All sorts of Braves-related oddities from Jayson Stark today, including:
• How many teams have started all three outfielders in the game they won the World Series who were literally playing for some other team halfway through that season — or at any point during that season? Who out there guessed none? Good guess!
• And in a related development, how many teams have ever won a World Series in which not a single one of their Opening Day outfielders played in any game of that World Series? That would also be none.
― clemenza, Thursday, 4 November 2021 01:11 (two years ago) link
I think Freeman has edged ahead of his statistical twin Paul Goldschmidt for the HOF.― clemenza, Wednesday, November 3, 2021 11:55 AM
Even with Freeman having a solid year, and quite possibly headed to another WS, Goldschmidt has reasserted his edge: frontrunner for MVP, leading all three slash categories at the moment (plus runs and hits), not making news with agent problems. These two guys are something else.
― clemenza, Monday, 11 July 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
goldy looks promising
JAWS First Base (23rd): 55.5 career WAR | 42.3 7yr-peak WAR | 48.9 JAWS | 5.8 WAR/162 Average HOF 1B (out of 23): 65.5 career WAR | 42.1 7yr-peak WAR | 53.8 JAWS | 4.9 WAR/162
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 July 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
Honestly I think stories like freeman’s agent problems, might actually help goldschmidt. Anything to get his name out there would help.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 11 July 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
Goldschmidt remains the most anonymous future HOFer I can remember. No idea what he even looks like
― ✖, Monday, 11 July 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link
I think if he played on my team I still wouldn't remember what he looks like
I literally just finished rewatching the Sopranos episode where the struggling rapper hires Bobby Bacala to shoot him ("somewhere fleshy") under the same rationale!
― clemenza, Monday, 11 July 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link
Hahahaa!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 11 July 2022 21:33 (one year ago) link
goldschmidt a 49th-round pick out of high school and eighth-round pick out of texas state
bless
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 July 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link