FIRST! EVER! no they can’t take that away from me....

well, technically, we could delete the first post ever!

Scott Livingstone > Tom Brookens.

You’re right… career OPS+ of 86 versus Brookens’s 83.

Man, they were both pretty bad!

But Livingstone was a revelation after Chris Brown, Keith Moreland, and Torey Lovullo…

My 12 year old self though Scott would be the next Wade Boggs after he hit .300 his rookie year. Memories....

I have a friend who was a Mud Hens batboy when Livingstone was in Toledo.

Among the inside info I’ve received:
* Livingstone and Kevin Ritz were really cool guys.
* Kevin Mmahat was kind of a jerk, at least to the Toledo batboys.

I’d rather have Tom Brookens - he could fill in at 2B and SS in a pinch.

Some video game was based on the 1995 season - I wish I remember which one because in it, Scott Livingstone was the man.

Anyone play the old Tony LaRussa games?  I remember the Genesis version of 2 - It was based off of the 1992 season and since the game didn’t understand the concept of sample sizes when grading players, Dave Silvestri and Gerald Williams were unstoppable forces of nature.

Dan Szymborski - 27 April 2006 12:05 PM

I’d rather have Tom Brookens - he could fill in at 2B and SS in a pinch.

I remember him as being just awful with the Tribe, but it turns out he wasn’t all bad for a backup infielder.  OPS+ of 90 while backing up Baerga at third base in 1990.

Anyone play the old Tony LaRussa games?  I remember the Genesis version of 2 - It was based off of the 1992 season and since the game didn’t understand the concept of sample sizes when grading players, Dave Silvestri and Gerald Williams were unstoppable forces of nature.

I had the PC version of the LaRussa game based on ‘91.  Paul Sorrento would always hit like 70 home runs.

Do video games still haver these odd quirks? I remember winning the Hart and Art Ross with Paul DiPietro in NHL ‘93. Jarrod Skalde was also pretty unstoppable.

Here’s to the best Tigers start in years!!!!

Yeah, it was fun, wasn’t it?

Video games tend to be less quirky with this sort of thing nowaday - they’re certainly more cautious about how they rate player (the Dave Silverstri 12/12 power and hit rating from that aforementioned LaRussa game would never happen now).

In fact, the main reason I got into MLEs years ago and later projecting players was due to video game considerations.  I wanted to fix all the sample size players in Tony LaRussa for the PC, like ‘96 Rolen.