You are an MLB position player - whose pitch do you NOT want to face?

[KitchenWitch]

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. That Baby Huey looking guy on the WhiteSox who throws the 100 mph heat

in relief.

[hfojvt]

2. what about Don Drysdale's

brushback? :hide:

[KitchenWitch]

3. true.

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. When Drysdale was mad

he'd throw behind a guy's head. Same with Gibson.

Quoth Willie Mays: "Drysdale, who's a good friend of mine, like to kill me a couple times, and he knows it."

[hfojvt]

You might appreciate my Field of Dreams story

I googled some relatives of mine since alot of them were doctors and I discovered a fifth cousin of my grandfather who played 4 seasons for the Baltimore Orioles 1895-1898. Erasmus Arlington Pond. For lifetime stats he pitched 496 innings and had a 3.45 ERA. I don't know if that is good or bad, but the O's won two pennants while he was there.
After baseball, he went to medical school, like his grandfather and his brother. Thus the field of dreams angle. He died in the Phillipines in 1930. Kinda funny how his baseball is remembered on the internet, but his medical work is not.

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. Erasmus Arlington 'Arlie' Pond

Lifetime (1895-98) 35-19, completed 46 of 60 starts, 496 innings, 517 hits, walked 150, struck out 156, 3.45 ERA. Batted .245 (45-184), five doubles, one triple, no homers, 14 RBI.

Not bad. :thumbsup:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/p/pondar01.shtml

The seriously cool part is he played on the same club with Wilbert Robinson, Kid Gleason, John McGraw, Hughie Jennings and Willie Keeler.

[SeattleGirl]

4. Clemens, most definitely!

:scared:

[KitchenWitch]

5. Yeah, he threw at his own son's head.

[KitchenWitch]

6. I had to go with the submariner

How the fuck does ANYONE hit that pitch???

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Same as they hit any other — timing

Thing is, a pitch that comes from Down There is harder to pick up, and it has a natural break. (Carl Mays, the guy who killed Ray Chapman with a pitch in 1920, was a submariner.)

On the other side, sidewheelers can't generate the power of an overhand pitch, so hitters aren't likely to see anything in the 90s.

[LSK]

7. Bobby Jenks fastball

:P

[Initech]

10. Why isnt Randy Johnson on the list?

:scared:

[KitchenWitch]

11. OOPS

He was nearly impossible to hit just a few years ago.

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Johnson doesn't even have to throw

He just stands up there and uglies guys back to the bench.

[KitchenWitch]

13. OMFG

:spray:

[Initech]

14. Weird... I was thinking the same thing.

[sir_captain]

16. All time? Bob Gibson's anything

I don't think anyone has ever looked meaner on a mound.

Currently, if I'm a left-handed hitter, I don't want to be within a mile of Randy Johnson's slider, coming at me from behind my head.

Righty, I'd say either Mariano Rivera's cutter or Eric Gagne's changeup with honorable mentions to Barry Zito's curveball and a good old fashioned Clemens heater (I'm not sure if he counts or not, at this point.)