A botched attempt at an interesting blog entry. I was curious to see if any 2 players in history had the exact same statistics. I figured over the years, 2 players would accidentally end up with the exact same baseball card stats. G, AB, R, H, DBL, TPL, HR, RBI.
I knew it would happen often at a lower volume of at bats but I surmised that 2 regulars would have coincidentally shared the same statistics but the highest at bat total that I could find was 87.
Year Player Team G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI
1931 Clint Brown CLE 39 87 8 15 3 0 0 9
1993 Jeff Tackett BAL 39 87 8 15 3 0 0 9
The second highest is a pair of pitchers which makes some sense since they don't accumulate a lot of extra base hits and rbis.
Year Player Team G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI
1975 Lynn McGlothen Stl 35 80 3 7 0 0 0 0
1991 Terry Mulholland Phi 35 80 3 7 0 0 0 0
I enjoy delving into the stats looking for oddities and I'm kinda disappointed on this one. Sorry to waste your time.
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Actually, the fact that this only happened twice, makes it interesting. If there were a bunch of examples, it wouldn't be unique.
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