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Got an eight today. (I get a lot of eights.) Missed on Marlins/Royals.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2023 9:15 am Got an eight today. (I get a lot of eights.) Missed on Marlins/Royals.

I had a 7. Was kicking myself for using Conine as NYM/MIA when I knew several others who met that criteria, only to figure out after that I couldn't think of any other KC/MIA players besides him.

KC/HOU - Beltran 21%
KC/MIA
KC/All Star - Bo Jackson 3%
OAK/HOU
OAK/MIA - Mark Kotsay 4%
OAK/All Star - Canseco 5%
NYM/HOU - Derek Bell .5%
NYM/MIA - Jeff Conine 1%
NYM/All Star - Maz .6%

I should've gone with Conine for Royals/Marlins; I considered him, but went with Cliff Floyd instead.

KC/HOU - Beltran 21%
KC/MIA
KC/All Star - Saberhagen 3%
OAK/HOU - Jed Lowrie 7%
OAK/MIA -
OAK/All Star - McGwire 8%
NYM/HOU - Mike Scott 2%
NYM/MIA - Piazza 14%
NYM/All Star - Degrom 3%

KC/HOU: Jose Lima 0.9%
KC/MIA: John Buck 1%
KC ALL STAR: Darrell Porter 0.07%
OAK/HOU: Octavio Dotel 6%
OAK/MIA: Walt Weiss 2%
OAK ALL STAR: Tony Armas 0.05%
NYM/HOU: Bob Aspromonte 0.08%
NYM/MIA: Preston Wilson 0.8%
NYM All-Star: Ron Hunt 0.04%

Rarity Score 11

I had Jerry Grote as my Astro/Royal.

I was trying to go for obscurity with Met all-star and I went with Kevin McReynolds because I remember him competing in some skills challenge where you throw the ball from left toward home plate and try to land it through a hole in a target. But McReynolds wasn't in the ASG, just this bad-ass thing (KMac goes around 10:55):



KC/HOU - Greinke 63%
KC/MIA
KC/All Star - Saberhagen 3%
OAK/HOU
OAK/MIA - AJ Puk 11%
OAK/All Star - Eckersley 3%
NYM/HOU - Wagner 3%
NYM/MIA - Zeile 0.5%
NYM/All Star - Senga 1%

And in the end, our all star rep from a couple weeks ago was just 1% anyway.

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 115 9/9:
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batmagadanleadoff wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2023 1:30 pm ⚾️ Immaculate Grid 115 9/9:
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Double Immaculateness. Repeated some answers from the first solution, but used those in different boxes.

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happy immaculation!

dotel 2% | soler 51% | brett 16%
clippard 0.8% | luzardo 21% | rickey 10%
hampton 1% | piazza 14% | wright 14%

i was kicking myself for not picking piazza as my marletic, but came up with luzardo eventually. was just kinda hoping on clippard and happily got it right.

i like that dotel is the right answer anywhere in the first column, and is probably the right answer somewhere on most grids.

I thought of Dotel, but I'm starting to wonder if maybe IG players are memorizing the teams he played for and that as a result, Dotel's getting to be a very popular answer. My sleeper Dotels are Bob Miller and Jesse Orosco and I know most of, if not all of the teams they played for.

nymr83 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 8:55 pm Fernando Rodney took me forever and was really a wild guess

Rodney's a good player to get down pat for IG. He played for 12 teams, but most importantly, at least for me anyways, he played for three of the four 1990s expansion teams, including the dreaded Rays.

I have to spend more time remembering who Edwin Jackson, Latroy Hawkins, Dotel, Zeile, Mike Morgan, etc. all played for, because I'm pretty fucked on all of the AL teams.

Good thing I have nearly four hours before the next grid comes out <eye roll>

batmagadanleadoff wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2023 8:21 pm

nymr83 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 8:55 pm Fernando Rodney took me forever and was really a wild guess

Rodney's a good player to get down pat for IG. He played for 12 teams, but most importantly, at least for me anyways, he played for three of the four 1990s expansion teams, including the dreaded Rays.

Yeah I feel like i'm pretty solid on my Marlins and Diamondbacks and really the NL as a whole from 1995 - present mostly because my long running Fantasy Baseball league is NL-only. The American League is a black box sometimes.

I finally did it! An All METS grid!

Another eight for me. There are only five Padres who hit 40 homers, and unfortunately, Manny Machado wasn't one of them.

Cardinals/Giants: Jack Clark 11%
Cardinals/Padres: Ozzie Smith 16%
Cardinals/Gold Glove: Keith Hernandez 3%
Angels/Giants: Dave Kingman 0.6%
Angels/Padres: Dave Winfield 5%
Angels/Gold Glove: Jim Fregosi 0.9%
40HR/Giants: Mel Ott 2%
40HR/Padres: --
40HR/Gold Glove: Willie Mays 9%

I'm west coast stupid as usual.

STL/SF - Johnny Mize .6%
STL/SD - Ozzie Smith 16%
STL/GG - Scott Rolen 9%
ANA/SF -
ANA/SD -
ANA/GG - Jim Edmonds 26%
40 HR/SF - Mel Ott 3%
40 HR/SD - Greg Vaughn 12%
40 HR/GG - A-Rod 16%

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Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 9:24 am Another eight for me. There are only five Padres who hit 40 homers, and unfortunately, Manny Machado wasn't one of them.

I almost whiffed on that box, too. It was my last answer. I wanted to answer the guy who had an outlier season and won the MVP for the Padres during the steroids era. Turned out he was on "the juice" (everybody was shocked, shocked, shocked to learn this) and he died very young. I knew all of this stuff but I couldn't think of the guy's name. I could even visualize his confessional Sports Illustrated cover.



But his name wasn't registering. So I was about to give up. Or take a wild guess at somebody else. But then suddenly, his name finally came to me. Ken Caminiti. I'm getting old.

7 of 9:

Cardinals/Giants: --
Cardinals/Padres: Garry Templeton 9%
Cardinals/Gold Glove: Keith Hernandez 3%
Angels/Giants: --
Angels/Padres: Dave Kingman 0.3%
Angels/Gold Glove: Jim Edmonds 24%
40HR/Giants: Willie McCovey 15%
40HR/Padres: Ken Caminiti 22%
40HR/Gold Glove: Ken Griffey Jr 18%

came up 1 short today with no Giants/Angels crossovers.

looking at the list afterwards there are a few that spent significant time in both places that I should have known.

Also, I knew they were both Giants, but very brief Angels cameos I wasn't aware of for Dave Kingman and Edgardo Alfonzo!

That was Kingman in '77 when he became the first player to play for a team in each of the four (there were only four then) divisions within the same season.
The Mets dealt him to the Pads who later flipped him to the Angels before the Yanx decided they needed him strictly for a late-season series in Fenway and acquired him in September.
He had 24 ABs as a Yanqui and hit four HRs + two 2Bs

Frayed Knot wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 8:17 pm That was Kingman in '77 when he became the first player to play for a team in each of the four (there were only four then) divisions within the same season.
The Mets dealt him to the Pads who later flipped him to the Angels before the Yanx decided they needed him strictly for a late-season series in Fenway and acquired him in September.
He had 24 ABs as a Yanqui and hit four HRs + two 2Bs

....

How the fuck are you not going 9 for 9 every day?

Are you kidding? I totally suck at this game.
Even if I happen to know that a player played for X and for Y, that doesn't mean I'd remember it at the time.

I've only played a few times and only half-heartedly even when I have.
But I'd average around three correct if I played regularly and fewer than that if AL teams are involved.

I'm gonna stick to baseball.