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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Friday, August 24, 2018Posnanski: Baseball 100 RulesIn this era of reboots, it was perhaps inevitable that Joe Posnanski would take another crack at the 100 greatest players in major league history.
Nearly all of the series is to be pay walled, but Zach Greinke is No. 100 on the list.
No. 100 on this list is Duane Kuiper.
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Posted: August 24, 2018 at 08:01 AM | 319 comment(s)
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Just for fun, try learning how to spell.
Par for the course for Posnanski.
But it's one of the reasons I didn't pay for his site. I find some of his stuff interesting (like this project) and others not so. So although I'm very interested in the Baseball 100, I was wary of essentially paying for that and then going through one—or many—of his dry spells while he writes about his love of television commercials.
According to his post here, his plan was to do two of those posts a week, which would get us through the list in a year. Well, he started on August 18, so we're 37 weeks into the relaunch...and he's done 22 names. Maybe it's going to pick back up again. But it's Posnanski, so I highly doubt it. I think he's going to go through a spurt like he's doing now, then another dry spell, and hopefully if we're lucky it won't take so long he needs to relaunch it again.
I get it, it's his site, his rules. But like I said, it's one of the reasons I hesitated to pay for his new site.
segregation then, segregation now, segregation forever!
#sigh
#sigh
false equivalencies then, false equivalencies now, false equivalencies forever!
#same old same old
SP: Greinke, Santana, Vance, Verlander, Mussina, Niekro, Jenkins
RP: Rivera
c: Fisk, Rodriguez, Carter
1b: Mize, McCovey, Thomas
2b: Gehringer, Whitaker, Sandberg, Frisch
Biggio,
3b: Santo
ss: Utley, Trammell, Ozzie, Jeter
lf: J. Jackson
cf: Beltran
rf: Gwynn
Lots of infielders, lots of recent players.
100. Greinke, Gehringer, Fisk, Santana, Utley, Vance, Gwynn, 93. (tie) Trammell/Whitaker, Verlander, 91. Joe Jackson
90. Mize, McCovey, Beltran, Mussina, Sandberg, I. Rodriguez, Ozzie, Frisch, Rivera, 81. Thomas
80. Gary Carter, Niekro, Santo, Jeter, Jenkins, L. Walker, B. Robinson, Greenberg, Roberts, 71. Ichiro
70. Ryan, Yount, 68. Marichal
Still just six players who I never saw play live, plus Roberts who was just hanging on in the mid-Sixties.
The first 34 players break down into two plausible teams:
100.-85.:
C: Fisk, I. Rodriguez
1B: McCovey, Mize
IF: Sandberg, Trammell, Whitaker, Utley, Gehringer
OF: Beltran, J. Jackson, Gwynn
SP: Mussina, Verlander, Vance, Santana, Greinke
84.-68.:
C: Carter
1B: Greenberg, Thomas
IF: B. Robinson, Jeter, Santo, Frisch, Ozzie
OF: Ichiro, Yount, L. Walker
SP: Ryan, Roberts, Jenkins, Niekro, Marichal
RP: Rivera
My intuitiion is that the first team is probably a match for the second, if everyone is playing at peak level.
Just passed the anniversary of the choice of Greinke at No. 100.
The overall pace of selections points to a revelation of No. 1 in July, 2021. The pace sustained during 2019 would push that back to December, 2021. The August pace (1) projects to a conclusion in early 2025. Mike Trout might be a reasonable No. 1 by then.
well, actually 'miniscule' is a variant that has been around since the late 19th century, and generally accepted. if i was copy editing, i'd probably want to go with 'minuscule', but if the writer insisted it's okay, i'd leave it to the head of the desk. IIRC, we generally wanted to stick with the first spelling in whatever dictionary we were relying on. i suspect posnanski gets a light edit.
maybe it just wasn't meant to be.
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