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GoldenageGoldenage Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭✭✭
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How do you explain it ?
Professionals who have JUST ONE GREAT year but not any others ?

Who else is like Buzz Capra from Atlanta ?

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/caprabu01.shtml

Amazing to be that good and then that bad.

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  • GoldenageGoldenage Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,244 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It is hard to explain. there have been so many in sports history. some guys get injured. maybe some guys get "figured out" maybe some just get hot and play above their heads for one magical season then fade away. A few come to mind...
    Barry Foster
    Mark Rypien
    Bob Hamlin
    Kevin Mass
    Dwight Smith and Jerome Walton
    Mark Davis
    the list goes on and on

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,101 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hurricane Hazle 1957 Braves

    In less than three weeks, from August 9 through August 25, Hazle batted .473 with 5 home runs and 19 runs batted in during 14 games. Hazle's sudden an unexpected burst of offense earned him the nickname "Hurricane." The original Hurricane Hazel had killed hundreds of people in North America in 1954. In 41 regular-season games with the Braves, Hazle batted .403 with 12 doubles, 7 home runs, and 27 RBI.

    After a bad start in 1958, Hazle was traded to Detroit. After a stint in the minors, he retired in 1960.

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  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,101 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Joe Charboneau 1980 ROY

    #LetsGoSwitzerlandThe Man Who Does Not Read Has No Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read. The biggest obstacle to progress is a habit of “buying what we want and begging for what we need.”You get the Freedom you fight for and get the Oppression you deserve.
  • LandrysFedoraLandrysFedora Posts: 2,137 ✭✭✭✭✭

    How about Brady Anderson in 1996 with 50 homers.

  • spacehaydukespacehayduke Posts: 5,741 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mark Fidrych

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  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,061 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @craig44 said:

    Mark Rypien

    Went to the Pro Bowl twice. He was actually really good in 1989 before the magic 1991 season.

  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,061 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 8, 2022 7:31PM

    Goalie Andrew Hammond. 20-1-2 with a 1.79 GAA as a rookie. 11-19-5 otherwise.

  • dallasactuarydallasactuary Posts: 4,322 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Most all freakishly fluky seasons are a player's first full season (i.e., they were learning how to be major leaguers until then) and then an injury derailed them. That's what happened to Capra, Fidrych, Charboneau, and many, many others. The other big group are the 'roiders.

    I think of fluke seasons as those that come in the heart of a player's career after establishing an expected level of performance over several years, then BOOM, then back to the expected level for several more seasons. Which means, if you think about it, that only relatively good players can have fluke seasons, since only relatively good players get to play in the majors for that long. Probably the best example is Cy Seymour - similar to Andy Van Slyke, except for 1905 when he was the best player in baseball. In more modern times, Zoilo Versalles and Joe Torre come to mind.

    This is for you @thisistheshow - Jim Rice was actually a pretty good player.
  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,061 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dallasactuary said:
    Most all freakishly fluky seasons are a player's first full season (i.e., they were learning how to be major leaguers until then) and then an injury derailed them. That's what happened to Capra, Fidrych, Charboneau, and many, many others. The other big group are the 'roiders.

    I think of fluke seasons as those that come in the heart of a player's career after establishing an expected level of performance over several years, then BOOM, then back to the expected level for several more seasons. Which means, if you think about it, that only relatively good players can have fluke seasons, since only relatively good players get to play in the majors for that long. Probably the best example is Cy Seymour - similar to Andy Van Slyke, except for 1905 when he was the best player in baseball. In more modern times, Zoilo Versalles and Joe Torre come to mind.

    Norm Cash is a great example of this.

  • MaywoodMaywood Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not really a one-year wonder but he had one-year to remember --- Roy Face in 1959 for the Pittsburgh Pirates when he went 18-1 and may have solidified himself as the Grandfather of Closers.

  • galaxy27galaxy27 Posts: 7,834 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Rams

    you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet

  • daltexdaltex Posts: 3,486 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Tabe said:

    @dallasactuary said:
    Most all freakishly fluky seasons are a player's first full season (i.e., they were learning how to be major leaguers until then) and then an injury derailed them. That's what happened to Capra, Fidrych, Charboneau, and many, many others. The other big group are the 'roiders.

    I think of fluke seasons as those that come in the heart of a player's career after establishing an expected level of performance over several years, then BOOM, then back to the expected level for several more seasons. Which means, if you think about it, that only relatively good players can have fluke seasons, since only relatively good players get to play in the majors for that long. Probably the best example is Cy Seymour - similar to Andy Van Slyke, except for 1905 when he was the best player in baseball. In more modern times, Zoilo Versalles and Joe Torre come to mind.

    Norm Cash is a great example of this.

    I don't understand. While Cash never again approached his level in 1961, 1961 was his first full season, and he was very good for the rest of the decade.

  • coolstanleycoolstanley Posts: 2,868 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Barry Foster

    Terry Bradshaw was AMAZING!!

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  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I couldn't remember this guy's name but I just looked up Cowboys one year wonders and he came up. Laurent Robinson, WR. This was in 2011. I remember this happening but didn't know all of the details. I will link an article. Don't know if you can open it so I will copy and paste his numbers for that year vs his career (which ended after the next season).

    Funny OT story. The article was written by Jon Machota. aka Jonny Matches. He is a Dallas sports writer. I occasionally will hear him on the radio, and I see him posting tons of training camp stuff on Twitter. I heard the following story only once, but I believe it to be true. You all might know that Jason Witten had some issues with hair loss. And famously had new hair when he appeared on Monday night football. Anyway, Machota once had the nerve to ask Witten something about his hair during a press conference or whatnot. I don't know if it was that day, or a few days later, but Machota walked out to the parking lot and couldn't see his car. Apparently it was surrounded on all sides by mountains of dirt. Lol

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/theathletic.com/1738068/2020/04/10/one-hit-wonder-laurent-robinsons-out-of-nowhere-11-touchdown-season/?amp=1

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  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,061 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 10, 2022 9:46PM

    @daltex said:

    @Tabe said:

    @dallasactuary said:
    Most all freakishly fluky seasons are a player's first full season (i.e., they were learning how to be major leaguers until then) and then an injury derailed them. That's what happened to Capra, Fidrych, Charboneau, and many, many others. The other big group are the 'roiders.

    I think of fluke seasons as those that come in the heart of a player's career after establishing an expected level of performance over several years, then BOOM, then back to the expected level for several more seasons. Which means, if you think about it, that only relatively good players can have fluke seasons, since only relatively good players get to play in the majors for that long. Probably the best example is Cy Seymour - similar to Andy Van Slyke, except for 1905 when he was the best player in baseball. In more modern times, Zoilo Versalles and Joe Torre come to mind.

    Norm Cash is a great example of this.

    I don't understand. While Cash never again approached his level in 1961, 1961 was his first full season, and he was very good for the rest of the decade.

    @daltex said:

    @Tabe said:

    @dallasactuary said:
    Most all freakishly fluky seasons are a player's first full season (i.e., they were learning how to be major leaguers until then) and then an injury derailed them. That's what happened to Capra, Fidrych, Charboneau, and many, many others. The other big group are the 'roiders.

    I think of fluke seasons as those that come in the heart of a player's career after establishing an expected level of performance over several years, then BOOM, then back to the expected level for several more seasons. Which means, if you think about it, that only relatively good players can have fluke seasons, since only relatively good players get to play in the majors for that long. Probably the best example is Cy Seymour - similar to Andy Van Slyke, except for 1905 when he was the best player in baseball. In more modern times, Zoilo Versalles and Joe Torre come to mind.

    Norm Cash is a great example of this.

    I don't understand. While Cash never again approached his level in 1961, 1961 was his first full season, and he was very good for the rest of the decade.

    Yeah, you're right, he doesn't quite fit.

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