Which is basically like 4 strikeouts a month or 1 a week and that’s itan average of 21 strikeouts a season
Tony Gwynn was the human made up Sportscenter fact
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For Soto to be anywhere near Tony Gwynn lets me know what a savant he is too:
Juan Soto Average With Two Strike | StatMuse
Juan Soto has a .269 batting average with 2+ strikes this season.
EDIT: baseball reference says Soto is only hitting .132 with an 0-2 count
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Edit: I didn't know that this thread was exclusively related to Tony Gwynn. I thought it was about quirky sports facts which is why I included the Walter Payton info.
Walter Payton retired from pro football as the all time rushing leader, which everyone knew. What a lot of people don't know is that he also retired with the all times receptions record and receiving yards record for running backs. He also threw 8 touchdowns to no interceptions over his career and he was the Bears backup punter, backup field goal kicker, backup kick returner and emergency backup quarterback. He was also considered among the best blocking backs in NFL history and there is an actual Lawrence Taylor story about a block Payton threw against him.
Walter Payton retired from pro football as the all time rushing leader, which everyone knew. What a lot of people don't know is that he also retired with the all times receptions record and receiving yards record for running backs. He also threw 8 touchdowns to no interceptions over his career and he was the Bears backup punter, backup field goal kicker, backup kick returner and emergency backup quarterback. He was also considered among the best blocking backs in NFL history and there is an actual Lawrence Taylor story about a block Payton threw against him.
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Padres weren’t that good back then. I think Ken Caminiti was batting clean up? I don’t really remember them having much firepower back then. And he only stayed around because of his loyalty, he was born and raised in the area, etc. imagine him on the Braves or Yankees in the 90s. Or him batting second and Griffey batting 3rd? Him on that Mariners squad with Griffey and Randy Johnson would have won the World Series
Tony didnt walk alot
Didnt get alot of doubles
So someone that bats damn near a 100pts less with more doubles and walks OBP is just as good if not better
Great player and hitter. But give me dudes with a higher slug any day over batting avg ala like Jeff Bagwell
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Damn Nolan Ryan had him pretty figured out, at least compared to everybody else
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Nolan has video game freak facts as well lol
For both good and bad (walking batters). He actually has more no hitters than he has complete games without walking a better.
He’s by far ahead with 5,714 strikeouts. 2nd place is Randy Johnson at 4.875.
He also walked 2,795 batters. He’s 52% ahead of the 2nd place Steve Carlton, at 1,833.
Somehow his arm held up for so long with throwing all these pitches, so many strikeouts and walks, and throwing the fastest pitch in the game.
He also has the record for most punches landed on Robin Ventura’s head.
He does. Nolan, Gwynn, Ruth, Bonds, and now Ohtani are some of the guys with freak facts in baseballNolan has video game freak facts as well lol
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Seems like only Randy Johnson had success against him. Only 12 plate appearances though.
He was 1-12 with 4 Ks in 12 plate appearances against Randy Johnson in his career.