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Not enough people talk about Al Leiter • 162-132 (.551), 3.80 ERA, 112 ERA+ • 2x CYA top 10 ('96 FLA, '98 NYM) • 2x WS Champ ('93 TOR, '97 FLA) • 2x All-Star ('96 FLA, '00 NYM) • Had at least 5.5 WAR thrice • Pitched for both NY teams • 16 CG, 10 SHO, 10334 BF • Clemente
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for all the fair/unfair perceptions of Nimmo & Semien's durability due to age, track record, and/or recent injuries (or injury scares sans IL stint), it's funny that the two have played...literally the exact same # of regular season games over the past 4 seasons via @Stathead:
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Joe Carter's Similarity Scores list on @baseball_ref is a DREAM list of #RememberSomeGuys for folks like @notgaetti
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J.D. Drew and Brett Gardner. The WAR final bosses. They both have a higher WAR than 43 Hall of Fame position players. Who was better?
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Not enough people talk about Eric Davis • .269/.359/.482 (.841 OPS), 125 OPS+ • 1430 H, 282 HR, 349 SB, 36.1 WAR • 1990 WS Champ with Cincinnati • First player to go 30/50 (1987) • 2x All-Star, 2x Silver Slugger • 3x GG, 1989 HRD champion • 2x Comeback POTY ('96, '98) •
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Remember when Brian Dozier decided that it would be really cool to hit 42 homers back in 2016?
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Out of the 28 members of the 500 Home Run Club, Gary Sheffield has the 15th highest batting average.
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Hard to find a bigger win-win trade in baseball right now than this one
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The Geraldo Perdomo extension is a top ___ contract in baseball right now?
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Kyle Hendricks 5/3/2019 is one of the finest performances of recent memory. 81 pitches.
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Not enough people talk about Carlton Fisk • .269/.341/.457 (.797 OPS), 117 OPS+ • 2356 H, 421 2B, 376 HR, 1330 RBI • 2nd-most games caught all-time • 68.4 WAR, played in 4 decades • Career 24 HR, 86 RBI per 162 • Caught for 24 seasons in MLB • 11x ASG, 1972 AL ROY and GG
It's crazy how Carlton Fisk both (a) played in literally the 1960s and (b) was also teammates with Frank Thomas for four seasons and appeared in modern CWS uniforms and on modern baseball cards
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Remember that time Marcus Semien spent one season with the Blue Jays and casually launched 45 homers?
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Nolan Ryan might just be the greatest pitcher to have never won a Cy Young award. Here is how his 1973 Cy Young runner-up season compares to this year's winners.
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In 1997, Craig Biggio played every single game of the regular season and didn't hit into a double play once. He's still the only player to ever do this in MLB
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Paul Skenes becomes just the third Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher to win a Cy Young award, joining Vern Law (1960) and Doug Drabek (1990).
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I wanted to compare two decades of absolute greatness by some of the most inner-circle right-handed hitters of all time That Big Hurt run in the 90s was insane and The Machine dominated the 00s… but I have to say… I gasped audibly at the results Pujols ‘01-10 v. Thomas ‘91-00
Folks, I was already pretty sure that Frank Thomas was the greatest right-handed hitter of the 1990s, but it turns out he was actually a lot more than that. Over a 10-year period from 1991 to 2000, the Big Hurt's average season –– not per 162 games, but literally his average
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