Can you name the pitchers who led each MLB team in holds during the 2009 season? by guy_gadbois

Team	Player	# of Holds
Arizona Diamondbacks		12
Atlanta Braves		25
Baltimore Orioles		15
Boston Red Sox		24
Chicago Cubs		27
Chicago White Sox		24
Cincinnati Reds		25
Cleveland Indians		10
Cleveland Indians		10
Colorado Rockies		12
Colorado Rockies		12
Detroit Tigers		28
Florida Marlins		20
Houston Astros		19
Kansas City Royals		12
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim		20
Los Angeles Dodgers		14

Team	Player	# of Holds
Los Angeles Dodgers		14
Milwaukee Brewers		27
Minnesota Twins		33
New York Mets		24
New York Yankees		21
Oakland Athletics		23
Philadelphia Phillies		26
Pittsburgh Pirates		16
St. Louis Cardinals		18
San Diego Padres		27
San Francisco Giants		33
Seattle Mariners		26
Tampa Bay Rays		18
Texas Rangers		20
Toronto Blue Jays		12
Washington Nationals		10
Washington Nationals		10

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MLB 2009 Hold Leaders by Team Quiz

by guy_gadbois

Created Nov 27, 2009 in Sports
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	Blaise:	Nov 27th, 2009 at 05:25 GMT	2 points
	Wow, this is so difficult. Pretty much "name all the set-up men and hope that they're the leader since the only relievers you know on each team are the closers and set up men..." at least for me. I got 9/32. You probably don't need to specify ties, just put the team there twice - Makes it look just a little better. 5 Sporcles from me

	guy_gadbois:	Nov 27th, 2009 at 06:42 GMT	1 point
	Thank you for your comments and the suggestion. I took your advice, and the quiz does look better without the "tie" notation. I also had to do some minor tweaks on the hold numbers (various sites conflict with each other), but the majority of the answers are the same (with a few alterations). This quiz would have been very difficult for me as well if someone else had come up with it.

	JGS:	Dec 6th, 2009 at 18:18 GMT	1 point
	I like the concept of having a stat for middle relievers, but this quiz is a good illustration of why the hold is a silly stat. There are some legit 8th inning guys here, but there are also a lot of lefty specialists who come in for one or two batters every other game, and if their team is winning they will pick up a hold. That was probably your issue, Blaise--your team's entry here is a real 8th inning guy so you probably weren't looking for LOOGYs (I didn't do much better--12--but my team's entry tipped me off to that)

	guy_gadbois:	Dec 6th, 2009 at 21:36 GMT	1 point
	JGS, I agree with your argument about the hold being, at the very least, a misleading statistic. That said, this quiz is a good test of baseball fans' knowledge of relievers who are used often in close games (teams have several relievers like this who pitch often besides the closer), but who are not well-known closers (guys like Marmol and Madson had a number of opportunities to close games by the end of the season, though). I think if I had taken this quiz (if I hadn't contributed it), I wouldn't have gotten many of the relievers in the National League since my Mariners only played against the West in the N.L. this past season.