Grounding Into Double Plays Records - Baseball Almanac

So maybe "Hits" McGehee becomes "GIDP" McGehee if he breaks Jim Rice's record of 36 set in 1984? There are some quality names on this list so I guess you have to be good enough to set this kind of a record.

But when you're hitting .190 and heading south or so and you have to sit a guy that is currently hitting .300 and heading north to get Matt Duffy in the lineup and keep McGehee in the lineup, my only question becomes:

"Why doesn't the .190 guy get a day off or dropped down in the lineup?"

"Sorry Boch, I couldn't hear you with all that bling coming off your three World Series rings. What did you say?"

"All right. I'll STFU and let you run the ship skip. But it sure seems like a dumb way to approach line-up construction, especially when the offense is struggling. But yeah, whatever."

It's ridiculous and it almost cost them a game last night. Then Panik has to ice the cake by "knocking" in the game-winning RBI with a fairly bad safety squeeze bunt.

Don't over-think it guys. The guy that sucks, sits. Period. That way they are incentivized to not suck so much.

In 159 games of 2014, McGehee grounded into an MLB-leading 31 double plays while batting .289 with 4 home runs and 76 RBI, winning the Major League Baseball Comeback Player of the Year Award for the National League.

Note: According to Grant at McCovey Chronicles, our boy is on pace to GIDP 94 times over 600 plate appearances!! Go for it, guys. 

from Baseball Almanac:

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_gidp.shtml

"As far as I'm concerned, (Hank) Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due." - Mickey Mantle in Baseball Digest (June 1970, John Kuenster, 'Warm Up Tosses', Page 8)

Grounding Into Double Plays Career Grounding Into Double Play Records Record Lg Name(s) Team(s) Data Most In A Career (Top 1,000) AL Cal Ripken, Jr. Baltimore 350 350 NL Hank Aaron Milwaukee 193 305 Atlanta 112 Grounding Into Double Plays Single Season Grounding Into Double Play Records Record Lg Name(s) Team(s) Data Fewest In A Season (150+ Games Played) AL Dick McAuliffe Detroit 0 1968 NL Craig Biggio Houston 0 1997 Augie Galan Chicago 1935 Fewest In A Season By A Rookie (150+ Games Played) AL Ichiro Suzuki Seattle 3 2001 NL Vince Coleman St. Louis 3 1985 MostIn A Season (Top 500) AL Jim Rice Boston 36 1984 NL Miguel Tejada Houston 32 2008 MostIn A Season By A Lefthander AL Ben Grieve Oakland 32 2000 NL Sean Casey Cincinnati 27 2005 A.J. Pierzynski San Francisco 2004 MostIn A Season By A Righthander AL Jim Rice Boston 36 1984 NL Miguel Tejada Houston 32 2008 MostIn A Season By A Rookie AL Billy Johnson New York 27 1943 Al Rosen Cleveland 1950 NL Albert Pujols St. Louis 21 2001 MostIn A Season By A Switch-Hitter AL Dave Philley Philadelphia 29 1952 NL Ted Simmons St. Louis 29 1973 Most Seasons Leading The League (In Fewest GIDP) AL Ichiro Suzuki Seattle 4 2001 Seattle 2003 Seattle 2005 Seattle 2006 NL Richie Ashburn Philadelphia 6 1951 Philadelphia 1952 Philadelphia 1953 Philadelphia 1954 Philadelphia 1958 Chicago 1960 Most Seasons Leading The League (In Most GIDP) AL Jim Rice Boston 4 1982 Boston 1983 Boston 1984 Boston 1985 NL Ernie Lombardi Cincinnati 4 1933 Cincinnati 1934 Cincinnati 1938 New York 1944 ML Miguel Tejada Baltimore [AL] 5 2004 Baltimore [AL] 2005 Baltimore [AL] 2006 Houston [NL] 2008 Houston [NL] 2009 Grounding Into Double Plays Game Specific Grounding Into Double Play Records Record Lg Name(s) Team(s) Data MostIn A Game AL Goose Goslin Detroit 4 04-28-1934 Victor Martinez Detroit 09-11-2011 NL Joe Torre New York 4 07-21-1975 Record Lg Name(s) Team(s) Data Grounding Into Double Plays Records