A pitcher(s) you would not dug in against in the batters box.

[kairos12]

Sal Maglie, Bob Gibson, Dick the Monster Radatz, or Don Drysdale.

[Bleacher Creature]

1. Randy Johnson

[BeyondGeography]

2. Pedro Martinez

141 HBP in his career. I think half of them were Yankees.

[kairos12]

3. % was too small. Does that count bowling pinning Zimmer?

[BeyondGeography]

6. Lol

Pedro and the Yankees was pretty much always a fight waiting to happen.

[rsdsharp]

7. Walter Johnson

205 HBP lifetime.

[BeyondGeography]

8. Here's the list

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_career_hit_batsmen_leaders

The only guys over 200 were old timers. Then you have the guys like Randy Johnson and knuckleballers who didn’t know where the ball was going at times. Then you have assholes like Clemens and Pedro who knew exactly what they were doing.

[rsdsharp]

9. Johnson spent his entire career in the modern era -- post 1901.

1907-1927

[Bleacher Creature]

14. I can't believe Greg Maddux is 32nd on that list!

As one of the best control pitchers of all time, I guess you have to assume that if he hit you it was likely to be on purpose! That said, getting plunked by his fastball in the mid-80s can't have been too scary a proposition.

[BeyondGeography]

15. I bet some of those "victims" were thinking ok

I’ll take it. Can’t get a good swing on this guy anyway...

[Bleacher Creature]

16. I love watching this clip.

Link to tweet

If I were a hitter in the mid-1990s, I'd take a free base from him any way I could get it!

[BeyondGeography]

17. Hitting is timing

Pitching is disrupting timing. Maddux was a major disruptor.

[Ohiogal]

4. All good choices

To which I would add Nolan Ryan.

[GeoWilliam750]

5. Roger Clemens

Sam McDowell, Juan Marichal

[kairos12]

10. Sudden Sam!

[BeyondGeography]

11. The self-described biggest drunk in baseball

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/477436-top-20-drunkest-athletes-of-all-time#slide5

Imagine facing him early Sunday afternoon.

[world wide wally]

12. Ryne Duren

A Yankees reliever in the 60's
He wore eyeglasses as thick as Coke bottles and threw about 98 MPH.
I know he hit the backstop quite often... by accident.

[CaptYossarian]

13. Nolan Ryan had little control at first. He was just a thrower before he became a pitcher.

It was as if he had a 100 mph knuckleball. Even he didn't know where it was going. This was until '73 or '74.


Before a Spring Training game, Cubs outfielder Jose Cardenal called the team to say he couldn't open his eye and had to be scratched from the lineup. Later he admitted to the trainer that it was because Ryan was pitching that day.


Drysdale once said that when Walt Alston would hold up 4 fingers to walk a batter, he would drill him on the first pitch. His thought was "Why waste 3 pitches?"

[The Polack MSgt]

18. Al Hrabosky

Didn't really hit that many since he was a reliever, but he was game for some chin music

[Brother Buzz]

19. Steve Dalkowski

Boy Howdy, he would have been something if he could just control his fastball!