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If Only Rickey, Lesher, McCarty & Carreon Had Made The Same Team!

Posted by Steve Lombardi on March 18, 2008
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Here's a fun fact:  Using Play Index, and setting it for "For single seasons, From 1901 to 2007, Bats RH, Throws LH, Played 50% of games at C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, LF, CF, RF, DH, or OF, (requiring PA>=1), sorted by greatest number of players matching criteria " shows us that there's never been a big league team with three position players who Bat/Right and Throw/Left on their roster getting a PA in a the same season.    Here's the teams with two guys like this in a season:

 Year Lg Team                              Number Players Matching
+----+--+---------------------------------+------+-----------------------------------------+
 2000 AL Seattle Mariners                       2 Rickey Henderson / Brian Lesher
 1998 AL Oakland Athletics                      2 Rickey Henderson / Brian Lesher
 1996 NL San Francisco Giants                   2 David McCarty / Mark Carreon
 1995 NL San Francisco Giants                   2 Mark Carreon / David McCarty
 1983 AL Oakland Athletics                      2 Rickey Henderson / Kelvin Moore
 1982 AL Oakland Athletics                      2 Rickey Henderson / Kelvin Moore
 1981 AL Oakland Athletics                      2 Rickey Henderson / Kelvin Moore
 1962 NL Houston Colt .45's                     2 Carl Warwick / Bobby Shantz
 1911 AL St. Louis Browns                       2 Paul Meloan / Jim Murray

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4 Responses to “If Only Rickey, Lesher, McCarty & Carreon Had Made The Same Team!”

  1. gerry Says:
    March 18th, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    Rube Bressler's career overlapped those of Hal Chase and Johnny Cooney. All three were long-career bats right, throws left position players, but I guess no two were ever teammates. Bressler & Cooney were also pitchers for some seasons.

    Switch-hitters who throw lefty are also rare - maybe you could repeat your search for them?

  2. Andy Says:
    March 18th, 2008 at 9:28 pm

    Wow...this is the exact same subject as one of my upcoming TK notes...Kurkjian talked alot about this phenomenon in his book.

  3. Steve Lombardi Says:
    March 19th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    Gerry - see this link:

    http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/ten-things-i-didnt-know-last-week24/

    there's something in there about BB/TL guys.

  4. elipsky Says:
    March 23rd, 2008 at 4:45 pm

    I bat right and throw left

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