Immaculate Grid

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

On my way to a good one today but put my Detroit center fielder (Damion Easley) in the Indian-Tiger box by accident, then they wouldn't let me guess Easley again, so I dove into Mofo GET THIS GUY lore and selected Bobby Higginson (1%). Was struggling for Indian-Tiger anyway.

Met row: Backman (1%)-Heidemann (0.1%)-Luplow (0.03%)

CF-SS pick: Elliott Maddox (0.01%)

[cal sharpie]

Got a 35 today, most of it Jack Morris:

DET/MIN Jack Morris 20
DET/CLE Rocky Colavito 7
DET/CF Harry Heilmann 0.2
NYM/MIN Wally Backman 1
NYM/CLE Sandy Alomar 0.7
NYM/CF Jermaine Allensworth 0.07
SS/MIN Rod Carew 2
SS/CLE Lou Boudreau 4
SS/CF Howard Johnson 0.4

[Chad ochoseis]

Only got 7 today, but I was particularly proud of remembering how to spell Johneshwy Fargas (0.2%) as my Mets CF.

[Frayed Knot]

I went Timo Perez for that one.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Mine was Don Hahn.

[Edgy MD]

My shortstop/centerfielder was Shawon Dunston.

My Met/centerfielder was Benny Agbayani.

[Fman99]

Finally after several straight 8/9's...

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 302 9/9:
Rarity: 109
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LAA/WAS - Bartolo Colon 5
LAA/1B - Mo Vaughn 3
LAA/10W - Kevin Appier .9
SD/WAS - Juan Soto 49
SD/1B - Eric Hosmer 21
SD/10W - Randy Jones 6
NYY/WAS - Randy Johnson 17
NYY/1B - Tino Martinez 7
NYY/10W - Jim Bouton .6

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Went for Soto and Rendon and ruined my rarity score.

Otherwise, notable for the speed at which I completed it.

Rendon-Joyner-Appier
Soto-Colbert-Show
Clippard-Balboni-May

[Frayed Knot]

As happens on most days when I remember to play I.G., an obvious answer, in this case Soto, doesn't occur to me. So I guessed that SDP was one of Gary Carter's post-NYM teams for the WAS(MTL)/SDP answer.
Nope!

And I also couldn't remember Edwin Jackson's name (which was a correct SDP/WAS answer) even though I could picture him.
These are several of the reasons why I complete approximately .0007% of these correctly.

[Fman99]

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 304 9/9:
Rarity: 154
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OAK/PIT - Rich Hill 11
PIT/GG - Bill Mazeroski 5
PIT/SS - Barry Bonds 35
OAK/PHL - Jeurys Familiar 2
PHL/GG - Scott Rolen 8
PHL/SS - Jimmy Rollins 6
OAK/DET - Octavio Dotel 4
DET/GG - Alan Trammell 28
DET/SS - Miggie Cabrera 55

[cal sharpie]

89 today

PIT/OAK Jason Kendall 15
PIT/GG Bill Mazeroski 5
PIT/SS Rick Rhoden 1
PHI/OAK Jimmie Foxx 7
PHI/GG Mike Schmidt 22
PHI/SS Jimmy Rollins 6
DET/OAK Robbie Grossman 3
DET/GG Lou Whitaker 20
DET/SS Cecil Fielder 9

[Benjamin Grimm]

I completed the grid today, with a not-so-impressive rarity score of 200. But I managed to use two lesser-known brothers of Hall-of-Fame pitchers: Paul Dean and Henry Mathewson.

[cal sharpie]

I pulled a 3 rarity today. New record. Also used Negro League HOF players. Helped out by my knowledge of late '70's- early '80's Giants.

NEG/P Andy Cooper 0.04
NEG/C Biz Mackey 1
NEG/SS Willard Brown 0.10
SF/P Fred Breining 0.05
SF/C John Tamargo 0.04
SF/SS Rob Andrews 0.04
STL/P Jason Simontacchi 0.2
STL/C Eli Marrero 0.9
STL/SS Jose Uribe 0.03

[Benjamin Grimm]

Nice! I scored a 5 once, and have never gotten close to that since then.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Tried to beat down my rarity score by avoiding Paige & Gibson but wound up striking out

X-X-Judy Johnson (0.7%)
Kukrow (1%)-Marc Hill (0.7%)-Tito Fuentes (0.5%)
Ankeil (5%)-Torre (2%)-Ken Rietz (0.09%)

[Fman99]

I got all 9 but rarity schmarity I say. I legit could not come up with another Giants C or Cardinals SS.

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 305 9/9:
Rarity: 248
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NEGL/P - Don Newcombe 5
NEGL/C - Roy Campanella 38
NEGL/SS - Jackie Robinson 76
SF/P - Tim Lincecum 13
SF/C - Buster Posey 42
SF/SS - Brandon Crawford 39
STL/P - Joaquin Andujar 1
STL/C - Tim McCarver 7
STL/SS - Ozzie Smith 26

[Benjamin Grimm]

I went with Posey and Ozzie too. Once I used Satchell Paige and Roy Campanella, my rarity score was already shot.

I too had Tim McCarver as catcher for the Cardinals. Willie Mays as my Negro League shortstop got me a 2, which was nice. Henry Mathewson as a Giants pitcher was an 0.02%, which may be the lowest number I've ever seen. Paul Dean as a Cardinals pitcher was 0.8%. My Giants shortstop was Chris Spier, at 4%.

[Chad ochoseis]

I wasn't aware that only Negro League stats for 1948 and prior were recognized. So I didn't get credit for Hank Aaron as a shortstop.

[Frayed Knot]

I thought they were asking for Negro Lg players who then played one of those positions in MLB so, in my mind, Josh Gibson wouldn't
work because I knew he never played in an AL or NL game ... and I had ZERO chance of coming up with a different Negro Lg catcher.
Went with Paige as my Negro Lg pitcher and Jackie as the SS - both of which worked no matter how the question is interpreted.

Didn't matter in the long run because I fucked up elsewhere as I always do, this time conflating Mike Laga with Mike Lavalliere. Both played
for StL and both Looked like catchers, but only Lavalliere actually was. Guess which one I picked?

I did like my choice of Mays for SFG SS, which he did play at one point during that 23 inning game vs the Mets, and also tabbing Jose Oquendo
as the StL minimum one game pitcher, he toed the slab three times in total including one four-inning stint.

[cal sharpie]

24 Rarity Score today:

BOS/MIN Tom Brunansky 4
BOS/NYM Kelly Shoppach 0.2
BOS/2000K Lefty Grove 1
SEA/MIN Carlos Silva 2
SEA/NYM Kevin Mitchell 0.8
SEA/200K Mark Langston 4
HOU/MIN LaTroy Hawkins 4
HOU/NYM Bob Aspromonte 0.3
HOU/2000K Randy Johnson 7

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

My Mets column was good today at least. (Pumpsie Green, JJ Putz, Jerry Grote)

I never get Twins categories correct.

Also, Larry Dierker wasn't the strikeout compiler I thought he was

[Chad ochoseis]

My best score ever today. I'm pretty bad at this, so usually I just try for immaculate and don't worry about the rarity score. This time, I was fairly confident in my answers, so I tried for rarity.

Overall 69

A's Dodgers - Piazza 6
A's Cubs - Ken Holtzman 4
A's Cy Young - Vida Blue 24
3.00 ERA Dodgers - Bob Welch 0.3
3.00 ERA Cubs - Jake Arrieta 11
3.00 ERA Cy - Don Newcombe 0.2
No-hitter Dodgers - Hideo Nomo 13
No-hitter Cubs - Milt Pappas 8
No-hitter Cy - Seaver 5 (?!?)

It would probably be more challenging to come up with a Cy Young winner who didn't have an ERA below 3.

[Benjamin Grimm]

No-hitter Cubs stumped me. I tried Ferguson Jenkins and Kerry Wood and both were wrong.

[Fman99]

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 308 9/9:
Rarity: 123
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LAD/OAK - Rich Hill 4
LAD/3ERA - Eric Gagne 7
LAD/NOH - Koufax 34
CHC/OAK - Dave Kingman 4
CHC/3ERA - Fergie Jenkins 12
CHC/NOH - Carlos Zambrano 24
CY/OAK - Barry Zito 33
CY/3ERA - Doc Gooden 2
CY/NOH - Tom Seaver 5

[Fman99]

May be my new best rarity score.

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 312 9/9:
Rarity: 46
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NEGL/300AVG - Roy Campanella 4
NEGL/10HR - Larry Doby 12
NEGL/10W - Don Newcombe 9
LAD/300AVG - Babe Herman .3
LAD/10HR - Duke Snider 2
LAD/10W - Orel Herscheiser 6
BAL/300AVG - Frank Robinson 7
BAL/10HR - Mike Bordick .5
BAL/10W - Mike Cuellar 4