Help prove Yahoo wrong

by kershaw_equals_stud on May 12, 2009 3:01 PM EDT Comment 11 comments

Yahoo has plastered on their front page this article http://www.yahoo.com/s/1070695 It says that Randy Johnson 6'10" vs Daniel Cabrera 6'9" is the tallest pitching matchup in the history of baseball. I thought about it a little bit and suddenly remember another tall pitcher in the NL. Chris Young for the Padres. He is listed at 6'10". However I can't find a site anywhere that shows me pitching matchups over the last couple years. They were in the same division the last 2-3 years and it seems to me they should have met at some point. I'm guessing Yahoo is right but I would love to prove them wrong....

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Doesn't look like it

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/4288/gamelog;_ylt=AkSqM1NqeAc1KkwcCVQwG0SFCLcF?year=2008

The easy way to do it is to look at Randy Johnson’s game log. I thought you would be right too, but if you look at all of his San Diego matchups and his one start against Texas in 2006, he never started against Chris Young.

by FanBall on May 12, 2009 3:18 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Sadly, it's never happened

Young actually hasn’t faced Arizona that many times (especially when Johnson was there on his second go round). He faced Doug Davis TWICE but never Johnson.

Also, looked when he was a Ranger. Played the Yankees twice against Kevin Brown and Al Leiter.

He’s never pitched against Randy.

by Lunkwill Fook on May 12, 2009 3:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Thankfully

They’re still in the same division. History can still be made!

by Fanon on May 12, 2009 8:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Before he moved to the bullpen...

…the 6’11" Jon Rauch made 11 starts: 6 with the White Sox in 2002, 2 with the White Sox in 2004, 2 with the Expos (aww, remember?) in 2004, and 1 with the Nationals in 2005. As far as I can tell, though, none of those starts were against Randy Johnson, Daniel Cabrera, or Chris Young.

by garry maddox on May 12, 2009 4:11 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Expos

RIP – never again will we see tickets for $4 Canadian 10 rows behind the dugouts, $1 beer and hotdogs, and closed off mezz and upper deck. Not to mention the tickets were cheaper to get from scalpers than they were from the ticket booth.

by Fanon on May 12, 2009 8:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

what about mark hendrickson?

by god allah star on May 12, 2009 5:18 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

They mention Hendrickson

And that Hendrickson and Cabrera met in 2004.

Look guys, I think they have this one covered.

by FanBall on May 13, 2009 10:16 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Unless Manute Bol

once started for someone against just about anyone, it seems like they got it right.

by wobatus on May 13, 2009 11:19 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Like an Onion Article

Addie Joss, freakish man-giant of the junior circuit’s Naps, at 6 foot and 3 inches tall in his stockinged feet, faced off against the Philadelphia Athletics 9’s own behemoth, 74 inch tall Rube Vickers, in the face-off of the tallest pitchers in all of time that man has walked the earth.

Lotsa guys named Rube back then. Rube Vickers. Rube Wadell. Rube Marquard. All pitched in 1908. No idea if it meant hick.

Vickers tied for the AL lead in fewest home runs allowed per 9. He tied with 4 other guys. Walter “Big Train” Johnson, at a relatively lilliputian 6 foot 1 (so nick-named not for his size but because he liked to sleep with a woman only after all his teammates had) , Rube Waddell and Ed “I Betcha We Don’t Win Today” Cicotte. Homers per 9 allowed? Zero. But Vickers did it in 317 innings, the most. Cicotte only pitched a pansy-ish 200 some odd innings that year.

I cannot tell if it is true that Vicker’s go/ao percentage was infinity.

by wobatus on May 13, 2009 11:37 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs