Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Eric Knott: Surviving Professional Baseball in the Steroid Era
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posted on February 26, 2013 at 11:07 PM by Der_K to diamondbacks, expos, minor leagues, peds, writing worth reading
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At Hardball Talk, Calcaterra said of this B-Pro guest piece by former journeyman pitcher Eric Knott:
We should spill way less ink about who we think “the real Home Run King” is — as if that matters — and think way harder about those frequent minor league suspensions and what they mean to the people who are faced with the choice to take dangerous drugs or wind up out of baseball.
Against that backdrop is this excellent column from Eric Knott. Knott pitched 11 years in the minors and ...
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1. Rants Mulliniks (formerly Cold Prosimian) posted on June 15, 2012 at 08:03 AM # hit 0 | hit 02 homers and 6 rbi in a doubleheader split. i remember that because the expo lineup was just so ugly except for vlad.
Wait, don't. I don't mean to cast aspersions on his intelligence (though it's hard not to take the Pedro line otherwise). I don't "know" him at all, apart from his big dumb swing and his big dumb arm. Those don't mean that he's a big dumb guy.
2. He hit the longest homer I've ever seen in person (502 ft, 7/28/03, ATL@MTL).
3. I remember seeing him in the Sally league, making a point of going to games when he or Andruw Jones would play. It was self evident that they'd make the bigs, do so quickly, and have success.
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