Good morning!
As Josh and James discussed on Friday's Sox Machine podcast, it seems that Garrett Crochet may be a bit harder to move than anticipated. For Sporcle Saturday purposes (and fans who enjoy watching good pitching), that's not entirely a bad thing. You see: Crochet currently sits on 157 strikeouts as I type this Friday afternoon, and, should he remain with the organization into the offseason would almost certainly cross the 200-strikeout threshold.
That would mark just the second time in franchise history that the White Sox will have had at least one pitcher record a 200-strikeout season four years running (the other being 2013-2016). For today’s Sporcle, I’m lowering the strikeout threshold to pitchers who have logged 170+ strikeouts in a season (not enough 200-K seasons to make a quiz with all that many names). In all, that’s 53 player-seasons: how many can you name? Good luck!
Quiz Parameters
- I’ve allotted 10 minutes for completion attempts.
- For hints, I’ve provided the season and the number of strikeouts.
Useless information to amaze, annoy, confuse, and/or confound your friends and family:
- The longest gap of 170K seasons in franchise history? From 1916 through 1952, no White Sox pitcher accomplished the feat.
- The longest streak of at least one White Sox pitcher recording such a season is 8, from 1905-1912.
- The highest ERA of the pitchers on this list is 4.87 (1985), while the lowest is 1.27 (1910).
All data from stathead.com
