Sporcle Friday: Mariners with 20 errors in a season

Apr 9 2021 by Lookout Landing

 
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that’s way too many

Errors are probably the most aptly-named baseball occurrence, right up there with the wild pitch. The ball was hit at you, a person whose job it is to field it, and you did not do it. That’s an error. I love it.

20 errors in a season is a tremendous feat of bad at your job-ness. If we assume that a regular, everyday position player appears in 150 games, that’s one error every 7.5 games. Again, the goal is to make an...

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