Alphabet Soup
The only letter of the alphabet with no players in MLB history whose last name starts with it.
What is the letter X?
The Brewers played in this city that currently has an MLB team under this name before relocating to Milwaukee.
Who was the Seattle Pilots?
Who is Billy Alvord?
What is a bulldozer?
This nickname was given to him by Astros Star Alex Bregman?
Who is Tyler Bauer?
Who is Xander Bogaerts?
Louisville has only had two Professional Baseball teams in their history, the Louisville Eclipse and this team which was also the first team to ever lose 100+ games in a season and then a year later became the only team ever to go from the worst record in baseball to World Champs in one season.
Who was the Louisville Colonels?
In 2018 two qualifed players finished with exactly 0.0 fWAR, one of them was Teoscar Hernandez. The other one was started the season at a new position before transitioning back to his old position later in the year.
Who is Dee Gordon?
Charlie Kerfeld a reliever for the Astros received 37 of this tasty orange bonus. Ironically he struggled with weight issues and fell off after that.
What is 37 boxes of Orange Jello?
DAILY DOUBLE: This is the facility Trevor Bauer trains at during the offseason, it is located in Seattle.
Where is Driveline?
What is the Letter M?
This team played in the American Association for only one season and the team name would be disallowed in today's game and they were also named after their manager King Kelly?
Who was the Cincinnati Kelly's Killers?
Yusei Kikuchi has the first 0.0 fWAR season by a qualified pitcher in 2019 since this year when another Mariner had this accomplishment.
When is 2014? (Chris Young)
JC Romero received this clause in 2007 despite being a mediocre reliever.
What is a 50K bonus for winning silver slugger? (He had one career hit at this time and got zero the rest of his career)
When Trevor Bauer was traded to the Indians from the Diamondbacks he had this unique reaction on Twitter that he later deleted.
What is writing a rap dissing the Diamondbacks or as he claimed Twitter Haters?
This former Cub is the only player ever to have both his first and last name start with Z.
Who is Zip Zabel?
Who are the Brooklyn Grays?
In this year the first season with a 0.0 fWAR season took place.
When is 1871? (Five players)
Rougned Odor was gifted two of these when he signed his extension with the Rangers
What are two horses?
Trevor Bauer likes to tinker with his pitch mix and has experimented with 19 different pitches at times and one of his pitches is possibly unique and is not recognized as its own pitch by Pitchfx and is classified differently each time usually as a two seamer or changeup though.
What is a Reverse Slider? (Shuuto would also be correct as that is often referred to as a reverse slider in Japan)
Who is Benny Bengough?
This team is named after a bush and only existed for one season.
Who are the Fort Wayne Kekiongas?
When is 2007?
Manny Ramirez received a lot of weird clauses in his MLB career including one that gave him all the clauses of his teammates during the life of his contract but this one from when he went to Japan and received an unlimited source of this easily takes the cake as his weirdest.
What is an unlimited supply of sushi?
Trevor Bauer has three rules in any relationship, the first is that there are no feelings involved, the second is that his partner doesn't post about him on social media when they are together. What is the third rule?
What is I can sleep with other people while we are in a relationship?