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good call on Frank White.

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Bannister - Dotel - Brett
Alomar-Eckersly - Manny
Pedro - Taguchi -Schmidt

I have no idea how you people remember all this shit.
My mistake was putting Keith in the NYM/CLE slot, where I had multiple other choices, instead of saving him for StL/CLE which wound up being my only whiff.

Pulled an 8 rarity score today:

DET/HOU Dave Berman 0.4
DET/40WAR Norm Cash 0.6
DET/200 HITS Harry Heilmann 1
BOS/HOU Joe Sambito 1
BOS/40WAR Reggie Smith 0.2
BOS/200 HITS Tris Speaker 3
NYY/HOU Jim Bouton 0.6
NYY/40WAR Home Run Baker 0.2
NYY/200 HITS Bobby Richardson 0.6

Eight of them 1% or less. Damn that Tris Speaker.

Much better than my 120

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DET/HOU - Brad Ausmus 4
DET/40WAR - Al Kaline 12
DET/200H - Ty Cobb 25
BOS/HOU - Roger Clemens 32
BOS/40WAR - Yaz 8
BOS/200H - Nomar 16
NYY/HOU - Pettitte 12
NYY/40WAR - Dimaggio 4
NYY/200H - Gehrig 9

I flubbed by guessing Ted Williams as a 200 hit guy, forgetting how often he walked

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NYM/GG - Mex 35
NYM/30HR - Todd Hundley 3
NYM/1TEAM - Ed Kranepool 7
ATL/GG - Andruw Jones 26
ATL/30HR - Joe Torre .4
ATL/1TEAM - Chipper 40
SF/GG - Willie Mays 22
SF/30HR - Bobby Bonds 2
SF/1TEAM - Buster Posey 45

Rarity 28

NYM/GG Bud Harrelson 3
NYM/30HR Bernard Gilkey 0.9
NYM/1 TEAM Jeff Innis 0.2
ATL/GG Dale Murphy 4
ATL/30HR Davey Johnson 2
ATL/1TEAM Michael Harris II 5
SFO/GG Matt Williams 3
SFO/30HR Kevin Mitchell 5
SFO/1 TEAM Mel Ott 4

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STL/CHC - Lou Brock 11
STL/MIL - Kolten Wong 32
STL/20W - John Tudor 4
OAK/CHC - Dave Kingman 3
OAK/MIL - John Jaha 2
OAK/20W - Dave Stewart 12
HOF/CHC - Greg Maddux 9
HOF/MIL - Rollie Fingers 10
HOF/20W - Grover Cleveland Alexander 1

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STL/CHC - Zeile 0.6
STL/MIL - Simmons 12
STL/20W - Carlton 3
OAK/CHC - Kingman 3
OAK/MIL - Bando 8
OAK/20W - Blue 19
HOF/CHC - Jenkins 6
HOF/MIL - Yount 42
HOF/20W - Seaver 5

Immaculate. 23 rarity:

BOS/ATL Ruth 10
BOS/NYM Schiraldi 3
BOS/Slugger Varitek 2
SF/ATL Darrell Evans 3
SF/NYM Tom O'Malley 0.05
SF/Slugger Joe Morgan 0.4
HOU/ATL Caminiti 2
HOU/NYM Aspromonte 0.1
HOU/Slugger Ensberg 1

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BOS/ATL Ruth 10
BOS/NYM Schiraldi 4
BOS/Slugger Ortiz 24
SF/ATL Darrell Evans 2
SF/NYM Dave Kingman 2
SF/Slugger Kevin Mitchell 3
HOU/ATL Jim Wynn 1
HOU/NYM Rusty 3
HOU/Slugger Glenn Davis 3

Having to go with David Ortiz killed my score - I totally vaporlocked on Jim Rice and Dwight Evans

I got some nice scores with:
Jesus Alou (NYM/SFG - 0.2%)
Joe Sambito (NYM/HOU - 0.2%)
Jim Bounton (HOU/ATL - 0.6%)

Frayed Knot wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 4:35 pm I got some nice scores with:

Jim Bounton (HOU/ATL - 0.6%)

I lean a whole lot on Ball Four when I do this. It got me Tommy Davis as my Met/Astro at 0.1%.

Mike Phillips as a Met/Giant surprised me at only 0.04%. I may be just at the exact right age to think that more Met fans would think of Mike Phillips.

The thing about Bouton's time in Atlanta is that it was after a five year or so gap* in his career so it wasn't
covered in BALL FOUR unless you had a later updated anniversary-type of edition (of which there were several).
His comeback was essentially a publicity stunt and the Braves were a bottom feeding organization at the time
and so were willing to take him on.



* oe: Seven year gap!!

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BOS/ATL Babe Ruth 10
BOS/NYM Jack Lamabe 0.01
BOS/Slugger Jim Rice 6
SF/ATL Darrell Evans 3
SF/NYM Bob Heise 0.04
SF/Slugger Kevin Mitchell 3
HOU/ATL Sonny Jackson 0.5
HOU/NYM Rich Chiles 0.07
HOU/Slugger Jose Cruz 2

Before I mess it up I just want to put this line out there. If you want my baseball attention sweetspot there it is. ....

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Not going to lie, I did look up SFG's 2002 squad to help with the ATL one. I was racking my brain and had a few that I didn't want to risk for fear of making it look ugly as I so liked the metsian bits. Annoyed that I didn't use Mike Hampton for the sliver slugger though, but having said that thinking about him for the Sliver Slugger lead me to thinking of the Bumgarner one.

I barfed yesterday on ATL/SF

I struggled with that one too. I ended up going with Casey Stengel!

New record for me. Rarity score of 6!

NYY/300HR Jose Canseco 2
NYY/300 Avg Home Run Baker 0.2
NYY/3.00 ERA Carl Mays 0.1
CLE/300HR Harold Baines 0.4
CLE/300 Avg Lou Boudreau 2
CLE/3.00 ERA Bob Wickman 0.8
HOF/300HR Johnny Mize 0.5
HOF/300 Avg Dan Brouthers 0.2
HOF/3.00 ERA Hoyt Wilhelm 0.8

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NYY/300HR - DiMaggio 3
NYY/300AVG - Yogi 2
NYY/3ERA - John Wetteland 2
CLE/300HR - Eddie Murray 7
CLE/300AVG - Tris Speaker 3
CLE/3ERA - Jose Mesa 4
HOF/300HR - Stargell 1
HOF/300AVG - Joe Medwick .1
HOF/3ERA - Bob Gibson 11

Got my rarity down to 26 which is probably as low as I've gone. Of course simply completing the grid is a rarity for me.

Shane Bieber at 14% (CLE <3.00 ERA) was the only double digit guy. I was afraid to get too cute with my knowledge of Cleveland history.

YANX - Canseco - Ron Blomberg - Jeff Nelson
CLE - Kiner - Baerga - Bieber
HoF - Kaline - Walter Johnson - Eckersley

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Yankees: DiMaggio, Gehrig, Ford
Indians: Belle, Lofton, Feller
HOf: Kiner, Hank Aaron, Grover Cleveland Alexander