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volz2wallz said:
Tip the hat to japan...they pitched to trout.. congrats
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Call me blasphemous but I’ve always considered Trout to be a tad bit overrated. Everyone loves him because of his WAR numbers but that stat can be misleading for a lot of players. Ken Griffey Jr has a lower WAR number than you would expect but he was nearly unanimously looked at as one of the best to ever do it.
 
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I still consider Trout to be an all-time great player and 1st ballot HOF but it’s just hard for me to include him in a discussion of the best players to ever play whenever you only have 1 playoff hit to your name. That may not be fair because it’s a team sport but he’s the one that chose to re-sign with the Angels. He could have become a free agent and went elsewhere so that’s partly on him. Ken Griffey Jr has more postseason hits as a Chicago White Sox than Trout has his entire career. That’s pretty sad to even think about.
 
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On March 22 in Baseball History...​
  • 1962 - A former Giant, requesting anonymity, reveals that Bobby Thomson's home run in the 1951 playoffs against the Dodgers was helped by a sign-stealing clubhouse spy. The spying is claimed to have gone on for the last three months of the season. Thomson and former manager Leo Durocher vehemently deny that any help was received, but a source close to the team confirms the spy operation.

  • 1972 - The Yankees trade first baseman-outfielder Danny Cater to the Red Sox for relief pitcher Sparky Lyle. In seven years with the Yanks, Lyle will post a 57-40 record with 141 saves and a 2.41 ERA, win a Cy Young award, and help the team to three World Series appearances.

  • 1990 - Major league umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games to protest not having been consulted in the revision of the regular season schedule after the lockout. They will return to work on April 1.

  • 1993 - Cleveland pitcher Steve Olin is killed instantly and new teammate Tim Crews dies several hours later as a result of a boating accident at Little Lake Nellie in Clermont, Florida. Bob Ojeda is seriously injured as well, but he will survive and make a comeback in the major leagues. Olin and Crews are the first active major league players to die in an accident since Thurman Munson of the Yankees died in a plane crash in 1979.


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Didn’t get much of a chance to post over the weekend, but think it’s worth noting that I seem to recall that last year’s champion in college baseball was swept at home early on in the season. So, these things happen. If only I had a recollection of which team went into their stadium and did them dirty… 🤔
 
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VolPack22 said:
I still consider Trout to be an all-time great player and 1st ballot HOF but it’s just hard for me to include him in a discussion of the best players to ever play whenever you only have 1 playoff hit to your name. That may not be fair because it’s a team sport but he’s the one that chose to re-sign with the Angels. He could have become a free agent and went elsewhere so that’s partly on him. Ken Griffey Jr has more postseason hits as a Chicago White Sox than Trout has his entire career. That’s pretty sad to even think about.
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Hard for me to watch the west coast teams due to time difference. Also real hard to see teams that never make the playoffs.
 
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VolPack22 said:
I assume you are talking about the Cavinder twins? They are millionaires and taking advantage of NIL like nobody else. Shoot, if I were a young attractive female athlete I would be doing the same thing. Don’t blame them one bit.

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They sure stood out compared to the snow white girls from Indiana.
 
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1962 - A former Giant, requesting anonymity, reveals that Bobby Thomson's home run in the 1951 playoffs against the Dodgers was helped by a sign-stealing clubhouse spy. The spying is claimed to have gone on for the last three months of the season. Thomson and former manager Leo Durocher vehemently deny that any help was received, but a source close to the team confirms the spy operation.

In Don DeLillo's novel Underworld, there are many wonderful pages devoted the 51 Giants and what happened to the HR ball Good read that also "draws together the Bomb, J. Edgar Hoover, waste disposal, drugs, gangs, Vietnam, fathers and sons, comic Lenny Bruce and the Cuban Missile Crisis. It also depicts passionate adultery, weapons testing, the care of aging mothers, the postwar Bronx, '60s civil rights demonstrations, advertising, graffiti artists at work, Catholic education, chess and murder. "
 
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Volprofch05 said:
Didn’t get much of a chance to post over the weekend, but think it’s worth noting that I seem to recall that last year’s champion in college baseball was swept at home early on in the season. So, these things happen. If only I had a recollection of which team went into their stadium and did them dirty… 🤔
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I remember there being a golf ball thrown out for the first pitch by some douchebag and a lot of mustard bottles tossed around after dongs were cranked.
 
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@1RBFjr said:
Hard for me to watch the west coast teams due to time difference. Also real hard to see teams that never make the playoffs.
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I do think it’s ironic the media hyped up Trout to be the best and then comes Ohtani and he’s the one that is something we’ve never seen before. I don’t have any problems with people saying he might go down as one of the best to ever do it. I wish more people got to see him play because that dude is a once in a lifetime talent. If anything, he is underrated.
 
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