Who are some players who were named Rookie of the year and then flopped afterwards? Some guys go on to have great or at least very good careers, but who were good in their 1st. season and then disappeared beyond their rookie year?
2007-11-08 13:50:59 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
Matt Weiss with the A's .... Bobby Crosby hasn't lived up to the initial hype in Oakland .... Pat Listach in Brewerland ... Gregg Olson in Baltimore ... Jerome Walton in Chicago ... and in the same year (1976, National League co-Rookie of the Years) Butch Metzger in San Diego and Pat Zachry in Cincinnati
2007-11-08 13:58:03 · answer #1 · answered by Crash Jones 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jake Wood, Detroit, 1961. Led the league with 9 triples. Good looking second baseman. Had that rookie year and did the slow fade.
2007-11-08 20:08:14 · answer #2 · answered by Sarrafzedehkhoee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I remember Mark "The Bird" Fydrich, the great Detroit rookie pitcher who was so entertaining as well as unbeatanle as a rookie.
He used to get down on one knee and work on the mound like a hyper-active grounds-keeper.
Mark looked a bit crazy, and maybe he was in a way. He burned out after his great freshman year!
The crazy rookie hurler inspired a crazy Motown hit: "Everybody's talking about the Bird ... about the BIRD, bird, BIRD bird, the Bird!"
2007-11-08 14:15:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Walt Weiss had a long major league career as a solid glove little hit SS, Olsen was a good closer for a few years so I wouldn't call either of these one year wonders. Pat Listash would have been my contribution to this but his name has already been mentioned.
2007-11-08 14:02:54 · answer #4 · answered by Shawn C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bird, Mark Fiderych. He played for the Detriot Tigers in 76. He was awesome, but blew his arm out in September of that year and never recovered.
2007-11-08 13:54:33 · answer #5 · answered by MikeB 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Marty Cordova, Big Ben Mcdonald.
2007-11-08 13:53:36 · answer #6 · answered by Hello 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Joe Charbonneau. He won the ROY award with the Indians in 1980, but played only 70 more games and was out of the majors less than three years later.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/c/charbjo01.shtml
2007-11-08 13:55:21 · answer #7 · answered by Craig S 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
i'm reaching into the memory banks so the year and the spelling of the name may be slightly off, but i'd say joe charboneau of the indians might be the biggest roty bust, early 80's, maybe 82 or 83.
2007-11-08 13:56:03 · answer #8 · answered by jonas 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Joe Charboneau was a huge flameout after being a ROY.
2007-11-09 02:16:03 · answer #9 · answered by alomew_rocks 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Angel Berroa in 2003 when Hideki Matsui should have won it.
2007-11-08 13:54:33 · answer #10 · answered by Doc Yankee30™ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋