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Missed Tampa .300 hitter. Apparently I remember Longo as a different hitter than he was. Guess I should have tried Crawford who was my second choice.

I'm happy to have pulled Delmon Young and David Freese out of my ass.
 
Hardest for me was Tigers/Rays. Got it with Carlos Pena. For Rays .300 hitter I chose the legendary Wade Boggs. Also got that 3% Mike Hampton for 20 wins/300 avg.
 
Braves legend Wally Joyner for .300 with the Angels

I combined Dan Gladden (Twins/Tigers) and Gary Pettis (Angels/Tigers) in my head, I think. 8/9
 
Thanks to Triple Play Baseball back in the day, I was one of the .03% people who answered Steve Sparks for DET/ANA. Only knew him because other than Wakefield he was the only other guy in the game that threw a knuckleball lol

Also the .5% of people that selected Matt Morris for the Cards.

Stupid me I got Kolten Wong and Brandon Pham mixed up. Cost me a guess and I would have gotten Babe.
 
Also, I was one of the 7% that selected BJ Upton as a Tampa .300 hitter lol

Tigers/Ray's was easy because all you had to do was remember the poster here who apparently golfed with David Price and Price said he wanted to get traded to ATL then ended up getting sent to DET. Lol
 
WaitingFor2017 said:
I didn't think of the Babe. For some reason, I thought it was a 20+ win season with a .300 average the same year, so I went with Bob Gibson. Babe may have done that, too, but I figured Gibson at 0.7% would be on there.

I struggled most with the Detroit/LAA player, and I completely forgot about Upton. I ended up getting it right with Michael Lorenzen.
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Ahhh I thought it was the same season
 
The Chosen One said:
Also, I was one of the 7% that selected BJ Upton as a Tampa .300 hitter lol

Tigers/Ray's was easy because all you had to do was remember the poster here who apparently golfed with David Price and Price said he wanted to get traded to ATL then ended up getting sent to DET. Lol
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I would have bet money Longoria would have been more likely to have had a .300 season than BJ.
 
The Chosen One said:
Thanks to Triple Play Baseball back in the day, I was one of the .03% people who answered Steve Sparks for DET/ANA. Only knew him because other than Wakefield he was the only other guy in the game that threw a knuckleball lol

Also the .5% of people that selected Matt Morris for the Cards.

Stupid me I got Kolten Wong and Brandon Pham mixed up. Cost me a guess and I would have gotten Babe.
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I got Matt Morris. Had Jose Martinez for the Cardinals/Rays.
 
CyYoung31 said:
I got Matt Morris. Had Jose Martinez for the Cardinals/Rays.
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I actually almost put Daryl Kile..

I remember Kile was decent with the Astros, went to COL and sucked.

Then he went to STL and somehow drank that Cards voodoo piss and had one of the best curveball in the league. He and Matt Morris and Zito benefitted from the league transitioning back to the high strike from wide zone. I just couldn't remember if Kile won 20 or only got to like 18-19.

I knew for sure Morris won 20.
 
striker42 said:
I would have bet money Longoria would have been more likely to have had a .300 season than BJ.
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I remember one of those booth chats Frank Wren did during a game after we acquired the Upton Bros. One of those early season booth cameos where the GM talks about the offseason.

I remember Frank saying with BJ we got a centerfielder that's hit .300 before, plays elite defense, and can give you 25 homers. And then went on about how his hope was the brothers playing together would push each other to be greater. Lol.
 
The Chosen One said:
I remember one of those booth chats Frank Wren did during a game after we acquired the Upton Bros. One of those early season booth cameos where the GM talks about the offseason.

I remember Frank saying with BJ we got a centerfielder that's hit .300 before, plays elite defense, and can give you 25 homers. And then went on about how his hope was the brothers playing together would push each other to be greater. Lol.
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We've come a long way since the days of Wren. AA is in another league compared to him.
 
striker42 said:
We've come a long way since the days of Wren. AA is in another league compared to him.
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It must kill JS that both of his handpicked successors to his legacy are nowhere in the league of AA and that McGuirk had to find someone from outside the org to bring the organization into the modern world.

Obviously JS's true Goldenboy was Dayton Moore. Would be hilarious if AA brought in Dayton as a special assistant to the GM.
 
Speaking of Dayton Moore, just read this tidbit he did after the Royals let him go.

“After the 2017 season we had an opportunity to perhaps go back to Atlanta. Mr. Glass felt it was best for me to stay in Kansas City and I was going to uphold his wishes - he had been faithful to us, and supportive to us. If he wanted me in stay in Kansas City, I was willing to stay. But I didn’t anticipate an ownership change.”


THANK YOU MR. GLASS FOR HELPING US DODGE THAT BULLET. And thank you Mr. McGuirk for not going all out for Dayton and instead going with AA.
 
The Chosen One said:
Speaking of Dayton Moore, just read this tidbit he did after the Royals let him go.

“After the 2017 season we had an opportunity to perhaps go back to Atlanta. Mr. Glass felt it was best for me to stay in Kansas City and I was going to uphold his wishes - he had been faithful to us, and supportive to us. If he wanted me in stay in Kansas City, I was willing to stay. But I didn’t anticipate an ownership change.”


THANK YOU MR. GLASS FOR HELPING US DODGE THAT BULLET. And thank you Mr. McGuirk for not going all out for Dayton and instead going with AA.
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And thank you for not going with JS’ second choice: Dan O’Dowd.
 
I feel like people are too harsh on JS and Moore. They have two World Series between them and a ton of other titles. Way more success than the vast majority of GMs. They're dinosaurs now but they have hardware for a reason.

It's almost like comparing Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking.
 
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