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Posts tagged as “Steve O’Neill”

Four Walks by a Catcher

August 26, 2026

During Tuesday’s win over the Angels, had the 91st four-walk game in team history and just the fourth by a catcher.

Four walk games by catchers:

also had a four-walk game in 1978 in which he played catcher, but he started the game at DH and only caught the 9th inning.

Most of the players on the four-walk list are exactly who you would expect, so in an effort to capture the randomness of Bailey’s game, here are the most recent players to do so among those who were never selected to an All-Star team:

Manzardo’s Historically Embarrassing Start

April 7, 2026

Through his first 10 games of the season, is 2-32, a pitiful .063 batting average.

Throughout franchise history, only two others have been worse (with at least 35 plate appearances) through 10 games. Here’s the list:

Tucker was a September call-up who never played against in the big leagues. Leon was a backup catcher who had minimal preparation in that weird 2020 season. O’Neill was also a catcher. And Score, Moore and Mails are pitchers.

Yikes.