had a career season in 2015, finishing with a 448 ERA+ and being a pivotal part of their run to a title that season.
who is wade davis?
as a reliever, he won the CY award and the AL MVP award in 1981, in addition to the WSMVP award he had already won 7 years prior in 1974.
who is rollie fingers?
in 2020, this player set the all-time record for home runs in a single postseason, crushing 10 long bombs in 20 playoff games thanks to the league's expanded postseason.
who is randy arozarena?
this pirates pitcher threw 12 innings of perfection in 1959, but his team couldn't muster a run on 12 hits. after an error in the 13th, he lost the no-hitter and the game on a three-run homer that was later changed to a one-run double.
who is harvey haddix?
in 2004, ichiro suzuki broke the all-time single-season hit record with 262. he broke the record of this "gorgeous" HOFer who had multiple seasons of 245+ hits and a .400+ batting average, in 1920 (.407) and 1922 (.420).
who is george sisler?
this new york giants HOF first baseman became the last player in national league history to bat .400, barely squeaking by at one point over in 1930.
who is bill terry?
barry bonds has 7 MVP trophies, four more than anybody else in history, but he may have been robbed of more! one particularly egregious example came in 2000, when this teammate of his robbed him of five straight MVP trophies.
who is jeff kent?
in 1982, the cardinals defeated the brewers in the world series, a matchup which is no longer possible due to the brewers switching to the NL in 1998. which other world series was a matchup between two teams that can no longer play each other in the fall classic?
in game 5 of the 1956 world series, this pitcher threw nine perfect innings to achieve the first and only perfect game in postseason history.
who is don larsen?
this HOF first baseman won a RoY, the 1983 world series, and was an 8x all-star. he is a member of the 3000 hit club and is the career leader in sacrifice flies.
who is eddie murray?