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In the non-U.S. born category I went all Canadian:
HoF = Larry Walker
All Star = Jason Bay
Cy Young = Fergie Jenkins

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I wanted to use Bobby Thompson (Scotland) as a foreign born player but I wasn't sure if he was ever an All-Star (he was 3x)
Forget what my 'Rarity' score was but each player on my grid today was at 8% or under.

Mebbe I made a mistake typing, but Bert Blyleven didn't work for me as my Hall-of-Famer born outside the States.

In addition to be generally being lousy at this game, I also do more than my share of batching it up by slotting the right names into wrong places.

Saturday grids are mostly layups

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HOF/200W - Grover Cleveland Alexander .8
HOF/2000K - Walter Johnson 5
HOF/NonUS - Clemente 36
ASG/200W - CC Sabathia 3
ASG/2000K - Kooz .4
ASG/NonUS - Lindor 1
CY/200W - Glavine 5
CY/2000K - Seaver 4
CY/NonUS - Pedro 36

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LAD/nonUS - Fernando Valenzuela 28
LAD/300HR - Gil Hodges 3
LAD/40+WAR - Albert Pujols 4
NYM/nonUS - Edgardo Alfonzo 1
NYM/300HR - Kong 6
NYM/40+WAR - Yogi Berra 1
TOR/nonUS - Jose Reyes 3
TOR/300HR - Jose Bautista 18
TOR/40+WAR - Paul Molitor 9

Very pleased with this one!
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I pulled out the Ron Gardenhire (Germany) card for foreign born NYM (0.4%)

I don't generally pay much attention to Career WAR stats so didn't have a good mental handle on them which made me reluctant to go too obscure with my guesses in that column. Turns out that 40 is a lower bar than I feared it might be and the likes of Brett Butler or Tony Phillips would satisfied the NYM square and I could have been more daring than choosing Piazza, Mays, and Robbie Alomar.

Frayed Knot wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 3:56 pm I pulled out the Ron Gardenhire (Germany) card for foreign born NYM (0.4%)

I don't generally pay much attention to Career WAR stats so didn't have a good mental handle on them which made me reluctant to go too obscure with my guesses in that column. Turns out that 40 is a lower bar than I feared it might be and the likes of Brett Butler or Tony Phillips would satisfied the NYM square and I could have been more daring than choosing Piazza, Mays, and Robbie Alomar.

I had a left handed reliever for that! Which got me a 0.05 :)

Also 8 of my 9 were mets!

Mr. Conlon, I presume.


Seven of mine were Mets

Nomo - Sheffield - Piazza
Gardenhire - Snider - Mays
George Bell - McGriff - Robbie Alomar

yes indeed!
Chan Ho Park, Darryl Strawberry, Gary Sheffiled
PJ Conlon, Moises Alou, Roberto Alomar
Yusei Kikuchi, Shawn Green, Carlos Delgado

Take that, Grid #234!

I feel like today was mostly about getting a low score. None of these categories seemed super tricky.

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BOS/NYY - Jacoby Ellsbury 9
BOS/10HR - Tony Conigliaro 1
BOS/10W - Tim Wakefield 10
SF/NYY - Randy Johnson 16
SF/10HR - JD Davis .5
SF/10W - Christy Mathewson 2
CIN/NYY - Ken Griffey Sr 8
CIN/10HR - Frank Robinson .6
CIN/10W - Tom Browning 5

Saturday layup

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MVP/HOF - Roy Campanella 1
HOF/CY - Koufax 10
HOF/ROY - Jackie Robinson 18
ASG/MVP - Josh Hamilton .9
ASG/CY - Willie Hernandez 2
ASG/ROY - Fred Lynn 7
1STRD/MVP - Reggie Jackson 2
1STRD/CY - Doc Gooden 8
1STRD/ROY - Seaver .5

Fman99 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 11:57 am I feel like today was mostly about getting a low score. None of these categories seemed super tricky.

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BOS/NYY - Jacoby Ellsbury 9
BOS/10HR - Tony Conigliaro 1
BOS/10W - Tim Wakefield 10
SF/NYY - Randy Johnson 16
SF/10HR - JD Davis .5
SF/10W - Christy Mathewson 2
CIN/NYY - Ken Griffey Sr 8
CIN/10HR - Frank Robinson .6
CIN/10W - Tom Browning 5

Yes, I got too cute, and tried Rick Burleson for Bos/10hr - the most he had was 8 in a season

Three in a row. I think the first time I've done that.

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NYM/DET - Granderson 11
FOREIGN/DET - Juan Gonzalez .5
1TEAM/DET - Al Kaline 23
BAL/NYM - Darren O'Day .9
BAL/FOREIGN - Robbie Alomar 4
BAL/1TEAM - Brooks Robinson 14
LAA/NYM - Mo Vaughn 6
LAA/FOREIGN - K-Rod 7
LAA/1TEAM - Ohtani 13

Rarity of 20 today:

DET/NYM: Roger Cedeno 0.3
DET/Foreign: Willie Hernandez 5
DET/1 Team: Mark Fidrych 3
BAL/NYM: Omir Santos 0.04
BAL/Foreign: Dennis Martinez 3
BAL/1 Team: Anthony Santander 1
LAA/NYM: Charlie O’Brien 0.08
LAA/Foreign: Andrelton Simmons 4
LAA/1 Team: Logan O’Hoppe 3

i tried to get fancy and guessed Billy Ripken for the 1 team O.

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Don't know where I pulled the Mel Rojas and Bobby Higginson out of - well I do
In the MOFO (was it MOFO - when did that end?) days I always thought the mets should have traded for Bobby Higginson/signed him as FA - know idea why I was so especially high on him. There was some other slugger that I had an over active eagerness for too which I'm trying to recall.
And then I somehow remembered Mel Rojas was a met after putting in Grandy and was annoyed about it and then I figured he wasn't from USA and went from there.
My knowledge of the Angels is very poor.

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NYM/KC - Cone 19
KC/STL - Beltran 52
KC/2000H - George Brett 90
CLE/NYM - Andres Gimenez 12
CLE/STL - Mex 3
CLE/2000H - Eddie Murray 10
PHL/NYM - Taijuan Walker 6
PHL/STL - Scott Rolen 43
PHL/2000H - Julio Franco 1

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NYM/KC - Jeffries 2
KC/STL - Porter 15
KC/2000H - Brett 90
CLE/NYM - Baerga 7
CLE/STL - Orosco 0.4
CLE/2000H - Robinson 2
PHL/NYM - Mac Scarce 0.2
PHL/STL -Zeile 0.9
PHL/2000H - Abreu 2

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 9:28 am ⚾️ Immaculate Grid 241 9/9:
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NYM/KC - Jeffries 2
KC/STL - Porter 15
KC/2000H - Brett 90
CLE/NYM - Baerga 7
CLE/STL - Orosco 0.4
CLE/2000H - Robinson 2
PHL/NYM - Mac Scarce 0.2
PHL/STL -Zeile 0.9
PHL/2000H - Abreu 2

Mac Scarce — good one. A fun, if very challenging, way to play, is to try to get a Met in all nine boxes. Today, though, that was actually pretty doable, though it may take some brainpower and faith to get Amos Otis as your 2000-hit Royal. (He had 2,020.)

Score of 20 today:

KC/NYM Ed Hearn 4
KC/STL Eli Marrero 0.4
KC/200 Frank White 4
CLE/NYM Sandy Alomar Jr 0.9
CLE/STL Ryan Ludwick 2
CLE/200 Keith Hernandez 0.8
PHI/NYM Richie Ashburn 2
PHI/STL Tim McCarver 4
PHI/200 Larry Bowa 2