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Post by inger on May 20, 2024 10:12:38 GMT -5
Jamie Moyer is a non-Hall of Game 4 decade player who was released six times and granted free agency 7 times. He allowed a home run to a record 332 different MLB hitters in his career, the most ever. Second most? Bartolo Colon with 307. He won the Branch Rickey Award, Lou Gehrig Memorial Award and was named The Sporting News #1 Good Guy… You probably have to be pretty good to stick in the big leagues long enough to give up that many HR's. Certainly. That wasn’t meant as a snub. Moyer’s extended career was such an achievement after years of being just good enough to hang around. And who didn’t count Colon as among the dead way sooner than he finally called it quits?…Two tough competitors… |
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Post by inger on May 20, 2024 10:41:26 GMT -5
WS MVP catchers:
1972 OAK Gene Tenace
1976 CIN Johnny Bench
1981 LAD Steve Yeager
1982 STL Darrell Porter
1983 BAL Dempsey
1992 TOR Pat Borders
2015 KCR Salvador Perez…
If I was born Fury Eugene Tenace you can bet yer’ butt I’d have gone by Fury, not Gene…
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Post by azbob643 on May 20, 2024 10:47:09 GMT -5
If I was born Fury Eugene Tenace you can bet yer’ butt I’d have gone by Fury, not Gene… Actually, he was born Fiore Gino Tenacci |
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Post by inger on May 20, 2024 11:05:53 GMT -5
If I was born Fury Eugene Tenace you can bet yer’ butt I’d have gone by Fury, not Gene… Actually, he was born Fiore Gino Tenacci I thought he was a Plymouth… 🤓 |
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Post by azbob643 on May 20, 2024 11:12:16 GMT -5
Actually, he was born Fiore Gino Tenacci I thought he was a Plymouth… 🤓  |
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Post by themartian on May 20, 2024 12:00:42 GMT -5
He was OUT:
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Post by 1955nyyfan on May 20, 2024 12:18:45 GMT -5
Still think Casey should have challenged this one..... |
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Post by fwclipper51 on May 20, 2024 14:57:14 GMT -5
The Piniella-Fisk Brawl at home plate
May 20,1976-Another Yankees-Red Sox brawl took place at Yankee Stadium. Which pile-on fights resulting in Red Sox Starter Bill “Spaceman” Lee seriously injuring his left pitching arm. It all started when Yankees OF Lou Piniella, crashed into Red Sox Catcher Carlton Fisk, while trying to score from 2B on a single by Graig Nettles. Red Sox RF Dwight Evans throw had Lou out at the plate, but he still barreled into Fisk resulting in a fight between them, which emptied both team benches.
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Post by inger on May 22, 2024 14:46:24 GMT -5
Bobo Newsome is the only Washington Senator to ever lead the league in strikeouts other than Walter Johnson.
Oddly, Newsome lead the league in games started four times in a row, and in losses four separate times in a four decade career.
In 1938 Newsome had an ERA 5.06 and fanned 226. That’s the highest ERA ever for a pitcher with that many K’s…
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Post by inger on May 22, 2024 15:00:31 GMT -5
JERRY REUSS
From 1969 to 1990, Reuss amassed 220 pitching wins. His highest total for a single season was 18 which he accomplished in 1975, 1980 & 1982. He was the first LHP to win over 200 without ever winning 20 games in a season.
In 1980, Reuss finished 2nd to Steve Carlton in the CYA voting. He led the league in SHO that season, and it was the only season he ever got any CYA votes…
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Post by inger on May 22, 2024 17:45:05 GMT -5
Added info. Both Newsome and Ruess previously posted appeared in four different decades…
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Post by bomberhojoe on May 22, 2024 19:32:32 GMT -5
JERRY REUSS From 1969 to 1990, Reuss amassed 220 pitching wins. His highest total for a single season was 18 which he accomplished in 1975, 1980 & 1982. He was the first LHP to win over 200 without ever winning 20 games in a season. In 1980, Reuss finished 2nd to Steve Carlton in the CYA voting. He led the league in SHO that season, and it was the only season he ever got any CYA votes… I'm surprised that Reuss never got any Cy votes any other season. I remember him being a pretty tough pitcher. |
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Post by inger on May 22, 2024 19:35:34 GMT -5
JERRY REUSS From 1969 to 1990, Reuss amassed 220 pitching wins. His highest total for a single season was 18 which he accomplished in 1975, 1980 & 1982. He was the first LHP to win over 200 without ever winning 20 games in a season. In 1980, Reuss finished 2nd to Steve Carlton in the CYA voting. He led the league in SHO that season, and it was the only season he ever got any CYA votes… I'm surprised that Reuss never got any Cy votes any other season. I remember him being a pretty tough pitcher. Thanks bomber! I try to grab sort of unexpected facts to slide in on these guys… |
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Post by rizzuto on May 23, 2024 10:27:30 GMT -5
WS MVP catchers: 1972 OAK Gene Tenace 1976 CIN Johnny Bench 1981 LAD Steve Yeager 1982 STL Darrell Porter 1983 BAL Dempsey 1992 TOR Pat Borders 2015 KCR Salvador Perez… If I was born Fury Eugene Tenace you can bet yer’ butt I’d have gone by Fury, not Gene… Johnny Bench and Thurman Munson put on a show in that 1976 World Series. Bench’s supporting cast was just better. |
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Post by inger on May 23, 2024 10:59:43 GMT -5
You don’t have to be a star to be a fan favorite, nor do you need to be a big hitter to be a four decade player.
RICK DEMPSEY is living proof of both statements. Dempsey was just a hard-working grinder that showed up to work and did whatever had to be done to meet the demands of his position.
Played for NYY 1973-76 OPS+ 89; For LAD 1988-90 OPS+ 95; For MIL 1991 OPS+ 60
Dempsey waited until his age 41 season to get a chance to pitch, going two innings for Milwaukee while allowing one earned run. His resultant 4.50 ERA was good enough for a 106+ mark.
He opened a brew pub across from Camden Yards which was doing well until COVID-19 struck and is no longer in business.
While Dempsey was all business on the baseball field during games, his antics during rainouts were well known in Baltimore as he pantomimed “Casey at the Bat” and slid on the wet tarps during those to loud cheering…
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