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As a sport with a storied history, baseball lends itself to being a popular trivia topic. Whether on Jeopardy or scoreboard stumpers at baseball stadiums across the country, many fans can’t get enough of it. It’s unclear when we’ll get to participate in our first Scoreboard Stumper of the year at Great American Ball Park. But we’ll be hosting our own trivia here at RC+ in the meantime! And, of course, we’ll mix in plenty of analytics.
Exit velocity has become the staple of Statcast, and you’ll hear it mentioned on almost every broadcast nowadays. Statcast has been tracking exit velocity since the beginning of the 2015 season, and it’s become an important evaluation tool for coaches, front offices, and baseball bloggers.
That leads us to our first trivia question. Sixteen different Cincinnati Reds batters have achieved an exit velocity of at least 110 mph on a batted ball since 2015. Can you name them?
Just click the green “Play” button in the quiz embedded below and type in your answers. Note: You can type full names or just last names.
Let us know how you did — and if you were surprised by any of the answers — in the comments!
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I got all but two. Anyone who gets #3 is either lying or cheating. Same with the fourth from the bottom. Interesting exercise. I guessed a lot of players who surprised me they didn’t make it. Will reveal those in a while.
I missed two super obvious ones in Dietrich and frazier
Dietrich, Puig, and Frazier big obvious misses!!
Missed Puig and Frazier. Wow. I actually thought about Tyler Holt, but didn’t put him because how would he be on there? Would have never gotten Boesch
I was surprised that Scooter Gennett didn’t have any. Tried “Hamilton” for the laugh.
I should’ve gotten kivelehan and Dixon. I don’t even remember Tyler Holt or Brandon Boesch. Got everyone else though. Most surprising was Winker, he had a few but it seems like he always hitting it 100+ I would’ve figured he had several above 110.