Dan Uggla, worst All-Star performance ever?

[Steak Snabler]

Hammaker's line in 1983, by the way:

2/3 IP, 6 H, 7 ER, 7 R, 1 BB, 0 K, a 94.50 ERA

Here's the play-by-play of that inning:

Jim Rice homers, 3-1 AL
George Brett triples to CF
Ted Simmons pops up to 2B, 1 out
Dave Winfield singles to CF, Brett scores, 4-1 AL
Manny Trillo singles to LF, Winfield to 2B
Doug DeCinces flies out to CF, 2 out
Rod Carew singles to LF, Winfield scores, Trillo to 3B, Carew takes second on throw, 5-1 AL
Robin Yount intentionally walked to load the bases
Fred Lynn homers, Trillo, Carew, Yount score, 8-1 AL

Bill Dawley relieves Hammaker
Rice flies out to 2B, 3 out

Amazingly, Hammaker didn't get the loss, because the AL already led 2-1 heading into the third ...

 

[buckweaver]

re: Fidrych

As Steak said, he wasn't terrible ... but wasn't very good, either.

I was suprised, looking back, at how good he was after the All-Star break that year. (10-7, 2.72, 14 CG, 3 SHO -- 2 of those in September -- in 18 starts.) Not as good as the first half, of course, but definitely a strong finish to his memorable year.

I was under the impression that he had more of a Fernando-type rookie season, starting lights-out then hitting the wall and sputtering down the stretch, never to regain his form. Not true.

Hammaker ... wow.

 

[forever_town]

Maybe worst performance in an All-Star Game, but to call him the worst All-Star ever when Cristian Guzman was his teammate reeks of sports-radio schlock.

At least Guzman didn't make errors on balls I've seen 9 and 10 year olds make routinely.

What does that even mean?

I'm guessing the 9 and 10 year olds you've been watching didn't have the pressure of extra innings, Yankee Stadium and major league hitters hitting the balls at them.

Pressure? Pressure is ****ing bottom of the ninth in Game 7 of the World Series. If Uggla whiffs on a routine ground ball then, we can talk about pressure. Until then, those were balls Uggla should have fielded cleanly.

 

[Bubbler]

I'd like to nominate the entire output of the Milwaukee Brewers from 1970-present for worst performance in All-Star history.

Ben Sheets' three-strikeout performance last night might be the greatest Brewer moment in All-Star history. Seriously. Teddy Higuera pitched three (shock of shockers!) shutout innings in '86 and struck out two, its the only performance that remotely comes close.

No Brewer has ever hit a home run in a World Series, no Brewer has ever had a meaningful hit -- Yount and Molitor were a combined 1 of 15 at the plate. Amazingly, Yount only made two All-Star teams.

I didn't realize how epic the Brewer All-Star fail was until I hit BaseballReference.com.

The Brewers are so All-Star bad, it took me 25 minutes to find a filter on their cool PI option that would even break down their All-Star offensive performance.

The Brewers have EIGHT base hits in All-Star history (8 of 56, .143), they've never had a game where they had more than one hit, and have had no hits at all since 1999. Jeromy Burnitz's double at Fenway in '99 is the only extra base hit ... ever. Cecil Cooper is the only Brewer to have more than one All-Star hit.

The Brewers have 3 RBIs. Conversely, they have 18 strikeouts. Somehow, the Brewers have managed 8 walks.

FAIL! FAIL! FAIL! **** the All-Star break!

 

[Bubbler]

Did I say 8 of 56? That doesn't count last night's game. Make that 8 of 62 (.129).

 

[jagtrader]

Uggla has more power than Roberts but, best I can tell, Roberts is the superior player in EVERY other aspect of the game. Brian is also one of the smarter (from a baseball standpoint) players in the game.

Uggla is slugging .600 while playing in one of the most pitcher-friendly ballparks in baseball. Roberts better have a baseball IQ of about one billion to make up that power gap.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Rob Neyer chimes in:

• Was Dan Uggla's game the worst ever for an All-Star? He made three errors (though none of them led directly to an American League run), struck out three times, grounded into a double play and stranded six runners, all of them in the eighth inning or later. Without running through all 79 All-Star Games -- and by the way, the NL's still ahead 40-37-2 -- I'm going to assume it was. At least among hitters. Pitchers, though? In 1983, Atlee Hammaker gave up seven runs in 2/3 of an inning. In 1994, Tom Glavine gave up seven straight hits in the first inning. That must have been pretty embarrassing.

 

[KP]

I'd like to nominate the entire output of the Milwaukee Brewers from 1970-present for worst performance in All-Star history.

Ben Sheets' three-strikeout performance last night might be the greatest Brewer moment in All-Star history. Seriously. Teddy Higuera pitched three (shock of shockers!) shutout innings in '86 and struck out two, its the only performance that remotely comes close.

No Brewer has ever hit a home run in a World Series, no Brewer has ever had a meaningful hit -- Yount and Molitor were a combined 1 of 15 at the plate. Amazingly, Yount only made two All-Star teams.

I didn't realize how epic the Brewer All-Star fail was until I hit BaseballReference.com.

The Brewers are so All-Star bad, it took me 25 minutes to find a filter on their cool PI option that would even break down their All-Star offensive performance.

The Brewers have EIGHT base hits in All-Star history (8 of 56, .143), they've never had a game where they had more than one hit, and have had no hits at all since 1999. Jeromy Burnitz's double at Fenway in '99 is the only extra base hit ... ever. Cecil Cooper is the only Brewer to have more than one All-Star hit.

The Brewers have 3 RBIs. Conversely, they have 18 strikeouts. Somehow, the Brewers have managed 8 walks.

FAIL! FAIL! FAIL! **** the All-Star break!

Yount made three All-Star Games, '80, '82, '83 starting in the last two. 0-for-7 with one RBI.
The AL MVP of 1989 did not make the All-Star team.

 

[pallister]

Hammaker's performance was 1,000 times worse than Uggla's.

And that stat about Yount only making 2 (well, looks like 3) All-Star games is unbelievable. I'm guessing there are lots of players that will never sniff the Hall of Fame that have had at least that many appearances in the Midsummer Classic.

The top two HR and RBI guys in the NL didn't make this year's team: Ryan Howard, tops in both; Adam Dunn, second in homers; and Carlos Lee, second in RBI.

 

[mike311gd]

Rob Neyer chimes in:

• Was Dan Uggla's game the worst ever for an All-Star? He made three errors (though none of them led directly to an American League run), struck out three times, grounded into a double play and stranded six runners, all of them in the eighth inning or later. Without running through all 79 All-Star Games -- and by the way, the NL's still ahead 40-37-2 -- I'm going to assume it was. At least among hitters. Pitchers, though? In 1983, Atlee Hammaker gave up seven runs in 2/3 of an inning. In 1994, Tom Glavine gave up seven straight hits in the first inning. That must have been pretty embarrassing.

Too bad Neyer's got the wrong year for Glavine. Mistakes happen, I guess. But that's a pretty big one -- unless Glavine was good enough to pitch for a team to which he wasn't selected in 1994.

 

[pallister]

He just assumed it.

 

[Bubbler]

I'd like to nominate the entire output of the Milwaukee Brewers from 1970-present for worst performance in All-Star history.

Ben Sheets' three-strikeout performance last night might be the greatest Brewer moment in All-Star history. Seriously. Teddy Higuera pitched three (shock of shockers!) shutout innings in '86 and struck out two, its the only performance that remotely comes close.

No Brewer has ever hit a home run in a World Series, no Brewer has ever had a meaningful hit -- Yount and Molitor were a combined 1 of 15 at the plate. Amazingly, Yount only made two All-Star teams.

I didn't realize how epic the Brewer All-Star fail was until I hit BaseballReference.com.

The Brewers are so All-Star bad, it took me 25 minutes to find a filter on their cool PI option that would even break down their All-Star offensive performance.

The Brewers have EIGHT base hits in All-Star history (8 of 56, .143), they've never had a game where they had more than one hit, and have had no hits at all since 1999. Jeromy Burnitz's double at Fenway in '99 is the only extra base hit ... ever. Cecil Cooper is the only Brewer to have more than one All-Star hit.

The Brewers have 3 RBIs. Conversely, they have 18 strikeouts. Somehow, the Brewers have managed 8 walks.

FAIL! FAIL! FAIL! **** the All-Star break!

Yount made three All-Star Games, '80, '82, '83 starting in the last two. 0-for-7 with one RBI.
The AL MVP of 1989 did not make the All-Star team.

Damn me. Looked at the wrong line on his bio. Still, he wasn't in many games.

 

[mike311gd]

I'm good with that.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Yount made three All-Star Games, '80, '82, '83 starting in the last two. 0-for-7 with one RBI.
The AL MVP of 1989 did not make the All-Star team.

Chipper Jones didn't make the All-Star team the year (1999) he was MVP, either.

And that stat about Yount only making 2 (well, looks like 3) All-Star games is unbelievable. I'm guessing there are lots of players that will never sniff the Hall of Fame that have had at least that many appearances in the Midsummer Classic.

Don Kessinger made the All-Star team six times in seven years from 1968-74, including four times as the NL's starting shortstop. He wasn't a bad player (1,931 career hits), but he was obviously no Yount.

Larry Bowa made six straight All-Star teams from 1974-79, including twice as the starter.

Bucky Dent made three All-Star teams. So did Garry Templeton. And Bill Russell. And Chris Speier.

So yeah, you're right.

Yount's biggest problem may have been that he played in the AL at the same time as Ripken and Trammell.

 

[beefncheddar]

IIRC, Jimmy Rollins was not an All-Star last year.

 

[pallister]

Speaking of MVPs, Dan Le Batard said today that Hamilton was not even the MVP on his own team. Any guesses on who he said was?

 

[Steak Snabler]

Speaking of MVPs, Dan Le Batard said today that Hamilton was not even the MVP on his own team. Any guesses on who he said was?

The angry black guy?

 

[outofplace]

Speaking of MVPs, Dan Le Batard said today that Hamilton was not even the MVP on his own team. Any guesses on who he said was?

Kinsler?

edit: or Bradley

 

[pallister]

Steak got it right; Kinsler's white; he's off Dan's radar.

 

[outofplace]

Steak got it right; Kinsler's white; he's off Dan's radar.

Ah.....got it....