Welcome to the Complete Game Podcast, where we're all about baseball with Ethan Dungan, owner of Glovehound baseball glove repair shop.

Rick Finley, founder of MDNI Baseball Academy and the creator of George Foster Baseball, the MVP himself, Reds hall of Famer George Foster.

I'm your host, Greg Dungan.

Now let's talk baseball.

Welcome to episode 24.

This is the final episode of season one, and we're so excited that you're here to join us.

We're going to be doing some trivia today, some hall of Fame trivia.

We're going to talk about hall of Famers who never won an mvp.

So we're going to test the.

The guys and their knowledge, and we're hopefully going to crown a season one trivia champion.

So we'll see.

How's it going, Ethan?

Can you give us a rundown on what our.

What our standings are at this moment in time?

Right now?

I need to verify after the episode, but I believe Rick is at two and George and I are at one apiece.

But I thought it was three.

Oh, I'll have to.

I'll have to check, but I didn't think it was two.

I know that Rick mascot Rick wiped the floor with us with the.

With the minor league, so.

No, it's my beat, too.

I'll check.

I'm just surprised it was two.

All I know is that George isn't winning.

I'm not allowed to win.

I'm not allowed to win.

Anyway, going to have some.

Going to have some fun today and make some announcements and let you know what's going on in the off season and some.

Some general fun like that.

So first of all, we'd like to get started with our trivia challenge, but.

We'Re going to do it differently this time because some people can't control themselves.

And George, wait until the whole question has been asked.

So mdnu George is being parented by the youngest guy.

By the youngest guy will be doing the white boys.

I got prevented.

Oh, man.

I got a spell.

Pick your color.

I want red.

I want blue.

You don't have red.

I want.

I want what Rick has.

Green or purple?

Green.

Is this green?

I don't know.

Green money.

Green enough.

All right, so run down the new rules.

Ethan.

That.

Okay, so the full question has to be asked, and then you write down your answer, and then we will reveal one at a time.

All right.

Which order?

I got mine counterclock clockwise.

It doesn't matter because everybody will have same amount of time to write their answer.

Rick, take longer you got to use your phone.

No cheating.

Loud.

Use my phone.

The key.

While cheating.

Don't get caught.

All right, so we're going to start.

We'll get, get this guy out of the way.

Right, right up front.

So I'm going to ask the questions in the same manner.

What is the theme?

Or just.

I said hall of Famers.

Okay.

So I'm going to ask the.

I'm going to phrase every question the same way.

Okay.

Okay.

So that you'll know how to, how to See that.

So.

Okay.

All right.

The.

This right handed Batter played for 20 seasons with one team.

Stop it.

Oh man, it's so noisy.

It's like, it's like your, it's like your son in church.

We don't.

We need some snacks to keep everybody quiet.

We're in church yesterday.

We were in church yesterday and Luki was sitting over with my wife and she, she got out some books and he kept wanting to read the book out loud.

Well, while his, his great grandfather was preaching hallelujah.

Anyway.

Okay, this right handed battery.

Oh, right handed.

For 20 seasons with one team, he hit 260 home runs and 1,311 RBIs.

He had a career batting average of.310 and he ranks sixth on the all time hits list with 3,465.

He earned five Gold Gloves, five Silver Sluggers and was part of five World Series winning teams.

Hold on.

Five World Series winning teams?

Yep.

Huh.

Okay.

Five World Series winning teams.

Two hundred and sixty home runs.

That's.

I'll give you one more time.

So this right handed Batter played for 20 seasons with one team.

He hit 260 home runs and had 1,311 RBI.

He had a career batting average of.310.

And he ranked sixth on the all time hits list with 3,465.

He earned five Gold Gloves, five Silver Sluggers and was part of five World Series winning teams.

I got my answer.

Don't worry about taking too much time.

Because I know Rick is diagramming sentences.

I know.

Instead of writing it, he's drawing it.

We just need a first and a last name.

Rick, man, I'm ready.

All right.

Are we ready?

George.

You got a name?

George is still blank.

I had.

When you said right handed, that stopped me and ah, I know it's wrong.

Five World Series teams.

I'll give you this.

He also had 358 stolen bases.

I don't know that that changes my answer.

Oh man.

358 stolen bases and not.

Okay, we know it's not.

We know it's not George Foster because.

He didn't have that.

What era?

Yeah.

I can't be.

Don't be giving too many.

If I give you the years.

If I give you the years, they'll give it away.

I know.

I. I'm not.

I'll tell you this much.

He was an infielder.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

Ah, man.

I think this is a good yes, though.

But don't look at my answer.

I'm not.

I didn't look.

But you're holding it out there in front of everybody.

Okay.

Okay.

Time's up.

Ethan, what you got?

I got Derek Jeter.

No, I got Paul monitor.

Okay, what do you got?

This is wrong.

Roberto Alamore.

Yep.

Yeah, it was Derek Jeter.

I mean, wow.

Derek Jeter played with the Yankees from 1995 to 2014.

I don't know why.

He was part of the World Series winning teams in 96, 99, 2000 and 2009.

And.

And he's sneaky because he's got so many hits.

He did.

He does.

Yeah.

And it's so calm.

I'm just glad Rick did it.

I would have won an mvp.

But I'm not surprised because he wasn't.

Why should you be surprised?

He has it right up there.

He has a cheat sheet.

He wasn't a huge offensive producer.

He was more.

Would you call him a role guy?

Maybe table setter.

Table setter.

I like that.

Yeah, That's a good one.

Yeah, he was a table.

Yeah.

Like you said, nothing too flashy.

Yes.

Too hard.

That's what most.

Most too hot.

Two hole hitters.

He was perfect for.

You keeping score over there?

I am keeping score because I'm winning.

Yep.

All right, here we go.

All right, number two, this switch hitter.

I got it.

Played for 21 seasons.

Yep.

With five different teams.

Oh.

He hit.504 home runs and 1917 RBIs.

He had a career batting average of.287 and ranks 25th on the all time hits list with 3255.

He earned three Gold Gloves, three Silver Sluggers and won one World Series.

Is that correct?

Should we correct it?

No, it is correct.

He said a switch hitter, so it could be right and wrong.

So one more time, I'll give you this switch hitter.

Played for 21 seasons with five different teams.

He hit.504 home runs and 1917 RBIs.

He had a career batting average of.287.

And he ranks 25th on the all time hits list with 3255.

He earned three Gold Gloves, three Silver Sluggers, and won one World Series.

You both have answers.

I have answered, but this.

I know mine's wrong.

I put Manny Ramirez.

I don't.

You're right.

He's a switch hitter.

I knew he was just.

Is he left?

Who you guys got, George?

I got what you want to know.

Oh, I got Eddie Murray.

No, you got Eddie Murray.

It is Eddie Murray.

Yes.

I get a half, you get nothing.

So that's a point for each one.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

If you answer, it ain't no.

If you answer, no penalty for being wrong.

Yeah, but you said switch.

Hold on.

We're being a negative.

There is no negative yardage in this game.

What about.

What about the bingo?

All right, number three.

Is it three?

This is four.

Three or four?

This is four.

It's four, but it's really three.

Number four.

We didn't count that one.

That you didn't give us the question.

Yeah, this guy.

I got it.

This right handed hitter played for 16 seasons with five different teams.

He hit 396 home runs and 1335 RBIs.

He had a career batting average of.308 and 2127 hits.

He never earned a Gold Glove, but he won 10 Silver Sluggers.

Whoa.

He also never won a World Series.

Wow.

Five different teams.

That's what stop means.

Five different teams.

396.

Home run.

I can't believe you could remember the.

I can't remember the numbers.

He just said, but the home runs stand out.

Right handed hitter.

And he never won a World Series.

Never won a World Series.

Never wanna.

And he never go glove.

Never want to go.

Nor a Golden Glove.

That's true.

I'm throwing this out there.

So I read it one more time.

This right handed hitter played for 16 seasons with five different teams.

He hit 396 home runs and 1,335 RBIs.

He had a career batting average of.308 and 2127 hits.

He never earned a Gold Glove, but he won 10 Silver Sluggers.

He also never won a World Series.

How many hits again?

2000.

2001, 27.

Wow.

Was he an outfield or infielder?

Never mind.

If you're.

If you'll give it.

Outfield, infield.

I'll take it because I have no idea.

He's an infielder.

That's what I was assuming.

Wow.

308 and only 2,000 hits.

He's the only one on this list.

That plays this position.

I'm baffled at 10 silver sluggers and I don't know.

And he never won a World Series, right?

Yep, that's what ChatGPT says.

And 10.

I've got an answer, but I'm not confident in it.

Silver slugger.

10 silver.

That's nothing to.

No, but five different teams.

Oh, wait, no.

Then mine's definitely wrong.

Yeah.

Shoot.

You gotta.

You gotta keep in mind though, a lot of these guys who played for four and five teams, they spent a whole bunch of time with, you know, so.

Still.

Still.

All right, I'm just gonna throw it out there.

Albert Bell, we didn't ask you yet.

What did you have?

I don't have anything.

That's a good answer.

I don't think it's right, but that's a good.

Yeah, it's not.

He only played for maybe two.

He didn't play.

Yeah, write it down.

Play by the rules.

Oh, my fault, my fault.

We already said mine, so I'm out if it's right.

You're 10 Silver Sluggers.

That's crazy.

I'm gonna double check that.

But yeah, sure.

More than 3,000 hit.

Had to go in my.

My database.

Ten times.

All right, Ethan, come on.

We gotta.

All right.

I put Joe.

Tori.

I know he's wrong.

Rafael Palmero.

No.

No idea.

I will say I don't know handed.

Rafael Palmero is not on this list because he's.

And he's left.

But it was Mike piazza.

Oh.

I was 2,000, only 2,000.

He's the only catcher on the list.

I thought you might be going.

I put Joe Maurer, but then that screws the.

The teams thing.

Left handed.

I don't know Handedness.

Wow, that's a good.

I saw that.

That Silver Sluggers.

But what threw me was 3.

396 home runs and only 2, 000 hits.

What did you say his average was?308.308.

That's.

Yeah.

That's incredible.

He could hit.

But the.

The no Gold Gloves kind of goes hand in hand with that because he was not a defense first guy.

That's for sure.

But wow.

And how he got drafted, man.

Yeah.

Down there.

50Th a great story.

62.

62 round.

62nd round.

Godfather is Tommy La Sorter.

Yep.

These are good questions.

And it's even stopping me.

All right, let me.

Let me just double check this.

I think that sounds right.

No, that's crazy.

No, they're saying.

Okay, there's baseball reference has.

Of course.

Baseball reference.

Maybe counting other.

I. I don't Know, I came from a couple of different sources.

Baseball Reference has 427 home runs and.

But still still 21, 27 hits.

Yeah.

That's.

Wow.

So then he's getting later in the years which you have.

He would have been a DH maybe, huh?

I think.

Yeah.

He was a.

Mainly a DH for then.

So Wonder Seattle, Chicago did he played.

For the Dodgers, the Mets, the Marlins, the Padres and Padres and the A's.

Okay, okay.

So that put him in.

I thought he was gonna be a lifetime.

I put him in both leagues, so.

Yeah.

Down in 98.

He played for the Dodgers, the Marlins and the Mets.

I remember when he was with the Dodgers.

That's crazy.

How many days did he play for the Marlins?

He played five games.

Five games?

Yeah.

So there was there the number of people that I had looked up that did some sort of stint with the Mets.

A lot of people in and out of the Mets for different reasons.

Are you talking about me?

You talking about Willis?

All right, here we go.

Here's the next one.

Good one.

Wow, this is hard.

This right handed hitter played for 22 seasons with one team.

He hit 399 home runs.100 or 1582 RBIs.

He had a career batting average of.297 and 3,007 hits.

He earned 10 Gold Gloves, one Silver Slugger and he also won one World Series.

I got, I got what you need.

I'm gonna write down right handed and then George is gonna go, oh, that's not the right hand.

But I don't, I don't know handed.

Everybody got.

Everybody got answers pretty quickly.

So what do you got, Ethan?

I've got Robin Yount.

No, what do you got?

Alkaline.

What do you got?

Cal Ripken.

George wins.

It's Al Kaline.

Mr.

Tiny.

I knew we had 399.

He couldn't get that 4.

400.

No, what happened was they're like this Ethan probably look it up.

It's like eight games.

He.

They were rained out, had hit a home.

Oh, bless his heart.

He couldn't get to 400.

Oh, that's a good one, George.

What?

As opposed to Mike Piazza who won 10 Silver Sluggers.

Al Kaline won 10 Gold Gloves.

Right.

That guy could play.

Yeah, that was pretty good.

That's crazy.

Yeah.

Wow.

The other night was Dale Murphy had 398 or something like that.

Is it?

So the.

So we've got them from all eras.

We've got.

We've got them from all over this.

So it's, it's kind Of.

What's the score, George?

Two and a half.

Two one to one.

What do you mean two?

All right.

About that half.

Unfortunately, as I'm looking through here, Ethan, we come.

We come a little more current before we end.

But yeah, you're gonna have to get with it.

You're going a couple decades before, all.

Right, you were very arrogant.

This left handed hitter played for 18 seasons with three different teams.

He hit 118 home runs, 1014 RBIs.

He had 27th best batting average with 328.

So he ranks 27th on the batting average list with 328 and 3010 hits.

He earned two Gold Gloves, eight Silver Sluggers and he also won one World Series.

Who was it?

Was he an outfielder?

Always had to be in the hall of Fame though.

He's a.

He's left handed, this guy definitely.

Oh, he's left.

He's left handed.

This guy definitely won an MVP though.

I will read it one more time.

Man.

This left handed hitter played for 18 seasons with three different teams.

He hit 118 home runs, 1014 RBIs.

And he had.

He ranks 27th on.

On the best career batting average list with 328 and 3010 hits.

He earned two Gold Gloves, eight Silver Sluggers, and he also won one World Series.

He was an infielder.

Doesn't help.

Didn't help me.

I know mine's wrong, but I can't think of a better option.

I'll just.

I'll just.

Okay.

We gotta get something.

I got something.

I put Rod Carew.

That's what I have.

Is it?

See Rod?

I'm getting ready.

That kind of looks like Rod grew.

I'll give it to you.

What do you got, buddy?

You got to choose one of those.

Those are some good choices right there.

But you got to choose one.

Today would be a good day.

Ah, man, you're wrong.

They didn't win no World Series.

I'll go with Don Mattingly.

Oh, no.

Okay.

That was good.

You were so close.

It was Wade Boggs.

Hold on, I had it written down.

I'll just.

He had Wade Boggs and Don Mattingly.

Wow, that's a good one.

Don't get all three.

You were so close.

Yes.

Hold on.

I wrote it down.

I had both of them.

I was like, okay.

Wade Boggs played with the Red Sox, the, the Yankees, the Yankees and the Devil Rays.

And he was part.

Yeah, he was part of the Yankees World series team in 1996.

And I took it off.

Wow.

And yeah, and he's a tricky one because he's a.

He's a hits guy, not a power guy.

He had a whopping 24 stolen bases.

Well, we were both wrong with the same answer.

I know.

That makes me feel better.

I should have won that.

But you don't trust your Jesuit, sir.

I didn't that time.

Rod Carew has an MVP, doesn't he?

He.

Yes.

77.

Same year that George won.

Oh, that's a good one.

For the ones who don't know, yes, we are in the Sports Illustrated together.

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And it sure would be cool if it matched.

Well, wouldn't it be great if you had a glove guy who could help you out with that?

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Okay, we're gonna, gonna go a little further back for this one.

Oh, no.

Okay, so I'm, I'm already telling you we're going back.

Okay.

All right.

This left handed hitter played for 17 seasons with four teams, including one team in two different locations.

Hmm.

He hit.502.

Home run or.512 home runs and 1453 RBIs.

He had a career batting average of.271 and 2315 hits.

He earned zero Gold Gloves and zero Silver Sluggers because neither existed until after he retired.

And he also won one World Series.

You said left handed.

That I. I'm now realizing that that does not help me at all.

It does me.

Sorry.

Hey, one World Series.

Put a list and just.

You might just close your eyes.

You might just put one answer down, Rick.

That way you don't have to choose.

You should have put Don Boggs.

I'll give you one more time.

This left handed hitter played for 17 seasons with four teams, including one team in two different locations.

He hit 4.512 home runs and 1453 RBIs.

He had a career batting average of.271 with 2.315 hits.

He earned 0 Gold Gloves and 0 Silver Sluggers because neither award existed until after he retired.

And he also won one World Series.

That one there may eliminate.

My God.

So about my guy.

Nothing in the world, Rick.

Today.

Dodgers West.

Parker.

I'm thinking wrong.

It had to be someone that played.

For two different locations.

The Dodgers and the Giants.

Yeah, Dodgers in the Washington.

There's another team.

Watch Senators.

There's another team though.

The Expos.

No.

Yeah, that.

That's the team.

But there's another team.

I'm gonna go with.

Oh, I got Nah.

Okay.

Oh, my fault, my fault, my fault.

Hold on.

Respect the whiteboard.

Rick, hold up.

I am, man.

Ethan, we need to add the next one.

They get a timer him and spell it right.

What you got?

I got hank greenberg.

That's what I was going to say.

Eddie matthews.

Reggie jackson.

George.

Got it.

Yeah.

Yes.

But Eddie Matthew played for.

Yeah, he played for the Boston Braves.

Yes.

Oh, the Boston.

And then the Milwaukee Braves.

Okay.

But then they also became the Atlanta.

So that one actually went in three degrees.

Yes, but the word location.

Right?

Yeah.

So you were thinking about Milwaukee and Atlanta.

Like, like Hank, I didn't know Boston.

Yeah, yeah.

So.

Yeah, I know.

We have 512.

He started with the Boston Braves and went to the Milwaukee Braves.

He also played for the Astros and for the Tigers.

And he was part of the Milwaukee Braves World Series winning team of 1957.

Yeah, and he's.

He's a fascinating guy.

Yeah.

Eddie Matthews.

Yeah.

Yes.

Because he.

16 stolen bases.

Is that more than you, George?

No, I had 51.

Okay.

He was pretty.

He was a pretty good at defense, wasn't he?

Yeah, I thought he was known for his.

Yeah.

So maybe a couple Golden Gloves.

Had that been a power.

All right, here we go.

The next one.

This left handed hitter played for 22 seasons with one team.

He hit 511 home runs and.

And 1,860 RBIs.

He had a career batting average of.304 with 2,876 hits.

He earned zero Gold Gloves and zero Silver Sluggers because neither award existed until after he retired.

He did win one World Series.

All right, you got to run through it again, because the awards thing threw me back.

All right.

Left handed hitter.

He played for 22 seasons with one team.

He hit 511 home runs, 1,860 RBIs.

He had a career batting average of.304 and 2,876 hits.

He earned zero Gold Gloves, zero Silver Sluggers, and he did win one World Series.

And I will tell you that the team that he played for for his entire career is no longer in existence in that form.

That form.

That's okay.

I gotta narrow it down.

I'll just end with that.

I know it's meaning.

Meaning.

Meaning that location.

Okay, thank you.

What are they?

They're a minor league team now know that.

They're.

They're still.

They're still a team with the same mascot.

It's not a mascot.

He would know mascots.

You know, I'm saying like silt.

Same team thing, but it's not in the same location.

Not triplets, but you're talking 1926 to 1947.

Oh, I'm wrong then.

Yeah.

I'll ballpark it, because this one's tough.

Although it is a very famous baseball name.

A very short famous baseball name.

Oh, I got it.

Hold on.

I thought I gotta.

No, what's his name?

I don't know.

I got.

I've got something.

He also had 29 stolen bases.

I'm wrong, but I.

Okay, Ethan, what you got?

Is it Hack Wilson?

What do you got?

Hack Wilson?

I was gonna say Harmon Killer road, but then you said.

What did you say about.

Oh, yeah, the 27.

Hack Wilson.

Okay, there you go.

I had it.

You said he had a short name, right?

Yep.

Mel.

I.

It is Mel.

Oh, wow.

Mel Odd played for the New York.

He had a son, right?

He played for the New York Giants.

Yes.

Wow.

The New York Baseball Giants.

There are still giants.

5 11.

New York anymore.

Yeah, not the 5 11.

Night.

How many did Harmon Killebrew have?

When he said short name?

That tipped me off.

But it threw me when he named the years.

I said, yeah, yeah, when he named the year.

Yeah.

But.

Well, harmon Killebrew won MVP in 69.

So that.

That throws him out.

Yeah, I was out.

I was.

When he said he had a.

What did you say?

Short.

Short name.

Short name.

That there.

That was my clue right there.

Short, famous name.

That was my clue right there.

This is interesting.

The.

The.

The most.

The.

The closest that Mel Ott ever came to winning MVP was 1942.

He came in third.

The guy that won MVP that year was Mort Cooper, who's a pitcher.

I've never heard of Mort Cooper.

Second was Enos Slaughter.

I've heard of him, yes.

Enos Slaughter.

But.

Yeah, Mel Ott came in third, lost to Mort Cooper.

How about that?

Way to go, Mort and Mortars.

That's so funny.

What are the odds?

All right, we'll do one more and then we're gonna.

Then we're gonna do a little break before we do the what's your score Final.

The others.

What's your score?

She got about three, dude.

George has three, Rick has two, I have one.

I can sit this one out.

Well, come.

We'll come back.

We'll come closer.

That's my problem.

Yeah, we're gonna come closer in history for Ethan.

So benefit here.

This switch hitter played for 19 seasons with two different teams.

He hit 28 home runs.

What?

And 793 RBIs.

No, this is a Hall of Famer.

This is what.

This is what Chat Gbt said.

I'll go wrong.

He had a career batting average of.262 and hit 2,360 hits.

How many voted on him Now?

I will go.

I'm gonna go double check this because I'm not.

28 home runs.

He earned 13 Gold Gloves, one Silver Slugger and had 580 stolen bases.

What are you playing?

1874.

So right.

That's what you said.

You gotta be current.

Let me go back here.

Hold on.

28 home runs.

I'm looking at this going.

That didn't make any sense.

Hold on.

What?

Let's go.

Let's talk about practice.

Let's go to baseball references.

Get the real numbers here.

This is supposed to be for Speedy Gonzalez, 13 Globe.

But what got him into the hall of Fame?

Okay.

Did he see with his relatives, the Boaters?

Oh, he said a switch hitter.

No, that's right.

It's right.

He hit 28 home runs.

Okay, okay.

28 home runs.

793 RBIs.

262 batting average.

2,460 hits is what Baseball Reference has.

And 580 stolen bases.

262.

That couldn't be him.

I just.

But he won 13 Gold Gloves and one Silver Slugger and one World Series.

Thirteen Gold Gloves.

Oh, okay.

No word.

That couldn't be true.

I was gonna say it was a picture, but a picture didn't get that many hits.

I was.

I also thought it might be a pitcher.

28.

He is an infielder.

Yeah, he's an infielder.

Yes.

I think I got it.

Yeah, I spelled it wrong, but I got it.

Oh, that.

That's probably right.

Ethan, what you got?

I put Turkey Sterns.

I had no idea.

I don't even know what I got.

Lou Alicio, what do you got?

Nobody.

Yeah, I don't have anyone.

No guess at all.

I didn't.

Cruz.

It had to be someone play second base.

Wait, hold on.

This is.

I already said it.

Is it Bill Mazeroski?

No, no, no.

No clue.

It's Ozzy Smith.

I had it down and I erased it.

Yes, I did.

Trust your gut.

Oh, man, I did.

I had Ozzy Smith down and I.

28 home runs and 700.

Yeah, when I looked that up, I'm like, these are terrible hitting numbers.

And then I saw.

Oh, he had 580 stolen bases, but I thought.

Had it when he said 13 golden gloves.

Yeah, 580 stolen bases.

He was.

He was defense and base stealing.

I twice.

I mean, erase my appreciator.

Had you had to been over 300, though.

I'm sure.

I don't know.

I don't know much about it.

I just know.

I mean, when you.

When you think about Ozzie Smith, you only think defense.

I mean, the guy was just.

He was.

We should have with 28 home runs.

Like, we go way back.

George.

George.

I got to hand it to you, though, because Luis Louis Aparicio is a fantastic guest because he had 83 home runs, 506 stolen bases.

He never won an MVP and he's in the hall of Fame.

That's a fantastic.

That's a great.

I thought I had it for sure.

Wow.

I had.

Greg gave me the ice.

Yeah.

I didn't.

I have Aussies.

You did earlier.

Early on, I had.

I had Wade Bogs, too.

What made you erase it?

What was.

What was your.

What made you think it wasn't it?

No, it was on a different question that he wrote Ozzy Smith.

No, it was on this one.

Was it?

And.

Yeah, and I erased it off and.

Ah, man, you got to believe that's twice.

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Real quick, can you run down Ozzy Smith's numbers one by one so we can compare them to Louis Apparitio?

Because I'm kind of, kind of blown away.

I'm gonna do this from Baseball Reference just to make sure.

That's fine.

But do the numbers that, that you had that you gave us.

Okay, so as you said, 19 years.

Hold on.

Yeah, hold on, let me get here.

He played Cardinals 19 years.

Okay.

Apparitio played 18 years.

Okay, two teams.

Apparitio played for three teams.

He had 28 home runs, 83 home runs.

Almost the exact opposite.

Yeah.

793 RBI, 791 RBI.

Career batting average of.262.

Exact same.

Exact.262.

2,360 hits, 26, 77, 13 Gold Gloves, nine Gold Gloves.

One Silver Slugger.

No Silver Slugger.

580 stolen bases.506.

And one World Series.

And one World Series.

Oh, that was darn close.

That's incredible.

Wow.

That's incredible.

Pretty good, man.

I reached back.

Ozzy won a World Series with the Cardinals.

I remember that.

1982.

Yeah.

1 in 66 with the Orioles.

Yeah.

Okay.

Wow.

They played Kansas City, I believe.

How about that too?

Kansas City and both shortstops too.

But anyway.

All right, that's, that's my mind blown.

Ozzy Smith down.

I race that off.

All right, we'll come forward a little bit for Ethan here.

Thank goodness.

Okay.

This right handed hitter played for 21 seasons with four different teams.

He hit.473 home runs and 1,707 RBIs.

He had a career batting average of.286 and 3,166 hits.

He earned five Gold Gloves and four Silver Sluggers, but he never won a World Series.

Right handed hitter.

21 years.

21 years.

This right handed hitter played for 21 seasons with four different teams.

He hit.473 home runs and 1707 RBIs.

He had a career batting average of.286 and 3166 hits.

He earned five Gold Gloves, four Silver Sluggers, but he never won a World Series.

You said four teams.

Yes, He played in both leagues.

And he was an infielder.

Yeah, I figured.

No, I figured he was.

Okay, now that changed me.

Right handed hitter.

Don't erase it.

I have to.

Can we get a.

Can we get a date range?

That would.

That would.

Yeah, that would give it away.

I can tell you.

He had 63 stolen bases.

Oh, yeah, that changed that bit more than me.

Both legs.

Right handed hitter.

Right.

Right.

And threw left.

Over 400 home runs.

473.

With over a thousand RBI.

3,000.

Over 3,000 hits.

Over how much of your childhood?

Over 3,000 hits.

And how many different teams?

Four.

Oh.

Ooh.

Oh.

You know, which surprised me because I didn't see the fourth one coming when I.

When I.

This up.

Oh, okay.

I didn't realize he played with all the teams.

He did.

Good gas fit.

Wrong.

Sorry.

Yeah, I don't.

I'm guessing on this one.

You've been guessing all of them.

All right, Ethan, we got Miguel Cabrera.

We got Beltray, we got Roberto Alomar.

It is Adrian Bel.

It is definitely Bel.

Man.

Adrian Beltray.

I had that for one of my.

Yeah, yeah.

Wow.

Wow, wow.

Play third base.

Yeah, Third base for the Dodgers, the.

Mariners, the Rangers and Rangers.

Rangers.

I didn't realize he was a Ranger.

Yeah, that's where he spent.

I'm sorry, Not.

Not Ranger.

I didn't realize he was a Mariner.

Well, yes, he was a.

He was a Mariner that one year, I think, when they won the World Series, wasn't it?

No, no, no, no.

That's right.

He didn't win a World.

No, there's a.

There's a.

There's a great YouTube video.

I'll.

I'll link it on about how good Adrian Beltray actually was.

And he came in second in 2004 to Barry Bonds.

Yeah.

Because it's almost impossible to win an MVP When Barry Bonds is playing.

But he actually hit more home runs than Bonds that year.

He had 48 home runs and 121 RBIs to Bonds.

45 home runs and 101 RBI.

Beltre had the misfortune of being on the list of for MVP when other people were just having freakish years.

I mean, you look at a guy.

But in that same year he beat out Albert Pujoles in MVP voting.

I mean, and that was when he was with the Dodgers.

Okay.

Man, what a legendary player.

Yeah.

Not really talked about much.

No, no, not at all.

Not at all.

I didn't realize Guerrero, he was so good.

Yeah, yeah.

I knew Migo Cabrera wasn't right.

Which.

They only played with two teams.

Which Guerrero.

Oh, the diet.

Oh, the dad.

Yeah.

And Beltray started when he was 19, which is.

Yeah, I remember.

Yeah, man.

I don't remember a lot of his.

1998-2018.

He was a Ranger for long time.

Long time for the.

When I was watching ball.

And then he played with the Red Sox for one year.

Yep.

Man.

Okay.

This left handed hitter played for 20 seasons with two different teams.

He hit 541 home runs and 1,768 RBIs.

He had a career batting average of.286 and 2.

200472 hits.

He earned zero Gold Gloves.

But he did win seven Silver Sluggers and he also won three World Series.

Left handed hitter.

And he's the only one on this.

List that played this position.

I know, I know.

See, well, I can't.

I can't really say that.

Other people may have.

May.

May have played that same position, but not like this.

Read that again.

Left handed hitter.

Of course he's a left handed hitter.

He played for 20 seasons with two different teams.

He hit 541 home runs and 1,768 RBIs.

He had a career batting average of.286 with 2,472 hits.

He earned zero Gold Gloves, but he did win seven Silver Sluggers and he also won World Series.

I think I might actually have this one.

Andy had seven stolen bases.

Yeah, seven.

I think I might have this one.

Okay, I'll let Ethan have this one.

You got one, Rick.

Yeah, but I raised.

That's it.

How many did you erase?

Yeah, Let us select what you erase.

Okay.

Rick's got two.

Which one are you going.

You gotta go.

You go first, Rick.

Yeah.

Albert Pujols.

You're gonna freak out when I tell you who this is.

Did you say Left handed.

Yeah.

Left.

It's David.

David Ortiz.

Who you got?

You're right.

I said, yeah, Goddle.

It is the big puppy.

Yes.

Good job, man.

Good job.

He's the only.

The reason why I say he's the only one who played this position is he's the only one who.

DH was his official position.

Yeah.

And he played with Minnesota.

Wrong.

I mean, he played first.

He did play a little bit.

The clue was wrong.

He did.

But for the vast majority of his career, okay.

All he did was hit.

And he was amazing at it.

Yeah.

First base.

When he was with Minnesota.

Yes.

I couldn't remember if he had gotten into the hall of Fame or not, but that was very recent.

Very recent.

Played with the Twins.

With three years with the Twins and the Red Sox.

Yeah.

The World Series was the.

Was the giveaway for.

For me because, I mean, how many guys have won three or more, you know, and it's not very many.

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They were.

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Okay, what's our score?

I've got four.

Rick has two.

George has four.

Oh, George, where's two times two?

Okay, so I have one more question left.

Which means I won and George won.

Yeah.

I get a bonus.

Now I get the question.

Rick's car.

This question will decide who comes in second and how big George's butt whooping is.

On the rest of you, wait, wait, wait.

You guys, remember, he hasn't come up with us yet.

No.

If you guys want to know the answer, you can pay me.

Everybody has heard this name.

I will guarantee it to you.

Okay?

This is not like some old dead ball guy.

Okay?

All right, here we go.

This left handed hitter played for 22 seasons with five different teams.

He ranks eighth all time in home runs with 612.

He had 1,699 RBI.

He had a career batting average of.276 with 2.327 hits.

He earned zero Gold Gloves, one Silver Slugger.

But he never unfortunately won a World Series.

He also had 19 stolen bases.

Oh, man.

600 home runs.

Yes, and 612.

612 home runs and one Silver Slugger.

I forgot his name, but I know I can see him now.

This left handed hitter played for 22 seasons with five different teams.

He ranks eighth all time in home runs with 612 and had 1,699 RBIs.

He had a career batting average of.276 and 2,327 hits.

He earned zero Gold Gloves, one Silver Slugger, but he never won a World Series.

Can you give us a date, Ranger?

No.

Yes.

Well, we can give old guy.

No.

During your lifetime.

Okay.

Thank you, but no.

He.

The whole career wasn't during your lifetime, but he played during your life.

That's fine.

I'll take it, man.

And both because I mean, your lifetime is like this big so far.

So you know.

Yeah.

Both of you name.

He had teammates that both of you guys have named.

Oh, George.

Throwing out hints.

Look at him.

I want you to win.

He's so confident.

He's throwing out hits.

Yes, throwing out hints.

It's not Roger Mares.

He did not play during my lifetime.

Also played in both leagues.

That's for two teams.

No, he played for five different teams.

Five.

I don't think this is.

I don't know what the last league.

And I did mention him.

No Gold Gloves.

Yep.

One Silver Slugger.

How a guy hits 612 home runs?

It has one Silver Slugger.

How many years did he play?

16, 22 seasons.

I'm gonna have a headache after this.

Not that many guys hit 600 home runs.

Right.

George probably has that list tattooed on him somewhere.

Yeah, I have that.

But this guy like you say, how many guys.

Hold on, hold on.

No, no, I'm just saying how many guys reach that plateau?

Over 600 home runs.

I know.

And left handed.

He was an infielder.

Oh, no.

You don't know.

What in the world.

And he fielded and hit left handed.

Mm.

It wasn't fast, obviously.

He had 19 stolen bases.

Well, maybe they want to get his uniform dirty.

Okay, this is.

I'm just getting run.

I'm just getting more confused.

He was okay.

No, I'm definitely.

No more hands.

No more hands.

They gotta.

They gotta come up with something.

They gotta come up with.

That guy didn't play 22 seasons.

Can you give him one more?

He played mostly for a team that change their name.

Well, yeah, but I wasn't going there.

Okay.

Oh, I know exactly who it is.

George.

I want it beats in the win.

Hey, Rick's got the same hint.

I've got the answer.

I'm thinking, see, he wasn't gonna get an answer anyway.

No, I probably wouldn't.

No.

Because this.

This is ridiculous.

George just.

George just handing out answers over here.

Yay.

Pay me.

Oh, he's a infielder.

You have.

You have.

You have the correct position.

Yeah, first basement.

I know that I'm.

My mind went blank.

I got my mind made up.

Well, it's gota.

It's got to come up with something because.

All right, I'll let them go.

No, we're done.

Everybody's got to do it.

Oh, y.

You finished?

You guys are finished?

I finished before we started.

I think I've got it.

Well, Ethan has it.

He had more than he has played.

Don't change it during Ethan's lifetime.

All right.

That's a tricky one because I never watched this dude play.

Not I know of.

Well, it's because he's fine.

I can't give you a hint because.

His time in the American League.

That's why.

Oh, I didn't.

Okay, who we have then?

I'll give you a hint.

George is like bubbling over.

Yes.

Okay.

I'm.

I know somebody.

Hank Greenberg, man.

It is Jim play with.

That makes Alber Bell.

Jim Tomi played with the Indians, the Phillies, the White Sox, the Twins and the Orioles.

Yeah.

So the Phillies are what got him in the National League.

Yeah.

I didn't know he played with the Phil.

Okay.

Yep, he did.

That's where he retired.

Yeah.

Yeah, we talked about Jim Toy.

Multiple.

Multiple times.

Multiple episodes.

But that guy, he.

Let's see.

He didn't get a lot of publicity, though.

No.

The highest Cleveland.

The highest he ever came in MVP voting was fourth behind guess who.

Barry Bonds and Albert Pouholz.

And that year he hit more home runs than Barry Bonds and had.

Okay, okay, hold on, hold on, hold on.

Yeah, but let's.

Hold on.

Let's take a look at this.

2000.

2003.

Oh, my gosh.

2003 MVP voting.

Okay, Barry Bonds won.

He had the highest war.

Yeah.

He had 45 home runs, 90 RBIs, 148 walks.

So he also led an on base slugging and ops, number two.

Number two was Albert Pujols.

He had.

He led the league in runs with 137, led the league in hits with 212, 43 home runs, 124 RBIs.

Led the league in batting average with 359.

He came in second.

Gary Sheffield came in third.

Gary Sheffield as a Brave.

Whoa.

Yeah.

With 39, 39 home runs, 132 RBIs, batted.330.

Man, that's crazy.

Number four is Jim Tomi with 47 home runs.

So he led the league in home runs.

One hundred and thirty one RBIs.

And that was when he was with the.

With the Phillies.

Yeah, so that was his best.

His best year was the time he was with the Phillies.

But it was consistent over all those years, too, man.

Yeah, he was just a powerhouse, kind.

Of Sammy Sosa, he never went.

I mean, a home run title, kind.

Of Maguire, kind of a Mike Schmidt kind of guy.

But never, never had the MVPs.

But, yeah, man, that's played with five teams.

He really jumped around toward the end there.

Although I will say I watched an interview with Chipper Jones one time.

He was talking about how they were.

They were playing one of the teams that Tommy played for, and there was a fight that broke out on the field and he said he ran out there to try and get in the fight.

He said, I went to try and run into the thing, and next thing I knew, I was up against the fence.

And Jim Tomey had me by the throat and back and pushed me up against the backstop and told me that I was going to turn around and head back to the dugout.

And I said, yes, sir.

I believe that.

He said, where you going, boy?

He said, that was terrifying.

Now, the one guy we didn't mention that I tried to guess because I thought he'd be on this list was Robin Yount.

Yeah.

Mostly left handers.

Yeah.

But he's another Guy who made the.

Hall of fame over 3,000 hits and Paul Molitor.

Did Paul Molitor win an MVP?

No.

No.

Gang close.

Oh, yes.

Robin.

Robin yacht won an MVP.

He won it twice.

82 and 89.

I had no.

Okay.

And then when he was in the.

American League, I was misinformed.

I bought still an underrated career.

I'll throw it up to Rob.

Yes, very underrated start played from.

From he was 18 to 37.

That's.

That's crazy.

Then Paul Molitor.

Yeah, Paul Molitor.

How many home runs did Chipper Jones ended up with?

I would say in the 3, 4, 300.

Because every time you say switch hitter, my.

The first guy in my head is Chipper Jones.

Paul molitor was the MVP of the World Series in 1993, but never won a regular.

No, that's what I did.

I did this by.

Never won an MVP award, period.

Ah, okay.

Paul Mol would have been another really good one, though.

Yes.

So.

Because I wanted to throw those like, All Star Game, World Series, that kind of thing in there.

Because that's not.

That's not, you know, the same kind of voting as everything else.

So any of these guys could have shown up and been Mr. October or.

Or Mr. July and won like, like George was the MVP in 1976 for the All Star Game.

You know, you could have done that.

Chipper finished with four.

Did they give you some flowers?

Okay.

Which is way more.

Did you get.

Receive flowers?

We talking about.

Nobody did a really cool.

A really cool interview after the game.

I watched.

I watched that All Star Game and they came up and they were like, so what about.

He's like, just, you know, I helped.

The team and I hit the ball and.

All right, see you guys.

Oh, time.

It was.

He was a man of very few words.

I was disappointed because I thought the commissioner was going to give me the trouble.

Oh, is that what it was like.

What are you doing here?

That's really interesting.

So the three of the guys that really stuck out, I wondered if there would be a theme.

And you got a good mix of guys because you get guys like Jeter and Ozzy and I know we had to cut it out, but Tony Gwynn, those are all hits guys.

And I know those guys sometimes don't get all the.

All the fame and glory, but then you also got Rod Carew, David Or.

And Rod Carew.

Yeah.

You also get David Ortiz and Jim Tomi, big power guys that never managed to get.

So it was when I, When I.

That's typed that question in.

And I saw the list that came up.

I'm like, okay, this has to be it.

Yeah.

Because there's such interesting stories on that list.

Yeah.

So, yeah, if you're ever looking for a really good baseball trivia topic, this one's a good one.

That is cool.

I got that.

That's pretty cool.

But George ended up coming away.

I went ahead and gave him a point because he gave me the point that, yeah, George finished.

I should have won that.

Actually, you know, I would have erased those two.

Okay.

I was looking, I was trying to get some feedback from George, but he kept turning his head this way.

What's the.

Whether you believe you can or you can't.

You're right.

What you was gonna say gave me Andrew Jackson.

You didn't give me nothing.

Learn to play with confidence.

But I got a good trivia.

Okay, go ahead.

So this guy broke up a no hitter 81 times.

It's Ricky Henderson.

Oh, yes.

That's easy.

It's not easy.

I almost came, I almost came with.

With legendary pitchers who never want to cy young.

That could be next season.

But that, that's, that's also a very interesting list.

It's more interesting than you might think.

It's actually interesting.

But I thought in the beginning, go say name.

Name guys in the hall of Fame that did not win an mvp.

So I had a lot of pitchers.

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What, what's everybody got planned for the off season here?

What are you doing for the off season, Rick?

Just training inside.

He's got hybrid.

He's got to work on his car.

Hibernate.

No carburetors.

Yeah, work out some more, man.

Yeah, that's what I'll probably.

What about, what about you?

I'm gonna hang out with Rick, you know.

Yeah, man, come over to the garage, man.

But I'm still on my rehab from two years ago heart procedure, but okay.

Doing a lot of walking, working on my golf swing even though inside and play a little tennis.

And this is, this is new to me.

So my younger daughter is going to have a baby.

So I'm going to be a grandpa.

I gotta figure out what I want him to call me like Paw Paw.

Gramps.

Paw Paw.

There was a guy.

There was a guy who had.

He and his wife had grandchildren in our child care center and she was nana and he was G. Popped.

There's another.

There's a kid up there right now.

His.

He calls his grandpa dude.

Oh, dude, I like that.

Hey, dude.

So anyway, well, congratulations, George.

That's fantastic.

That's so exciting.

I will tell you from personal experience, grandchildren are amazing.

Now where, where does she live though?

She lives out of town, right?

She's in D.C. planning on moving.

Moving here in D.C. right now.

Oh, well, that'll be cool.

Ethan, what do you got planned for the off season, man?

Trying to keep my kids in one piece now.

I'm going to be doing.

Taking a little time off right now.

Things are a little bit slow in the off season for bubble wrap for glove.

Using this as an opportunity to.

To recoup before it gets hectic again in the spring.

But that's a good point.

If you have, if you have gloves.

That need to be.

Be worked on or things that you've.

Thought about sending done now you can.

Turnarounds are a lot quicker now than they are right now but it won't.

Last long because high school tryouts around here start in February and it won't be long before those guys start trickling in.

But gloves in gonna take a little time to reset, prep for a good year next year, spend some time with the family and watch a lot.

Watch the packers go to the super bowl.

Hopefully.

I'm at the Packers.

Bengals, man.

The Bengals are going Cowboys if they got tickets.

Yeah, that's, that's my goal.

Spend time with grandkids.

We're also launching some new products and doing things like that.

We're so got some, some of that to work on.

I do firewood as a hobby and in as a small sideline.

So we're gonna be making some, making some firewood sell and yeah, fun stuff, fun stuff like that.

Hopefully enjoying the holidays and having a good time there.

So looking forward to a little off time and then we will be back in the, in the spring with the pitchers and catchers to know what's going on.

So this is something new.

I hadn't passed it by everybody, but I thought I made my own decision.

So next, next season we're going to have who has the best question.

Send the best question, will get a prize.

There you go.

Yeah, get a muffler from.

Parts.Com, right?

Parts.

See that's could be a good sponsor.

You may get a bobblehead.

You may get.

Yes.

Yeah, George Foster.

You never know.

So yeah, next year when you start, start warming up pop Tarts to send in.

We'll, we'll do something like that.

That sounds like fun, George.

That's a good idea.

All right, well, thanks so much for joining us again and thanks for being a part of season one.

We thoroughly appreciate you again.

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