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Baseball Musings
August 15, 2005
Young Triple

The Tigers came back from a 6-3 deficit to beat the Red Sox in the bottom of the ninth. One of the big hits was a triple by Dmitri Young, his third of the year. With 27 triples for his career, I wonder if Dmitri is the heaviest player to have that many three-baggers in his career.

Schilling ends up giving up four hits and three runs in an inning of work. His relief ERA is now 5.48. That's still better than Foulke's 6.23


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If Curt's last name was Schmidt instead of Schilling, he would not be closing for the Sox. He has been awful... If you watch the games, even the ones he saves or wins have been nail-biting nightmares. This experiment should end. I'd rather Schill were down in Pawtucket getting himself in shape to return as a starter than this clumsy attempt to be a closer.

Posted by: Hudson at August 15, 2005 11:05 PM

I'll give Curt one thing- whatever he does, he sure does in dramatic fashion- good or bad.

Posted by: Pete at August 16, 2005 09:40 AM

schilling appears as if he is incapable of wasting pitches, especially with 0-2 counts. he's been getting rocked in this situation by coming right at the hitter. as a starter it makes sense due to pitch counts, but as a closer/reliever its foolish, as evidenced by his performance. i wonder how varitek feels about this. however, more importantly his stuff just isnt there. at this rate he's not going to be back in the rotation this year

Posted by: scott at August 16, 2005 01:29 PM

My guess would be that George Hermen Ruth was the heaviest player with the most triples in his career. Baseball-Reference.com lists his career triples at 136. Also, the site lists both Young's and Ruth's weights at 215lb. Not very likely that either Young or the Bambino finished their careers at that weight. This reminds me of something I read in Bill James New Historical Baseball Abstract. For each decade, he listed the heaviest player. When he listed Cecil Fielder as the heaviest player of the 90’s at 250lb he wondered what it would have been with both feet on the scale.

Posted by: Jack Greene at August 16, 2005 02:38 PM

Pictures of Ruth from the early twenties and before show a pretty lean, mean athlete...not at all the bottle shape of later years. Ruth had four double-digit triples years in the 1918-23 period. Even when he got a lot heavier, he still managed some respectable numbers: nine as late as 1930.

Outfielders' positioning and more distant fences might have had something to do with this. Though I reckon the outfielders played deeper for Ruth than anybody else, even in the closing stages of the deadball era.

Cecil somehow collected seven triples for his career, which is maybe six more than I would have guessed.

Posted by: Casey Abell at August 16, 2005 04:17 PM

I think it was a decent idea originally, just look at Kerry Wood's success in the pen. He may be reinventing/saving his career right now. Then again, Schilling and Wood had very different injuries.

Posted by: The Roto Authority at August 16, 2005 05:07 PM

If we are looking for the career record for triples for men listed at over 215 lbs, its got to be Roger Conner doesn't it? I'd bet dollars to donuts he's over 200 but I don't have time to look it up.

Candidates for over 27 at over 215 in the modern era:

Fatty Fothergill

Ernie Lombardi

Ted Kluszewski

Frank Howard

Fothergill, Klu, and Hondo were fast men in their youth, and though elephantine, Lombardi hit the ball so hard it must have rolled around the outfield wall forever sometimes...

Posted by: john swinney at August 16, 2005 08:45 PM
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