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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Tuesday, May 25, 2021Primer Dugout (and link of the day) 5-25-2021Pittsburgh Press, May 25, 1921:
When I was a kid, my dad and I had season tickets for the indoor soccer teams in Cleveland and Canton. We had an understanding - if one of us was in the arena concourse and the ball found its way out there, we’d grab the ball and immediately run to the car. The other, upon noticing that the ball hadn’t been thrown back and the other person hadn’t returned, would head to the car and we’d make a getaway. This has nothing to do with baseball, but I had forgotten about it until just now. It never actually happened, but we were ready for our heist if the opportunity had arisen. Jefferson Manship (Dan Lee)
Posted: May 25, 2021 at 08:39 AM | 18 comment(s)
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1. Jefferson Manship (Dan Lee) Posted: May 25, 2021 at 08:41 AM (#6020718)C: Glenn Borgmann (5.6 WAR)
1B: Joe Judge (47.1 WAR)
2B/SP: Martin Dihigo (0 WAR)
3B: Dave Hollins (17.8 WAR)
SS: Miguel Tejada (47.1 WAR)
LF: Jason Kubel (4.1 WAR)
CF: Lip Pike (14.3 WAR)
RF: Scott Hairston (6.5 WAR)
SP: Bob Knepper (21.8 WAR)
SP: John Montefusco (19.9 WAR)
SP/center/GM: Chris Young (17.5 WAR)
SP: Bob Wicker (9.7 WAR)
RP: Don Liddle (5.0 WAR)
2B when Dihigo pitches: Todd Walker (10.5 WAR)
Manager: Jim Marshall
League President: Gene Budig
Umpires: Kerwin Danley, Adrian Johnson
Announcer: Lindsey Nelson
Beater of meat: Randall Simon
Fun name: Will Pennyfeather
Not that one or that one: Bobby Brown
Writer: W.P. Kinsella
From 1916-30, the Sens had pretty much just Judge play 1B to the tune of 8455 PAs.
From 1931-45, the Sens had pretty much just Kuhel play 1B to the tune of 8736 PAs.
That's 30 years with two guys, total about 75 WAR between them. DiMaggio-Mantle covered 1936-64 in CF (both around 7600 PA) excepting the war years and Mantle missing most of 63. There must be some other doubles (triples?) covering the same posiiton for the same team for a very long time but they aren't springing to mind.
Williams-Yaz-Rice in left for the Sox, a straight shot from 1940 to 1987, with only Teddy Ballgame's service years excluded. Somewhere well north of 200 WAR for the position.
Edit: And, though a lesser figure, you can toss in Greenwell, the fourth straight to handle the position who never played anywhere else and who took the run to 1995 while adding another 25 WAR.
1973 was Tommy Harper's other big year (4.8 WAR) and he got 138 LF starts. Interestingly enough, Harper had 257 starts at 3B before getting to Boston but they still preferred Yaz at 3B for those 32 starts.
Anyway, part of what makes Judge-Kuhel so "intriguing" is that both were good but not great players.
Greenwell tried to come back with Reds AA as player-coach.
Brooks Robinson was replaced as the Orioles' starting 3B by Doug DeCinces, who gave them a nice six-year run. That took them from 1958 through 1981, although obviously that's not really similar to Kuhel-Judge.
The White Sox have had Frank Thomas, Paul Konerko, and Jose Abreu start at 1B on opening day from 1991 through 2021, with a single exception (Greg Norton(!!!) in 1998, though Thomas was in at DH that day).
EDIT: Thomas played only 14 games at 1B that year; Norton played 79 and Wil Cordero(!!!) played 83.
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