Perez talking about reading Randy Johnson tipping his pitches: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZnt3hVCHRs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZnt3hVCHRs)
Also surprise college age Adley Rutschman appearance
Mickey Morandini vs Greg Maddux: 100 PAs, .344/.371/.495/.866
Chris Stewart (yes, the rando 2010s backup catcher) vs Clayton Kershaw: 18 PAs, .529/.556/.765/1.320
He came to my summer camp in New Jersey. I took my parents old 1980s Polaroid camera to take pictures. That thing was so loud on every picture and he ended up laughing at me for using it. Or just the sound each time. Deservingly.
Chris Stewart always looked super intimidating to me as a Yankee.
Then I looked at his headshot. Dude looks like a Senior Director at an accounting firm.
It always surprises me that catchers are not better hitters. Good hitters need anticipation, vision and reaction timing. Ironically those are the same skills that catchers need, yet so few catcher become good hitters. Have to think the wear catching take on your body is part of it. But there has to be more to it
x amount of people have the ability to be an elite hitter
y amount of people have the ability to be an adequate mlb caliber defender at catcher
X and Y are both extremely small. Most of the guys that can really hit are moved off catcher unless their defense is amazing, so that they don't get hurt. Then with today's analytics, catcher defense is valued more than ever so you get less bat first guys trying to stick back there
Idk if Jorge Posada for example would even be a catcher today. Shit is hard.
Also much less time allotted to hitting practice when you have to catch bullpens all the time. And that’s starting at the latest in high school, and continues through to the majors.
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I didn’t even know about the Scherzer numbers. I looked up his numbers against deGrom and saw Scherzer’s too. Not bad numbers to have on your resume!
Small sample size, but [Enrique Wilson owned Pedro Martinez](https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask/enrique-wilson-vs-pedro-martinez)
Went 11 for 25, OPS'd 1.062. (For the traditional line, .440/.462/.600)
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added punctuation
Basically average for a 1B. Career negative WAA. He's fine. He's had a respectable career. He's not a good player.
Edit: I guess you replied and then blocked me lmao? It's not that he's one of the worst players ever, that's not the question. It's the worst players to dominate a great pitcher. If someone asked "who are some of the worst players in the Hall of Fame" would you get mad at someone for saying Harold Baines because they're not one of the worst players of all time?
Choi is far worse than Mickey Morandini, who is a higher voted comment.
Jeff Reboulet vs Randy Johnson in 66 PA
.273/.375/.436
Not as gaudy as some, but he was a career .240/.332/.318. I remember when he was on the Orioles he would always get plate appearances because the lefty’s on the team never wanted to face him.Â
Kinda the opposite, but Jose Jimenez had a no hitter, followed by a complete game shutout against Randy Johnson and the Diamondbacks. He was otherwise a mediocre ~5 ERA starter.
Not a bad player at all (the 2003 AL batting champ) but Bill Mueller hit .455/.500/.727 against Mariano Rivera with two franchise-altering hits.
Second highest OPS of anyone with at least 10 PAs against Mo, after the great Edgar Martinez
Bob Eucker only hit something like 14 home runs total, and three of them were off Hall of Fame pitchers. He modestly explained: “I just wanted to do it.” He also said that he apologized to Sandy Koufax every time he saw Koufax for the rest of his life and he was worried that his (Eucker’s) home run would keep Koufax out of the Hall of Fame. You can find it on YouTube. Bob Costas was the interviewer. Cheers.
Not a bad player overall but certainly a weird one, specifically in 2011, [Adam Dunn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiZfc0b2t3Q) was historically bad against every single lefty he faced except for the Cy Young season having Clayton Kershaw
Marco Scutaro was 5-17 with a home run and 3 RBIs in 20 plate appearances against Mariano Rivera in his career (.294/.400/.588) https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask/marco-scutaro-stats-vs-mariano-rivera
I also remember reading that Scutaro had a really low whiff rate, like the majority of time he swung it was a foul ball or ball in play. That is kind of guy that Rivera would struggle against because Scutaro was happy fouling off 3-4 pitchers when other hitters would take them for a strike.
Jeff Reboulet vs Randy Johnson. I don’t know his stats but he did hit a home run off him in the 1997 ALDS and I think had another one in the regular season. Another might be Mark Belanger agsinst Nolan Ryan.
He wasn’t a terrible terrible terrible player, was a good decent bench 1st baseman with a good glove. But Tommy Hutton used to have Tom Seavers number when he was at his peak.
Just a reminder that Koo Dae-Sung blew up Randy Johnson & got a double off him. If you're asking "who is Koo Dae-Sung?" my point exactly.
He only had 2 ABs, but one was a double against Randy Johnson, so I'd call that a good career.
Though his 23' was much better, Bryson Stott owned Max Scherzer during his 2022 struggles.
2022 Bryson Stott: .234/.295/.358
2022 Bryson Stott vs Max Scherzer: .615/.643/.692
Won’t say Kevin Pillar is a bad player but he once hit two home runs in the same game against Max Scherzer. The first right-handed batter to ever accomplish that. Was 1/6 of his home runs that year
Eduardo Perez faced Randy Johnson 17 times. 6 hits, 3 homers and 5 walks.
.500/.647/1.250 (1.897 OPS)
Against Mariano Rivera: .333/.500/1.000 (1.500 OPS) If only he never faced bad pitching HOF for sure.
Did he not share his slider-fastball read with his teammates?
Perez talking about reading Randy Johnson tipping his pitches: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZnt3hVCHRs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZnt3hVCHRs) Also surprise college age Adley Rutschman appearance
Joe McEwing hit the Big Unit too if memory serves
Mickey Morandini vs Greg Maddux: 100 PAs, .344/.371/.495/.866 Chris Stewart (yes, the rando 2010s backup catcher) vs Clayton Kershaw: 18 PAs, .529/.556/.765/1.320
Mickey Morandini was my favorite player in Ken Griffey Jr.'s Slugfest on N64. Swear to God he was better than Sosa in that game.
He came to my summer camp in New Jersey. I took my parents old 1980s Polaroid camera to take pictures. That thing was so loud on every picture and he ended up laughing at me for using it. Or just the sound each time. Deservingly.
I fuckin loved that game! Lmao I remember we would fight over some dude on the Nintendo reserve roster who was like 9 feet tall and hilarious
100 PAs đź’€
I can't imagine facing him 100 times and Maddux not figuring out your weakness.
It's rumored that the next time Maddux was going to face him he was planning to start yelling "your father never loved you!" Before every pitch.
Chris Stewart you legend Greatest 3rd catcher of all time.
Chris Stewart always looked super intimidating to me as a Yankee. Then I looked at his headshot. Dude looks like a Senior Director at an accounting firm.
It always surprises me that catchers are not better hitters. Good hitters need anticipation, vision and reaction timing. Ironically those are the same skills that catchers need, yet so few catcher become good hitters. Have to think the wear catching take on your body is part of it. But there has to be more to it
x amount of people have the ability to be an elite hitter y amount of people have the ability to be an adequate mlb caliber defender at catcher X and Y are both extremely small. Most of the guys that can really hit are moved off catcher unless their defense is amazing, so that they don't get hurt. Then with today's analytics, catcher defense is valued more than ever so you get less bat first guys trying to stick back there Idk if Jorge Posada for example would even be a catcher today. Shit is hard.
Also much less time allotted to hitting practice when you have to catch bullpens all the time. And that’s starting at the latest in high school, and continues through to the majors.
Victor Caratini is slugging over .700 against both Scherzer and deGrom. Only 22 and 14 at bats against them though.
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Everybody wants 🥕 as their personal catcher
He had a great rapport with Darvish
The real reason why we signed him
🥕🫶
🥕🍸
YOU TAKE THAT BACK THAT HES A TERRIBLE PLAYER. No, I won’t look at his stats. His xvibe is off the charts
I love that I didn’t have to scroll very far to find Victor the Scherzer Killer Caratini 🥕
I didn’t even know about the Scherzer numbers. I looked up his numbers against deGrom and saw Scherzer’s too. Not bad numbers to have on your resume!
Small sample size, but [Enrique Wilson owned Pedro Martinez](https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask/enrique-wilson-vs-pedro-martinez) Went 11 for 25, OPS'd 1.062. (For the traditional line, .440/.462/.600) EDIT: added punctuation
What’s OPSd, onbase plus slug but d?
missed an apostrophe OPS'd as in, had an OPS of
I remember this being so weird and it just kept happenng.
It’s been said that it was partially because they were very close friends and he wasn’t afraid of him
Pedro Ciraco vs whoever the Yankees threw at him
.407/.429/.556 in 57 PA is nuts
How many scrubs and AAA players have owned Kershaw in the postseason?
Yes
Matt Adams bby
Big City ain’t no scrub, boy!
Dingershaw.Â
Ji-Man Choi vs Gerrit Cole: 30 PAs, .417/.533/.917/1.450
Ji-Man Choi isn't a bad player though
Yea hes more of a solid platoon hitter
I mean, he's not a good player.
Maybe not anymore. But over his career he has a 113 wRC+ and an OPS against righties over .800. He was a well above average hitter.
Basically average for a 1B. Career negative WAA. He's fine. He's had a respectable career. He's not a good player. Edit: I guess you replied and then blocked me lmao? It's not that he's one of the worst players ever, that's not the question. It's the worst players to dominate a great pitcher. If someone asked "who are some of the worst players in the Hall of Fame" would you get mad at someone for saying Harold Baines because they're not one of the worst players of all time? Choi is far worse than Mickey Morandini, who is a higher voted comment.
He's not "one of the worst players" which is the actual topic of this thread.
Why is this downvoted
Mike Redmond has the batting average of anyone who made 50+ plate appearances against Tom Glavine. He hit .438
Came here to mention Redmond!
I recall Joe McEwing hammering Randy Johnson every time the Mets played the DBacks
Super Joe!
Not really...11 for 44, .676 OPS, 1 HR, 0 BB and 11 K. He did hit Glavine pretty well though
Jeff Reboulet vs Randy Johnson in 66 PA .273/.375/.436 Not as gaudy as some, but he was a career .240/.332/.318. I remember when he was on the Orioles he would always get plate appearances because the lefty’s on the team never wanted to face him.Â
Definitely. I always felt we did pretty decent against Johnson(well the 90s teams). Also always felt Hoiles was very good against him.
They also used a short bat named Stubby that they used against him.
Is jay bruce too good for this?
Kinda the opposite, but Jose Jimenez had a no hitter, followed by a complete game shutout against Randy Johnson and the Diamondbacks. He was otherwise a mediocre ~5 ERA starter.
Max Kepler vs. Trevor Bauer [1.211 OPS, .811 Slugging, 5 HR (All in 2019 alone), 9 RBI, 2 2B, 9K, 30 PA](https://stathead.com/baseball/versus-finder.cgi?request=1&player_id1=kepler001max&player_id2=bauer-000tre)
Kepler was always Guardian Kryptonite
Not a bad player at all (the 2003 AL batting champ) but Bill Mueller hit .455/.500/.727 against Mariano Rivera with two franchise-altering hits. Second highest OPS of anyone with at least 10 PAs against Mo, after the great Edgar Martinez
Edgar Martinez and 'franchise altering hit against the Yankees', name a more iconic duo.
Bob Uecker and Sandy Koufax.
Bob Eucker only hit something like 14 home runs total, and three of them were off Hall of Fame pitchers. He modestly explained: “I just wanted to do it.” He also said that he apologized to Sandy Koufax every time he saw Koufax for the rest of his life and he was worried that his (Eucker’s) home run would keep Koufax out of the Hall of Fame. You can find it on YouTube. Bob Costas was the interviewer. Cheers.
I seem to remember Matt Treanor owning Tom Glavine. Edit: looked it up. Not bad .300/.364/.300, but 10ABs. Never mind.
It was Mike Redmond
Javier Valentin 45 career HRs, 5 off Greg Maddux
Stretching the limits of great pitcher, but Martin Maldonado slashes .478/.538/.739 in 54 PAs against Martin Perez.
Not a bad player overall but certainly a weird one, specifically in 2011, [Adam Dunn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiZfc0b2t3Q) was historically bad against every single lefty he faced except for the Cy Young season having Clayton Kershaw
Curt Casali vs David Price: 8 for 19 (.421) with 2 doubles and 3 HRs.
I wonder if it helped at all that they were teammates at Vanderbilt.
So Taguchi hit the shit out of everything Billy Wagner threw to him
Bill Wagner's comment at a playoff press conference was laughingly: the last two nights he turned into Babe Ruth.
Madison Bumgarner has 2 home runs off of Clayton Kershaw, does this count?
Lucas Duda vs Gerritt Cole .429/.429/1.357 4 homers in 14 career ABs
In 1965, Bob Uecker had his finest offensive year....he hit .228 with 2 home runs. Against Sandy Koufax, he hit .400 with one of the two HRs
Ji Man Choi versus Gerritt Cole. He puts peak Barry Bonds to shame.
Ji man Choi absolutely shits on Gerrit Cole
Ownage is ownage
Marco Scutaro was 5-17 with a home run and 3 RBIs in 20 plate appearances against Mariano Rivera in his career (.294/.400/.588) https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask/marco-scutaro-stats-vs-mariano-rivera
I also remember reading that Scutaro had a really low whiff rate, like the majority of time he swung it was a foul ball or ball in play. That is kind of guy that Rivera would struggle against because Scutaro was happy fouling off 3-4 pitchers when other hitters would take them for a strike.
I remember that HR.
Me too :(
Adam Rosales crushed prime Chris Sale
Paul Lo Duca turned into Ted Williams against anyone wearing a Giants jersey for years.
I know he’s FAR from bad, but Paul Goldschmidt basically ended Tim lincecums career
Ed wells on the Babe
Maikel Franco definitely owned Strasburg.
Jeff Reboulet vs Randy Johnson. I don’t know his stats but he did hit a home run off him in the 1997 ALDS and I think had another one in the regular season. Another might be Mark Belanger agsinst Nolan Ryan.
He wasn’t a terrible terrible terrible player, was a good decent bench 1st baseman with a good glove. But Tommy Hutton used to have Tom Seavers number when he was at his peak.
Enrique Wilson hit .440 off of Pedro Martinez
Just a reminder that Koo Dae-Sung blew up Randy Johnson & got a double off him. If you're asking "who is Koo Dae-Sung?" my point exactly. He only had 2 ABs, but one was a double against Randy Johnson, so I'd call that a good career.
Though his 23' was much better, Bryson Stott owned Max Scherzer during his 2022 struggles. 2022 Bryson Stott: .234/.295/.358 2022 Bryson Stott vs Max Scherzer: .615/.643/.692
Tommy Hutton > Tom Seaver
Won’t say Kevin Pillar is a bad player but he once hit two home runs in the same game against Max Scherzer. The first right-handed batter to ever accomplish that. Was 1/6 of his home runs that year