San Diego Padres by PolinskyL

Champion(s):

GrecoD


Runner(s)-Up:

MorrisB


Quiz Description

A quiz about my favorite baseball team.

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 71 26 04 71 75 17 23 17 10 10 52 36
1 GrecoD 428 98 15
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2 MorrisB 399 95 00
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3 QuintongJ 386 91 15
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4 BarrientosB 338 88 15
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5 WellsW 336 85 00
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6 BurgerM 304 82 15
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7 OppenheimS 299 79 00
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8 ChrisRosenberg 280 75 15
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9 DaviesML 269 72 00
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10 GrahamJ 261 69 00
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11 SchroederS 256 66 15
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12 Falkor23 253 62 00
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13 BarkerC 244 59 15
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14 SheahanJ 241 56 00
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15 BruceM 226 53 00
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16 BoyerA 225 50 00
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17 GoodmanDL 224 46 00
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18 HulkaE 223 43 00
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19 BeningoS 212 40 15
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20 WeikleB 206 37 00
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21 SpoeriJ 202 33 15
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22 brianghoward 194 30 00
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23 DBrick 184 27 00
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24 thorsleyd 175 24 00
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25 ConnorA 174 20 00
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26 Matto 170 17 00
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27 SochackiA 154 14 00
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28 randalleng 148 11 00
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29 PerryS 143 8 00
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30 HessJa 133 4 00
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31 Commodore 84 1 00
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Questions:

Two men have the following things in common: Both received the Korean Service Medal as well as a multitude of other military awards. Both are now honored at the Hall of Fame. Both are associated with the Padres even though neither played for the MLB team. NAME BOTH.

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Ted Williams and Jerry Coleman

WHO SAID: "Why do I trade? I'm aggressive. I'm confident. I'm a gambler. I'm willing to make a trade and not be afraid I'll get nailed." His trading only got the Padres as far as a NL pennant, and only once, but he would go on to win the World Series as the manager of a different expansion team.

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"Trader" Jack McKeon

In 1984, Billy Sianis and a billy goat were brought onto the field in WHAT STADIUM in an attempt to reverse a curse? Although the unhexing proved effective there, its effects did not (apparently) transfer to three consecutive games at Jack Murphy Stadium.

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Wrigley Field

The 1996 team featured three regular outfielders. Two would go on the make the Hall of Fame. By most metrics, however, it was the third one, the one who has to buy a ticket to visit Cooperstown, that was the Padres' best OF that season. NAME HIM.

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Steve Finley

WHAT PADRES PITCHER recorded a loss in a World Series game, an NL Playoff game, and a play-in game?

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Trevor Hoffman

Although Sixto Lezcano and Steve Mura (and two PTBNLs) were involved in the trade, Padres fans viewed it as a straight challenge trade (a trade in which the Padres probably got the shorter end of the stick) of HOF shortstop Ozzie Smith for WHAT NON-HOF SHORTSTOP?

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Garry Templeton

Name EITHER of the two former Padres catchers currently employed as an MLB manager.

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Bruce Bochy or Brad Ausmus

Two Padres have been named Rookie of the Year: a reliever (who shared the award with another player - the only time there were co-winners - and who was more or less never heard from again) and a catcher (who would go on to have a multi-decade career). NAME EITHER PADRE.

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Butch Metzger or Benito Santiago

The presence of one of the players in Q8 resulted in the Padres having no place for one of their better prospects, a catcher who was later traded for Joe Carter. Coincidentally, a short time later the Padres would trade the catcher's brother, as well, this time together with Joe Carter. NAME BOTH BROTHERS. (Two first names required.)

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Roberto Alomar and Sandy Alomar (Jr.)

Much more recently, prior to the 2015 season, the Padres traded for WHAT PAIR OF BROTHERS? (Two first names required.)

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Justin and BJ/Melvin Upton

To stick with the family theme, in the 1968 NL Expansion draft, the Padres' and Expos' first picks were members of baseball families. The Expos took Manny Mota, while the Padres, with the first overall pick, took a player with the nickname "Downtown", whose brother Oscar played for the Braves (and whose brother Willie was a USC and NFL running back). What was their LAST NAME?

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Brown (Ollie "Downtown" Brown)

Finally, speaking of baseball families, it would be more than a mild understatement to say that he was not the most famous member of his family to play for the Padres. However, on the last day of the 1996 season (in his last career at-bat), WHAT PLAYER hit a double off Chan Ho Park to propel the Padres to a three-game sweep of the Dodgers that gave them the division title? [FIRST AND LAST NAME REQUIRED]

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Chris Gwynn