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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Monday, December 21, 2020Primer Dugout (and link of the day) 12-21-2020Bridgeport Times, December 21, 1920:
Hornsby spent another six seasons with the Cardinals, so I imagine he wasn’t on the trading block at this point. The Cardinals were smart to keep him around; Hornsby led the league in batting average, OBP, and slugging every year between 1920-1925, not to mention hitting .400 three times during that span, leading the majors in home runs twice, leading the league in hits four times, leading the majors in hits twice, leading the league in doubles four times, averaging 14 triples per season, and leading the majors in WAR four times. tl;dr: Rogers Hornsby was good at baseball. Jefferson Manship (Dan Lee)
Posted: December 21, 2020 at 11:28 AM | 18 comment(s)
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1. Jefferson Manship (Dan Lee) Posted: December 21, 2020 at 11:30 AM (#5995319)C: Josh Gibson (0 WAR)
1B: Dave Kingman (17.2 WAR)
2B: Freddy Sanchez (15.9 WAR)
3B: Elliott Maddox (14.9 WAR)
SS: D'Angelo Jimenez (8.1 WAR)
LF: Khris Davis (11.1 WAR)
CF: Andy Van Slyke (41.3 WAR)
RF: Cy Williams (37.2 WAR)
SP: Bob Rush (36.0 WAR)
SP: LaTroy Hawkins (17.8 WAR)
SP: Danny Duffy (17.6 WAR)
SP: Joaquin Andujar (16.1 WAR)
SP: Mike Clevinger (13.2 WAR)
RP: Tom Henke (22.9 WAR)
RP: Dustin Hermanson (11.3 WAR)
RP: Roger McDowell (10.1 WAR)
Fun names: Nino Bongiovanni, Heinie Heltzel, Royce Ring, Asher Wojciechowski
Not that one: Joe Harrington
Not that one: Jack Daniels
Worst pitcher to throw a perfect game?: Philip Humber
Here's a link to a pretty funny "video game" featuring him: http://www.savethecloser.com/Easley/
Need another "Not that one": John Mayberry. The original would have fit the power theme nicely.
Elliott Maddox finished 8th in MVP voting in 1974, with a 5.4 WAR year.
Both a dead-ball king and a live-ball one too. Led the NL with 12 in '16, 15 in '20, 41 in '23, and 30 in '27.
EDIT: And the "not that one" Mayberry is the "son of that one" which seems not quite right for "not that one" but worth a shout out. Given Jr made it to 1500 PA and positive WAR gives them a reasonably high spot on all-time father-son lists.
An unusually strong pitching staff.
Look up December 20th's Birthday Team, though -- player for player, it might be the most solid one of them all.
I know there are at least a couple with 10-WAR careers at every position, including the pitchers.
The Dec. 20 team has, I guess, Augie Ojeda (career 3.3 WAR) at SS.
The rotation is OK at the top, with James Shields (30.7) and Jose DeLeon (17.5), but its 4th-best starting pitcher is Bill Laskey (5.2), who had one good season with the '80s Giants.
And no reliever born in the 20th century has even as many as 5 career saves, unless you count Paul Moskau, who was primarily a starter (in fact he'd be this team's fifth starter) and who had 5 career saves. The most saves for a primary reliever is 4, by Marc Valdez (-1.0 WAR in 122 relief appearances).
The best thing about the Dec. 20 team is it has a strong 1B (Cecil Cooper), 3B (David Wright), and RF (Oscar Gamble), thereby denying Aubrey Huff a starting position.
Seven of the eight offensive positions do have players with at least 22 WAR, so yes, that does have to be pretty rare.
Bob Rush is arguably the most anonymous pitcher who has made it to #1 in the starting pitcher rankings that I post about intermittently. He had his best years (including reaching #1) with the Cubs, and I had never heard of him before doing the rankings despite being a lifelong Cubs fan and having read multiple books on Cubs history. (The '50s were fairly short on great starting pitchers, but Rush was also genuinely good and was just hidden behind a lousy team.)
I'm amazed Rush ever made it to No. 1. He had a few good years, but never more than two in a row. When did he reach No. 1, and how long was he there?
Nine days in 1955, from 6/26 to 6/30 and again from 9/21 to 9/24. 1955 has the lowest score for a year-end #1 pitcher to date; the spot went to Billy Pierce, who had an excellent year by rate but was also coming off of a comparatively lackluster '54 season and only made 26 starts.
I sorta vaguely recall Rush still being mentioned occasionally in Cub land in the early 70s. Maybe he or another old-timer stopped by the booth or Boudreau or Brickhouse were reminiscing. Doubt I could have told you then anything other than he'd been a Cub. Checking the SABR bio, I see he went to Mesa when he retired so maybe he was just a regular at Cubs spring. Looking at his stats now, his 1950 musta really been something. Just a 113 ERA+ but a league-leading 0.4 HR/9 (in Wrigley), 4.3 WAR, made the AS team ... and went 13-20. I bet he was thrilled.
Maybe you're conflating Bob Rush with 1970 White Sox radio announcers Bob Elson and Red Rush...
Yes and no. Hornsby led more separate categories, but Ruth was far more dominant where he led. Hornsby led in HR a couple of times, Ruth out-homered every team in the league a couple of times.
Good point. The top-10 AL WAA leaderboard is Ruth, Heilmann, Speaker, Gehrig, Cobb, Collins, Ken Williams, Goslin, Sewell, Simmons. NL is Hornsby, Frisch, Bancroft, Waner, Fournier, Cuyler, Wilson, Bottomley, Wheat. The 9th place AL guy would be 3rd in the NL.
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