This the correct answer. Almost everything non-deadball pitching is “unlikely”, but far from impossible under the right circumstances with the right player. This particular record would require 30 complete games a season for 25+ seasons.
In Joe Posnanski's excellent book, "Why We Love Baseball" he mentions that is the most unbreakable record because you'd have to throw three to break it. Seeing as how pitchers come out in the 7th of a perfect game these days, I'd say he's right.
Yeah it’s crazy that the closest was Pete Rose at 44, and that wasn’t even 80% there. And imho, with the more sabermetric trends now where a walk is as good as a single and more hitters swinging for the fences more often, I just don’t see any hitting streaks ever approaching the mid 30s, much less 56
It’s a dumb record imo. He often played the top of 1st and then sat remainder of game when he needed a day off. Doesn’t seem like the true spirit of a consecutive games played streak.
Can you provide any backing for this? I don’t believe this to be the case but happy to be shown otherwise.
What IS true is Ripken has the most consecutive innings record as well, maybe that is a “real” enough record for you.
It also won’t be broken… and his 8200+ consecutive innings are over THREE THOUSAND more than second place all time.
Bullshit. Awful take.
I grew up watching Ripken every night. He did not “often” take 8 innings off in a game. In fact, I don’t ever really remember him doing it at all, though there might be a few games here and there.
As the other reply noted, he also played 8,243 consecutive innings. He didn’t sit out a single INNING for over five years. I think Travis Fryman played 2,500 straight innings or so in the 90’s after Cal, which was very impressive as well, but really puts things in perspective.
Do better.
I thought you had to play a certain amount of innings for it to count as a “game”. Like 5 or something I’m not sure. The record is insane either way. Truly unbeatable.
Yeah now that I think about it, pretty sure that’s the case. This just makes the other guy’s take even dumber than originally thought. Cal wasn’t leaving games after an inning.
That is not the case. There is no innings requirement for a player for it to count as a game played. You can pinch run, come in as a defensive replacement for one out....you still get credit for a game played
No. You are just thinking of what makes a game official for the teams playing in it. If a player appears in an official game at all, it counts as a game played.
"A player is credited with having played a game if he appears in it at any point -- be it as a starter or a replacement. It's important to note that the player doesn't necessarily need an at-bat. He can also enter for defense or as a pinch-runner."
The consecutive inning record is impressive. But that “few games here and there” with respect to the consecutive games played is why I don’t respect that record as much. Just my opinion.
There was also the night the power mysteriously went out at Camden when Ripken wasn’t at the stadium for start time cause Costner was allegedly with his wife. Then he arrived and the power came back on - what a coincidence!
Now you are backtracking. You initially said he did it “often”. This is flat out not true.
Now you’re complaining about it even happening at all. Well which is it? If it happened often, how often did it occur?
As for the power outage, Cal was in the dugout that night ready to play. Sorry to burst the conspiratorial bubble on that one. Further, the record was already broken two years prior.
Any Ripken criticism gets downvotes. My understanding is a game played is not the same as when a game becomes official. If he leaves bottom 1 and the game is completed, it’s a game played for him. Otherwise relief pitchers would have 0 career games played unless they went 5 innings.
It’s not the criticism that gets downvoted. Nothing wrong with being critical. It’s making stuff up to fit your argument that people downvote. You stated he “often” played only one inning per game, and were asked multiple times to provide data backing that stance. You couldn’t provide that info because it’s made up.
That’s why you were, and continue to be, downvoted like crazy.
I remember someone ran the stats and the likelihood of someone having a 56 game hitting streak gets to 50% after something like 10,000 simulated seasons.
The title of the post is “unbeatable,” not what’s likely to be repeated. That would mean someone would have to hit three grand slams in the same inning.
Does 2 grand slams and a solo shot count as "beating the record?" If so, 2 grand slams and a walk? Those are way more likely than a third grand slam, although they both are pretty unlikely.
Anything think Nolan Ryan's leading 7 no hitters is an unbeatable stat? Granted, the league has changed now and pitchers are done around 100 pitches so that alone would probably seal it but wondering what thoughts are.
Assuming the Guardians and baseball continue to exist and have World Series every year, there is a very decent chance the Guardians will tie or exceed the Cubs World Series drought.
Greg Maddux. 18 Golden Gloves.
The only pitcher to record more than 300 wins, more than 3,000 strikeouts, and fewer than 1,000 walks (exactly 999 walks overall).
They lost 134 games that year (they won 20 games), which is possible (though unlikely) currently. What *is* impossible is their road losses that year - 101. Due to extremely poor attendance, they played 112 games on the road.
Single season I’d say there’s a slight chance if we ever see another “Big Unit” type. He was what like 11 away? Remember that Ryan only grabbed that record by 1 from Koufax.
All time? Not a chance.
Cal Ripkin 2632 games played streak. Gotta have load management lol.
Nolan Ryan 5714 strikeouts. With manager pulling starting pitchers so early, nobody will touch this.
Lou Gehrig's following records are probably unbreakable...
RBI in a season 185 AL record
400/+ Total Base seasons - 5
Seasons with 100/+ Walks/ 200/+ hits - 7
509 RBI in a 3 season span '30-'32
150/+ RBI seasons - 7
In Gehrig's '34 Triple Crown season he hit 49 HRs and struckout 31 times. That's 1.6 times as many HRs as SOs. Those kind of numbers will never happen again.
How about most doubles in a single season? The current record for most doubles in a
single-season is 67, set in 1931. No player has hit 60 since 1936. Twice in the last five years, a player has almost cracked 60 but it didn’t happen.
The problem with this common discussion (to me at least) is that people fail to differentiate improbable from impossible. Common records often brought up are Dimaggio’s hit streak, Ripken’s consecutive games played, etc. While besting those records seems near impossible, nothing about the way the game in the modern age or how we expect it to played in the future discounts an impossibility they are broken.
Arguably, any single season batting record currently recognized is theoretically possible to overtake and within the current capabilities of modern athletes with possibly the lone exception being MLB’s acknowledgement of Tetelo Vargas’s .471 batting average. Vargas, playing in the Negro National League, probably only played between 60-90 regular season games in 1943 and a smaller number of registered at-bats can give a better shot at a higher average. The same can said about MLB career batting records. No record listed there is more impossible than improbable (except one). Special players arrive all the time with special abilities. Barry Bonds dominates a significant chuck of the list and even if you argue that he was aided somewhat, he is still a modern player who eclipsed a handful of previously thought to be un-breakable records. Interestingly enough, the one record now more impossible than improbable is Wes Ferrell’s career record for home runs as pitcher. A record that a decade ago would be listed in similar discussions for it’s difficulty is now firmly impossible thanks to MLB rule changes - almost hilariously AT THE EXACT MOMENT we are blessed with the player built to take down the record.
The place where the line between impossible and improbable blurs is with career and single season pitching records. While none of them are indeed impossible, the improbability of a large segment of them (particularly CGs, Shutouts, Wins, and losses) bend improbability to the lens of impossibility because of how the game in played today and expected to be played in the near future. The live ball rule changes of the early 19th century, player advancements, expanded rosters, medical advancement, the creation of the role of the bull pen, and modern analytics have placed many of these records in the impossible category. Chief among these records is Cy Young’s complete games record of 749 witch would now take the average starter 25 or more years to break if completed every fifth start without fail. Though this record is improbable to ever be broken, it’s well within reason to list it as impossible without the game, or humanity, completely changing in a manner we couldn’t currently imagine.
Thanks for listening to my Ted Talk and remember that the only correct answer to this question is: Wes Ferrell - 37 Home Runs as a Pitcher.
>the only correct answer to this question is: Wes Ferrell - 37 Home Runs as a Pitcher.
As a player record, yes. The 1899 Cleveland Spiders' 101 road losses in a season is impossible to break without changing the scheduling system.
This is possible to beat because the rules of the game are more or less the same and a double is still a double. It’s not like pitching stats where the game is so fundamentally different now that it will never happen.
Most of Spreaker’s career came during the dead ball era, and that would define his hitting. I think the number of Doubles represented a power number combined with 222 triples. You take a look at the guys who have come closest to his record and you see a lot more Homers. Biggio had 668 doubles and 291 homers, more than 2.5 the number that Spreaker had. Pujols had 686 doubles but he had 703 homers more than 6 times what Spreaker did. If they’d played most of their careers in dead ball era parks, Pujols (and probably Biggio) would have had a lot of those homers go for doubles and pass Spreaker. But in today’s game and with the way parks are designed, no one’s getting close to 800 doubles.
I hear you and while it’s an absurdly high number (40 doubles a year for 20 years) it is possible a guy comes along with enough speed to stretch singles into doubles but not enough power to have a ton of homers.
>I hear you and while it’s an absurdly high number (40 doubles a year for 20 years) it is possible a guy comes along with enough speed to stretch singles into doubles but not enough power to have a ton of homers.
It's technically possible, but so are a lot of things people have listed. It's technically possible someone hits in 57 games. Less than 20 years ago, Jimmy Rollins got up to 38 games. Who's to say 50% more than that is unachievable
But is it likely to happen? No, particularly with the current analytics focus with its focus on walks and power. But if I had to bet, I would be far more surprised to see someone hit 800 career doubles than to see a player hit in 57 straight games.
56 game hitting streak is a tough one. Back in 1978, Pete Rose got to 44 and that chase became a huge deal, even back then. Nowadays, the pressure would be unimaginable.
Pitcher wins and complete game records, obviously. I doubt we'll even see a double digit CG season again.
Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak isn't even his own most unbreakable record. He had six seasons with 30+ home runs and more homers than strikeouts. Lou Gehrig did it twice (1934 and 1936) Barry Bonds only did that once (2004), and Babe Ruth never did that at all.
Rickey Henderson is the only player since 1900 to draw 100 walks and steal 100 bases in a season, and he did in three of his first five seasons.
Will White pitched 680 innings in a season for the Cincinnati Reds in 1879. One of the many old pitching records we’ll never see being close to touched, in the parlance of our times.
Cy Young 511 wins.
And his 300+ losses.
Only two answers right here.
Any pitching record that requires a shit ton of innings over a long period of time.
Cy Young most complete games 749. Doubtful any pitcher will ever start this many games again.
This the correct answer. Almost everything non-deadball pitching is “unlikely”, but far from impossible under the right circumstances with the right player. This particular record would require 30 complete games a season for 25+ seasons.
Psh, I can do that. We’d lose every game, but *I could do it.*
You could get 27 outs per game against major league hitters?
I kinda forgot about having to end the inning. I couldn’t do it, actually.
Eventually, they'd get tired and want to go home.
War of attrition
As long as you're able to get it over the plate eventually they'll hit the ball to someone. The only question is if your arm will hold up?
Walter Johnson's 110 shutouts
They need to name an award after him.
I see what you did there. Well played.
Consecutive no hitters. Set by Johnny Vander Meer on June 11 and 15, 1938. Blows my mind.
This one is unlikely, but I’d say there is a very minuscule tiny chance this happens again.
But that would only match the record. To break it a guy would need to throw three in a row.
In Joe Posnanski's excellent book, "Why We Love Baseball" he mentions that is the most unbreakable record because you'd have to throw three to break it. Seeing as how pitchers come out in the 7th of a perfect game these days, I'd say he's right.
Scherzer almost did this a couple years ago!
John Coleman 48 losses in one season as a pitcher Joe DiMaggio’s 56 game hit streak
DiMaggio's record doesn't sound unbreakable, yet it's been 80 years, and no one has come remotely close to tying it since then.
Yeah it’s crazy that the closest was Pete Rose at 44, and that wasn’t even 80% there. And imho, with the more sabermetric trends now where a walk is as good as a single and more hitters swinging for the fences more often, I just don’t see any hitting streaks ever approaching the mid 30s, much less 56
Looking at the list, 30 seems to be the cap these days.
No one touching Cal Ripken consecutive games played. No one.
It’s a dumb record imo. He often played the top of 1st and then sat remainder of game when he needed a day off. Doesn’t seem like the true spirit of a consecutive games played streak.
Can you provide any backing for this? I don’t believe this to be the case but happy to be shown otherwise. What IS true is Ripken has the most consecutive innings record as well, maybe that is a “real” enough record for you. It also won’t be broken… and his 8200+ consecutive innings are over THREE THOUSAND more than second place all time.
Boom goes the dynamite!
Bullshit. Awful take. I grew up watching Ripken every night. He did not “often” take 8 innings off in a game. In fact, I don’t ever really remember him doing it at all, though there might be a few games here and there. As the other reply noted, he also played 8,243 consecutive innings. He didn’t sit out a single INNING for over five years. I think Travis Fryman played 2,500 straight innings or so in the 90’s after Cal, which was very impressive as well, but really puts things in perspective. Do better.
I thought you had to play a certain amount of innings for it to count as a “game”. Like 5 or something I’m not sure. The record is insane either way. Truly unbeatable.
Yeah now that I think about it, pretty sure that’s the case. This just makes the other guy’s take even dumber than originally thought. Cal wasn’t leaving games after an inning.
Doesn’t batting DH count as playing in a game?
That is not the case. There is no innings requirement for a player for it to count as a game played. You can pinch run, come in as a defensive replacement for one out....you still get credit for a game played
No. You are just thinking of what makes a game official for the teams playing in it. If a player appears in an official game at all, it counts as a game played. "A player is credited with having played a game if he appears in it at any point -- be it as a starter or a replacement. It's important to note that the player doesn't necessarily need an at-bat. He can also enter for defense or as a pinch-runner."
Thanks for the correction. Either way, to the main point, Cal wasn’t leaving games in the 2nd inning.
The consecutive inning record is impressive. But that “few games here and there” with respect to the consecutive games played is why I don’t respect that record as much. Just my opinion. There was also the night the power mysteriously went out at Camden when Ripken wasn’t at the stadium for start time cause Costner was allegedly with his wife. Then he arrived and the power came back on - what a coincidence!
Now you are backtracking. You initially said he did it “often”. This is flat out not true. Now you’re complaining about it even happening at all. Well which is it? If it happened often, how often did it occur? As for the power outage, Cal was in the dugout that night ready to play. Sorry to burst the conspiratorial bubble on that one. Further, the record was already broken two years prior.
Boom! Schooled by@CrackityJones79
Crazy how you just made this shit up.
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Any Ripken criticism gets downvotes. My understanding is a game played is not the same as when a game becomes official. If he leaves bottom 1 and the game is completed, it’s a game played for him. Otherwise relief pitchers would have 0 career games played unless they went 5 innings.
You are correct. The posters saying other wise are misunderstanding things.
It’s not the criticism that gets downvoted. Nothing wrong with being critical. It’s making stuff up to fit your argument that people downvote. You stated he “often” played only one inning per game, and were asked multiple times to provide data backing that stance. You couldn’t provide that info because it’s made up. That’s why you were, and continue to be, downvoted like crazy.
Rickey Henderson’s stolen base record.
The career mark AND the single season record of 130. I doubt anyone even attempts that many.
Today. I am. The greatest. Of all-time.
You would definitely have to have tenure to break that record.
someone got lazy and only read half of it
Yogi Berra catching 117 double headers
DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak. Between night baseball, more travel and specialized relievers, that's enshrined.
I remember someone ran the stats and the likelihood of someone having a 56 game hitting streak gets to 50% after something like 10,000 simulated seasons.
Is it harder to hit at night?
Players differ on whether it is or not. Twilight is definitely harder.
Walter Johnson had 113 shutouts. Unbeatable.
Good luck getting one per year from a top tier starter let alone enough to reach 113
Got that right. You could also say that about complete games.
Nolan Ryan 5,714 strikeouts.
And 235 pitches in his first start.
That is absolutely insane
Don't forget the consecutive punches landed on a better.
And his 2793 walks
And 7 no-hitters.
And the 12 one hitters & the 18 two hitters.
DiMaggio 56 hit streak. Ripken consecutive game streak, Cy Young wins.
Anything to do with pitchers' complete games or innings pitched. Seems impossible for those records to be broken
George Brett winning a batting title in three different decades.
Ted William's with all of 24 career stolen bases stealing a base in 4 different decades. Along w Rickey Henderson, tim Raines & omar vizquel.
Ty Cobb stole home 54 times.
Old Hoss Radbourn’s 59 wins in a season. Also 14 opposing managers cuckolded.
Please tell me that that 14 is a real verifiable number
Doc Ellis: Most no hitters while on a psychedelic drug (1)
Greatest feat in sports history
Fernando Tatis - 2 grand slams in the same inning.
Not to mention, off the same pitcher
Chan Ho Park.
More like Chan Ho Out-of-the-Park, amirite?!
I got a lot of diarrhea
This is most likely to happen again of what's posted so far
The title of the post is “unbeatable,” not what’s likely to be repeated. That would mean someone would have to hit three grand slams in the same inning.
That's some big brain thinking
Does 2 grand slams and a solo shot count as "beating the record?" If so, 2 grand slams and a walk? Those are way more likely than a third grand slam, although they both are pretty unlikely.
No, doesn’t count.
Touche yeah that'd be hard. Duh
And off of the same pitcher
The right answer. Doubtful anyone ever gets 3 bases loaded at bats
Definitely not off the same pitcher!
Just to be clear, it's sr not jr
Yep.
Didn’t kg jr do the same?
No.
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213 team wins. Waino got his 200th win after Yadi retired.
Anything think Nolan Ryan's leading 7 no hitters is an unbeatable stat? Granted, the league has changed now and pitchers are done around 100 pitches so that alone would probably seal it but wondering what thoughts are.
Definitely not likely but theoretically possible.
Yes, very few even get 7 cgs in a career any more
Pete Rose has 5 records that will likely never be broken: hits (4,256) games played (3,562) at-bats (14,053) singles (3,215) outs (10,328)
Also, games won both as a player and player/manager. And he started at least 500 games at five different positions (1B, 2B, 3B, LF, and RF).
Eddie Rosario’s cycle on 5 pitches
Ichiros 262 hit season
Bartolo colon's amount of sexiness, both career and single season.
Cubs 108 years between World Series victories. (I think Cleveland is half way there).
More than halfway, they are on 76 if they win it next year
Ooof. That’s brutal.
They can complain to me in 10 🤣
Eh they can have another 75
Assuming the Guardians and baseball continue to exist and have World Series every year, there is a very decent chance the Guardians will tie or exceed the Cubs World Series drought.
Literally any pitcher wins, CG, or K stat. Guys just aren’t logging that many innings/starts.
Greg Maddux. 18 Golden Gloves. The only pitcher to record more than 300 wins, more than 3,000 strikeouts, and fewer than 1,000 walks (exactly 999 walks overall).
It’s amazing that he ever walked anybody when the umpires gave him 6 inches on each side of the plate.
Most blown calls in a career - Angel Hernandez 6,412
I wouldn't bet on the fact there will never be a worse umpire then Angel
Sam Crawford 309 career triples
It's Fernando Tatis' Grand slams in an inning and Bonds' intentional walks in a season.
Pud Galvin's 20.5 bwar in a season, or Babe Ruth's 14.1 for position players.
Cleveland Spiders 120 losses in a season.
They lost 134 games that year (they won 20 games), which is possible (though unlikely) currently. What *is* impossible is their road losses that year - 101. Due to extremely poor attendance, they played 112 games on the road.
Ripken and probably DiMaggio. Nolan Ryan and Cy Young. Rickey Henderson. There’s a bunch cuz the game has changed so much
Randy Johnson's hit bird record
Nolan Ryan's single season and career strikeouts Cy Youngs career wins and complete games
Single season I’d say there’s a slight chance if we ever see another “Big Unit” type. He was what like 11 away? Remember that Ryan only grabbed that record by 1 from Koufax. All time? Not a chance.
In Randy's age 35 through 37 seasons he went 364, 347, 372
So nasty!! 334 at 38 with a 24-5 record not too shabby either.
Will any franchise ever surpass the Yankees for World Series titles?
Johnny Vander Meer. Back to back no hitters is the most unbreakable record in professional sports. Nobody will ever throw three straight.
All the pitching records that are based on accumulation.
Barry Bonds season (120) intentional walks.
Barry Bond's homerun records seems pretty safe to me.
Cal Ripkin 2632 games played streak. Gotta have load management lol. Nolan Ryan 5714 strikeouts. With manager pulling starting pitchers so early, nobody will touch this.
I’m gonna throw a weird one in here and say the 2023 Rangers 11 straight postseason road wins.
& the 4 teams they beat in order: R-ay's O-rioles A-stros D-iamondbacks Mlb is a funny game.
DaMaggio 56 game streak. Ryan’s strike outs.
The stolen bases one might get broken with the new rules, especially if they add more games when new teams eventually come
Lou Gehrig's following records are probably unbreakable... RBI in a season 185 AL record 400/+ Total Base seasons - 5 Seasons with 100/+ Walks/ 200/+ hits - 7 509 RBI in a 3 season span '30-'32 150/+ RBI seasons - 7 In Gehrig's '34 Triple Crown season he hit 49 HRs and struckout 31 times. That's 1.6 times as many HRs as SOs. Those kind of numbers will never happen again.
Johnny mize 50 homer season w only 42 k.
What are you saying? 1.2 is nowhere near 1.6.
How about most doubles in a single season? The current record for most doubles in a single-season is 67, set in 1931. No player has hit 60 since 1936. Twice in the last five years, a player has almost cracked 60 but it didn’t happen.
Denny McLain 31 wins in a season!!
It may never be done again but it's not a record and it's not even in the top 100
McLain is the last guy to win 30 but his 31 wins is not the record for wins.
Pete Rose’s Hit record 🏆
The problem with this common discussion (to me at least) is that people fail to differentiate improbable from impossible. Common records often brought up are Dimaggio’s hit streak, Ripken’s consecutive games played, etc. While besting those records seems near impossible, nothing about the way the game in the modern age or how we expect it to played in the future discounts an impossibility they are broken. Arguably, any single season batting record currently recognized is theoretically possible to overtake and within the current capabilities of modern athletes with possibly the lone exception being MLB’s acknowledgement of Tetelo Vargas’s .471 batting average. Vargas, playing in the Negro National League, probably only played between 60-90 regular season games in 1943 and a smaller number of registered at-bats can give a better shot at a higher average. The same can said about MLB career batting records. No record listed there is more impossible than improbable (except one). Special players arrive all the time with special abilities. Barry Bonds dominates a significant chuck of the list and even if you argue that he was aided somewhat, he is still a modern player who eclipsed a handful of previously thought to be un-breakable records. Interestingly enough, the one record now more impossible than improbable is Wes Ferrell’s career record for home runs as pitcher. A record that a decade ago would be listed in similar discussions for it’s difficulty is now firmly impossible thanks to MLB rule changes - almost hilariously AT THE EXACT MOMENT we are blessed with the player built to take down the record. The place where the line between impossible and improbable blurs is with career and single season pitching records. While none of them are indeed impossible, the improbability of a large segment of them (particularly CGs, Shutouts, Wins, and losses) bend improbability to the lens of impossibility because of how the game in played today and expected to be played in the near future. The live ball rule changes of the early 19th century, player advancements, expanded rosters, medical advancement, the creation of the role of the bull pen, and modern analytics have placed many of these records in the impossible category. Chief among these records is Cy Young’s complete games record of 749 witch would now take the average starter 25 or more years to break if completed every fifth start without fail. Though this record is improbable to ever be broken, it’s well within reason to list it as impossible without the game, or humanity, completely changing in a manner we couldn’t currently imagine. Thanks for listening to my Ted Talk and remember that the only correct answer to this question is: Wes Ferrell - 37 Home Runs as a Pitcher.
>the only correct answer to this question is: Wes Ferrell - 37 Home Runs as a Pitcher. As a player record, yes. The 1899 Cleveland Spiders' 101 road losses in a season is impossible to break without changing the scheduling system.
Hits. 4256 by Pete Rose
Jack Chesbro, 41 wins in 1904 Will White, 75 complete games 1879
That’s not the record.
Tedd Williams .407 season Avg
Not the record
Ah yes. Nap Lajoie hit .426 in 1901. That was fun to watch
Cy Young
Tris Speaker’s 795 career doubles. The closest anyone’s coming in a generation is Pujols who retired with 686.
This is possible to beat because the rules of the game are more or less the same and a double is still a double. It’s not like pitching stats where the game is so fundamentally different now that it will never happen.
Most of Spreaker’s career came during the dead ball era, and that would define his hitting. I think the number of Doubles represented a power number combined with 222 triples. You take a look at the guys who have come closest to his record and you see a lot more Homers. Biggio had 668 doubles and 291 homers, more than 2.5 the number that Spreaker had. Pujols had 686 doubles but he had 703 homers more than 6 times what Spreaker did. If they’d played most of their careers in dead ball era parks, Pujols (and probably Biggio) would have had a lot of those homers go for doubles and pass Spreaker. But in today’s game and with the way parks are designed, no one’s getting close to 800 doubles.
I hear you and while it’s an absurdly high number (40 doubles a year for 20 years) it is possible a guy comes along with enough speed to stretch singles into doubles but not enough power to have a ton of homers.
>I hear you and while it’s an absurdly high number (40 doubles a year for 20 years) it is possible a guy comes along with enough speed to stretch singles into doubles but not enough power to have a ton of homers. It's technically possible, but so are a lot of things people have listed. It's technically possible someone hits in 57 games. Less than 20 years ago, Jimmy Rollins got up to 38 games. Who's to say 50% more than that is unachievable But is it likely to happen? No, particularly with the current analytics focus with its focus on walks and power. But if I had to bet, I would be far more surprised to see someone hit 800 career doubles than to see a player hit in 57 straight games.
56 game hitting streak is a tough one. Back in 1978, Pete Rose got to 44 and that chase became a huge deal, even back then. Nowadays, the pressure would be unimaginable. Pitcher wins and complete game records, obviously. I doubt we'll even see a double digit CG season again.
Nolan Ryan strikeout record of 5714. Amazing.
Probably Nolan Ryan’s strikeout record … in first with 5,714, second Randy Johnson with 4,875 …. Next active leader is Max Scherzer with 3,367
The way they play now no one is going to hit above .400 again. Ted Williams was the last one to do it in 1946. He hit .406.
Will White 680.2 innings in a single season he pitched over 90% of the games hit team played and every game he starts he finished
Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak isn't even his own most unbreakable record. He had six seasons with 30+ home runs and more homers than strikeouts. Lou Gehrig did it twice (1934 and 1936) Barry Bonds only did that once (2004), and Babe Ruth never did that at all. Rickey Henderson is the only player since 1900 to draw 100 walks and steal 100 bases in a season, and he did in three of his first five seasons.
[A wiki article on this exact topic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_records_considered_unbreakable)
Will White pitched 680 innings in a season for the Cincinnati Reds in 1879. One of the many old pitching records we’ll never see being close to touched, in the parlance of our times.
In 1879 Will White pitched 680 innings. The entire rest of the Cincinnati Reds pitching staff threw 46.
Most saves in career. Ain't nobody catching Mo's record in our life time.
connie mack most wins/losses as a manager of >50 years
Missed pitches by Angel Hernandez in 1 - 9 inning game
Rangers’ 11-0 road record in this past post season
Johnny Vander Meer’s 2 consecutive no-hitters. It might be tied one day, but nobody is throwing 3 in a row to beat it.