This week on the FromThe108 podcast, I mentioned that there is a sick part of me that wants to see if players can reach historic all time lows. It’s more of a curiosity than an actual want for someone to perform poorly. Because it requires special circumstances to allow for such records to occur. Think of the career interceptions thrown record in the NFL. You have to be really good for teams to continue to let you go out there and throw picks to have the most ever. And in baseball, you have to be really committed to losing to let your players break season single records for badness.
Martin Maldonado came to mind in this discussion because he seems to be at the end of his career and the hit tool is gone. You hate to see that, especially for a player like Martin that people only have great things to say about. He’s currently hitting .095 which is well below the record for a single season:
This list is only for players that qualified for the batting title, meaning they had at least 502 plate appearances. With Martin playing in 23 of the first 38 games, he’s on pace to play around 100 games, which on its own might keep him off this list. Add to that, he bats at the bottom of the order on a team that can’t hit as a whole. It seems he might be safe. But why not be extra cautious and let Korey Lee play a little lot more.
Now wait one minute, are there guys that are trending towards being on this list? Why yes, there are. The two Andrews would be in this top 10 list right now and each of them are pacing towards 502 PAs. They might need to get their shit together.
-Chorizy-E
