I mentioned yesterday that I just finished calculating the Illowa APBA League’s all-time leaderboards. Doing this is fun because it’s a stats thing. Once I’m done though, the temptation is there for me to crunch the numbers to figure out the all-time worst. It’s a perverse thing with me.
Here’s the link: IAL’s Best of the worst
Now I know that there’s nothing ‘worse’ about any of these guys. Steve Yeager may have hit .197 for his career in the IAL but the fact remains that he batted over 2000 times so some IAL manager found a good use for him. Ken Reitz is a good example. He may have a career.261 OBP (tied for second worst all-time). He wasn’t called the Zamboni Machine for no reason, though.
Also, Oliver Perez had the worst season ERA with a 9.09 ERA mark in 2006. Ouch. But consider that he also is one of the leaders in career K/9 IP with 1097 strikeouts in 1083 IP.
Finally some of these are just worse in a particular category. Least rbis in a season? That was broken last year by Elvis Andrus with a total of 18. Like almost everyone else on the top ten list, he was most likely a leadoff hitter most of the year.
Anyway, I thought I’d share my morose perversion. Derek Jeter and his 2644 hits? Who needs him? I’m more interested in Larry Bowa’s 8 walks in 1979!
