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ShareThisTK note #4: Fewest walks to start a career
Kurkjian noted that Jeff Kunkel went a long time at the beginning of his career without drawing a walk. Check out his gamelogs. He didn't get a walk until his 43rd game.
Here are all the players (except pitchers) who went their first 43 games without a walk:
Games Link to Individual Games +-----------------+-----+-------------------------+ Herb Washington 43 Ind. Games Julio Valdez 43 Ind. Games Adam Stern 43 Ind. Games Wally Shannon 43 Ind. Games John Scott 43 Ind. Games Alejandro Sanchez 43 Ind. Games Chris Roberson 43 Ind. Games Pablo Ozuna 43 Ind. Games Ross Moschitto 43 Ind. Games Miguel Mejia 43 Ind. Games Don Mason 43 Ind. Games Jeff Kunkel 43 Ind. Games Darrin Jackson 43 Ind. Games Herman Hill 43 Ind. Games Edwards Guzman 43 Ind. Games Tom Goodwin 43 Ind. Games Cesar Geronimo 43 Ind. Games Craig Gerber 43 Ind. Games Marshall Edwards 43 Ind. Games Brian Doyle 43 Ind. Games Alex Diaz 43 Ind. Games John DeMerit 43 Ind. Games Javier Cardona 43 Ind. Games Joe Cannon 43 Ind. Games Rafael Belliard 43 Ind. Games +-----------------+-----+-------------------------+ Games Link to Individual Games +-----------------+-----+-------------------------+ Juan Bell 43 Ind. Games German Barranca 43 Ind. Games Jeff Abbott 43 Ind. Games
We know Herb Washington's story. He didn't have any plate appearances so he couldn't have gotten any walks. Tom Goodwin getting no walks didn't help much. Tough to steal bases when you can't get on base. Adam Stern's got 48 games and still no walks.
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March 17th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Moschitto went well over 90 games before drawing his first walk, but only about 30 PA - he was mostly used as a late-innings defensive replacememnt for Mickey Mantle.