Immaculate Grid

[Benjamin Grimm]

I was able to fill in eight of the nine boxes almost immediately, but I had no idea who might have had 30 saves for the Blue Jays. After I gave up, I peeked, and I know that if I thought about it for a hundred years I never would have come up with any of the 12 pitchers who had done it.

[Frayed Knot]

Dave Stieb (Jays) and Robin Roberts (Phillies) both maxed out at 198 K seasons. Guess which two I chose?
I often usually outsmart myself trying to avoid the most obvious answers like, say, Clemens and Carlton

[Benjamin Grimm]

I was going to go with Robin Roberts, then briefly considered John Denny, but decided to play it safe with Carlton especially since my first guess, Javier Baez for Tigers/Cubs, pretty much ended my chance at getting a low score.

[Fman99]

Was trying to come up with all nine players who were former Mets but could not come up with a former 3B/MVP. Missed a couple of obvious ones when I looked at the answers.

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C/ASG - Paul LoDuca .9
C/MVP - Yogi 13
C/NONUS - Ramon Castro .5
3B/ASG - Robin Ventura 1
3B/MVP - A-Rod 18
3B/NONUS - Edgardo Alfonso 1
CF/ASG - Lee Mazzilli .5
CF/MVP - Willie Mays 12
CF/NONUS - Carlos Gomez 1

[Chad ochoseis]

Butch Hobson was never an All-Star, as I learned today.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Gary Matthews was never an all star

[Chad ochoseis]

Gary Matthews was never an all star

He was my go-to for that box, but I decided to go even more obscure, so I went with Bake McBride (0.08%). I thought Matthews would have been on an All-Star team for sure.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

That's hilarious. I was going to go with Bake but would bet $$ that Matthews was the better player.

[Frayed Knot]

Lots of oddball selections one could have made in today's grid

C/ASG - Carlos Delgado, Craig Biggio, Joe Torre, Dale Murphy ... all backstops early in their careers.
C/MVP - both Torre and Murphy work here too
3B/ASG - Gary Carter (from that wild game v Cincy)
3B/MVP - Don Mattingly (the resumption of the Pine Tar game when Billy Martin put out a goofy lineup to protest that the protest was upheld)
3B/non-US - Ron Gardenhire (Germany)
CF/non-US - Bobby Thomson (Scotland)
CF/ASG - Howard Johnson

And those were just the ones I knew ... which means most of you can probably come up with twice as many.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I got a 32 today. Eight of the nine were Mets, which I always like doing whenever I can.

C/All-Star: John Stearns 0.6%
C/MVP: Yogi Berra 14%
C/Not USA: Junior Ortiz 0.7%
3B/All-Star: Joel Youngblood 0.05%
3B/MVP: Pete Rose 2%
3B/Not USA: Jose Reyes 0.5%
CF/All-Star: Carlos Beltran 1%
CF/MVP: Willie Mays 12%
CF/Not USA: Tsuyoshi Shinjo 0.7%

[G-Fafif]

Knowing Yogi Berra played third base in the final game in Philadelphia A's history paid off.

[cal sharpie]

I pulled a 3 today. Nobody over 0.8

C/AS Jerty Grote 0.4
C/MVP Ernie Lombardi 0.8
C/OUS Ramon Castro 0.5
3B/AS Ken Boyer 0.6
3B/MVP Joe Morgan 0.2
3B/OUS Jose Vizcaino 0.2
CF/AS Enos Slaughter 0.04
CF/MVP Joe Medwick 0.1
CF/OUS Chili Davis 0.1

Helped that I was living in San Francisco in 1982 when Joe Morgan made a big deal about how he could play 3b to get Duane Kuiper’s bat in the Giants linneup and Chili Davis was the regular centerfielder. Joe Medwick and Enos Slaughter were lucky guesses.

[Fman99]

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ATL/PHL - Bruce Chen .7
BAL/PHL - Curt Schilling 18
40WAR/PHL - Pete Rose 5
ATL/PIT - Sid Bream 29
BAL/PIT - Kris Benson 4
40WAR/PIT - Paul Waner 3
ATL/SD - Greg Maddux 18
BAL/SD - Manny Machado 47
40WAR/SD - Ozzie Smith 3

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

61
Francoeur - Zeile - Schmidt
Neagle- Lee Lacy - Kiner
Upton - Stoddard - Winfield

[Fman99]

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Fairly easy one for Mets fans, I thought. All 9 of my guesses in the single digits today.

NYY/LAD - Straw 8
NYY/GG - Graig Nettles 5
NYY/100R - Lou Gehrig 5
NYM/LAD - Paul LoDuca 2
NYM/GG - Juan Lagares 5
NYM/100R - Lance Johnson 3
STL/LAD - Todd Zeile 1
STL/GG - Albert Pujols 3
STL/100R - Willie McGee 7

[Benjamin Grimm]

I only got eight of nine. I guessed Mickey Rivers as a 100-run Yankee.

I went with Jesse Orosco, Doug Flynn, and Lance Johnson in the Mets row.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

59. Lost my originality on the Cardinals row

Randolph - Nettles - Gehrig
Snider - Flynn - Lance Johnson
Zeile - Smith - Pujols

[cal sharpie]

Got a 16. Most of it Rey-Rey.

Billy McKinney 0.5 -- Bobby Richardson 1 -- Tony Lazzeri 1
Don Zimmer 0.3 -- Rey Ordonez 10 -- Tommie Agee 2
Sal Maglie 0.1 -- Terry Pendleton 1 -- Ken Boyer 0.2

[Frayed Knot]

Rarity = 54, more than 2/3 of it on Pujols cuz I couldn't think of anyone else.

LAD/NYY - Todd Zeile (0.2%)
NYY/GG - Teixeira (5%)
NYY/100R+ - Rizzuto (2%)
NYM/LA - Tommy Davis (0.4%)
NYM/GG - Doug Flynn (1%)
NYM/100R+ - Bernard Gilkey (1%)
StL/LAD = Albert Pujols (37%)
StL/GG - Ken Boyer (1%)
StL/100R+ - Willie McGee (6%)


I try to do these things too fast sometimes (often during lunch) so if I thought it out better I'd have
saved Zeile for LAD/StL and had more choices for NYY/LAD. Maybe that would have come out as a
wash in the end but it sucked being backed into a corner with little time and one guess remaining.

[Fman99]

Five of my nine picks were the most popular today.

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CLE/TEX - Juan Gonzalez 9
CLE/LF - Albert Belle 17
CLE/2000K - CC Sabathia 38
HOU/TEX - Nolan Ryan 56
HOU/LF - Lance Berkman 8
HOU/2000K - Verlander 37
WAS/TEX - Scherzer 31
WAS/LF - Andre Dawson 4
WAS/2000K - Randy Johnson 18

[cal sharpie]

73 today

CLE/TEX Kenny Lofton 5
CLE/LF Rocky Colavito 2
CLE/2000K Bob Feller 25
HOU/TEX Buddy Bell 1
HOU/LF Kevin Bass 2
HOU/2000K Randy Johnson 7
WAS/TEX Andres Galarraga 1
WAS/LF Max Venable 0.009
WAS/2000K Pedro Martinez 30

[Fman99]

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ATL/CHC - Jason Heyward 12
ATL/MIL - Hank Aaron 34
ATL/NYM - Travis d'Arnaud 12
100RBI/CHC - Billy Williams 3
100RBI/MIL - Jeromy Burnitz 2
100RBI/NYM - Rusty Staub 3
10W/CHC - Rick Sutcliffe 5
10W/MIL - Jeff D'Amico .4
10W/NYM - Noah Syndergaard 4

[Frayed Knot]

71 for me

ATL/CHC - Dansby Swanson - 19%
CHC/100 RBI - Hack Wilson - 5%
CHC/10+W - Bill Hands (0.8%)
MIL/ATL - Hank Aaron - 34% (I missed a chance to use one of my faves here, Jim Bouton)
MIL/100+ - Ben Ogilve (2%)
MIL/10+W - Teddy Higuera (5%)
NYM/ATL - Felix Millan (2%)
NYM/100+RBI - Bernard Gilkey (2%)
NYM/10+W - Gary Gentry (1%)

[Fman99]

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200H/2000H - George Sisler 2
200H/30HR - Rogers Hornsby 2
200H/OF - Lance Johnson 2
ROY/2000H - Ichiro 24
ROY/30HR - Straw 3
ROY/OF - Fred Lynn 11
1TEAM/2000H - Ted Williams 6
1TEAM/30HR - Ernie Banks 2
1TEAM/OF - Cavan Biggio .2

[Frayed Knot]

38 score for me.

For 1 Team/OF I went with yesterday's starting RF for the Brewers Jackson Chourio just to see if they were
quick enough on updating their database. They are.

Cavan Bingo is a good pick. I went with papa Craig for 2,000+/OF
Using both would have been cool.