Baseball Miscellany

Am I the only one that went with Biggio?

I assume heā€™s the highest percentage vote-getter. What did it say he got?

I donā€™t remember, just seems that no one else here used him.

I opened up a new browser to check, Biggio comes in at 19%.

Hereā€™s my second 9/9 ever since weā€™re sharing today

Summary

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Strong Houston-Pittsburgh connection

eta: on my today 9/9 I used 3 of those players in various spots

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OK. This is cool. I may be addicted even after messing one up by getting Bonds in the wrong slot.

Immaculate Grid 83 8/9 ā€”

Among a few more obvious ones, I got:
Bobby Shantz (0.02%)
Johnny Temple (0.03%)
Don Blasingame (0.006%)

Having misplaced Bonds, I whiffed on Pit/SF.

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I used Bonds twice. Barry and Bobby.

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Made team in 30s never played. No idea name. Fatherā€™s uncle. Dadā€™s mom married outside what was respectable at time. I just know here being little in 60ā€™s.

Convenient. BTW, Reese was not there until 1940.

Checked, donā€™t see a Cabrera.
Some great slides in historyā€¦.

On this day in 2007, Craig Biggio got his 3000th hit.

Fun fact, he also hit more doubles than any right handed hitter. Ever.

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Playing immaculate grid tonight, I ended up going down a rabbit hole or as some people call it doing research.

I was thinking about Twins hitters and I wondered how many hits Kirby Puckett ended up with. As I looked at his stats, I was struck with the similarity of his stats and Altuveā€™s stats.
Here they are side by side

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It occurred to me that other than the Astrosā€™ success, the thing I want most this year might be for Ohtani to hit 63 homers, just to watch Yankees fansā€™ heads exploding.

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Of course, theyā€™ll just buy him next year.

No, no - the cherry on top is that he goes to the Mets.

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I wouldnā€™t wish that on Ohtani.

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Especially considering what has happened to Verlander ā€¦

According to a recent poll of MLB players I saw the overwhelming consensus is the Dodgers get him.

Well, he wouldnā€™t have to relocate.