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Been watching Castellanos play this year and it's got me wondering, could it just have been an email? Is there a name for it? How often does it happen?
How to achieve a working from home:
In one game
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Play all 9 innings (Batting and Fielding)
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Never run the base path while batting - Strike out only or foul ball for an out
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Never touch the ball while in the field - Zero touches on a ball in active play - Throwing around the horn is fine.
Next time a player on your team is in a slump batting, look out for this prestigious feat.
Miggy Cabrera got switched to pinch hit, got intentionally walked, and subsequently switched for a pinch runner in the same play. I know it’s not all 9 innings but an amusing example of doing absolutely nothing except his reputation making the play.
This may not fit OP’s full criteria, but absolutely should also count as working from home.
This almost feels like the opposite. Should be something like Called Into the Office on a Saturday. Your boss says you really need to come in this weekend because they could use your help. You come in and they have you look at one thing. You sign off on it. They send you home. Could've been an email.
I’m thinking that one should be the Two Hour Minimum. I’m on call, you bothered me, don’t care if it took 30 seconds of my day.
My old job had to pay us 4 hours minimum.
Therefore if "you got called in" you could count on being there for 4 hours and 1 minute.
No such thing as a "free hour" there.
leaving at lunch
Quiet quitting
Working on fame*
And let's be honest, nice work if you can get it.
Feels more like a consultation
My first ever Giants game was a Bonds off day in like 2003. He came in to pinch hit in the 7th or 8th, intentional walk, pinch runner, boom. Work day over.
But he had to stand there for 4 pitches. If the Miggy one was recent enough he didn’t even need to stand in the batters box.
But that violates the parameters OP set in a single plate appearance...
Do you know when this was? Trying to search for anything with "Miguel Cabrera intentional walk" only yields results about the more famous highlight.
Looks like 8/11/22. Here's a post from when it happened but no video: https://redd.it/wm19vi
Hey I made that post! Sorry I didn’t have video but you can call me and I will recount the tale
Hello from the future, where I have used mlb.tv to make a video!
As someone posted under you here’s the link
I think I found one!
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/KCA/KCA201506050.shtml
Friday, June 5, 2015
Joey Gallo played 3B, and struck out in all 4 of his plate appearances. He did not field any hits or outs as far as I can tell from the play by play.
EDIT: Linked the wrong game, Jun 5, 2015 vs KCR, not June 19 vs CWS
EDIT 2: Also just realized this was Gallo's first ever 4K game and only his 4th game in the majors. Dude was making history from the get go
No way! Great find. I was thinking, is it possible in the infield ? I think 3B has the greatest odds besides the outfield. Finding this could be an example of one of the only infielder instances happening.
Even if a pitcher throws a no hitter, there are still ground outs and fly outs so that’s where it’s been tough to find. Especially infield
I'm sure there's a better way but my method was to go to guys who strike out a lot (hence, Gallo) and check games where they K'd in every AB. He had a couple games where he only made one or two fielding plays, this was the only one I found where he didn't make any plays in the field.
3B is probably the most likely infield position though. Even then there's still a chance that he received the ball as a cut off man which technically still counts as playing the field, but this is about as close as it could get for an infielder imo.
Completely agree. We probably need to exclude cutoff touches to even make it possible for the infield to participate in the work from home program. A perfect WFH probably only exists for outfielders
I'm not good at looking up stats but if you first filtered low scoring games (I guess starting at 0-1) then filtered those by highest K's that would in theory get you to guys who played in a game that not many balls would have come their way and they likely didn't get on base?
Not sure that would be the best way to search but it would turn up high probability games for this to have happened in. Then search by players who struck out every AB and check their fielding.
Of course it was Gallo.
He did it again in 2018: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS201807110.shtml
Joey! I miss that guy😔
The “perfect game” version of this should be they don’t make contact. Extra perfect if they don’t even swing.
The Gavin Lux /s
The 2023 Spring Training Miguel Vargas experience
Is he back yet?
No way to tell
Too soon lol
the Daniel Vogelbach
I knew he was going to have a shitty season when I saw him being a dick to the dodgers social media reporter. Get Mookie to cover 2nd and short stop at the same time and get rid of Lux!
Andre Dawson was intentionally walked 5 times in one game
But he would've ran the base path.
Walked it at least…
Got rid of "the hard part" of baseball 5 times.
Conversely, there was that time the Cubs walked Bryce Harper 13 times in a series in 2016, including the final game where he was walked intentionally 3 times, walked not-necessarily-intentionally 3 times, and HBP once
Can we rule that if you walk in your final AB, and are immediately pinch run for then it still counts?
No contact is the no hitter no swing is the perfect game
And OPs version is the CGSO
Nah no swing is immaculate
Javy's on it.
Got me thinking about this now. Baseball's been around long enough that it's almost sure to have happened.
No-swing strikeouts and no contact in the field. Most activity is jogging to position from the dugout.
Maybe. But I find it hard to believe a player strikes our 4+ times in a game without swinging the bat once. I’d pay someone $10 if they find an instance where this has happened.
This is the negative expansion of the "what if Barry Bonds didn't have a bat" situation.
Phil Hughes start against the Nats in 2016. Since this was pre-universal DH he was 9th in the lineup but had a bad thumb so he never lifted the bat off his shoulder.
Presumably he also pitched though which means he would’ve touched the ball many times that day
The "unplugged controller"
Gotta be no swings (or maybe no contact at least), the idea being that if the player hadn't actually been in the stadium the outcome of the game would not be affected in any way.
That's probably equivalent to the theoretical 27 or 81 pitch perfect game though that no one would ever realistically achieve.
Wouldn't any catcher be working from home?
Ay-ooooo
about to train up and join a league just to able to drop this caption on Instagram
B+
Took me a minute but I got there
Yankee fans not quick on the uptake
Just went right ahead and admitted that, huh?
Hey don’t listen to these other comments, sometimes people just think a little slower. Those people are called Yankee fans, but it’s not a bad thing, you’re just special bud♥️
Oh no, Texas?? This one hurts 🤣
Without reading your description I just assumed Rendon was probably the answer.
Josh Hamilton crawled so that Rendon could sit.
I’m stealing this saying I hope you don’t mind lol
I immediately thought of Jacoby Ellsbury.
Anthony Rendon is quiet quitting
I think Derek Bell works even better.
Operation Shutdown!
No trabajo hoy
Rendon is somehow working while retired
Or Kris Bryant
I supposed you’re looking for fielder examples.
Surely there has been a DH that struck out in every AB in a game. Or a pinch hitter whose only activity in the game was a single AB and they struck out
Correct, we are looking for fielders. Obviously a DH or pinch happens all the time. I'm talking about all 9 innings fielding plus only striking out while batting.
I'd say it's a little more special if an outfielder pulls it off. An infielder won't show up on the box getting a cutoff or a pickoff/steal that failed to get an out. And an infielder in theory is doing a lot more between and during plays just because there's so many different ways they can cover, shift, and back up. As opposed to an outfielder who does the same thing but many former players say they get lonely or even bored during long games in the outfield
lol castellanos
Looking for those full timers.
An outfielder who never made a play on a ball and got a golden sombrero. I’m sure it’s happened.
Here's the best I came up with, checking perfect games.
Felix Hernandez's Perfect game had zero balls go to CF. You can view this footage here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43ICt9_W2Y4
BBRef shows that the Box score had Michael Saunders playing CF the entire game and went 0-4, however he did hit a liner into a DP in the first along with some flyouts https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SEA/SEA201208150.shtml
Jayson Werth during Halladay's perfecto, 0-4, 2K, no put outs by him. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/FLO/FLO201005290.shtml
Randy Johnson 0-4 in his perfecto with 2 K's, never actually fielded the ball https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL200405180.shtml
I don’t think Randy Johnson counts here considering he was literally pitching
Technically none of these count since they didn't all K in their appearances. I just thought the Randy one was hilarious enough to add since he never did field the ball after a pitch.
Absolute legend. Thank you for taking the time to look into my random thought I had
I love this and assume I'll hear a detailed breakdown in a few days on Effectively Wild
hopefully with the liz panella intro
Already done: https://effectivelywild.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_1825:_Boom,_Ghosted
The longest is Cory Snyder, who went 100 events for Cleveland without interacting with the ball starting August 19, 1987. His streak lasted 17 innings over three games. He played the corner outfield positions over those games.
No new ideas I guess
gosh that would be a blast
a stat blast if you will
It’s like baseball’s version of a trillion in basketball.
This was basically my little league career
I remember a varsity game where I did not touch the ball once WHILE PLAYING FIRST BASE. It’s not even like I missed balls hit/thrown to me, the other team either struck out or hit the ball in the air damn near every at bat. We actually won the game despite the absolute spanking it would sound like if you heard a first baseman didn’t get a ball hit or thrown to him all game.
I almost got to play baseball that day as a cut off man but the outfielder sent the ball to Nigeria instead. There was a dribbler down the first base line but our pitcher fielded and tagged the guy. Another little dribbler resulted in no throw from our 3B by the time he fielded it.
I don’t remember if I got on base or not but I probably at least put a ball in play as I didn’t strike out that much and I also got walked a bunch. I feel like the memory of not contributing in any way, shape or form would have stood out a little more so I probably got on base somehow.
Anyway, that has to be by far and away the most unlikely sporting “achievement” I’ve ever been a part of, even more so than a time my teammate threw a perfect game in little league. I truly wonder if I’m the only first baseman to ever have this happen in any reasonably organized level of play.
This makes me wonder..which defensive player is the least likely to have contact with the ball? I'm guessing Right Field.
Right field in most cases, but it might vary some depending on the stadium.
I knew there was a reason I was stuck in right field for the 5 years I played Tball!
Yup traditionally your worst player (me) would play RF. But as you progress RF requires a stronger arm than LF to make the throws from right to third base
Being in the outfield is so ingrained in me from elementary and middle school PE that even my custom player on The Show is a right fielder.
If Right Field is good enough for second best Suzuki to ever play in the majors, then it's good enough for me.
That did get you an upvote today, six or eight years later
I played one year of rec ball as a teenager as the starting right fielder and fielded exactly two balls all year
Isn’t every teenage boy fielding two balls all year?