Could draw some peak voter support

Would love to see his career play out minus that horrible ankle injury in 1999.

clearly the catcher on the all crazy team

hmmm, what would be that squad?

I dunno Harv. I always thought Daulton had catcher locked
Carlton has to be the ace

tora

no way. kendall from about 2007 on was a powderkeg

so jimmy piersall in center (sorry)

milton bradley in right i imagine

Bill "Spaceman" Lee, Rube Wadell in the rotation, Brian Wilson as closer.

joe charboneau fleshes out the outfield

Brian Wilson as closer.

But was the public persona and mound behavior all just an act? If so, he wouldn't be the first relief pitcher with an act. Anyone remember Al "The Mad Hungarian" Hrabosky? Heck, long before that, Ryne Duren had an act.

Before settling on an outfield, go to the New Historical Baseball Abstract and read the piece on Mike Donlin. Now that's some high-grade crazy. When I read that piece, I kept thinking of Dennis Rodman.

Kevin Mitchell, Carl Everett and Luke Scott could be in the outfield.

Would love to see his career play out minus that horrible ankle injury in 1999.

Lurker here: Kendall actually came back from the ankle very well, .320/.412/.470 in 152 games in 2000. He sustained a hand injury early in 2001, played the full season with it, and his power disappeared for good.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Bobo Newsom. He could slot right into that rotation.

Maybe just eccentric, but Julio Zuleta did some Pedro Cerrano type stuff.

He didn't play for long, but catcher Martin Bergen was definitely "crazy".

The all crazy team needs to be very heavily dead ball era.

jd

i feel a bit uncomfortable listing say a rube waddell. the guy wasn't crazy. he just had a real low i.q. by what we can determine.

He sustained a hand injury early in 2001, played the full season with it, and his power disappeared for good.

Specifically a torn tendon in his thumb. And the injury happened on opening day, when he tried to block a ball in the dirt, but it was the team's first season in PNC Park and they wanted him as a drawing card, so they let him try and play through it.

Brian Wilson is crazy in a reality show way.

Which is to say that he is not crazy at all. And that he is incredibly annoying.

no way. kendall from about 2007 on was a powderkeg

It was at times legitimately scary how deeply committed Kendall was to playing baseball. I am, to be honest, a little bit surprised that he isn't still playing semi-pro ball in some Third World country and plotting to work his way back up to the Show.

From a Calcaterra article;
"Retired Phillies catcher Darren Daulton believes in alchemy, auras, telepathy, energy transfers, astral planes, planetary ascension, and parallel universes. He believes that he had an had out of body experiences while playing at Wrigley Field one day. He believes that the universe is created and sustained by numerical synchronicities — the number 11 is particularly important in his life — and
that all matter is charged with extradimensional vibrational energy. He believes
that his moods have altered the weather before, that the pyramids were created by a lost
civilization — or possibly aliens — and that people with knowledge of the workings of the
universe will ascend to a higher plane of existence on Dec. 21, 2012, at 11:11 a.m."

Well, to be perfectly fair, lots of cosmologists believe in parallel universes. And doesn't string theory essentially posit that "all matter is charged with extradimensional vibrational energy"? And hasn't the entire Cubs franchise experienced a century of out of body experiences at Wrigley and at other locations on the North American continent? Is it so hard to believe that a visiting player might succumb to all those vibes?

I didn't know Kendall had written a book... did anyone read it? Is it any good?

Kendall is far and away my favourite player ever. We share a birthday (just one year apart) and he was the most enjoyable part of the late 90's early 00's Pirate teams. That guy had the reddest of asses and you never felt like he was mailing it in, ever.

A relevant clip about Kendall, just so you can get a feel for how he played.

Perhaps someone can find a youtube of the time Kendall blocked the plate with his face.

He was intense.