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getting 2 BB's in 218 PAs will do that for ya
I remember him fondly. He was not a very good player, but he was fun to watch, and he seemed pleasant.
One specific little tidbit I remember (or perhaps misremember), as related by some TV announcer: When playing in left field, and the ball was not hit to him, he apparently had a habit of running down to third base to back it up for errant throws. Some other players poked fun at him for doing this, and asked why he always busted his ass down to third base. Confused by the question, he replied that he did it because that's what he's supposed to do.
Oscar Azocar was an hombre azucarado, a sweet man. Sorry he has died. Or as Ray DiPerna might say, "Never cared for him."
Azocar, along with Alvaro Espinoza, epitomized those bad early-90s Yankee teams in my mind, despite the fact that he only played 65 games for the franchise.
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Indeed. He's long been my go-to reference for the futility of the 1990 Yankees. He did break up a Tom Candiotti no-hitter, as I recall.
Mine is either the excitement over Hensley "Bam Bam' Meulens or Mel Hall being the team's big-hitting outfielder.
C'mon, you've got to link Meulens to Kevin Maas, the new M&M boys!
He was a slugging outfielder with limited defensive skills and an impressive jheri curl.
By the way, that's a great card of Azocar. He wasn't much of a major league player, but seemed like a fun-loving guy who was always ready to play hard.
I believe Hall lived in the Trump Tower during his time with the Yankees, dated a HS girl--I think he went to her prom--and had a panther for a brief period. The idea of him mocking Bernie Williams is hard to believe, though it was obviously true.
You know the old saying: "He who earns tens of millions of dollars more than Mel Hall, doesn't have a felony child sex abuse conviction, and is widely loved by Yankees fans laughs best." So suck it, Mel Hall.
What about Carney Lansford?
Luis Polonia adds a couple of months to the 1990 total. And Steve Sax confessed to killing a lot of people.
Jesse Barfield didn't go to jail himself, but adds to the sadness total.
Deion Sanders's mysterious relationships with college football players have not yet led to any jail time, but he was arrested for both fishing and assault.
He needed two cars because he hated to walk (career ISO D = .022).
"I no walk. He walk me" after his first major league walk.
He was probably right too. The guy who pulled it off (Vance Lovelace) walked 6 of the 17 batters he faced (and hit one) in what was for some reason his last year in the majors. I guess there's really not much call for a LOWGY.
I'm honestly not certain whether he or Manny Sanguillen had the biggest strike zone I've ever seen. Sanguillen could bloop anything he could reach for a single, but the major constraint in pitching to him was that the catcher had to at least be able to reach the pitch (maybe not even that if there was nobody on). One of the most amazing hitters I've ever seen. Not all that good maybe, but really amazing.
Or Honda Toyotaman?
yeah, fond memories of Manny tomahawking at anything within reach :)
RIP, Oscar.
This is the greatest post in the history of this website.
I can't vouch for the exact species of big cat-- panther, tiger, leopard-- but I do remember hearing that Mel Hall caused a commotion one day by walking it into the Yankees' clubhouse on a leash.
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As for Azocar, that is a cool baseball card.
A bold claim
If Hall and Polonia had only slept with co-workers they could have landed guest slots on ESPN's "Baseball Tonight".
And of course there's Tacks Latimer. Some guy name Daly wrote about him on SABR's site.
For those guys to sleep with co-workers, they'd have had to be running a lemonade stand.
asked why he always busted his ass down to third base. Confused by the question, he replied that he did it because that's what he's supposed to do.
I have no memory of this, but god bless him for it.
In some ways I loved those c. 1990 Yankees more than the current ones.
Lovelace also inspired a classic Bill James line: "Wilder than a truckload of starving kangaroos."
Ah, those 1989-1990 Yankees. I grew up with the Yankees kinda sucking and there was something kinda endearing about that. Alvaro Espinoza, Steve Sax, Mike Pagliorulo, Ed Whitson, Andy Hawkins, Wade Johnston, Luis Polonia, Dan Pasqua, Don Slaught, Cecilio Guante, John Candelaria, Claudell Washington, Randy Velarde - good times. And Sam Militello and Hensley Meulens were supposed to save them all.
It was actually pretty reasonable, since Mel Hall was on the Yankees at the time.
Incidentally, wasn't Mel Hall also the guy who put his wife and mistress up at the same hotel during spring training, resulting in a poolside brawl?
His was my favorite name to hear Bob Sheppard announce.
Given that Martin actually had bigamy charges laid against him, it's certainly possible that I'm mixing memories of the two players.
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