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Do I even need to do the whole “there’s no baseball, so here’s a semi-baseball related article” intro at this point? You know the deal.
What we have right here to distract you from that Zoom call you’re on is a quiz! Who doesn’t love a pop quiz?! How it’s going to work is you’re going to see some collected stats that different Rays players put up in their time in St. Pete. Again, this is just the player’s stats while as a member of the Rays. There will be some with career stats and some with individual seasons attached the later we get (bonus points in you can name the year).
So grab a piece a paper and jot down your answers as you go along, and head to the comments for the answers to see how you did. We’re going to make them more and more challenging as we go. Good luck!
Tier 1: Hopefully you get these
Player A [Rays career]: LHP 82-47, 1143.2 IP, 1065 K, 309 BB, 3.18 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 21.3 rWAR
Player B [Rays career]: RHP 54-68, 1063.0 IP, 1146 K, 347 BB, 3.69 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, 12.1 rWAR
Player C [Rays career]: 1435 GP, 1471 H, 261 HR, 51 SB, .270/.341/.483, 125 OPS+, 51.8 rWAR
Player D [Rays career]: 680 GP, 589 H 68 HR, 89 SB, .249/.306/.416, 98 OPS+, 25.7 rWAR
Tier 2: OK, here are a couple challenges for you
Player E [Rays career]: RHP 34-31, 528.1 IP, 467 K, 201 BB, 3.86 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 8.5 rWAR
Player F [Rays season]: 16-12, 249.1 IP, 225 K, 66 BB, 2.82 ERA, 1.04 WHIP, 5.8 rWAR
Player G [Rays career]: 577 GP, 603 H, 99 HR, 11 SB, .291/.380/.484, 122 OPS+, 9.0 rWAR
Player H [Rays season]: INF, 122 GP, 122 H, 27 HR, 7 SB, .272/.343/.531, 127 OPS+, 4.8 rWAR
Tier 3: Hope you’ve been bored-diving Rays’ B-Ref pages the past couple weeks
Player I [Rays career]: 21-11, 259.2 IP, 319 K, 72 BB, 2.77 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, 26 SV, 5.8 rWAR
Player J [Rays season]: 13-9, 206.2 IP, 239 K, 89 BB, 3.48 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, 5.8 WAR
Player K [Rays career]: 457 GP, 493 H, 53 HR, 59 SB, .280/.324/.444, 102 OPS+, 9.6 rWAR
Player L [Rays season]: 39 GP, 49 H, 7 HR, 5 SB, .343/.448/.622, 194 OPS+, 2.7 rWAR
Tier 4: Melt ya face
Player M [Rays career]: 22-20, 323.1 IP, 244 K, 82 BB, 3.98 ERA, 1.32 WHIP, 3 SV, 2.5 rWAR
Player N [Rays season]: 1-6, 64.0 IP, 80 K, 29 BB, 2.39 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 8 SV, 1.4 rWAR
Player O [Rays career]: 174 GP, 176 H, 43 HR, 5 SB, .272/.373./.525, 127 OPS+, 3.7 rWAR
Player P [Rays season]: 146 GP, 173 H, 21 HR, 12 SB, .274/.312/.427, 87 OPS+, 0.6 rWAR
Good luck to all!