what is the most unbreakable record ?

Question

what will never be broken and why?

Answer 1

The number of times the name BONDS was typed in yahoo answers over the last 30 days.

Answer 2

Baseball is built on the history of records being broken. So many of the records are touchable. But there are about 5 that may never be broken.

1.Cy Young 511 wins
Roger Clemens is the highest active player and he is at 352. Unless he can still pitch till 60 he won't make it

2.Johnny Vander Meer's consecutive no-hitter two
Know anyone who can do it three times in a row

3. Nolan Ryan's 5714 Strikeouts
Roger Clemens once again is #2 and he would need more then 1000 Stikeouts to get the #1 Spot

There are others on this list like Ty Cobbs Career Batting Avg or Cal Ripken's Game Streak. How about Hugh Nicol 138 Steals in a single season. There are too many records that are out there and there are too many that will never be touched again

Answer 3

There are different categories because there are different records -- pitching, hitting, defense; by position; career, season, game, inning; counting or rate; streaks; and so forth.

There are plenty of records that are such rare events (Tatis' 2 grand slams in one inning, Vander Meer's two consecutive no-hitters) that merely tying is highly improbable; it COULD happen but there is no way to predict that isn't a wild guess. Other records were set under gameplay conditions that are far removed from what obtains today (any error-based record lives in the 19th century, when gloves were barely more than fat mittens if used at all), and so there simply is no feasible way any modern-day player could approach.

Those caveats aside, Bill James once worked out a method for assessing the unassailability of career records, based upon the average league-leading seasonal efforts in recent seasons. James reasoned that any career record is at least slightly vulnerable if it could be broken by 22 seasons of league-leading performance at current conditions. (This work was published in, um, 1991 or right around then. Aaron's HR record was good for 21.9 seasons of league-leading performances, and so, slightly vulnerable -- and as witnessed, so it was.)

Under this method, the "most unassailable" career counting record was Cy Young's 749 complete games, which would require a continual league-leading career of at least 50 years. Unless gene therapy and other longevity techniques have some Nobel-winning breakthroughs, that one is never, ever going to fall.

Others are immensely tough; Young's CGs is the toughest. (Yeah, it's not one of the headliner, sexy records. Let the proles shout those out; the CG mark is here to stay.)

Answer 4

I would have to say Cy young's 749 complete games. The home run record and the hits record and the wins record all can only be broken if you set a good pace. You can't set a pace with complete games. You have to have the genetic make-up and arm strength/durability to even pitch 1 complete game. And nobody pitches 330 innings in a season anymore because there are 5 man rotations now. In Cy Youngs day there were 3 starters. So even if you pitched complete games for an entire career (which is 15 seasons on average), you still would not break the record solely because of your innings pitched.

Answer 5

Cy Young's records, complete games and wins, will not be touched, due to hitting. DiMaggio's 56 is unlikely, too much pressure. Ripken's streak is safe, because a lot of guys don't take as much pride in their play as Cal did. Nolan Ryan's K record is also good, the closest one is Clemens and he is still way off and not young enough to challenge it. Ted Williams was the last to finish a season with .400, only a few have come close, but I don't see anyone performing that either.....

Answer 6

Cy Youngs 511 career wins..

The guy won over 20 games 15 times, including over 30 6 times..

no one will ever do that again, thats ridiculous...especially with the difficulty guys are having with even reaching 20 wins, itll never happen

every other record i can see getting broken, and many in the near future.

Answer 7

Cy Young's career wins, losses, and complete games. He played during a different era, and those records are never to be broken.

Answer 8

Obviously the complete games record. 700+ by Cy Young. Pitchers don't even START that many in a career anymore.

Answer 9

The consecutive games played. With injuries and rest for the high salaried players the record will never come close ever again.

Answer 10

hitting streak and games played! Why well all the different specialists for pitchers in the late innings. The reason why the game played streak is simple fluke injuries ala Miguel Tejada being hit by a pitch, etc......