Worst Baseball Players Ever
Baseball scholars are still trying to figure out how Bill Bergen managed to stick around for over 2500 at bats while hitting .170 with 2 HRs.
Billy Beane 1984-1989 .246 career OBP- “Moneyball” was not subtitled “The Career of Billy Beane”
Tony Suck, 1883-1884 career on base percentage of .205, a career slugging percentage of .161, and zero home runs.
Eli Whiteside 2005, 2009-2012 just because. he’s so bad that Vera rented his boyhood bedroom to J.R. Phillips. ” I wanted a decent player in Eli’s bed”, Vera explained.
J.R. Phillips 1993-1999 The worst 23 HR hitter ever. And it took him 7 years to hit the 20 mark- hit .188 and K’d 180 times in 501 AB.
Tommy Lasorda, 1954-1956 6.48 ERA in 26 games over three seasons.
Marv Throneberry, 1955-1963 He once hit a triple, but was called out after missing both first and second base while on his way to third. Jimmy Breslin said: ” Having Marv Throneberry play for your team is like having Willie Sutton work for your bank.”
Mario Mendoza, 1974-1982 A guy whose name is the benchmark for hitting futility has to be on the list. Actually, Mario has been unfailrly maligned, he was .215 hitter. I think he deserves Eli’s bed.
Herb Washington, 1974-1975 Baseball’s only designated runner, he was 31 for 48. He was picked off in the ninth inning of Game 2 of the 1974 World Series, killing an Oakland rally and handing the Dodgers a victory. He never batted, never played in the field.
The Reverend Aloysius Stanislaus Travers, 1912 In his one major league appearance, Travers pitched a complete game, allowing 26 hits and 24 runs
Bill Bergen, 1901-1911 Bergen has the lowest career batting average of any player with 2,500 at bats. He hit .170 with two career home runs.
No post with Lasodra in it is complete without his major contribution to the game:
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
Old one but still one of my favorites this off season. I never get tired of reading about shitty hitters– makes me believe I coulda been one 🙂
Had to put something up fast before the Hayhurst thread got trashed.
Gee, I was just about to post on the previous thread, and here’s a new one already. That’s ok, I didn’t have anything significant to say… :-p But, as much as some players and fans find spring training to be a drag and just can’t wait for the regular season, obviously it IS important, for working out the winter kinks, as Michael quoted, etc., and for fans like me who once lived in very cold places with dreadfully long winters (Boston), it was the first and only real sign of spring, very necessary for the psyche.
This year for the G’s, not that important for starters (except maybe Timmy getting back on track), but definitely for the bench and bullpen, which clearly are important. Torres? Loved bringing him back, but spring is not being kind to him. Could he be done? Concurrently, the likes of Gillespie and Peguero step up to add some comfort that if Andres can’t do it, they probably can. Utility infielder? Has any of that bunch of possibilities stepped up? Abreu and Tanaka had to have been favorites going in, but Abreu’s time has been limited by injury and Tanaka sounds like he’s not the answer. Could send Sabean to the wires and the phones…
As for worst players… one of my favorite worst players from the Giants was Marvin “Incoming!” Benard. Maybe his stats don’t rank among the worst ever, but he was clearly a flash in the (steroids?) pan and never should’ve been a starter. Watching him field fly balls to center was always entertaining….
Did Marv even touch 3B?
Well atleast are version of Herb Washington,Darren Ford got some playing time and had a few highlight moments.
I’m always happy to see you, Paul. Nice post as always. I bailed on the last thread because a couple people thought was hard to read, or something like that.
I ran this one before but you can’t go wrong with baseball porn names. bad players, and Vera’s cookin’…
You know God can be a cruel dude when he wasn’t even on the Reverend Aloysius Stanislaus Travers’ side. Maybe the good Reverend’s last sermon title pissed the Big Guy off:
“Get Your Stinking Feet Out Of My Drinking Water”
The above is just one of the incisive, factual, and hilarious comments from my upcoming book- “The Day Al Gore and Twinfan Changed the World ( and Why Other Books are Stupid )
Lasorda worst ever…….that’s funny.
Even though it’s a rerun, this was a much more interesting post than the 1,256th piece on the only guy in history to have a big spring and fail in the regular season.
sorry it disappoints you. You posted a lame thread about porn and spring training numbers followed by a re-thread. That’s not gonna fly. And, of course, once again we have an example of me responding to something disrespectful THAT YOU POSTED first. But of course, you never start anything, right?
post your porn/ST stats thread over on B if you want it up again.
Damn, I always miss the fun 😛