Lamest Most Useless Player you can think of.

If we keep going on like this, we can eventually have an all-dud team. :)

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Originally Posted by HoustonGM

That was only one season. Bergen did it for much longer!

Plus, that seems like an astonishing number to us now but errors were much more common back then. His .869 fielding percentage was in a season where the average was .913, and his only other season wasn't bad at all (well, yes, it was, because his bat sucked, but I mean from a fielding percentage standpoint).

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Oh and just to point out, he holds the record for most errors in a game at 5. lol

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Originally Posted by ragecage

Noseks Numbers:

1989 0-2 13.50 ERA 5.1 IP 10 BB 4 K
1990 0-1 7.71 ERA 7.0 IP 9 BB 3 K

lol

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Could not find home plate with a road map and a compass!

Alll too many of the players who have been mentioned in this thread are guys who had top-flight defensive skills. A player like that isn't useless, as long as you keep him in a limited role--late inning defensive replacement, mostly.

Modern era is Pavano based on pay. And to think he got another good contract out of it. For shame.

Paul Bako I guess

Kevin Ritz's 1990 season... 0-4 record in 4 starts with an 11.05 ERA, lasting 7 1/3 innings TOTAL. In 1991, he would have an 11.74(!) ERA, although his WHIP decreased almost 1.300 to 2.543.

(He'd later become a servicable starter for a couple of seasons for the Rockies, but that was not a good start at all.)

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Originally Posted by filihok

......Alfredo Griffin was pretty bad

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Mario Mendoza was better at being bad.
Even got the ultimate hitters mark of failure named for him by George Brett. The Mendoza Line.

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Originally Posted by robinhoodnik

Mario Mendoza was better at being bad.
Even got the ultimate hitters mark of failure named for him by George Brett. The Mendoza Line.

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What I want to know is how some of these players hung on for so long

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Originally Posted by RedsoxRockies

What I want to know is how some of these players hung on for so long

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I know how this guy got in and stayed. Dale Berra, son of Yogi.
Yogi also got Rizzuto into the HOF.

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Originally Posted by RedsoxRockies

What I want to know is how some of these players hung on for so long

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There was a whole host of 1970's middle infielders that couldn't hit their way out of a barn that had long major league careers. It was a time where positions like shortstop were thought of as "defense first" positions, and any offense was a bonus.