Who was the worst major league baseball hitter and pitcher of all time?
The worst hitter is a pretty clear choice – Bill Bergen. His career batting average was .170, his career on-base percentage was .194, and his career slugging percentage was .201. He did this in the dead ball era, but these numbers still made him easily the worst hitter in history. His greatest season was 1903, when he got his average all the way up to .227. Bergen stayed in the majors because he was a good catcher, but I don’t see how he could possibly have been good enough defensively to offset his offensive ineptitude. As for the worst pitcher of all time, I think that a current player, Lance Cormier, is making a strong case for himself. Only once in four seasons has he managed an ERA under 5, and his career ERA is 5.98. He has allowed about 1.7 baserunners per inning over his career. In 2007, he allowed 16 home runs in fewer than 46 innings, which means that he allowed more than one home run every three innings. Even Bobby Cox, one of the most player-friendly managers around, critic
