Last time out I discussed the outfield trios with the most games started, inspired by the infield foursome of Garvey, Lopes, Russell and Cey. I decided to go further down the infielders rabbit hole by seeing who that Dodger group topped in terms of most games started.
Here are the top ten foursomes, with their first and last years playing together and total games started. Notice how Dick Groat makes the list twice …
| 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | START YR | END YR | GAMES |
| Steve Garvey | Davey Lopes | Bill Russell | Ron Cey | 1973 | 1981 | 833 |
| Ernie Banks | Glenn Beckert | Don Kessinger | Ron Santo | 1965 | 1971 | 623 |
| Hank Greenberg | Charlie Gehringer | Billy Rogell | Marv Owen | 1933 | 1937 | 474 |
| Boog Powell | Davey Johnson | Mark Belanger | Brooks Robinson | 1967 | 1972 | 450 |
| Gil Hodges | Jackie Robinson | Pee Wee Reese | Billy Cox | 1948 | 1953 | 430 |
| Dick Stuart | Bill Mazeroski | Dick Groat | Don Hoak | 1959 | 1962 | 357 |
| Bill White | Julian Javier | Dick Groat | Ken Boyer | 1963 | 1965 | 347 |
| Lou Gehrig | Tony Lazzeri | Frankie Crosetti | Red Rolfe | 1934 | 1937 | 347 |
| Lee May | Tommy Helms | Roger Metzger | Doug Rader | 1972 | 1974 | 344 |
| Ferris Fain | Pete Suder | Eddie Joost | Hank Majeski | 1947 | 1952 | 332 |
And here are the “current” leaders as of the end of 2015:
| 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | START YR | END YR | GAMES |
| Joey Votto | Brandon Phillips | Zack Cozart | Todd Frazier | 2011 | 2015 | 248 |
| Eric Hosmer | Omar Infante | Alcides Escobar | Mike Moustakas | 2014 | 2015 | 169 |
| Matt Adams | Kolten Wong | Jhonny Peralta | Matt Carpenter | 2014 | 2015 | 106 |
| Logan Morrison | Robinson Cano | Brad Miller | Kyle Seager | 2014 | 2015 | 104 |
| Chris Davis | Ryan Flaherty | J.J. Hardy | Manny Machado | 2013 | 2015 | 101 |
| Joe Mauer | Brian Dozier | Eduardo Escobar | Trevor Plouffe | 2014 | 2015 | 100 |
Garvey, Lopes, Russell, and Cey started 833 times and the Dodgers went 498-335, for a .598 winning percentage. That’s equal to a team going 97-65 over a season. On those occasions when at least one of them missed his start, the Dodgers were 306-267-1, which is a .534 clip. That works out to a team going 87-75. So having all four of them added 10 wins to the Dodgers per year.