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Not quite immaculate, but my best score ever.

Giant Royal - Carlos Beltran 16%
Giant Met - JD Davis 9%
Giant .300 - Willie Mays 56%
Royal Pirate - Not Neil Walker
Met Pirate - Willie Montañez 0.03%
Pirate .300 - Roberto Clemente 75%
Red Royal - Mike Moustakas 23%
Red Met - Devin Mesoraco 3%
Red .300 - Pete Rose 91%

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 109 7/9:
Rarity: 335
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Immaculate with a rarity score of 18:

Giant/Royal: Vida Blue 3%
Giant/Met: Jose Vizcaino 0.1%
Giant/.300 Bill Terry 1%
Pirate/Royal: Jason Kendall 10%
Pirate/Met: Frank Taveras 0.3%
Pirate/.300 Bill Madlock 1%
Red/Royal: Vada Pinson 0.2%
Red/Met: Roy McMillan 0.09%
Red/.300 Ernie Lombardi 0.7%

Chad ochoseis wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 8:06 am Not quite immaculate, but my best score ever.

Giant Royal - Carlos Beltran 16%
Giant Met - JD Davis 9%
Giant .300 - Willie Mays 56%
Royal Pirate - Not Neil Walker
Met Pirate - Willie Montañez 0.03%
Pirate .300 - Roberto Clemente 75%
Red Royal - Mike Moustakas 23%
Red Met - Devin Mesoraco 3%
Red .300 - Pete Rose 91%

I got an 8/9 after coming up empty on my Royal Pirate also. But I felt pretty good about pulling Dan Schatzeder out of my buttocks for my Royal Giant.

I also went conservatively for Mays/Clemente/Rose in the .300 row. sharpie deserves a lot of credit for zagging while others zigged, but he's a genius and that's all there is to it.

My Giant Met was T. Shinjo. My Pirate Met was Bob Friend. My Red Met was Gus Bell.

Royal Pirate: Freddie Patek

Youngblood-Taveras-Graves.

The quest for an immaculate grid continues, as I got my second consecutive 8.

Rocky Padre: Jason Marquis 0.4
Rocky Cardinal: Nolan Arenado 44
Rocky base stealer: Dante Bichette 14
Cleveland Padre: Mike Clevinger 24
Cleveland Cardinal: Keef 3
Cleveland base stealer: Kenny Lofton 40
Diamond Padre: Steve Finley 15
Diamond Cardinal: Paul Goldschmidt 62
Diamond base stealer:

For the Diamondback base stealer, I thought about AJ Pollock. I can't not think of him first, as he's both my birthday homeboy and one letter off from being my last name homeboy. But I decided that he never got enough plate appearances to get to 30SB (wrong!) and went with Steve Finley. Finley had several seasons of 30SB, but none in Arizona.

It did occur to me after my wrong guess that Finley would fit in the Diamondback/Padre box.

Dante Bichette, generally a big slow guy, had this weird season in the late 90s when he stole 32 bases while the rest of MLB was in the midst of a steroid fueled slugfest. I think it was the same season that Brady Anderson hit 50 HRs leading off for the O's.

Mike Clevinger famously (around here, anyway) got run out of town and sent to San Diego after he violated COVID protocols.

I didn't think Jason Marquis was that obscure.

As a native Staten Islander Jason Marquis is not obscure at all!

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Rockies/Padres: --
Rockies/Cardinals: --
Rockies 30 SB: Dante Bichette 9%
Indians/Padres: Roberto Alomar 6%
Indians/Cardinals: Mex 4%
Indians 30 SB: Kenny Lofton 48%
Dbacks/Padres: Steve Finley 17%
Dbacks/Cardinals: Bernard Gilkey 0.4%
Dbacks 30 SB: Tony Womack 46%

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 111 9/9:
Rarity: 22
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Angels/Braves - Claudell Washington 0.3%
Angels/Tigers - Frank Tanana 3%
Angels/MVP - Don Baylor 5%
Rangers/Braves - Paul Casanova 0.8%
Rangers/Tigers - Ed Brinkman 0.1%
Rangers/MVP - Jeff Burroughs 3%
ROY/Braves - Earl Williams 0.6%
ROY/Tigers - Harvey Kuenn 0.9%
ROY/MVP - Fred Lynn 10%

Love the percentages on your card

As an older person I am nailing quite a few on players that have been long forgotten

ashie62 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 8:29 am Love the percentages on your card

As an older person I am nailing quite a few on players that have been long forgotten

Thanks. It could've been even lower if I took more time. Right after posting, I thought of Aurelio Rodriguez for Angels/Tigers.

I see 1967-69 baseball cards here. Love it

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Fernando Rodney took me forever and was really a wild guess

I'm shocked at Roger Clemens being only 7%

I went with David Cone in that box.

Every time Tampa Bay comes up in this game, I kind of feel sad for all three players in that column.

Thing I learned today: Roberto Alomar never had 200 hits in a season.

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Wrong answer for Phillies/Blue Jays - Pete Vuckovich

batmagadanleadoff wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 12:59 pm



Wrong answer for Phillies/Blue Jays - Pete Vuckovich

Just thought of Roy Halladay.

I got everything except the center square. I thought Cecil Cooper was a Brewer/Phillie.

I also guessed the wrong Vukovich

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 1:10 pm I got everything except the center square. I thought Cecil Cooper was a Brewer/Phillie.

There was a Brewer/Phillie slugger that I couldn't think of and it was driving me nuts. I could picture him, but vaguely. I don't know how, but I think that your post jarred my memory -- Larry Hisle.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 1:14 pm I also guessed the wrong Vukovich

Me too...

Blue Jays/Indians: Joe Carter
Blue Jays/Phillies: --
Blue Jays/200 hits: Jon Olerud
Brewers/indians --
Brewers Phillies: John Vukovich (second Vukovich guess)
Brewers/ 200 hits: Paul Molitor
100 RBI/Indians: Albert Belle
100 RBI/Phillies Mike Schmidt
100 RBI/200 Hits: Henry Aaron (first guess was Ted Williams - Surprised he never had 200 hits.)

The new 9 AM release time is some crap. As someone who's up at 6 and working at 7