Sporcle Friday: M’s batters with more BBs than Ks

Happy Friday, friends. Did you know that the Mariners play their first spring training game tomorrow? Because they do! Hooray. With the advent of actual games/scrimmages, we will undoubtedly hear a boatload of baseball talk from the M’s skipper/general manager. As we all know, one of Jerry Dipoto’s very favorite things to discuss is how well his players are CONTROLLING the ZONE. This has been a big ol’ focus of emphasis for this team. With this in mind, today’s Sporcle asks you a C-the-Z-related question: Which Mariners batters have been able to go a whole season while recording more walks than punch-outs (min 350 PA)?

This is a feat that has been accomplished 52 times by 24 different players. However, thanks in large part to the absurd increase in strikeouts in recent years, only two ~regular M’s hitters have done this over the last decade. Depending on when you became an M’s fan, this could increase the degree of difficulty of this quiz quite a bit. (But hopefully it won’t be too hard? We’ll see!)

Good luck and goms.

Direct link to the quiz.