Immaculate Grid

[Frayed Knot]

When they put up a Negro Lg category i keep thinking that it means someone who played in the NNL or NAL As well as in MLB, but just Negro LG players are acceptable also.

Would have helped me if I knew that. Wound up with a 72 Rarity score, 55 of which was Jackie [.300 BA/Negro Lg]

[cal sharpie]

Rarity of 3!

10HR/HOF Ed Delahanty 0.1
10HR/Allstar Ron Hunt 0.02
10HR/NegLg Turkey Stearnes 1.0
10Win/HOF Pud Galvin 0.4
10Win/Allstar Kent Bottenfield 0.2
10Win/NegLg Leon Day 0.4
.300 Avg/HOF Willie Keeler 0.4
.300 Avg/Allstar Joe Medwick 0.2
.300 Avg/NegLg Ray Dandridge 0.3

Turkey Stearnes the only one over 0, our friend Ron Hunt the least guessed. 7 of the 9 pix were in black-and-white.

[Fman99]

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Two day win streak. Plus an easy Saturday puzzle on tap.

KC/OAK - Octavio Dotel 3
WAS/OAK - Ron Darling 2
GG/OAK - Rickey Henderson 28
KC/CLE - Juan Gonzalez 3
WAS/CLE - El Barto 21
GG/CLE - Lindor 18
KC/100RBI - Beltran 5
WAS/100RBI - Vlad Guerrero 14
GG/100RBI - Mike Schmidt 5

[Edgy MD]

Ron Darling was my Washington/Oakland guy too.

I must've slept through Carlos Santana being a Royal. Juan Gonzalez too.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I had Vida Blue for Royals/A's. I never had a chance to guess for Royals/Indians because I wasted the Oakland Gold Glove on Bert Campaneris before pivoting to Rickey Henderson.

I always pick Ron Darling for A's/Nationals. I see I'm not the only one.

[Fman99]

I always pick Ron Darling for A's/Nationals. I see I'm not the only one.

My first thought was to use Colon there but I needed him instead as my WAS/CLE guy

[Edgy MD]

... because I wasted the Oakland Gold Glove on Bert Campaneris before pivoting to Rickey Henderson.

Similarly, eras-wise, I wasted mine on Bill North before pivoting to Dwayne Murphy.

[Frayed Knot]

Rarity = 44

Jimmy Key (TOR/NYY) - Darryl Strawberry (SFG/NYY) - Yogi Berra (NYY/30 HR)
Scott Schoenweiss [pure guess] (TOR/ARZ) - Wilmer Flores (SFG/ARZ) - Paul Goldschmidt (AR/30 HR)
Danny Ainge (TOR/played 3B) - Jim Ray Hart (SFG/3B) - David Wright (30 HRs/3B)

[cal sharpie]

Rarity 32

Homer Bush - Jack Clark - Bobby Murcer
Orlando Hudson - Randy Johnson - Mark Reynolds
Rance Mulliniks - Tom O’Malley - Darrell Evans

[cal sharpie]

Rarity 12 today:

Bosox/Chisox Tom Seaver 3
Bosox/1 team Dom DiMaggio 2
Bosox/300+ Avg Tris Speaker 1
Mets/Chisox Charlie O'Brien 0.1
Mets/1 Team Jeff Innis 0.2
Mets/300+ Dave Magadan 0.7
Rockies/Chisox Daryl Boston 2
Rockies/1 Team Brenton Doyle 3
Rockies/300+ Eric Young Sr. 0.6

[Fman99]

Ended quite a dry streak.

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PHL/HOU - Bruce Chen .6
100R/HOU - Lance Berkman 5
ASG/HOU - Jose Altuve 4
LAD/PHL - Face Buttley 30
100R/LAD - Maury Wills 7
ASG/LAD - Steve Garvey 8
PHL/DET - Nick Castellanos 25
100R/DET - Ty Cobb 16
ASG/DET - Mark Fidrych 4

[cal sharpie]

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HOU/PHI Joe Morgan 9
HOU/100 RUNS Cesar Cedeno 4
HOU/ALLSTAR Jose Cruz 2
LA/PHI Jim Eisenreich 0.3
LA/100 RUNS Maury Wills 6
LA/ALLSTAR Don Newcombe 0.4
DET/PHI Jim Bunning 6
DET/100 RUNS Curtis Granderson 7
DET/ALLSTAR Willie Horton 0.6

[Fman99]

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MVP/SS - Ernie Banks 5
MVP/500HR - Mickey Mantle 7
MVP/GG - Keith Hernandez 4
1B/SS - Joe McEwing 1
1B/500HR - Harmon Killebrew 5
1B/GG - John Olerud 3
40WAR/SS - A-Rod 9
40WAR/500HR - Ted Williams 3
40WAR/GG - Ichiro 5

[Frayed Knot]

The fun part about these is trying to think up guys in positions they weren't know for playing such as Mantle
at 1B (in the final year of his career) or Mays at SS (which he did for part of a 23 inning game vs the Mets)
Those two wound up adding up to less than 1%

Rarity = 9

MVP/SS -- Willie Mays 0.7%
MVP/500HR -- Frank Robinson 4%
MVP/GG -- Jonnhy Bench 2%
1B/SS -- Jose Oquendo 4%
1B/500HR -- Mike Schmidt 2%
1B/GG -- Mickey Mantle 0.2%
40WAR/SS -- Nomar Garciaparra 3%
40WAR/500HR -- Eddie Mathews 2%
40WAR/GG -- Ivan Rodriguez 2%

[Edgy MD]

I'm surprised that 4% chose José Oquendo as their shortstop/firstbaseman.

I went with Joe McEwing. I would imagine that to be a less rare selection (recency bias) but I don't know.

OE: Super Joe got 1%.

[Frayed Knot]

I'm surprised that 4% chose José Oquendo as their shortstop/firstbaseman.

Good call by you and FMan on McEwing, I wouldn't have thought of him.
I was surprised too by Oquendo being as 'high' as 4% but Whitey used him there for a while
so he played a lot more 1B than did Super Joe.

I knew Mantle played SS in the minors but I couldn't remember if he did in the majors also.
Turns out he did, three times. Played all four IF positions as it turns out plus all three OF
spots so that's something to store away in the memory banks. Never pitched or caught.

[Fman99]

I'm surprised that 4% chose José Oquendo as their shortstop/firstbaseman.

Good call by you and FMan on McEwing, I wouldn't have thought of him.

The other 1B/SS Met that came to mind was Wilmer Flores.

[Edgy MD]

A lot of slow-or-or-slowish-but-nonetheless-versatile Met infielders qualify — Justin Turner, Eric Campbell, Tim Teufel, John Valentin, Kelly Johnson, Juan Uribe, Kevin Mitchell ... .

And that's just sniffing around the Mets part of my brain. And yet 4% went for José Oquendo. Remarkable.

[Frayed Knot]

Perhaps the oddness of someone Oquendo's size (5' 10"/160) playing 1B helped it lodge in peeps' minds.
Turns out he played 'only' 23 games there, starting three including two CGs. I would have guessed more.

[Frayed Knot]

Used some BALL FOUR voodoo to get the 'Brewer'/Oriole (Gene Brabender) and 'Brewer'/Catcher (Jerry McNertney) categories today.

[Fman99]

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SD/TB - Fred McGriff 12
SD/CIN - Aaron Harang 2
SD/OF - Dave Winfield 7
SF/TB - Evan Longoria 56
SF/CIN - Johnny Cueto 28
SF/OF - Matty Alou .7
MFY/TB - Doc Gooden 2
MFY/CIN - Ken Griffey Sr. 8
MFY/OF - Mickey Rivers 1

[Fman99]

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CWS/TOR - Edwin Jackson 5
HOU/TOR - Roger Clemens 27
CF/TOR - Devon White 14
CWS/BAL - Albert Belle 15
HOU/BAL - Bruce Chen .9
CF/BAL - Brady Anderson 18
CWS/2000H - Harold Baines
HOU/2000H - Carlos Beltran 7
CF/2000H - Joe DiMaggio 3

[Fman99]

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2000K/CY - Fergie Jenkins 1
2000K/NOH - Verlander 7
2000K/NONUS - Juan Marichal 14
SUB3ERA/CY - Doc Gooden 2
SUB3ERA/NOH - Koufax 8
SUB3ERA/NONUS - Edwin Diaz 2
GG/CY - Greg Maddux 66
GG/NOH - Johan Santana 8
GG/NONUS - Rey Ordonez 2

[Benjamin Grimm]

I got everything except the middle square today. I couldn't think of a Diamondback who stole 30 bases. I made a pretty good guess, though: Steve Finley. He stole 30 or more three times in his career, twice as an Astro and once as a Padre, but the most he ever stole for Arizona was 16.

Only seven players have stolen 30 or more for Arizona, and I never ever ever would have guessed any of them.

[Frayed Knot]

Some days I take a Quick Look at the grid and say to myself, 'Do I really want to spend 45 minutes racking my brain
trying to come up with an Oriole/Tiger?' And I answer 'No' and pull the ripcord.