Found July 03, 2011 on The Flagrant Fan: Yardbarker Blogger Network
Chone Figgins used to be a pretty good player, right? He had a good season or two with the Angels and those Angels were blasted when they allowed Figgins to get away. Now the Angels look like geniuses. Figgins has been so bad since coming to the Seattle Mariners, that it's getting to the side of historic. Since 1961 (the last fifty years), only fifteen players have had more than 250 at bats and finished the season with an OPS (on base percentage plus slugging percentage) lower than .480. Figgins is sitting at .478 for the season. Fifteen players seems like a lot. But not when you consider that seven of them compiled their sub-.480 OPS seasons in 1968--that famous year of the pitcher. Two others performed the feat the year before in 1967. So that means that only six players since that 1968 season have compiled worse offensive numbers than Chone Figgins. Who were they? Rob Picciolo was a rookie for the Oakland Athletics in 1977 when he played 148 games for that team and compiled 4...
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