[Mick]

Here’s one for you long-suffering Giants fans:

Name 2 SF Giants who are among the all-time bottom 12 MLB career OPS+ “leaders.”  (Each has >3500 PAs)

LeMaster.  Hal Lanier.

Mick's right!

OPS+ is a weighted average stat (you can google it) and I think they are something like #6 and #11 there, but if you actually look at raw OPS (on-base plus slugging pct) Lanier and LeMaster are #3 and #5 all-time worst, respectively.

Fortunately for the Giants they never overlapped as "Boo" came up just as Lanier retired.

I remember Chris Speier was an all-star his 2nd, 3rd and 4th year in the bigs (72-'74), had a good year in '75, then tanked big in '76, hitting .226.  Tim Foli came along for his near-career-worst year at .228, then it was LeMaster's turn.

1978 was actually a "good news" year for the Giants.  They went 89-73, attendance was over 1.7 million and 4th in the league, they still had McCovey, Darrell Evans and budding stars like Jack Clark.  Bob Knepper (17-11) and Vida Blue (18-10) had good years, Mike Ivie hit 4 pinch HRs (including a grand slam against the Dodgers at the 'Stick), Minton, Lavelle and Billie Jean King's brother, randy Moffitt were in the bullpen.  And they also had "Boo", sixth pick overall in the 1973 MLB draft.  He hit .235 in 1978, an improvement over both Foli and Speier the two prior years.

[Mick]

Here’s one for you long-suffering Giants fans:

Name 2 SF Giants who are among the all-time bottom 12 MLB career OPS+ “leaders.”  (Each has >3500 PAs)

LeMaster.  Hal Lanier.

Mick's right!

OPS+ is a weighted average stat (you can google it) and I think they are something like #6 and #11 there, but if you actually look at raw OPS (on-base plus slugging pct) Lanier and LeMaster are #3 and #5 all-time worst, respectively.

Fortunately for the Giants they never overlapped as "Boo" came up just as Lanier retired.

I remember Chris Speier was an all-star his 2nd, 3rd and 4th year in the bigs (72-'74), had a good year in '75, then tanked big in '76, hitting .226.  Tim Foli came along for his near-career-worst year at .228, then it was LeMaster's turn.

1978 was actually a "good news" year for the Giants.  They went 89-73, attendance was over 1.7 million and 4th in the league, they still had McCovey, Darrell Evans and budding stars like Jack Clark.  Bob Knepper (17-11) and Vida Blue (18-10) had good years, Mike Ivie hit 4 pinch HRs (including a grand slam against the Dodgers at the 'Stick), Minton, Lavelle and Billie Jean King's brother, randy Moffitt were in the bullpen.  And they also had "Boo", sixth pick overall in the 1973 MLB draft.  He hit .235 in 1978, an improvement over both Foli and Speier the two prior years.