What exactly is the 'Mendoza line?'?
Question:I know it has something to do with bad batting averages and possiblly Ramiero Mendoza what what is the line and where does the term come from?
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Its a .200 batting average, which was basically Mendozas career avg. If your below the Mendoza line you're batting under .200.Will A-rod finaly have a good post season in 2007?
From what I've heard through various baseball broadcasts, the mendoza line is the 200. batting average.If you are hitting below .200, you are known to be hitting below the Mendoza line.
The Mendoza line is actually named after Minnie Mendoza, a career minor leaguer, who finally made it with the Minnesota Twins in 1970 At age 36. Mendoza hit .188 in sixteen games with the Twins that year.
Did u see the mets today they came back and won by 6 run how will anyone stop that AMAZING lineup?
some broadcaster said "...in under the Mendoza line" regarding a low average, Mendoza is one of the lightest batters in te history of the game, and that quote is use since thenFor those who read any sports pages did Joe Dimaggio hit 15 home runs in July 1947?
The Mendoza Line is an informal term used in baseball for a batting average of .200, considered the boundary between extremely poor and merely below-average offensive players. It is the offensive threshold below which a player's presence in the Major Leagues is difficult to justify despite their defensive abilities; baseball pitchers are not subject to this threshold because of the specialty of their skills.The general consensus is that the term was named for former shortstop Mario Mendoza, who had a career batting average of .215 and actually hit .198 in the 1979 season. According to this version, George Brett originated it when asked about his batting average. He was shown the average in a newspaper, and made a remark along of the lines of "I knew I was off to a bad start when I saw my average listed below the Mendoza line."
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It means your batting under 200.Will the diamondbacks make it to the world series soon?
Guy famous for consitently hitting exactly .200Do you believe Ken Griffey Jr.'s recent decline is due to steroid use?
MENDOZA'A CAREER AVG. .200 IF UR UNDER THAT U R IN THE MENDOZA SLUMP.Why doesnt the NL have a DH and the AL does?
There was a player from the 1970's named Mario Mendoza who could barely bat about .200, hence the Mendoza line.Who do you think is the all-time best STRIKE OUT pitcher in MLB?
It's commonly referred to as batting average of .200 or less, but Mario Mendoza's lifetime BA was actually .215.It was not named after Minnie Mendoza. There was no such player. There was a MINNIE MINOSA, but he hit above the Mendoza Line (.200). Named after Mario Mendoza a perennial .200 hitter.
The Mendoza line came from a player named Mario Mendoza who was a great fielder and stayed in the Major Leagues for a number of years due to his excellent fielding skills, despite fighting his whole career to bat .200, thereby the Mendoza line .200
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