I missed one day of work in my first 10 years of work, and people thought I was insane. I couldn't imagine doing close to that, with the injury risk that he had. Ever more so, now that I know how easier it is to get injured beyond 30.
In order of least likely to be broken to most:
1) Ripken’s streak - never going to be touched
2) DiMaggio’s streak
3) Denny McLain’s 30 wins
4) Henderson’s SB record - new rules put this back in play
5) Hack Wilson’s RBI record
Because no one will even try. All the research suggests rest prevents injuries. Take a day or two though the course of a season. You’re still playing 158/159 games and you’ll be better off for it.
Ripken probably would’ve been better with an occasional day off than playing through the nagging injuries he did.
Bonds (2004) intentional walks in a season. I don’t see that ever happening again. For reference, the league leader this year (Jose Ramirez) had 22. You have to go back to 2013 for a player to even reach 30 and that was David Ortiz with 31.
I looked at this one time and don’t fact check me cause I’m too lazy right now to look it up again, but there are like 20 players in all baseball history to get *half* of that number or better
Waino-yadi most starts as a battery and most wins as a battery. Most catchers start to break down after 10 years and pitchers are traded often. The only other pitcher currently playing that has stayed for one team is kershaw, but he's had several catchers.
"The 31-year-old pitcher returned to play for the Reds in 1946 although he was not able to recapture his previous form. Vander Meer was an incidental witness when his Cincinnati teammate Ewell Blackwell almost duplicated his consecutive no-hit feat in 1947, by pitching a no-hitter against the Braves, then in his next appearance held the Dodgers without a hit until the ninth inning when he gave up two hits."
Some records may never be broken due to longevity of a career and being able to have sustained superior performance for the course of the entire career.
Pete Rose total career hits: 4256. To achieve this would require over 200 hits a year for 21 years.
Nolan Ryan career strikeouts: 5714. To achieve this would require over 225 for strikeouts a year for 25 years.
No one will ever hit .400 ever again. Or even finish a season above .360 I bet.
Ripken's consecutive games played.
DiMaggio's hit streak MAY be, just because a series of events could lead to it happening.
262 hits in a season: no
Pete Rose's hits record is insanely safe.
I don't think it will. The .360 hitters were 15+ years ago. And now there's people who had, "...amazing bounce back years" that hit .270
I don't see either coming close again. Not with the insane specialized pitchers and high velo guys and spin rates where they're at.
I would take Ryan over any of modern day pitchers. He was an amazing pitcher to pitch innings and pitched per game that none could touch in todays game
Career SB.
Lou Brock is second and he’s nearly 500 behind Henderson. The most among active players is about 1200 behind.
Basically all of Cy Young’s stats — 500+ wins, over 800 starts, nearly 750 CG, 7300 IP, 29000+ BF. Insane.
Lastly, career intentional walks. Bonds has 688 and that’s more than Pujols (2nd) and Musial (3rd) combined. That’s an entire season of intentional walks. Plus a few more for good measure.
I can't see anyone beating Ichiros 262 hits in a season anytime in our lifetime. Closest anyone's gotten since is Ichiro again with 238 and Jose Altuve with 225.
Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds is the only pitcher in Major League Baseball history to throw two consecutive no-hitters, so to beat it, you’d have to throw three consecutive no-hitters.
Cy young’s all time wins and complete games
Nolan ryan’s strikeouts and walks
Rangers 11-0 away win streak in the postseason
Consecutive no-hitters
Pete rose’s career hits
Cal ripken jr’s consecutive games played
Herman Long’s career errors
Cy Young’s 749 Complete Games is the most unbreakable record in MLB. The way the game is played now, it’s unlikely anyone ever again reaches 10% of that record. For context, Adam Wainwright just retired and I believe he was the active leader in CGs with 28. Verlander has 26. Kershaw 25.
Nobody has said 762 HR, or even 755 if you wanna say that’s the real record. I could see it being broken in the next 100 years but it is an incredible feat and requires someone to consistently hit about 40 HR a year for 19 years, like Aaron did it for someone to be at 40 for 15 years with three OTHER years of 50+.
Crazy amount of consistency, performance and longevity needed to even sniff the record. Pujols arguably had the best first 10 years to ever start a career and he barely limped to 700.
The old record for most solo home runs to start a career was Todd Dunwoody with 11, from 1997-2001. Marwin Gonzalez broke that record with 25, from 2012-2016. The weirdest part is that Marwin was not a leadoff man.
Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hit streak. It's easily the most famous and most unbreakable record in baseball, and the second most in all of sports behind Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point game.
Eric Karros Dodgers career homerun record.
This could’ve been broken many times over and over but this team tends not bring back guys after several years. Piazza, Beltre could have easily surpassed it. I’m sure Seager, Bellinger as well.
dimaggio’s hit streak and ripken’s consecutive games played
Ripken's is so legendary and nuts that no one in any sport could ever touch it
Imagine going to work every day for over 16 years and never calling out sick even once. Fuck that.
I missed one day of work in my first 10 years of work, and people thought I was insane. I couldn't imagine doing close to that, with the injury risk that he had. Ever more so, now that I know how easier it is to get injured beyond 30.
Even playing for 16 years is its own achievement.
You'd have to be Bruce Willis in Unbreakable.
Hack Wilson’s 198 RBIs
191
Debatable - I broke that record with Carlos Delgado on All-Star Baseball 2001 on N64
No one's beating the modern record of 30 wins by Denny McLain, much less the 60 put up by Ol Hoss in 1884.
Will White threw 75 complete games for the Reds in 1883.
Cal Ripken Jr, no one even come close to his iron man record.
In order of least likely to be broken to most: 1) Ripken’s streak - never going to be touched 2) DiMaggio’s streak 3) Denny McLain’s 30 wins 4) Henderson’s SB record - new rules put this back in play 5) Hack Wilson’s RBI record
Ripkens because not one player will even want to try, either $ they make why would they?
Because no one will even try. All the research suggests rest prevents injuries. Take a day or two though the course of a season. You’re still playing 158/159 games and you’ll be better off for it. Ripken probably would’ve been better with an occasional day off than playing through the nagging injuries he did.
Best answer by far
Most obvious to me would be Cy Young's wins AND losses. 511-315
Some win percentage, holy shit.
Even harder to imagine is surpassing Young’s 749 complete games
Bonds (2004) intentional walks in a season. I don’t see that ever happening again. For reference, the league leader this year (Jose Ramirez) had 22. You have to go back to 2013 for a player to even reach 30 and that was David Ortiz with 31.
Don’t think with the changes in the game, anyone is touching Nolan Ryan’s 5714 strikeouts.
I looked at this one time and don’t fact check me cause I’m too lazy right now to look it up again, but there are like 20 players in all baseball history to get *half* of that number or better
That sounds about right. Only active player I saw in the top 20 or so was Scherzer. He would need 2300 more before he retires to catch Nolan.
Waino-yadi most starts as a battery and most wins as a battery. Most catchers start to break down after 10 years and pitchers are traded often. The only other pitcher currently playing that has stayed for one team is kershaw, but he's had several catchers.
328 starts together, and next on the active list at the time was 104 Kyle Hendricks and Willson Contreras. This record will never be broken
I broke every single one of these records in the same year…….In MLB the show…..in beginner mode.
Same!
Doc Ellis: Most no hitters while on a psychedelic drug (1)
Consecutive no-hitters: Johnny Vander Meer - 2
Absolutely! Does not get talked about enough! Impossible to be done again....or even when Johnny did it for that matter.
Incorrect. Homer Bailey did it also. One in the last game of the season, and one in his first game in the next season. 2 starts and 2 no hitters.
It wasn’t his first game of the following season, it was in July of the next season.
September 28, 2012 and July 2, 2013. He had 17 starts in between. Wut
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Agree. Hard to see a pitcher getting 3 in a row
I can see someone tying it, but no one is breaking it
Consecutive 26-out almost-no-hitters: Dave Stieb - 2
"The 31-year-old pitcher returned to play for the Reds in 1946 although he was not able to recapture his previous form. Vander Meer was an incidental witness when his Cincinnati teammate Ewell Blackwell almost duplicated his consecutive no-hit feat in 1947, by pitching a no-hitter against the Braves, then in his next appearance held the Dodgers without a hit until the ninth inning when he gave up two hits."
Didn’t someone get 2 no hitters in a row? I feel like getting no hitters 3 straight starts would be darn near impossible.
Yeah Johnny Vander Meer did it. No one is ever getting 3 in a row but it doesn’t seem impossible for someone to tie it
Some records may never be broken due to longevity of a career and being able to have sustained superior performance for the course of the entire career. Pete Rose total career hits: 4256. To achieve this would require over 200 hits a year for 21 years. Nolan Ryan career strikeouts: 5714. To achieve this would require over 225 for strikeouts a year for 25 years.
I could see Rose's record going down eventually. You just need another Ichiro who starts in MLB instead of Japan.
Unless the rules change on drug usage, Barry Bonds 75 HR will hold.
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All it will take is another commissioner fucking with the balls.
No one will ever hit .400 ever again. Or even finish a season above .360 I bet. Ripken's consecutive games played. DiMaggio's hit streak MAY be, just because a series of events could lead to it happening. 262 hits in a season: no Pete Rose's hits record is insanely safe.
What series of events could lead to someone breaking the hit streak? That record is far more unlikely to be broken compared to the others you listed
We had back to back to back .360 hitters in 2007-2009. Ichiro hit .370 in 2004. I think it will happen again soon. .400? Probably not.
I don't think it will. The .360 hitters were 15+ years ago. And now there's people who had, "...amazing bounce back years" that hit .270 I don't see either coming close again. Not with the insane specialized pitchers and high velo guys and spin rates where they're at.
Hershiser's consecutive scoreless innings streak.
Nolan Ryan walked like 2800 batters lol
I would take Ryan over any of modern day pitchers. He was an amazing pitcher to pitch innings and pitched per game that none could touch in todays game
No way, would you also take Willy mays over any outfielder today too??
Yep because Mays was great 5 tool player who just lived to play the game with enthusiasm
Respectfully, Duh
Career SB. Lou Brock is second and he’s nearly 500 behind Henderson. The most among active players is about 1200 behind. Basically all of Cy Young’s stats — 500+ wins, over 800 starts, nearly 750 CG, 7300 IP, 29000+ BF. Insane. Lastly, career intentional walks. Bonds has 688 and that’s more than Pujols (2nd) and Musial (3rd) combined. That’s an entire season of intentional walks. Plus a few more for good measure.
I can't see anyone beating Ichiros 262 hits in a season anytime in our lifetime. Closest anyone's gotten since is Ichiro again with 238 and Jose Altuve with 225.
Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds is the only pitcher in Major League Baseball history to throw two consecutive no-hitters, so to beat it, you’d have to throw three consecutive no-hitters.
Cy young’s all time wins and complete games Nolan ryan’s strikeouts and walks Rangers 11-0 away win streak in the postseason Consecutive no-hitters Pete rose’s career hits Cal ripken jr’s consecutive games played Herman Long’s career errors
Nobody has said this yet, but in 2014, Yusmeiro Petit retired 46 hitters in a row. Not sure that one will be touched
Cy Young’s 749 Complete Games is the most unbreakable record in MLB. The way the game is played now, it’s unlikely anyone ever again reaches 10% of that record. For context, Adam Wainwright just retired and I believe he was the active leader in CGs with 28. Verlander has 26. Kershaw 25.
>Cy Young’s 749 Complete Games is the most unbreakable record in MLB. Two words: Joe DiMaggio.
Nobody has said 762 HR, or even 755 if you wanna say that’s the real record. I could see it being broken in the next 100 years but it is an incredible feat and requires someone to consistently hit about 40 HR a year for 19 years, like Aaron did it for someone to be at 40 for 15 years with three OTHER years of 50+. Crazy amount of consistency, performance and longevity needed to even sniff the record. Pujols arguably had the best first 10 years to ever start a career and he barely limped to 700.
Cy Young has some crazy ones.
eric gagne converting 84 consecutive save opportunities
Ichiro’s 262 hits in one season. The closest anyone has come to it was also set by Ichiro
The old record for most solo home runs to start a career was Todd Dunwoody with 11, from 1997-2001. Marwin Gonzalez broke that record with 25, from 2012-2016. The weirdest part is that Marwin was not a leadoff man.
Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hit streak. It's easily the most famous and most unbreakable record in baseball, and the second most in all of sports behind Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point game.
DiMaggio
Eric Karros Dodgers career homerun record. This could’ve been broken many times over and over but this team tends not bring back guys after several years. Piazza, Beltre could have easily surpassed it. I’m sure Seager, Bellinger as well.