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Hall of Merit— A Look at Baseball's All-Time Best
Sunday, December 10, 2006
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1. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: December 10, 2006 at 10:39 PM (#2257390)One possible comp that may come to mind eventually: Dwight Gooden.
Yeah, I was thinking about Doc when I made my post, OCF. Gooden was better at his peak, though.
He was a superstar quarterback in high school and preferred football to baseball, but few major college programs were recruiting black quarterbacks in the late 1960s. Timeline him forward and he has 0 WAR b/c he's the next Lamar Jackson.
He was a terrible hitter. In roughly a full "season" (618 career PA), he slashed .104/.186/.145 with 271 strikeouts.
He and Rick Reuschel were born less than three months apart in 1949. If Blue had emulated Reuschel's late-1980s second act, he'd be in the Hall of Merit too. Alas, cocaine is a helluva drug...
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