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Twins alert on the Grid.

- Slick. (0.09%)
- WS Catcher (0.4%)
- Side arm reliever (0.1%)

I was pretty stuck on the Mariners line though and could not think of anyone really obscure so, still only had 65%.
 

Ope3 said:
Twins alert on the Grid.

- Slick. (0.09%)
- WS Catcher (0.4%)
- Side arm reliever (0.1%)

I was pretty stuck on the Mariners line though and could not think of anyone really obscure so, still only had 65%.
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I did:
Overweight veteran starter who only lasted 37 innings and almost a 7.00 ERA before the Twins cut ties with him in 2007
Slick-fielding first baseman from the early 2000's who went on to win a world series in Boston
Canadian reliever from the same era as your guy, known for his thick goatee
 


Ope3 said:
Twins alert on the Grid.

- Slick. (0.09%)
- WS Catcher (0.4%)
- Side arm reliever (0.1%)

I was pretty stuck on the Mariners line though and could not think of anyone really obscure so, still only had 65%.
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Got a 21 today. One of my best.
 

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It's not technically cheating, but for some reason, I have started getting reels of people opening old wax packs on my Facebook feed. The other day, some guy pulled an Orioles Jeff Reboulet card. I banked in my mind that he was also a Twin. Couple days later, the stars align and he's good for 0.5%.
 

Breakin' The Plane said:
It's not technically cheating, but for some reason, I have started getting reels of people opening old wax packs on my Facebook feed. The other day, some guy pulled an Orioles Jeff Reboulet card. I banked in my mind that he was also a Twin. Couple days later, the stars align and he's good for 0.5%.
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Totally fair.
 





Ope3 said:
I'm stumped on that one.

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Note to self, in addition to have < 3.00 ERA for both the Twins & Angels, Corbett also would have worked for the O's-Halos combo. I was unaware he had a brief stint in Baltimore.
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Was your guy Pat Neshek? If not then yeah my comment wouldn’t make sense.

Anyway mine was Jesse Crain
 

My April streak ended today-Cubs no hitter. I’d been able to roll pretty good luck throughout the month and I was thwarted by one of the oldest franchises going—albeit one with a paucity of no-hitters. Onto May!
 

Gophers1992 said:
Was your guy Pat Neshek? If not then yeah my comment wouldn’t make sense.

Anyway mine was Jesse Crain
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Ahh, I get it. No, mine was Doug Corbett, I was way too vague, from the early 80s.
 

coolhandgopher said:
My April streak ended today-Cubs no hitter. I’d been able to roll pretty good luck throughout the month and I was thwarted by one of the oldest franchises going—albeit one with a paucity of no-hitters. Onto May!
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Bummer.

Ken Holtzman was at the top of my mind, because unfortunately he passed away earlier this week and it was mentioned in the obit I read. I'm not sure I would have thought of him otherwise.

If not, I also had Jake Arrieta to fall back on. I just happened to be in Chicago when he threw one and was watching it on TV with my relatives.
 




Timberwolves alert today and a fun trip down memory lane:
-our first 20 ppg player
-Croatian big man
-The Professor (who was more or less adjunct by the time he made it to the Wolves)
 

Not really heartbreaking because of my 2 previous mistakes in April, but I messed up Mariners/Rookie of the Year. I used Ichiro in the M's/Marlins combo because I thought I was safe going with either Junior or ARod. Turns out neither won the award.

It sorta balanced out though on the Marlins<3.00 ERA. I took a shot on Livan Hernandez, knowing he had a stellar rookie year in '97 when they went to the World Series. He actually was 3.18 that season en route to a 9-3 record. However, '96 he pitched 1 game/3 innings of shut out ball. It counts.
 
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This is a day to feast on MLB grid, especially with the Twins featured. I was able to use former Twins for the entirety of the Angels row also.
 

coolhandgopher said:
This is a day to feast on MLB grid, especially with the Twins featured. I was able to use former Twins for the entirety of the Angels row also.
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I was able to get an Overall Rarity score of 5%, including my 3 Twins (including 1 Senator) at 0.24%.

I will share later on.
 

Ope3 said:
I was able to get an Overall Rarity score of 5%, including my 3 Twins (including 1 Senator) at 0.24%.

I will share later on.
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At the moment, the cumulative Rarity Score has actually dropped to 4%

Top Row LF - CF - RF

Halos - Disco Danny Ford - 0.2% / Darrell Miller (older bro of Reggie & Cheryl) 0.02% / Winnie 1%
Cubbies - Ralph Kiner 0.2% / Lou Brock 0.6% / Keith Moreland / 2%
Twinks - Sofield 0.06% / Downtown Darrell Brown 0.06% / The Big Train 0.09%

Seems like serendipity that somehow Keith Moreland (2%) is the most common on a list that includes 4 HoFers.
 
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Ope3 said:
At the moment, the cumulative Rarity Score has actually dropped to 4%

Top Row LF - CF - RF

Halos - Disco Danny Ford - 0.2% / Darrell Miller (older bro of Reggie & Cheryl) 0.02% / Winnie 1%
Cubbies - Ralph Kiner 0.2% / Lou Brock 0.6% / Keith Moreland / 2%
Twinks - Sofield 0.06% / Downtown Darrell Brown 0.06% / The Big Train 0.09%

Seems like serendipity that somehow Keith Moreland (2%) is the most common on a list that includes 4 HoFers.
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My Twins line was: John Moses (.05%), Willie Norwood (.009%) and Steve Brye (.01%)

For the Angels, here were my Twins alums: Jimmie Hall (.01%), Ken Landreux (.01%) and Papa Ron Jackson (.06%)--I have to admit, I checked Jackson's fielding stats before entering his name, as I had a glimmer of a memory that he had some outfield spot starts in his career.

No Twins alums for the Cubs line, and I won't tell you how long I spent mining my memory of my old Topps collection from the late '70s/early '80s, but here's my line:
Mel Hall (.1%), Jerry Mumphrey (.1%) and Carmen Fanzone (he of the incredible mustache from the beautiful '75 Topps set) (at .02%). Fanzone was another "double check"--otherwise Moreland would have been my guy--not too many memorable Cubs from the late '70s/early '80s.
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coolhandgopher said:
My Twins line was: John Moses (.05%), Willie Norwood (.009%) and Steve Brye (.01%)

For the Angels, here were my Twins alums: Jimmie Hall (.01%), Ken Landreux (.01%) and Papa Ron Jackson (.06%)--I have to admit, I checked Jackson's fielding stats before entering his name, as I had a glimmer of a memory that he had some outfield spot starts in his career.

No Twins alums for the Cubs line, and I won't tell you how long I spent mining my memory of my old Topps collection from the late '70s/early '80s, but here's my line:
Mel Hall (.1%), Jerry Mumphrey (.1%) and Carmen Fanzone (he of the incredible mustache from the beautiful '75 Topps set) (at .02%). Fanzone was another "double check"--otherwise Moreland would have been my guy--not too many memorable Cubs from the late '70s/early '80s.
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Under 1% total. Wow, hats off.
 

Ope3 said:
Under 1% total. Wow, hats off.
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It's so random--as you said, who could have predicted Moreland would have been your high water mark with 4 HOF'ers in the mix? Once Jimmie Hall and Landreaux fell into place with such low numbers, I devoted a ridiculous amount of time to the Ron Jackson & Carmen Fanzone squares.
 

Living overseas has made flipping on the TV and catching sports highlights a challenging endeavor, so my subscription to Apple TV+ has been a nice add with their daily highlights--it's strange packaging, as they just run a bunch of highlights, you have no idea when any particular team's highlights will be coming, they don't give you any summary of which team won, who was the winning pitcher, home runs, etc, etc, but hey, it's something and it's easy and my boys have gotten in the habit of asking for a little baseball highlights before heading off to sleep, which I certainly appreciate.

The whole point of this paragraph is to make note that recently I've seen two Twin alums pop up who might fall in line with the great Twins for the purposes of the Grid, next to luminaries such as Jeff Reboulet, LaTroy Hawkins, Jesse Orosco, Denny Neagle, et al.

Robbie Grossman: 7 teams--Twins, Astros, Tigers, Athletics, Rangers, Braves, and White Sox

Jake Cave: 3 teams (one to watch)--Twins, Phillies, Rockies--can't believe he's only 31 years old--seemed like he was with the Twins for fifteen years. Funny enough, the minor leaguer the Twins traded for him, Luis Gil, has found himself in the rotation for the Yankees this year at age 26. He doesn't look like a world beater, but he's also getting starts for a first place team, so good on him.
 

coolhandgopher said:
My April streak ended today-Cubs no hitter. I’d been able to roll pretty good luck throughout the month and I was thwarted by one of the oldest franchises going—albeit one with a paucity of no-hitters. Onto May!
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I dodged a bullet already on A's Gold Glove winners today.

I took a flier Rickey, had an extreme low level of confidence.
 

My quest for a perfect May is done.

Hard to fathom that Kirk Gibson never played in the Mid-Summer Classic as a Detroit Tiger. Seriously?!? Actually he never appeared in an All Star game, period. Wow.
 
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Ope3 said:
My quest for a perfect May is done.

Hard to fathom that Kirk Gibson never played in the Mid-Summer Classic as a Detroit Tiger. Seriously?!? Actually he never appeared in an All Star game, period. Wow,
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You made it further than me-I was done in by the D-Backs/Blue Jays back on the 5th.
 

coolhandgopher said:
You made it further than me-I was done in by the D-Backs/Blue Jays back on the 5th.
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It's a fickle game, I skated on the D-Backs/Jays using the Edwin Jackson cheat code guess as I didn't think (correctly) LaTroy Hawkins had a stint in Arizona.

Today sent packing using Gibson, instead of Whitaker, Trammel, Morris, Verlander et al.
 

Ope3 said:
It's a fickle game, I skated on the D-Backs/Jays using the Edwin Jackson cheat code guess as I didn't think (correctly) LaTroy Hawkins had a stint in Arizona.

Today sent packing using Gibson, instead of Whitaker, Trammel, Morris, Verlander et al.
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You know who's a sneaky surprising Tiger All-Star? 11x catcher Bill Freehan. Years ago I was looking through some statistics or baseball cards and thought, 'G'damn, someone named Bill Freehan locked down the catcher spot in All-Star games through the '60s into the '70s.' 10 consecutive years! Trammell and Whitaker combined had 11 appearances. (I suppose you could say, Trammell, Whitaker, and Kirk Gibson combined ;-)).

It is crazy to think Gibson never made an All Star game, ever. He has to be at the top of the list of best players never to play in an All-Star game.
 

coolhandgopher said:
You know who's a sneaky surprising Tiger All-Star? 11x catcher Bill Freehan. Years ago I was looking through some statistics or baseball cards and thought, 'G'damn, someone named Bill Freehan locked down the catcher spot in All-Star games through the '60s into the '70s.' 10 consecutive years! Trammell and Whitaker combined had 11 appearances. (I suppose you could say, Trammell, Whitaker, and Kirk Gibson combined ;-)).

It is crazy to think Gibson never made an All Star game, ever. He has to be at the top of the list of best players never to play in an All-Star game.
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Al Kaline, had a whopping 18 All Star appearances. Other Tiger stalwarts:

Willie Horton - 4
Mickey Lolich - 3
Denny McLain - 3
 


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