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Thursday, December 06, 2018
El Paso Herald, December 6, 1918: President Ebbets, of the Brooklyn club, is one who says there isn’t a thing in the talk of the St. Louis Cardinals being moved to Kansas City, and probably what he says will be endorsed by seven other National league club presidents…while [Ebbets] complimented Kansas City as a live burg he made it clear that it is not to his mind of major league caliber, even if the geographical location were not all against it. The burden of transportation is enough as it is, said Ebbets, without lengthening the trips necessary.
The times have changed, of course, but 100 years later Kansas City has a big league team and Brooklyn doesn’t. I guess the Mets play 10-15 miles from the former site of Ebbets Field, so there’s that.
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1. Jefferson Manship (Dan Lee) Posted: December 06, 2018 at 10:10 AM (#5794526)C: Gus Niarhos (3.1 WAR)
1B: Stan Hack (52.6 WAR)
2B: Tony Lazzeri (50.0 WAR)
3B: Harry Wolverton (11.4 WAR)
SS/Manager: Larry Bowa (22.8 WAR)
LF: Gary Ward (17.7 WAR)
CF: Adam Eaton (17.4 WAR)
RF: Lance Blankenship (6.7 WAR)
SP: Kevin Appier (54.7 WAR)
SP: Steve Bedrosian (14.6 WAR)
SP: Jose Contreras (13.2 WAR)
SP: Mike Parrott (2.0 WAR)
SP: Kevin Campbell (0.5 WAR)
RP: Jason Bulger (0.7 WAR)
Disastrous MLB debut: Mike Mayers (-1.3 WAR)
Fun names: Tun Berger, Turkey Tyson, Adam Hyzdu, Hack Eibel, Hap Morse
Tragic story: Jay Dahl (-0.4 WAR)
Umpire: Jocko Conlan
iwakuma to yomiuri
That's a lot for a guy with one decent year in the last 4.
Still only 2 of last 4, 3 of last 5, since he didn't pitch at all in 2017 and had a 4.98 FIP in 2016.
I guess that's one potential trading piece off the table.
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