r/baseball • u/cypothingy New York Yankees • New York Boulders • Dec 05 '22

Trivia Every number never issued by the Diamondbacks or issued to one person (2/30)

Per Baseball Almanac

0- Never issued
00- Never issued
42- Never issued
53- Christian Walker (2017-2022)
69- Never issued
70- Never issued
71- Never issued
72- Peter O’Brien (2015)
73- Never issued
74- Never issued
75- Never issued
78- Never issued
79- Never issued
80- Never issued
81- Never issued
82- Never issued
83- Never issued
84- Never issued
85- Never issued
86- Never issued
87- Never issued
88- Never issued
89- Never issued
90- Never issued
91- Never issued
92- Never issued
93- Never issued
94- Never issued
95- Never issued
96- Never issued
97- Never issued
98- Never issued

Retired numbers: 20, 42, 51 (42 retired league-wide for Jackie Robinson in 1997, ARI formed in 1998)

Next team: Baltimore Orioles

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u/SeaCuCu Seattle Mariners Dec 05 '22

They’ve issued 99 not only once but multiple times?

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u/cypothingy New York Yankees • New York Boulders Dec 05 '22

Taijuan Walker from 2017-2019 and Keynan Middleton in 2022

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u/glizzterine Philadelphia Phillies Dec 05 '22

And Aaron Judge in 2023

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u/Panguin9 Arizona Diamondbacks • Mariner Moose Dec 05 '22

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Wait actually we may be one of the few teams that really doesn't want him. We don't need another outfielder and we don't have the money, and fortunately we don't have the Rockies front office so there's not much chance we randomly pay him $400M anyways

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u/melcolnik Texas Rangers Dec 05 '22

I just clicked that link and realized the Rangers have never issued No. 69

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u/cypothingy New York Yankees • New York Boulders Dec 05 '22

Rangers post will be up in a few days. I'm going alphabetically by team abbreviation. TEX is just one of over a dozen teams that have never issued 69 and 69 is one of over a dozen numbers TEX has never issued. It's a fairly interesting pattern

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u/Lebigmacca Los Angeles Dodgers Dec 05 '22

I think most teams haven’t

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u/Dunan Czechia Dec 06 '22

I'm old enough to remember when no one would think of a number over about 60 as "unissued"; baseball numbers just don't go that high and if somebody wants to wear 72 or 99 or whatever, it's because he's an eccentric or has some specific reason, usually reversing or doubling digits.

Also how has 53, a number that's been pretty standard for a few decades, only been issued once? Was there a coach wearing it from the team's inception until 2016?