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Rarity: 33
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NYY
Giambi Raines Cc Sabathia

Cle
Belle Alomar Bartolo

HOF
Piazza Frank Thomas John Smolzt

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NYM/NYY - Gary Sanchez 1
NYM/TOR - Olerud 11
NYM/ASG - Lee Mazzilli 2
BAL/NYY - Reggie 8
BAL/TOR - Robbie Alomar 26
BAL/ASG - Boog Powell 3
SD/NYY - Dave Winfield 18
SD/TOR - Rickey Henderson 11
SD/ASG - Jake Peavy 5

Rarity of 19 today. Most of it SD/TOR

NYM/NYY Phil Linz 0.1
NYM/TOR Mookie Wilson 2
NYM/AS Bartolo Colon 0.7
BAL/NYY Don Baylor 0.5
BAL/TOR Jimmy Key 3
BAL/AS Paul Blair 0.7
SD/NYY Jerry Mumphrey 0.3
SD/TOR Roberto Alomar 11
SD/AS Dave Dravecky 0.2

cal sharpie wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 9:46 am
NYM/NYY Phil Linz 0.1

You, me, and 74 other people, more or less.

Could have gone right down the middle with Robbie Alomar.

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 258 9/9:
Rarity: 96
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CIN/30HR - Ted Kluszewski 5
BOS/30HR - Tony Conigliaro 2
30HR/1GP - Babe Ruth 34
CIN/GG - Bench 20
BOS/GG - Fred Lynn 7
GG/1GP - Jim Kaat 9
CIN/NONUS - Tony Perez 9
BON/NONUS - Dice-K 6
1GP/NONUS - Marichal 4

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I used a few NYMs to get some rarity picks:
CIN/non-US born = Danny Graves: 0.3%
GG/1 G Pitched = Ron Darling: 0.87% (I was like 80% sure he had won one GG in his career so I risked it with my last pick)
non-US/1 G Pitched = Eduardo Escobar: 0.1%

otoh, Jose Canseco for 30 HRs/1 G Pitched not as rare as I expected: 11%

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Rarity: 127
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STL/NYY - Roger Maris 9
STL/MIA - Marcell Ozuna 39
STL/300AVG - Ducky Medwick 2
MIN/NYY - Dave Winfield 5
MIN/MIA - Luis Arraez 31
MIN/300AVG - Rod Carew 13
LAD/NYY - Straw 8
LAD/MIA - Josh Beckett 9
LAD/300AVG - Jackie Robinson 11

I went with Medwick too. Pulled a 28 rarity score.



Should have gone with Don Drysdale as my .300-hitting Dodger, but for some reason, the name Drysdale kept eluding me. Despite his Hall-of-Fame eminence, he gets entangled with Don Larsen and Don Gullet and even Don Sutton in the Great Continuity of Don in my brain.

Josh Beckett and Brad Penny are part of group of three-to-five pitchers in my head:

1. May or may not have started with the Marlins.
2. May or may not have moved on to or finished with the Dodgers.
3. Were borderline All-Stars for a few years there, but were never that great.
4. Were nonetheless kinda known for having a superstar's arrogance.
5. Possibly had a career-defining big moment in the post-season that elevated their profile.
6. Possibly dated Alyssa Milano.
7. Possibly enjoyed cocaine and/or HGH.
8. Possibly soaked a rich team for a rich contract and an unproductive tenure during the second half of their careers.
9. Were possibly involved in a couldn't-keep-it-zipped or couldn't-hold-his-liquor type of scandal.
10. Are pretty easy to forget today despite having been pretty prominent/semi-nortorious just a decade or so ago.

Maybe "Dated Alyssa Milano" will be the third column in a future Immaculate Grid.

Rarity Score of 5 today, 3 of them from one player.

ATL/LF Joe Adcock 0,2
ATL/CF Mike Lum 0.07
ATL/RF Kelly Johnson 0.1
WAS/LF Warren Cromartie 3
WAS/CF Ryan Church 0.2
WAS/RF Gary Carter 0.6
MIL/LF Don Money 0.2
MIL/CF Jeromy Burnitz 0.3
MIL/RF Billy McKinney 0.1

This is the first non-weekend immaculate status I have ever achieved.

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I got too cute trying to go rare and blew the ninth guess.
Up until that fatal choice i had a nice streak going with everyone at 3% or under.


WAS: Warren Cromarte, Jayson Werth, Rusty Staub
MIL: John Jaha, Tommy Harper*, Steve Hovley*
ATL: Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock

Adcock was a 1B so I took a shot. Turns he played RF but only prior to becoming a Brave. My alternate choice was C Del Crandell, that guess would have been correct.


The Milwaukee line was 0.4%, 0.3%, and 0.2%

* Seattle Pilots

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Gibson Coleman Clark
Berra Wright Staub
Robinson Davis Foster

Rarity 30

Medwick 1 - McGee 13 - Boyer 0.7
Spahn 2 - Taveras 0.7 - Gilkey 2
Perez 8 - Redus 0.4 - Kluszewski 3

Rarity = 51

Larry Walker, Tommy Herr, Enos Slaughter
Joe Torre, Howard Johnson, Bernard Gilkey
Tom Seaver, Billy Hamilton, Ted Kluszewski


Billy Hamilton turned out to be the most answered for CIN 30+ steals (25%) so that limited my Rarity score
Seaver and HoJo at 8% were next highest

I messed up by picking Pepper Martin as my Cardinals Hall of Famer.

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So it turns out that Ron Guidry only had 1,778 career Ks

Also, Rickey Henderson had 297 career home runs. Not 300 or more, as some people on this board may have guessed.

- Opens grid
- looks at it for 30 seconds
- comes up with Ken Griffey Jr. plus eight blanks
- closes grid

One of my better rarity scores

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 276 9/9:
Rarity: 22
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ATL/ASG - Bob Horner 2
ATL/GG - Andrelton Simmons 7
ATL/SS - Javy Lopez 4
2000H/ASG - Al Oliver .3
2000H/GG - Keith Hernandez 2
2000H/SS - Robbie Alomar .5
300HR/ASG - Jose Bautista .4
300HR/GG - Albert Pujols 4
300HR/SS - Vlad Guerrero .8

I had a nice rarity score thing going until guessing that Steve Bedrosian was an Atlanta AS
He was once, but with Philly.
I try to do these things too quickly. It's easier than thinking.