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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Sunday, July 31, 2022Emotional Will Clark has No. 22 retired by SF Giants: ‘This is my Hall of Fame’
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Posted: July 31, 2022 at 10:46 PM | 22 comment(s)
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1. FernandoPoplar Posted: August 01, 2022 at 08:45 AM (#6089156)“Well, just sure as hell don’t write any of your own term papers.”
My guess is he's angry. But that would be my guess about any subject and Jack Clark: steroid users, hard-sell luxury car dealers, pitchers who struck him out, rainbows, etc.
I think I'd say after the 1991 season (age 27) where he had finished his 4th season of the last 5 where he placed in the top five for MVP.
Also, why did he retired after the 2000 season? He was 36 years old, had been traded to St. Louis at the deadline, and then went bananas:
51 games
197 PAs
15 doubles
12 HRs
45 RBIs
22/24 BB/K
.345/.426/.655 slash line
167 OPS+
Traded straight up by Baltimore for Jose Leon.
https://vault.si.com/vault/1990/05/28/will-clark-giants-1990
Kevin McReynolds enters the room.
But a great hitter. And "The Thrill is Gone" on his answering machine was a great early-career touch. Good for him.
The best comp to that is "Larry Walker with more in-season durability and, therefore, 1,000 more PA at his career rate" - an obvious Hall of Famer.
I mean ... I suppose. OK. Whatever.
(*) Thrill in about 1100 extra ABs -- 3700 to 2600.
I think it's because of Donruss
Will Clark, Barry Bonds, Barry Larkin, John Kruk, Jose Caneeco, Wally Joyner, Danny Tartabull, Ruben Sierra, Todd Worrell, Mark Eichorn (who I forgot how awesome he was that year, a time when people didn't strike out a guy an inning: 69 games, 157 IP, 166/45 K/BB, 14-6, 1.72 ERA, .955 WHIP...he finished third in ROY behind Canseco and Joyner).
Not to mention being a pretty stand-up dude. IIRC, Jimy Williams had offered to pitch him in enough games down the stretch to get him to 162 innings to qualify for the ERA title (would have bumped Clemens to 2nd place at 2.48), and Eichhorn said he didn't want to win it that way.
For whatever reason I've always had Wally Joyner and Will Clark in the same boat.
Same here. Joyner was kind of a poor man's Will Clark. An All Star and power hitter for a couple of years, then stuck around for a long time as an above average hitter for a while. He was underrated as a 1B without big power numbers during the sillyball era. Clark was obviously better for longer, but there was a similarity.
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