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Top 20 teams in MLB, in no particular order:

1. 1927 New York Yankees - Often considered the greatest team ever assembled, the '27 Yankees won 110 games and featured a lineup known as Murderer's Row, including Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.

2. 1954 Cleveland Indians - The Indians won a then-record 111 games and boasted a pitching staff led by Bob Feller and Early Wynn.

3. 1970 Baltimore Orioles - The Orioles won 108 games and had a dominant pitching staff led by Jim Palmer and Mike Cuellar.

4. 1975 Cincinnati Reds - The Reds won 108 games and featured a lineup known as the Big Red Machine, including Johnny Bench, Pete Rose, and Joe Morgan.

5. 1998 New York Yankees - The Yankees won 114 games and swept the World Series, led by a lineup featuring Derek Jeter and Bernie Williams.

6. 1939 New York Yankees - The '39 Yankees won 106 games and had a dominant pitching staff led by Red Ruffing and Lefty Gomez.

7. 1986 New York Mets - The Mets won 108 games and won the World Series, featuring a dominant pitching staff led by Dwight Gooden and Ron Darling.

8. 1929 Philadelphia Athletics - The Athletics won 104 games and featured a lineup known as the $100,000 infield, including Jimmie Foxx and Al Simmons.

9. 1961 New York Yankees - The Yankees won 109 games and featured a lineup that included Roger Maris, who set a then-record 61 home runs in a season.

10. 1976 Cincinnati Reds - The Reds won 102 games and won the World Series, featuring a lineup known as the Great Eight, including Johnny Bench and Joe Morgan.

11. 1942 St. Louis Cardinals - The Cardinals won 106 games and won the World Series, featuring a dominant pitching staff led by Mort Cooper and Johnny Beazley.

12. 1946 Boston Red Sox - The Red Sox won 104 games and featured a lineup that included Ted Williams, who hit .342 with 38 home runs.

13. 1995 Cleveland Indians - The Indians won 100 games and featured a lineup that included Albert Belle, Manny Ramirez, and Jim Thome.

14. 1973 Oakland Athletics - The A's won 94 games and won the World Series, featuring a lineup that included Reggie Jackson and pitching staff led by Catfish Hunter and Rollie Fingers.

15. 1969 New York Mets - The Mets won 100 games and won the World Series, featuring a dominant pitching staff led by Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman.

16. 2001 Seattle Mariners - The Mariners won 116 games, tying the record for most wins in a season, and featured a lineup that included Ichiro Suzuki and Bret Boone.

17. 1948 Cleveland Indians - The Indians won 97 games and won the World Series, featuring a dominant pitching staff led by Bob Feller and Bob Lemon.

18. 1993 Toronto Blue Jays - The Blue Jays won 95 games and won the World Series, featuring a lineup that included Joe Carter and pitching staff led by Juan Guzman.

19. 1984 Detroit Tigers - The Tigers won 104 games and won the World Series, featuring a lineup that included Alan Trammell and Jack Morris.

20. 1965 Los Angeles Dodgers - The Dodgers won 97 games and won the World Series, featuring a dominant pitching staff led by Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale.

These teams were selected based on their overall success, dominance in their respective eras, and impact on the game of baseball. Each team had a unique combination of offense, defense, and pitching that made them stand out from the rest.

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At age 5, sometime in the summer of 1983, I went to my first Mets game. I know they played the Montreal Expos. I’m pretty sure George Bamburger was still the manager. Tom Seaver was on the team. I do not know if he pitched that game. But I know I saw him pitch on tv as a Met that year.

My early childhood from that point forward was consumed with baseball (and cartoons) until about 1989 when the Mets were bad again. They just got worse until I went to college, but I still watched. I couldn’t watch Mets games in college, so I mostly forgot about baseball. I graduated in 2000 and came home to the Mets and Yankees in the Subway Series. And I was back in it.

The Mets predictably lost, and it was the worst because the Yankees were dynastic, but something else happened. After raising me as a Mets fan, my father outed himself as a Yankee fan.

My dad was born in Brooklyn in 1950 and raised in Sheepshead Bay, which is close to Coney Island. Story goes he asked my grandfather to go see the Dodgers and was told “next year”. That was 1957. He never got to see the Dodgers in Brooklyn. They, and the New York Giants, moved to California before the 1958 season. This is pretty fucked up. And though I never asked him while he was alive, it would make no sense for my grandfather to have claimed he didn’t know the Dodgers were leaving. It was the biggest news in Brooklyn.

For 4 years, there was only one New York team. The Yankees. They won the World Series in 1958 and 1961. They lost the World Series in 1960. The Mets first season was 1962 and promptly set the record for most games lost in a season, in the modern era. The Yankees beat the San Francisco Giants in the World Series that year. In 1963 the Yankees lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers, but who could root for the Dodgers after they left Brooklyn? That was traitorous. In ‘64 the Yankees lost the World Series to the St. Louis Cardinals. They were terrible after that.

In 1967, Tom Seaver debuted for the New York Mets. They were still the worst team in baseball. In 1969, led by Seaver, the Mets were champions. My dad, by this time in college, became a fan.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in tracing his sports allegiances, it’s that he’s a bandwagoner. We never watched hockey, but for some reason had 4 copies of an Islanders record from the early 80s. We never really watched football, but he did like to watch the Cowboys. Why wasn’t he a Giants fan? Or a Jets fan? It never really made sense.

The entire reason we went to that game in 1983 was my dad got tickets from work. The owner of the company he worked for had box seats about 10 rows behind the third base dugout. We would go once or twice a year and my dad would complain about traffic. We went to Game 1 of the 1986 World Series. I still have my ticket. It was a big moment for me, having just turned all of 9 years old. It’s still a big moment for me. We sat 6 rows from the back of the stadium and couldn’t see anything. But we were there.

I never had reason to believe my dad was anything other than a Mets fan. And then, there I am, freaking out in 2000 as Benny Agbayani hands the ball to a fan in the stands because he thought there were three outs, and my dad is outing himself further as a Yankee fan with every moment.

I don’t remember when this took place, but I know it happened. I was so angry I was raised a Mets fan. But it went something like this:

Why would you do this to your child? You know how bad they are. You read the paper. You never bothered to tell me the Yankees won the World Series in 1978. I could have gone through life as a carefree Yankee fan, not ever having to know the intricacies of the game, and never beating myself up in the years they weren’t competitive because they’re the fucking Yankees! They always come back.

At that point, I couldn’t give up the Mets. For the damage being invested in their losing had done to me, and for what it would continue to do to me. For 20 years until I left New York, I probably watched 150 games a year, whether on tv or at Shea. I didn’t just double down. It became all consuming. And gut wrenching. Hey! You had a shit day at work! Let’s agonize over this garbage team and argue with the tv announcers every day. As I bounced from apartment to apartment, job to job, there would always be the constant, soothing misery of the Mets.

The 2000 baseball season had been my introduction to Tom Seaver the announcer. Keith Hernandez too. I actually got to see him play. He was the quintessential first baseman. Now I got to listen to them regularly. Along with Ralph Kiner, Gary Thorne, and Howie Rose, they were fantastic. They talked about the game like a coach should talk about the game. Every game, regardless of how bad the team was, became a clinic in “How to Baseball”. I loved it.

In 2006, the Mets got their own broadcasting network and consolidated the announcing team. Ralph Kiner’s health had declined over the years and he would only return on home Sunday games. Fran Healy and Tim McCarver were finally, mercifully gone. Seaver left too. He had gone into winemaking in ‘05 and wanted to pursue it full time. Taking over play-by-play was radio announcer Gary Cohen. He had been Bob Murphy’s understudy and was a familiar pick. Keith Hernandez stayed and fellow 80s Met Ron Darling was added as well. They’re still in the booth today, and they’re fantastic.

Seaver would show up from time to time. There was never a down, dull moment with him. You’d get an adrenaline rush just listening to him.

I’m going to say something controversial. I hated Shea Stadium. It was a nasty, ugly place. But there’s one thing about it that CitiField just can’t replace. The entire stadium was built from concrete blocks and it was very closed in. Each entrance to the seating area from the concourse was like its own little tunnel into another world. You come out of the darkness and into the light of the greenest field you’ve ever seen. I got goosebumps and would nearly be on the verge of tears, every time I walked through, from that first game in 1983, until they tore the place down at the end of the 2008 season.

I did make sure to be there at the last game. It was terrible. The Mets needed to beat the Marlins to get into the Wild Card and it didn’t happen. Then we waited seemingly forever for the post-game ceremony to begin, absolutely fuming that we had been duped by this shit team again. Finally, things got started. Mets greats were announced. And Tom Seaver and Mike Piazza closed the centerfield gate together, formally closing the book on Shea. It was a good moment even though the season ended terribly.

We moved to California two years ago. This was my opportunity to finally get rid of the Mets. I was determined to do it. I started watching A’s and Giants games. I even started watching Dodger games. At the start of the season, I was set to ride the A’s and Dodgers all the way to a California World Series. Then COVID hit. The season was cancelled. I lost my job. School was cancelled. Bad news increased exponentially. And when the baseball season finally started in July, my wife said she wanted to watch the Mets. She wasn’t going to give me a choice either.

We met in 2006. She had moved to NYC the previous year and kinda bandwagoned her way into Yankee fandom. Because why not. She was really a football fan anyway. One of her previous boyfriends was apparently a huge Cubs fan. She says every time they lost he’d be upset for days. Which, historically, is a tough place to be as a Cubs fan. As we dated and got closer she saw just how many games I would watch on a yearly basis. It’s a lot.

She got used to me pacing around, guitar in hand, yelling at the TV. She studied for the bar exam through this. One time, I forget what was going on, she’s reading flashcards and I had taken issue with something Gary Cohen said. And I hear quietly, “don’t argue with Gary!” I can still hear the inflection in her voice in my head. I turned around and started telling her why I disagreed with him and her only response was “did I say that out loud?” Gary, Keith, and Ron were hugely important to not only her tolerance of my baseball tv domination, but also her appreciation of the game. She only knew Ralph Kiner as this cute old man. And every so often, Seaver would come back and she’d see me well up with visceral feelings.

I cried when Ralph Kiner died. Around 2014/2015 I wrote a blog titled “The Common Sense Mets Fan”. At the time, I was convinced the Sandy Alderson administration would right the team and keep the Wilpons at bay. I was wrong. Anyway, here’s what I wrote:

On the last day of the season, as usual, Gary Cohen said goodbye to Ralph Kiner. But there was something different about it this time. There was fear in Gary’s face, as though he knew this was his last opportunity to sign off with Ralph. I had seen hints of it in years past, but never like this. Sadly, Ralph passed today, I hope peacefully.

As a Mets fan, this is like losing a grandfather or great uncle. Ralph had always been there. From his stories about Elizabeth Taylor to his willingness to argue advanced metrics and hitting style with Keith Hernandez, he was ever present in the Mets broadcast booth. I’ll never be able to hear the game again the same way. Thank you, Ralph.

At the time, I said to my wife, “the next time I cry about the Mets, it’ll be when Tom Seaver dies.” This was before their 2015 run. Before the Wilmer Flores incident. Before I was sitting on my couch with a 1 year old, watching them in a World Series, as I did my best impression of Randy Quaid from Major League. I refused to allow myself to enjoy the success of the team because I knew they would lose. It was just a matter of when. And of course, they did lose to the Kansas City Royals. But they got a lot further than I thought they would.

When MLB decided to move forward with a truncated 2020 season, I was reluctant to watch. It’s not safe for anyone involved and seems to be all about corporate greed. But of course, like moths to a flame, we watched. And as I mentioned, my wife said, “we’re watching the Mets.” I didn’t want to. But she was right. In a year like we’ve never seen before, Gary Cohen, Ron Darling, and Keith Hernandez did something, and are doing something, nobody else is. They gave us levity and calm. Led by Gary, they are unafraid to address the news of the day while knowing the escape they provide. The BLM t-shirt moment was unparalleled. And unfortunately, they’d have another day to provide calm the next week.

As you well know by now, George Thomas Seaver died last week. He had contracted lyme disease years ago, while working in the vineyards. For some people, lyme goes undiagnosed for years while doctors treat the symptoms without putting it all together. This seems to have been what happened to Tom. It progressed with complications and he developed Lewy Body dementia. His family announced his retirement from public life and the Mets announced they would erect a statue to him outside of CitiField. They changed the address of the stadium to 41 Seaver Way. But in true Wilpon Mets fashion, still no statue.

Finally, last week, Tom died due to complications from COVID. I was sitting on the couch, watching some random baseball game and reading Twitter. I saw the Baseball Hall of Fame announcement on Twitter, exclaimed “oh no!”, and went upstairs to be alone for a minute. My wife was on the phone. She ran upstairs to see me sitting with my head in my hands and asked what happened. I told her and then told her how stupid I felt for letting this get to me. And she said, “yeah, but you said after Ralph died this would happen”.

Our son came upstairs to see what he was missing. I told him. He said “who’s that?” And we had a long talk I think bored him. And it’s then it hit me what had happened. As I’ve detailed in the past 4 pages of text, Tom Seaver meant a lot to me, even though in my experience as a Mets fan, he was really just a peripheral character. I saw him on the field a couple of times. He was talked about. He was an announcer for a few years, and he’s mostly been out of the spotlight for the past 15 years. Here I was, having a visceral, uncontrollable reaction to a childhood figure I never met. How the fuck were people who actually knew him going to keep it together?

They couldn’t do it. Gary and Ron did their best. Apparently, Keith’s mom also had dementia, and he lost it. There was a lot of silence during the game. A lot of big sighs from Keith. A lot of on air hurting. It was gut wrenching. I saw an Ed Kranepool quote that said, “this was a terrible ending to a horseshit year.” And it’s only September!

At this point, nearly a week later, it’s difficult to remember where I saw it. But here it is. The reason I’ve spent all this time spilling my guts about a guy I never met. Tom Seaver was a beacon. He wasn’t just someone who had a talent and pursued it. He was constantly trying to reinvent himself and pursue that passion, whether he was good at it or not. But even moreso, he was a positive influence on everyone around him. I’ve never heard a story about Seaver fighting with anyone. He wanted to be Rembrandt with a baseball. And he wanted to lift people up around him.

I feel isolated and alone. There’s not much I feel like I can control. I can get out my thoughts, I can be a good husband and a good father. I can explore my music. And I can use the latter to pull myself out of the former. That’s what Tom would tell me to do.

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It was reported that longtime Manager John Francis McNamara has passed away at the age of 88. McNamara managed in MLB for 19-seasons, compiling a 1160-1233-2 record for a .485 winning percentage. McNamara managed the Oakalnd A’s (1969-1970,) San Diego Padres (1974-1977,) Cincinnati Reds (1979-1982,) California Angels (1983-1984/1996,) Boston Red Sox (1985-1988, and the Cleveland Indians (1990-1991.)

His best season at the helm came in 1986 when he led the Boston Red Sox to a 95-66 record and an American League Pennant. In doing so, McNamara would win his only Manager of the Year Award.

McNamara would forever be known as the manager that did not replace Bill Buckner for defensive purposes in the 9th inning of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. Mookie Wilson of the New York Mets got the game winning single through the legs of 1B Buckner to send the World Series to a deciding Game 7, which the Mets would win.

John Francis McNamara, May you Forever Rest in Peace.

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Foreign Born Players in Japanese Video Games - Pro Yakyuu Pennant Race

Released for the Sega Mark III (aka the Sega Master System) in 1987, Pro Yakyuu Pennant Race is a Japan-exclusive update of Great Baseball, released in North America earlier that year (and completely different from the Great Baseball released in Japan in 1985). While the American game used fictional player names and statistics, Pro Yakyuu Pennant Race used real stats from the 1986 NPB season.

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Bass played 6 seasons for the Tigers, winning the Japanese Triple Crown in 1985 and 1986. In 2004 he was elected to the Oklahoma State Senate, serving until 2019.

Tony Brewer - Nippon-Ham Fighters - .321/20/68

Brewer appeared in 24 games for the Los Angeles Dodgers before heading to Japan where he played for 4 seasons, all with the Nippon-Ham Fighters.

Warren Cromartie - Yomiuri Giants - .363/37/98

One of the first North American stars to sign with a Japanese team, Cromartie spent 7 seasons with the Yomiuri Giants, winning the Central League MVP award in 1989.

Dick Davis - Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes - .337/36/97

Davis played parts of six seasons in the majors before signing with the Buffaloes in 1984. In 1986 he charged the mound after being hit by a pitch by Osamu Higashio and was fined 100,000 yen.

Dave Hostetler - Nankai Hawks - .285/25/74

Hostetler was a member of the 1978 College World Series champion USC Trojans. After 4 seasons in the majors with Montreal and Texas, he signed with the Hawks and spent 2 years in Japan before playing one final season with Pittsburgh.

Leon Lee - Yakult Swallows - .319/34/97

Lee never made it to the majors, but played for 10 seasons in Japan and became the first African-American manager in NPB history when he took over the Orix BlueWave in 2003.

Leron Lee - Lotte Orions - .331/31/94

The older brother of Leon Lee, Leron played in Japan for 11 seasons, all with the Orions. When he retired after the 1987 season he was the NPB career leader in batting average.

Brad Lesley - Hankyu Braves - 5-3/2.63/19 saves

Nicknamed "The Animal," Lesley played in Japan for 2 seasons. After baseball, he had a successful career in television and movies, appearing on the Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle and in several feature films.

Carlos Ponce - Yokohama Taiyo Whales - 322/27/105

Ponce played in 21 games for the Milwaukee Brewers in 1985 before signing with the Whales and playing in Japan for 5 seasons. After his playing career he became a coach, most recently with the Wei Chuan Dragons of the CPBL.

Pat Putnam - Nippon-Ham Fighters - .286/25/78

Putnam was chosen in the first round (22nd overall) of the 1975 MLB draft by the Texas Rangers. After 8 seasons in the majors, he signed with the Fighters and played 2 seasons with them before retiring.

Gary Rajsich - Chunichi Dragons - .251/36/82

Rajsich spent 4 seasons in the majors before heading to Japan. After finishing his playing career with the St. Petersburg Pelicans of the SPBA in 1989 he became a scout for the Baltimore Orioles.

George Vukovich - Seibu Lions - .265/18/67

Vukovich hit the only walk-off home run in Phillies playoff history in game 4 of the 1981 National League Division Series. After 6 years in the majors with Philadelphia and Cleveland he played 2 seasons in Japan, both with the Lions.

Greg Wells - Hankyu Braves - .350/42/103

"Boomer" spent parts of 2 seasons in the majors before signing with Hankyu in 1983. In 1984 he became the first non-Japanese player to win the NPB Triple Crown, batting .355 with 37 home runs and 130 RBI.

All player photos from Trading Card Database except for Dick Davis, which is from this Twitter thread because apparently the only pictures online of him in his Buffaloes uniform are from his fight with Osamu Higashio.

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Dorktown: Kirby Puckett couldn’t hit homers when he was ahead in the count

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This is the exact opposite of how it’s supposed to work.

Generally speaking, about 33 to 35 percent of MLB plate appearances end when the batter is ahead in the count, meaning there have been more balls thrown than strikes. Those plate appearances tend to produce home runs at a rate about 30 percent greater than those that end when strikes ≥ balls; ultimately, going back to the ’80s, over 41 percent of all homers stem from a pitch in which the batter had the leg up.

Except ... sometimes being ahead in the count doesn’t provide that usual boost to home run likelihood. Sometimes, it’s not even close. There is mostly complete pitch-by-pitch data at Baseball-Reference going back to 1988. And in that very first year, look at what Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame center fielder Kirby Puckett did:

Twenty-four homers and not a one came when he was ahead in the count. No other 20-homer player had fewer than five that were hit when ahead in the count. Also, on a percentage basis, just one (Glenn Davis) was south of 20:

That seems weird enough on its own; I mean, not only is there a substantial gap separating Puckett from the rest of the pack, but also even in a vacuum it’s bizarre for something with an ostensible probability north of 40 percent occurring zero out of 24 times. No one’s gonna watch Steph Curry make zero out of 24 threes without thinking the Space Jam 2 Monstars came and stripped away all his talent.

And yet, this was not even a one-off occurrence. Far from it. Look what happened five years later:

22 homers, with just two coming when the count featured more balls than strikes. With the exception of Dante Bichette (four), every other 20-homer big leaguer again had at least five occur when they were ahead in the count. Puckett’s rate is under 10 percent, with Bichette his lone peer under 20 percent:

Widening the lens beyond the seasons in which they occurred really underscores how rare it is for guys with decent pop to inexplicably see that well run dry in the most favorable of conditions:

Now, that chart is relatively flawed in that there are an awful lot of perfectly overlapping dots. However, the dot just above green ’88 Kirby — just like the Kirby dots themselves — is indeed representing just one player (2005 Jose Guillen). Therefore, as you can see, he’s responsible for two of the three fewest ahead-in-the-count home run totals of anyone to hit more than 20 total homers in a season since 1988. They also represent two of the three seasons in which that percentage resided south of 10:

While we know ’88 Kirby is the lone instance since 1988 of a 20-homer player getting goose-egged when ahead in the count, that doesn’t reveal how low that home run threshold would have to drop before others start to emerge. Well, 2002 Karim Garcia is the runner-up with just 16, and only a handful of others even had 10:

That 1993 season in which just two of his 22 homers came while ahead in the count lends itself to the production of this chart:

Puckett had two such seasons with more than 20 homers when that ’05 Guillen season is the only other one featuring more than 17 dingers.

This bizarro trend extended even beyond those two seasons of Puckett’s career. While his first few years in the big leagues predated the 1988 inflection point regarding pitch count data, here are each of his final eight seasons:

Despite the average MLB rate being above 40 percent, Puckett was never even close — under 35 percent in all eight seasons.

I have never seen someone have the count in their favor be so detrimental to their prospects of hitting a home run. From 1988 on, Puckett homered on one out of 31.6 plate appearances that ended with at least as many strikes as balls. But if there were more balls than strikes (and remember, on average big leaguers are about 30 percent more likely to homer in that situation)? That dropped to once every 49.2 plate appearances.

Puckett is also very well-known for having hit one of the biggest home runs in MLB history. With his Twins facing elimination in Game 6 of the 1991 World Series, Puckett hit a dramatic walk-off homer to keep their season alive, enabling them to win it all the next day. But perhaps the most mystifying part of it? It was on a 2-1 pitch.

Previously on Dorktown:

The Houston Texans are wasting Deshaun Watson’s greatness

The 1986 Philadelphia Eagles were sacked into oblivion

NFL teams that score 16 points win more often than teas that score 21 points. Wait, what

Video: The History of the Seattle Mariners

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lboogie1906 · 6 months

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Darryl Eugene Strawberry (born March 12, 1962) is a former baseball right fielder and author who played 17 seasons in MLB. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, he was one of the most feared sluggers in the sport, known for his prodigious home runs and his intimidating presence in the batter’s box with his 6 ft 6 in the frame and his long, looping swing that elicited comparisons to Ted Williams’.

He helped lead the New York Mets to a World Series championship in 1986 and the New York Yankees to three World Series championships in 1996, 1998, and 1999. A popular player during his career, he was voted to the All-Star Game eight straight times (1984–91). He was an analyst for SportsNet New York.

He was the starting right fielder five straight times and appeared at nine All-Star games. He batted .333 with two stolen bases and two runs in 12 career All-Star at-bats. He had two three-home run games in his career, both of which came against Chicago teams and were almost 11 years to the day between each other. The first game was against the Cubs on August 5, 1985, and the second was on August 6, 1996, against the White Sox.

He is one of only five Major League Baseball players to hit two pinch-hit grand slams in the same season.

He is one of only three players in MLB history to have played for all four of the former and current New York-based MLB teams- the Mets, Yankees, Dodgers, and Giants.

His memoir, Straw: Finding My Way, written in collaboration with author John Strausbaugh, was published on April 28, 2009. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Australian Baseball Hall of Famers

David Nilsson

David Wayne Nilsson is an Australian retired professional baseball catcher and current manager of the Australia national baseball team and the Brisbane Bandits. David was born on 14 December 1969. He played for Major League Baseball's Milwaukee Brewers from 1992 to 1999 and was an All-Star in 1999, becoming the first Australian player to appear in an All-Star game. He ended his Major League career on 3 October 1999 with 837 games played, 789 hits, 105 home runs and a .284 career batting average.

Nilsson became a free agent in the offseason following 1999 but opted not to sign with any MLB teams because of his desire to play for Australia in the 2000 Olympics. He was widely applauded for this move as he was turning down big money to represent his country, something very rarely seen in baseball. Before leaving the US, he had been Australia's second highest earning sportsman behind Greg Norman, according to the Business Review Weekly.

Nilsson previously played for the Brisbane Bandits and Melbourne Reds in the previous carnation of the Australian Baseball League where he holds the record for all time batting average (.351) and all time slugging average (.661). His brothers Gary, Bob and Ron also played in the competition. He also played in the Japanese NPB and Italian Serie A. He went on to also represent Australia in the 2004 Olympics where they won a historic silver medal, and also represented his country in the inaugural World Baseball Classic in 2006. He spent one season as manager with the Brisbane Bandits during the 2010–11 Australian Baseball League season, before returning to become the incumbent manager from 2014 to 2015. In 2018 he succeeded Jon Deeble as the Australian national baseball team manager.

Nilsson represented Australia at the Olympics in 2000 and 2004 and has been involved in the strategic direction of the sport in Australia.

In 2018, he was named as one of the Queensland Greats by Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk in a ceremony at the Queensland Art Gallery on 8 June 2018.

Nilsson was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of his "service to baseball as a player, coach and mentor"

Glenn Williams

Glenn David Williams is a retired third baseman from Australia, who played in the Minnesota Twins organization. Glenn was born on 18 July 1977 in Gosford, New South Wales. He played in Major League Baseball for the Twins during the 2005 season. He was a member of the team that won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Williams currently has a 13-game hitting streak, as he has a hit in every game that he has played in while in the major leagues.

Glenn is the elder of two children. His father Gary Williams has been heavily involved in the development of baseball in Australia. Both Gary and Glenn Williams have represented their native Australia in international baseball competitions.

In 1993, as a 16-year-old, Glenn signed a lucrative free agent contract with the Atlanta Braves for an estimated 1.3 million Australian dollars. Since that time, Glenn has played baseball for the minor league affiliates of the Atlanta Braves, Toronto Blue Jays, and Minnesota Twins.

After spending over 10 years in the minor leagues, Glenn made his major league debut with the Minnesota Twins during the 2005 season. In 2007, Glenn played for the Minnesota Twins Triple-A affiliate team, the Rochester Red Wings.

On 19 August 2010 Glenn was announced as manager for the Australian Baseball League foundation club Sydney Blue Sox in their inaugural 2010–11 season.

Craig Shipley

Craig Barry Shipley is an Australian-born executive and former player in Major League Baseball. Craig was born on 7 January 1963 in Parramatta, New South Wales. On 16 November 2012, he was appointed special assistant to Arizona Diamondbacks general manager Kevin Towers.

As a player, he was an infielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1986–87), New York Mets (1989), San Diego Padres (1991–94 and 1996–97), Houston Astros (1995) and Anaheim Angels (1998). He played collegiately at the University of Alabama. Shipley batted and threw right-handed; he stood 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and weighed 175 pounds (79 kg) (12 stone 7).

He helped the Padres win the 1996 National League Western Division championship, appearing in 33 games played – 21 after 31 July – and batting .315 with 29 hits, five doubles, one home run, seven runs batted in and seven stolen bases. In the field, he started at four different defensive positions: second base, third base, shortstop and right field. However, he did not appear in the postseason.

In 11 seasons Shipley played in 582 games and had 1,345 at bats, 155 runs scored, 364 hits, 63 doubles, six triples, 20 home runs, 138 RBI, 33 stolen bases, 47 bases on balls, a .271 batting average, .302 on-base percentage, .371 slugging percentage, 499 total bases, 15 sacrifice hits, nine sacrifice flies and 7 intentional walks.

Shipley's post-playing career began in 2000, when he was a roving minor league baserunning and infield instructor for the Montréal Expos. He then returned to the Padres as a professional scout, working for Towers, in 2001–2002.

In 2003, Shipley followed former Padres executives Larry Lucchino and Theo Epstein to the Boston Red Sox, where he began as special assistant to the general manager, player development and international scouting. He was named a vice president in 2006, and was appointed senior vice president, international scouting, in 2009. In February 2011, Shipley was promoted again, when he was named senior vice president, player personnel and international scouting. However, weeks after Epstein departed the Red Sox for the Chicago Cubs in October 2011, Shipley was dismissed in an overhaul of the Boston front office under the team's new general manager, Ben Cherington.

In 2012, Shipley was hired by the Arizona Diamondbacks as an assistant to general manager Kevin Towers. As of 2018, he is still part of the Diamondbacks front office, assisting "the Baseball Operations Department in international and special assignment scouting, evaluating the D-backs' farm system and serving as an advisor to the GM."

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Revisiting Major League Baseball’s 1987 MVP Races

ST. LOUIS, MO – CIRCA 1985: Ozzie Smith #1 of the St. Louis Cardinals runs the bases during a Major … [+] League Baseball game circa 1985 at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri. Smith played for the Cardinals from 1982-96. (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images)

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Most of baseball’s timeless rules and tradition have expired in the 21st century, as anyone who has watched a game or 10 from the 1980s or 1990s during isolation can confirm. Seriously, teams used to bunt all the time, often during playoff games that were often played during the day and could be viewed in less time than it would eventually take to watch The Irishman. (Game 7 of the 1991 World Series, one of the greatest and tensest games ever played, started at 7:38 PM EST, went 10 innings and lasted three hours and 23 minutes, meaning you probably got to see some or all of your late local news, speaking of something timeless and traditional that is less timeless and traditional today)

But one timeless rule and tradition remains intact: The summer in which you were 13 was the best summer for baseball ever.

This is particularly true if you were 13 in the summer of 1987. (Sorry, everyone else born before or after the 1973-74 nexus, you’re wrong) Baseball cards were as plentiful as they were going to be profitable (didn’t quite work out that way). The ball was juiced and everyone hit homers (we liked it more as kids than we do as adults).

And the game was loaded — we mean, absolutely LOADED — with superstars. This, of course, is true of any era, and kids who were 13 last summer get to tell everyone for the rest of time how they got to watch Mike Trout as a teenager, which is admittedly pretty great.

But, again, kids, you’re wrong, and get off our lawn, because the summer of 1987 was the best time to be a teenaged baseball fan. A whopping 36 Hall of Famers suited up in the summer of 1987 (and Bruce Sutter sat out the season with an injury). This total does not yet count Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, who may have been the greatest hitter and greatest pitcher to ever perform on a big league diamond.

The awards balloting underscores just how deep the phenomenal talent ran. Eleven future Hall of Famers received a vote in the Most Valuable Player balloting. So did another nine players who either once seemed destined for Cooperstown or at least built compelling candidacies.

Thirty-three years later, in a spring (and quite possibly a summer and a fall) without baseball, the memories of the season, and the debates over who did win the awards and who should have, are as strong as ever. So what better way to pass the time as we wait for the return of the national pastime than by doing so by comparing the 1987 MVP candidates by both the stats used to evaluate them in real time as well as the stats we rely upon more in 2020?

1987 AL MVP VOTING

1.) George Bell (.308-47 HRs-134 RBIs-.957 OPS, 5.0 WAR)

2.) Alan Trammell (.343-28-105-21 SBs-.953-8.2 WAR)

3.) Kirby Puckett (.332-28-99-12 SBs-.900 OPS-4.2 WAR)

4.) Dwight Evans (.305-34-123-.986 OPS-4.8 WAR)

5.) Paul Molitor (.353-16-75-45 SBs-1.003 OPS-6.0 WAR)

6.) Mark McGwire (.289-49-118-.987 OPS-5.1 WAR)

7.) Don Mattingly (.327-30-115-.937 OPS-5.1 WAR)

8.) Tony Fernandez (.322-5-67-32 SBs-.805 OPS-5.1 WAR)

9.) Wade Boggs (.363-24-89-1.049 OPS-8.3 WAR)

10.) Gary Gaetti (.257-31-109-10 SBs-.788 OPS-2.4 WAR)

OTHER NOTABLES: 12.) Darrell Evans, 18.) Robin Yount; 19.) Roger Clemens; T20.) Jack Morris; T20.) Ruben Sierra; T23.) Jose Canseco

TORONTO – 1987: George Bell #11 of the Toronto Blue Jays swings at a pitch during a 1987 game at … [+] Exposition Stadium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Gray Mortimore/Getty Images)

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REAL-TIME REACTION: This one was controversial as Bell (332 points) edged Trammell (311 points) for the MVP despite Trammell’s Tigers surging over the final week and beating out Bell’s Blue Jays for the AL East by sweeping the last series of the regular season. Trammell hit .417 with seven homers, 20 RBIs and six steals after Aug. 31, a span in which Bell hit .308 with six homers and 21 RBIs. But voters dug the long ball and the RBI (Bell finished second and first, respectively, in the categories). The balloting likely forced Trammell to wait at least a decade to punch his ticket to Cooperstown. An MVP to go along with his elite all-around production at shortstop almost surely would have removed any doubt from his candidacy during his time on the writer’s ballot.

HOW LOADED WAS THIS RACE? Holy moley, let us count the ways. Puckett, a future first-ballot Hall of Famer, finished third. Molitor, another future first-ballot Hall of Famer, produced a 39-game hitting streak — the longest by an American League player since Joe DiMaggio’s record 56-game streak in 1941 and the longest by any player over the last four decades — and finished fifth. McGwire, the unanimous Rookie of the Year, shattered the rookie record for home runs and finished sixth. Mattingly hit a big league record six grand slams and tied the big league record by homering in seven straight games and finished seventh. Boggs, the third future first-ballot Hall of Famer in the top 10, hit a career-high 24 homers and led the AL in OPS and position player WAR and finished ninth. Darrell Evans, at age 40, finished with the second-most RBIs (99) and third-most homers (34) of his 21-year career and finished 12th. Clemens, with a season that was by many measures better than his MVP/Cy Young-award winning campaign a season earlier, finished 19th. Future Hall of Famer Morris tied for 20th with Sierra, who hit 30 homers and finished with 109 RBIs while leading the league in at-bats (643) at age 21 and turning his baseball card into a must-have investment for teenagers everywhere. Speaking of baseball card investments, Canseco, in his pre 40-40 season, finished tied for 23rd.

DETROIT, MI – SEPTEMBER 13: Manager Paul Molitor #4 (L) of the Minnesota Twins poses for a photo … [+] with former Detroit Tigers pitcher Jack Morris and former Tigers shortstop Alan Trammell (R) prior to the game between the Tigers and Twins at Comerica Park on September 13, 2016 in Detroit, Michigan. The Twins defeated the Tigers 8-1. (Photo by Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

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IF WE DID THIS TODAY: Bell might not even finish in the top five. The decidedly one-dimensional Blue Jays outfielder ranked 10th amongst position players in WAR. Trammell’s late surge for a playoff team probably would have put him over the top. It’s hard not to see Boggs finishing in the top three, at the least, with that outrageous WAR and OPS. Knowing what we know know about the remarkable nature of Molitor’s hitting streak, he probably moves up despite playing just 118 games. And Clemens, with a far higher WAR in 1987 (9.4) than 1986 (8.8), probably finishes in the top five despite the Red Sox going 78-84.

1.) Trammell

2.) Boggs

3.) Molitor

4.) Bell

5.) Clemens

1987 NL MVP VOTING

1.) Andre Dawson (.287-49 HRs-137 RBIs-11 SBs-.896 OPS-4.0 WAR)

2.) Ozzie Smith (.303-0-75-43 SBs-.775 OPS-6.4 WAR)

3.) Jack Clark (.286-35-106-1.055 OPS-5.4 WAR)

4.) Tim Wallach (.298-26-123-.858 OPS-4.3 WAR)

5.) Will Clark (.308-35-91-.951 OPS-4.2 WAR)

6.) Darryl Strawberry (.284-39-104-36 SBs-.981 OPS-6.4 WAR)

7.) Tim Raines (.330-18-68-50 SBs-.955 OPS-6.7 WAR)

8.) Tony Gwynn (.370-7-54-56 SBs-.958 OPS-8.6 WAR)

9.) Eric Davis (.293-37-100-50 SBs-.991 OPS-7.9 WAR)

10.) Howard Johnson (.265-36-99-32 SBs-.868 OPS-4.4 WAR)

OTHER NOTABLES: 11.) Dale Murphy; 14.) Mike Schmidt

CHICAGO – 1987: Andre Dawson of the Chicago Cubs bats during an MLB game at Wrigley Field in … [+] Chicago, Illinois during the 1987 season. (Photo by Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

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REAL-TIME REACTION: Voters dug the long ball, the RBI and the narrative, understandably so. Dawson was frozen out on the free agent market by the colluding owners until he literally presented the Cubs with a blank check. They penciled in “$500,000” and were rewarded with an NL-leading 49 homers and 137 RBIs. Even performing for a last-place team wasn’t enough to keep Dawson from becoming the 21st straight player to win the MVP after leading his league in homers and RBIs. (The previous player to lead his league in homers and RBIs and not win the MVP was Ted Williams who won the Triple Crown in 1947 yet lost the MVP to Joe DiMaggio) In retrospect, it’s surprising this was as close as it was. Dawson (11 first place votes and 269 points overall) outpaced Smith (nine first place votes and 193 points overall) by a decent margin despite getting just two more first-place votes.

HOW LOADED WAS THIS RACE? Holy moley, squared. You thought the AL race was good? Four Hall of Famers had monster seasons — including Smith, who became the first player to finish with at least 75 RBIs and 6.0 WAR without a homer since 1906. Will Clark, in his first full season and with that gorgeous left-handed swing, became the first player age 23 or younger to hit at least .300 with 35 homers and 90 RBIs since Orlando Cepeda did it for the Giants in 1961. Raines missed the first month of the season due to collusion and barely slowed down after going 4-for-5 with an extra-inning grand slam in his debut against the Mets on May 2. He ended up setting career highs in homers and OPS despite the late start — and also won the All-Star Game MVP by breaking a scoreless tie with a two-run triple in the 13th inning. Only two players — Joe Morgan twice and Rickey Henderson once — ever stole at least 56 bases with a better success rate and a higher OPS than Gwynn, whose 82 walks were a career-high and his 35 strikeouts his second-highest single-season whiff total. And for all that, Raines and Gwynn finished seventh and eighth in the MVP balloting!

OAKLAND, CA – JULY 14: Tim Raines #30 of the Montreal Expos leads off first base as Mark McGwire #25 … [+] of the Oakland Athletics holds him on during the 58th Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on July 14, 1987, in Oakland California. (Photo by MLB via Getty Images) Local Caption *** Tim Raines;Mark McGwire

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And have we mentioned the bottom half of the top 10 had THREE 30-30 players? It was the first season in which there were even TWO 30-30 players, and none of them finished in the top five, even though Strawberry and Johnson were playing for the defending World Series champions in the biggest media market in the land and even though Davis is the only player to ever finish with at least 35 homers and 50 stolen bases and spent part of 1987 as — I am not exaggerating here — the greatest player the game has ever seen. From June 11, 1986 through June 10, 1987, Davis hit .306 with 43 homers, 114 RBIs and 91 stolen bases in 147 games for an OPS of 1.025. Now, I’m getting a little creative, but this 12-month span demands it. Do you know how many players have stolen at least 90 bases and hit at least 10 homers in a season? Three. And none hit more than 12 (Harry Stovey in 1890). The only player to finish a full season with at least 90 steals and an OPS of higher than 1.025 was Billy Hamilton — not the current one, the one whose career ended in 1901. And for all that, Davis finished NINTH in the MVP balloting! (He did hit a mere .279 with 17 homers, 45 RBIs, 24 steals and a .912 OPS while missing 26 of the Reds’ final 104 games).

IF WE DID THIS TODAY: Forget possibly not finishing in the top five, a la Bell. Dawson would almost surely fall to sixth or lower. Figure Smith’s defensive wizardry and robust WAR for a division winner would put him over the top. Advanced metrics would be far kinder to Gwynn today, though the race for second would be tight with the Clarks, both of whom played for division winners while Gwynn played for the NL-worst Padres, who lost 97 games. And geez, who to pick for fifth between Raines’ mammoth five months and Davis’ historical stretch?

1.) Smith

2.) Jack Clark

3.) Gwynn

4.) Will Clark

5.) Davis

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Sean Doolittle Biography, Wiki

Sean Robert Doolittle is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball (MLB). The Oakland Athletics selected Doolittle in the first round in the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft, as a first baseman/outfielder. He made his MLB debut in 2012. He previously played for the Athletics and was an All-Star in 2014. Sean Doolittle Age He was born on September 26, 1986, and he was 33 years old. Sean Doolittle Early life Doolittle grew up in Tabernacle Township, New Jersey. Sean lived close to the baseball field and often would go there to practice. He played Babe Ruth Baseball and excelled as a pitcher. Sean Doolittle Education, Early Career He attended Shawnee High School, in Medford, New Jersey where he was a stand-out pitcher. A great hitter, Doolittle led Shawnee to a state championship. Doolittle played for the University of Virginia as both a starting pitcher and first baseman. He formerly held the record for wins in a career for a Virginia pitcher — 22 — which has since been passed by Danny Hultzen. In 2005 and 2006, Doolittle was named to the USA National (Collegiate) Baseball Team. Sean DoolittlePersonal life Doolittle is active off the field with a number of charities and was recognized for his work in 2016 by being nominated for the Roberto Clemente Award. Doolittle supports Operation Finally Home, a nonprofit dedicated to providing housing for U.S. military veterans and their families, and Swords to Ploughshares, a Bay Area organization devoted to helping veterans with housing and employment. In June 2015, when the Oakland Athletics Pride Night received backlash from some fans for the team's support of LGBT rights, Doolittle and then-girlfriend Eireann Dolan bought hundreds of game tickets, which they donated to local LGBT groups, and raised an additional $40,000 in donations. Sean Doolittle Married, Wife Doolittle and Dolan married on October 2, 2017, eloping the day after the Washington Nationals' last game of the regular season. In November 2015, Doolittle and Dolan hosted a Thanksgiving dinner in Chicago for 17 Syrian refugee families. In October 2016, he was one of several professional athletes to denounce Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's comments about non-consensual groping of women as not being "locker room talk". Doolittle identifies as independent politically. Of his charity work, Doolittle told the New York Times: "When I was a kid, I remember my parents would say, 'Baseball is what you do, but that's not who you are' — like that might be my job, but that's not the end-all, be-all. I feel like I might even be able to use it to help other people or open some doors or explore more opportunities." Sean Doolittle Father Doolittle's father is an Air Force veteran, and his seventh cousin is pilot Jimmy Doolittle, famous for the Doolittle Raid of Japan during World War II Sean Doolittle Brother Sean's brother, Ryan Doolittle, was also a part of the Athletics' farm system at the same time as he.

Sean Doolittle Career

Minor-league career The Oakland Athletics selected Doolittle in the first round, with the 41st overall selection, in the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft, as a first baseman/outfielder. He made his professional debut on June 18, 2007, and was expected to make his major league debut in 2009. Despite being injured for most of the 2009 season, Doolittle was ranked tenth in Oakland's farm system according to Baseball America. Doolittle missed the entire 2010 season while rehabbing from 2 knee surgeries. In the 2011 offseason, he was placed on Oakland's 40-man roster to be protected from the Rule 5 draft. After missing more than two years, Doolittle converted back to pitching, making his professional pitching debut in the instructional league in Arizona in 2011. Major-league career Oakland Athletics After only 26 professional entries, 25 of them in three minor league stops in 2012, Doolittle was summoned to the majors on June 5, 2012 against the Texas Rangers throwing one and a third-inning while striking out three with all the balls Fast and none. below 94 mph. He quickly became a key piece of the bullpen as the best left-handed specialist who obtained his first professional rescue on July 21 against the New York Yankees. He served as a preparer for the A Grant Balfour closer the rest of the way while Oakland won the American League West on the last day of the season. Doolittle signed a five-year, $ 10.5 million extension with Athletics on April 18, 2014. Doolittle and right-hander Luke Gregerson entered the regular season as late-entry setup pitchers for the new closer Jim Johnson. However, after an abysmal April, Johnson was removed from the exclusive closing role. Doolittle, Gregerson, and Johnson spent the next 3 weeks throwing closer by committee. Doolittle finally named A's closer on May 20. Doolittle was one of the six A players named for the 2014 American League Star Team; He faced three batters at the end of the game, striking out two. Doolittle started the 2015 season on the disabled list due to a shoulder injury. Sean Doolittle Gnome Day was April 30, 2016. The first 15,000 fans received a Doolittle Gnome that plays a brief sound of Metallica, Doolittle's incoming music. While on a rehabilitation task with the Nashville Triple-A Sounds, Doolittle threw the seventh inning of a game without hits against the Omaha Storm Chasers on June 7, 2017. Starter Chris Smith threw the first six innings and then went followed by Doolittle, Tucker Healy, and Simón Castro, who launched an entry each. 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In 2019, he was 6-5 with 29 saves (sixth in the National League) and 4.05 effectiveness, since in 63 relay appearances he threw 60.0 innings and struck out 66 batters, and led the National League in finished games ( 55), empowering his Nationals for an appearance in the World Series and a save in Game 1. Awards 2008 California League Mid-Season All-Star 2008 Arizona Fall League Rising Stars 2008 Arizona Fall League All-Prospect Team Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle declines White House visit National pitcher Sean Doolittle has refused to visit the White House on Monday for a ceremony honoring the historic victory of his team in the World Series, citing President Donald Trump's rhetoric as the reason he will not attend the celebration. "There are many things, policies with which I disagree, but at the end of the day, it has more to do with divisive rhetoric and the empowerment of conspiracy theories and the widening of the gap in this country," Doolittle said in an interview. Friday with The Washington Post. "At the end of the day, as much as I wanted to be there with my teammates and share that experience with my teammates, I can't do it," Doolittle told the Post. "I just can't do it." The relief pitcher told the newspaper that he did not want to be a distraction for his teammates who want the experience of meeting with the president. "People say you should go because it's about respecting the president's office," Doolittle told the Post. "And I think in the course of his time in office (Trump) he did many things that may not respect the office." Doolittle told the Post that he feels "very strongly" about "Trump's problems in racial relations," mentioning Central Park Five, the Fair Housing Act and Trump's comments following a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. Doolittle, who spoke at the time of condemning the Charlottesville demonstration, told the Post that Trump's rhetoric has allowed and enhanced racism and white supremacy. "I don't want to date someone who talks like that," he said. Doolittle also told the newspaper that his wife has two mothers involved in the LGBTQ community and that he "didn't want to turn his back on them." "I have a brother-in-law who has autism, and (Trump) is a guy who made fun of a disabled journalist. How would that explain that I dated someone who made fun of the way he spoke or the way he spoke? What moves your hands? I can't get over those things, "Doolittle told the Post, referring to Trump's 2015 attack on a New York Times journalist who has a physical disability. Quick facts you need to know Read the full article

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On the same day 25 years ago, Greg Maddux threw a 94 pitch complete game shutout in Colorado against the Rockies to lower his ERA to 1.56, while Tony Gwynn had 3 hits in Houston to raise his average to .394 with 45 games remaining. It was August 11, 1994 and the longstanding war between MLB owners and the Players Association would go nuclear very soon, with a players strike starting the next day wiping out the remainder of the 1994 regular season, playoffs, and 252 games the following year. The game once called America’s Pastime was tarnished.

Because it was the players striking for the 5thtime since 1972, much of the blame fell on them in the public narrative, with owners receiving criticism but not nearly as much as the players and Union president Donald Fehr.

The earliest labor disputes in baseball after the formation of the MLBPA in 1966 centered around minimum salaries, arbitration rights, and funding of pensions for retired players, the latter of which was the main issue in the 1972 strike that cancelled 86 games. The nullification of the reserve clause in December 1975 in the Seitz decision led to the advent of free agency, and increasingly hostile labor negotiations.

The next ten years passed with four work stoppages (three strikes and one lockout) mainly relating to free agency compensation rules and salary arbitration rights. The owners sought to impose a free agent system with heavier compensation to drive down salaries while the players fought for a free market approach.

Under the guidance of MLB commissioner Peter Ueberroth for three years starting after the 1985 season, owners refrained from making lucrative offers to free agents from other teams, depressing the market for those players. As an example future Hall of Famer Tim Raines became a free agent after the 1986 season at age 27, but returned to the Montreal Expos on May 1, 1987 after getting no offers as a free agent. The union filed a collusion grievance against the owners each year, and players were eventually awarded $280 million in damages, but any trust that existed between players and ownership evaporated with the rounds of collusion. (Note: Per the collective bargaining agreement, “clubs are not allowed to concert with other clubs and players are not allowed to act in concert with other players”)

Owners forced out commissioner (and ownership critic) Fay Vincent in 1992 and installed Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig as acting commissioner for the coming labor war, one that would see the owners demand a salary cap similar to what the NBA had and what the NFL had implemented in their most recent bargaining talks.

In June, the owners offered a salary cap with a 50/50 split of revenues. But put yourself in the position of the players: why would you trust the owners when they had just been caught cheating your side out of millions of dollars? The players were forced into a strike because they could not have a good faith negotiation given the history involved, and the owners were threatening to declare an impasse and implement their own system with a salary cap, which they did several months into the strike.

It is also hard to empathize with owners who talked of using replacement players before a strike date was even set. The following spring training saw replacement player games before a court injunction led to a return of the regular players for an abbreviated 1995 season. Replacements would have led to two teams not fielding teams: the Toronto Blue Jays were prohibited from using replacement players due to Ontario labor law, and the Baltimore Orioles refused to field a team because owner Peter Angelos was a highly-regarded labor lawyer.

Discussion of these labor issues in Major League Baseball isn’t much fun but trying to project how the rest of the 1994 season would have played out might be, with apologies to the rightfully upset Montreal Expos fans. Let’s assume that the MLBPA called off the strike in exchange for assurances of no lockout in 1995 or declaration of an impasse in negotiations by the owners.

AL East

There was a changing of the guard in the division with the two-time defending World Series champion Toronto Blue Jays taking a big step back with a 33-46 start. They won 22 of their last 36 games but that wasn’t enough to catch the New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles in the division. The Yanks (70-43) held a 6.5 games lead over the O’s (63-49) on the strength of a career year from AL batting champ Paul O’Neill (.359/.460/.603) and a resurgent year from Wade Boggs (.342/.433/.489), who had his best power year since 1987.

This was a very different Yankees team than the group that would dominate the AL East for the next decade: no Jeter, no Pettitte, no Rivera, and no Posada. They got 19 homers from Seinfeld guest star Danny Tartabull, over 300 innings between Jim Abbott and Melido Perez, and the back end of the bullpen was anchored by Bob Wickman and Steve Howe. All would be gone before the 1996 World Series.

Cal Ripken was the constant for the Orioles, as his streak stood at 2,009 consecutive games at the time of the strike, with Mike Mussina anchoring the rotation and Lee Smith in the bullpen. Their fate likely would be decided by the 15 remaining games against fellow wild card contenders Kansas City, Chicago, and Cleveland. Prior to the strike they did get a boost from = Armando Benitez, who gave up 1 run in 10 innings after his late July call-up.

The rebuilding Red Sox started 20-7 before collapsing to finish 54-61, and the Tigers both scored and gave up a ton of runs to ensure mediocrity.

Result: Yankees cruise to a division title with 95-100 wins, while a 87-90 win Baltimore team falls short of the wild card.

AL Central

This division was by far the best in baseball in 1994, with three playoff contenders and no teams on a track to lose more than 90 games. The defending division champion Chicago White Sox led the way, followed by a rising Cleveland team in its shiny new Jacobs Field, and a sneaky good team in Kansas City. An intense rivalry built between the White Sox and Indians centered about the Albert Belle corked bat controversy.

Frank Thomas won the MVP with Ted Williams-esque numbers (.353/.487/.729, with 109 BBs, 38 HR, 101 RBI in 113 games) but their strength was their starting rotation of reigning Cy Young winner Jack McDowell, veterans Alex Fernandez and Wilson Alvarez, and young Jason Bere all with ERAs under 4.00 with over 140 IP.

That pitching would be needed against a Cleveland club on pace to score nearly 1,000 runs over a full season. Their regular lineup boasted 7 players with an OPS+ at 106 or higher including young Jim Thome and Manny Ramirez. The starting rotation led the league with 17 complete games, perhaps a necessity with the bullpen being the clear weakness of the team. Cleveland still had 30 home games left to play, and they were 35-16 at Jacobs Field in its inaugural season.

Kansas City is something of a surprise contender because they would not even finish .500 again for another 9 years. David Cone won the Cy Young and led the team in WAR in the 2nd season of his second stint with his hometown team, while Tom Gordon and Kevin Appier were 2ndand 3rdin WAR for the Royals. With the retirement of George Brett, the lineup was below average, with only Wally Joyner and one-hit wonder Bob Hamelin carrying the load.

Result: The White Sox barely hang on with 95 wins and hold off Cleveland (94 wins), who pick up the wild card. Kansas City finishes 3rdwith 85-87 wins.

AL West

This is the opposite of Garrison Keillor’s fictional Lake Wobegon, the place where all the women are string, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. The American League West was more like Camp Crystal Lake from Friday The 13thin 1994 with the four worst records in the 14 team league.

Texas “led” the way at 52-62, on pace for 74 wins in a full season. Their lineup looks fit for 2019 with lots of home runs and even more strikeouts. Jose Canseco hit 31 homers in a strong comeback from an abbreviated season where a fly ball hit him in the headand a pitching performanceled to Tommy John surgery. Kenny Rogers did toss a perfect game, and they also had a young Darren Oliver who hung around long enough to actually pitch in a World Series for Texas. While their new stadium (which closes in 2019!) did not bring the same success as it did for Cleveland, it did embolden their ownerto seek political office.

Oakland was a game back, but lost Mark McGwire to a foot injury at various points of the season. Steve Ontiveros became a footnote in history as one of the most obscure ERA champions in history with a 2.65, and Rickey Henderson returned from Toronto for his 3rdstint in the East Bay. The A’s had stretch losing 31 of 37, followed by winning 19 of 23.

In mid-July, four ceiling tiles fell from the Seattle Kingdome’s roofwhich led to the Mariners finishing the year on the road, so the strike saved them from what would have become a 70 game road trip. While their best players like Ken Griffey Jr., Edgar Martinez, Jay Buhner, and Randy Johnson excelled, the rest of the team was about as functional as their home stadium. The July call-up of 18 year old Alex Rodriguez did not last long and he was sent back to the minors after 6 errors and 0 extra base hits in 13 games.

The California Angels also saw their home stadium damaged in the Northridge earthquake in January, repairs were made prior to their season. The Halos had little going for them, with the exception of a bizarre outlier season from 33 year old 3B Spike Owen, who posted a .418 OBP in 321 plate appearances, nearly 100 points above his lifetime OBP.

Result: Seattle tires from playing 2 ½ months on the road, and Oakland edges Texas and saves MLB from the embarrassment of a sub-.500 playoff team by winning the division with a record of 81-81.

NL East

With the Marlins and Mets rebuilding and the Phillies backsliding after their ’93 NL pennant, the NL East was a two horse race between the Expos and division newcomer Braves, since Atlanta was strangely in the NL West previously.

Montreal had the best team in franchise history with the top outfield in the NL of Moises Alou, Marquis Grissom, and Larry Walker. All the regulars in the Expos lineup were just entering their prime, as the oldest player was 3B Sean Berry at 28 years old. Of the top 4 starting pitchers, young Pedro Martinez had the highest ERA at 3.42. The bullpen 1-2 punch of John Wetteland and Mel Rojas was a factor in their 21-14 record in one run games, in contrast to the Phillies and their 12-26 mark in such contests.

With a wild card spot in play, the Braves would not have to win at the same breakneck pace as the prior year in their race with the Giants in West. They would be able to ride their quartet of Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, and Steve Avery to a playoff berth and take their chances with their always questionable bullpen in a short series.

Result: Montreal keeps their foot on the gas and finishes with 105 wins, while the Braves cruise to 97 wins and a wild card spot locked up with over a week left in the season,

NL Central

The outlook was not positive for the Houston Astros despite being in a virtual tie with the Cincinnati Reds because of MVP 1B Jeff Bagwell suffering a season-ending broken wrist two days before the strike. With Chris Donnels and Sid Bream backing up, there would be a massive dropoff from the 213 OPS+ the future Hall of Famer provided.

Cincinnati had a well-rounded lineup, placing 4thor higher in all key offensive categories as a team. Underrated big game pitcher Jose Rijo led the starting rotation, and there were not any notable trainwrecks in the Reds bullpen, positioning them well for their first playoff run in four years.

The Pirates were still recovering from the loss of Barry Bonds after the 1992 season, the Cubs got a 3 HR gamefrom Karl “Tuffy” Rhodes on opening day (a game they lost 12-8 anyway), and the Cardinals did almost nothing of note the entire season.

Result: Cincinnati rolls to 96 wins and the division, while Houston falls back and finishes with 89 wins.

NL West

With realignment and the departure of Atlanta to its rightful spot in the East, the Dodgers and Giants battled for control, while the Padres and 2ndyear expansion Rockies continued to build.

Coming off a 103 win season, the Giants got almost no contributions from anyone in their lineup not named Barry Bonds or Matt Williams. The latter was famously on pace to chase Roger Maris’ then single-season record of 61 HR, but Bonds had 37 HR of his own to go with 29 SBs so he was on his way to the 2nd40-40 season in MLB history. Darryl Strawberry arrived in July and provided some pop, but would find himself under indictment for federal income tax evasion before 1994 ended.

The pitching staff kept them competitive, but who knows if William VanLandingham and company could keep fooling hitters for another 7 weeks. San Francisco did win 20 of their last 30 which included a four game sweep of the Expos in Montreal.

The Dodgers held a 3.5 game lead, but still had six more games with Atlanta, against whom they were 0-6 to that point. Mike Piazza followed his Rookie of the Year campaign with another strong year, but Los Angeles got two outlier seasons from a couple of grizzled veterans. Tim Wallach (age 36) and Brett Butler (age 37) both set career highs in OPS, perhaps a signal that baseball was evolving into an era of inflated offensive numbers. Raul Mondesi became the 3rdstraight Dodger to win Rookie of the Year.

San Diego was rebuilding after their fire sale trades of Fred McGriff and Gary Sheffield the year before, but the story was of Tony Gwynn and his quest to hit .400. With 45 games remaining, he was on pace to have 171 more at bats based on his total to that point if he played every game, requiring him to get 71 hits in that time to finish with a .400 average. In his final 171 ABs of the ’94 season, Gwynn had 69 hits so it is far more likely that Gwynn finishes in the same range as Ted Williams in 1957 (.388) and 1980 George Brett (.390).

Colorado improved from their inaugural season and were about to move out of cavernous Mile High Stadium and into Coors Field. The strike cost them a chance to set a new single season attendance record, but the 1994 Rockies still have the highest average home attendance (57,570 per game) of any team in MLB history.

Result: The Giants claw their way back and finish tied with the Dodgers with 86 wins, leading to a one game playoff for the division, won by the Giants avenging the Dodgers eliminating them in game 162 a year earlier.

Playoffs

The original wild card playoff formatwas different and in many ways made no sense with the wild card team assigned to play a specific division winner rather than the team with the best record. The NL West champion would play the wild card, and the AL Central champion would play the AL Wild Card unless the two teams were in the same division.

ALDS1: Cleveland over NY Yankees (3-1) – The Yankees end up falling behind in the series early when manager Buck Showalter forgets that he can use his best relief pitcher on the road in a tie game in extra innings.

ALDS2: Chicago over Oakland (3-0) – The White Sox win their first playoff series in 77 years

NLDS1: Atlanta over San Francisco (3-0) – The Braves went 21-2 in NLDS play from 1995 to 2001 and this season would have been no different.

NLDS2: Montreal over Cincinnati (3-2) – Buoyed by raucous sellout crowds of hockey-starved Quebecers (due to the ongoing NHL lockout) for games 3-5 after falling down 0-2, the Expos come back and win three straight to advance to the NLCS for the first time since 1981.

ALCS: Chicago over Cleveland (4-2) – This series is mostly remembered for an incident in game 5 where young absent-minded baserunner Manny Ramirez forgot to run to 2ndbase on a would-be walkoff single in the 10th, keeping the game tied and allowing the White Sox to win in 12 innings in an incident forever known as “Manny’s Boner”.

NLCS: Montreal over Atlanta (4-2) – After losing the first two games at home, the Expos rally to win four straight after another unfortunate national anthem incident at game 3 in Atlanta where the Canadian flag was flown upside down….again.

World Series: Montreal over Chicago (4-2) – A costly error in game 6 by Julio Franco, playing 2ndbase in place of Joey Cora due to the lack of the DH, leads to a 5 run Montreal 3rdinning in the clincher. Canadian Larry Walker wins series MVP as the Expos become the third straight World Series winner from Canada.

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