Mendoza Line
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The Mendoza Line is baseball jargon for a.200 batting average, the supposed threshold for offensive futility in Major League Baseball.
Mario Mendoza, who had a career batting average of .215
Bruce Bochte
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Bruce Anton Bochte is an American former professional baseball first baseman and outfielder who played in Major League Baseball from 1974–1982 and 1984–1986. He played his entire career in the America
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…between .180 and .199 in five seasons out of nine. When he had trouble staying above .200 in 1979, teammates began to chide him. "...Tom Paciorek and Bruce Bochte used it to make fun of me," Mendoza said in 2010. "Then they were giving George Brett a hard time because he had a slow start that year, so they told…
Bochte in 1978