Saturday Sporcle: Designated Hitters

Set Number: X164452 TK1Yeah, last week’s one, concerning swingmen in Diamondbacks history was probably among the toughest I’ve ever put out there. As mentioned at the time, players who start AND relieve in a season tend to be not particularly great at either, so in a lot of cases are players that you’re not going to remember anyway. It doesn’t help that there haven’t been any of late, so you need to go back a few seasons to find examples at all. Unsurprisingly, results were... not great. There were only 44 attempts, which is less than half as many as tried the “Starting pitchers” one the previous week. The average score was only 34%, and barely one in four (27%) got even half of the thirty-one answers.

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