Happy Anniversary, Randy!

                 Randy Johnson hit his only career home run off Doug Davis at Miller Park on September 19th, 2003. In honor of the 11th anniversary of that accomplishment, here are the Top 11 Most Useless Randy Johnson facts.

1. Randy Johnson owns Rickey Henderson. Henderson is 7/61 vs the Big Unit, a batting average of .115. Oh, and of those 54 outs, 30 were recorded via strikeout.

2. Reed Johnson has faced Randy 21 times, 4 of which resulted in a Hit-By-Pitch. So you could say Reed Johnson peed his pants a little whenever Randy was on the mound that day.

3. The player with the most plate appearances and no strikeout vs Johnson? Mel Hall with 18.

 

4. Randy Johnson has a career WAR of 102.1. Is that the highest of anyone to come out of the University of South California? Nope. USC alum Tom Seaver had a career WAR of 110.5.

5. Randy Johnson had more complete games in 1999 than the careers of Francisco Liriano, Edwin Jackson, and Corey Kluber combined.

6. Randy Johnson has 4 of the top 10 single season strikeout records after 1900. That’s more than strikeout king Nolan Ryan himself. 

7. He killed a bird once. You could say it was a “fowl” ball.* Oh, and it's en Español.

8. On June 30th, 1999, Johnson struck out 17 batters vs the Reds. And lost the game. In fact, Johnson struck out 14+ batters in 5 games that year, and went 2-3 in those games. 

9. Johnson’s final career appearance on October 4th, 2009 resulted in him entering the game as a relief pitcher and blowing a save.** He did, however, have 2 strikeouts in the 1.0 inning of work.

10. Randy Johnson is an aspiring rock photographer. Seriously. Follow him on Twitter at @RJ51Photos.

 

11. He gave John Kruk a heart attack (the video is worth your time)






We warned you they were useless...

*Sorry.

**Orioles fans will understand.

All stats via Baseball Reference
Sources: noisecreep.com