Countdown to History: Lowest HR Total

by WalrusMan on Sep 23, 2008 5:31 PM PDT

That's right! We're on a History watch right now. Well..not really ancient History, but we could become the team with the lowest HR total since the 1992 Dodgers when they had 74. We will amost certainly become the lowest HR total since the 1995 Phillies when they had 94. Prior to their game tonight, 9/23 they have 91 HR. Extrapolated out, that's 94.5 HR this year. We'll see what happens I guess. Here's the table..

Of coruse those 1994 HR totals are extrapolated. Basically I converted their HR total through however many games they had played and figured out their HR/G. I'm sure the teams wouldn't have reached these in particular but they were clearly above and beyond what the Giants will reach this year.

Just as an aside also, Seems very strange that both the AL and NL HR totals just drop off a cliff both in 1992. There were a few low totals in the NL other years, but nothing so drastic as 72 and 75.

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Cool post. If we are going to be bad, we might as well be the best at it.

by rotorueter on Sep 23, 2008 5:34 PM PDT 0 recs

that’s the spirit!

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by The Gene Hackman on Sep 23, 2008 6:49 PM PDT up 0 recs

Isn’t “extrapolated out” kind of redundant?

Anything to distract me from the powerless Giants.

by kaliber on Sep 23, 2008 7:13 PM PDT 0 recs

I don’t know – have you ever tried extrapolating in?

your 2008 SF Giants: this isn’t totally insane, just really stupid

by Lyle on Sep 24, 2008 7:18 AM PDT up 0 recs

I prefer extrapolating in myself

It’s just, you know, cozier.

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by EliminateMe on Sep 24, 2008 10:23 AM PDT up 0 recs

FWIW, you extrapolated ‘94 to account for the strike, but not ’95, which was also a strike year, if to a much smaller degree. Still, the missing games in ’95 and Florida’s expansion status in ’93 clearly have us looking back to ’92 for our equal in ineptitude, and the Dodgers of ’92 really were a historically horrible offensive team that undermined an exceptionally good pitching staff.

Get the hell out the way Bengie, Pablito's hit the show!

by Roger on Sep 23, 2008 7:17 PM PDT 0 recs

Damn...

Forgot that.

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by WalrusMan on Sep 23, 2008 9:06 PM PDT up 0 recs

1995 Pirates: 106 1995 Kansas City: 134

by WalrusMan on Sep 24, 2008 8:52 AM PDT up 0 recs

that undermined an exceptionally good pitching staff.

The ‘92 Dodgers only had an ERA+ of 102. Were you thinking about another team, or is there something about that staff that I’m missing?

by Grant on Sep 23, 2008 9:55 PM PDT up 0 recs

Oops, guess my memory’s just a little fuzzy. I was actually thinking of the ‘89 team that finished 3rd the year after their improbable World Series run. That team had a 117 ERA+ and still managed to wind up 77-83. (Without a doubt that Dodgers team that won the Series in ’88 was the worst, least talented champion in baseball history. Stupid A’s)

Interestingly the ’92 Dodgers staff posted an ERA+ of 117 the year before and 110 the year after, so that season just seems to have been a wasteland all over for Dodgertown.

Get the hell out the way Bengie, Pablito's hit the show!

by Roger on Sep 24, 2008 8:03 AM PDT up 0 recs

I’m pretty sure they won’t finish with 94.5

Fairley odd parent to Wendell

by WTF on Sep 23, 2008 7:55 PM PDT 0 recs

In pretty sure would you say 94.5% sure?

by paboperfecto on Sep 23, 2008 9:09 PM PDT up 0 recs

More like 110%

by kaliber on Sep 23, 2008 10:08 PM PDT 0 recs

Reply fail. Again.

by kaliber on Sep 23, 2008 10:08 PM PDT up 0 recs

Also, the team leader in homers is Bengie Molina. Crazy.

There amass been plenty of articles written this spring about the stud shortstop Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum , as well as the fluid young outfielders and thirteen basemen Kevin Frandsen.
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by Natto on Sep 23, 2008 10:11 PM PDT 0 recs

What's so crazy about that?

CLEANUP HITTER, BEEYOTCH!!!

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by EliminateMe on Sep 24, 2008 10:25 AM PDT up 0 recs

During ST I said this team would hit 107

man was I wrong

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by j14 on Sep 23, 2008 10:40 PM PDT 0 recs

I set the bar at 100, choosing the under. But I only did that because I have 10 fingers.

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by marcello on Sep 23, 2008 10:42 PM PDT up 0 recs

So....

Are you saying that 100 is an important number because we use a base-10 system, or that you were forced to take the under because numbers that can’t be counted on both hands frighten and confuse you?

May I suggest counting your toes as well. Perhaps scoring lines in a stick to tally number of time you’ve exhausted your digits.

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by Bhaakon on Sep 23, 2008 11:33 PM PDT up 0 recs

Well

I was talking about the first thing, but now that you mention it, the 2nd thing sounds right.

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by marcello on Sep 23, 2008 11:37 PM PDT 0 recs

FAIL

FUCK

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by marcello on Sep 23, 2008 11:37 PM PDT up 0 recs

Futility in home runs....

But we’re still better than the Padres! So I can live with that while all sh!t stirs down here with the locals in the offseason.

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by sectionop92 on Sep 24, 2008 12:29 AM PDT 0 recs

ALL THE WAY BACK TO 1994!?!

THE STONE AGES!

by Lars The Wanderer on Sep 24, 2008 7:43 AM PDT 0 recs

/bangs rocks and sticks together

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by xanthan on Sep 24, 2008 8:38 AM PDT up 0 recs

did you know

they had no internets in 1994? How did they shop? What did they get their email on? The radio?

FIRE BRIAN SABEAN

by zenbitz on Sep 24, 2008 8:45 AM PDT up 0 recs

Lies!

Al Gore invented the internet way before ’94!

by Lars The Wanderer on Sep 24, 2008 8:56 AM PDT up 0 recs

How did they get their porn?

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by marcello on Sep 24, 2008 9:34 AM PDT up 0 recs

alt.sex.eunuchs

or was it alt.sex.unix?

Ah USENET.

by bgunn on Sep 24, 2008 11:53 AM PDT up 0 recs

SPEED AND DEFENSE!

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by Kitspool on Sep 24, 2008 9:22 AM PDT 0 recs

In honor of the historic Fail, I believe Duane Kuiper should give a speech on the merits of “not going deep” after the last game of the season.

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by WilliamVanLandingham on Sep 24, 2008 9:50 AM PDT 0 recs

Kruk will enjoy strapping in with him.

by Natto on Sep 24, 2008 12:21 PM PDT up 0 recs

You're saying we are on course beat the Dodgers

that’s good, right?

by Jakespaar on Sep 24, 2008 11:09 AM PDT 0 recs

Best preseason article ever:

Giants’ motto: Without HRs, it’s run, run, run

Moreover, the top third of the lineup can take off now without fear of running the Giants out of a Barry Bonds inning and incurring the wrath of homer-drunk fans.