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Posted: April 18, 2021 at 11:28 PM | 11 comment(s)
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1. John Northey Posted: April 19, 2021 at 06:57 PM (#6014315)MLB really needs to find ways to fix the 'everyone doing the same thing' problem. From every batter trying to hit the ball a mile to very little base stealing we're in an era like the 50's where everyone is same old same old, just waiting for the 60's revolution to come again when stolen bases took over and more fun came into the game, peaking in the 80's when we had every team doing its own thing - from the Red Sox being a three true outcome team, to the Cardinals stealing every chance they got, to the Angels bunting every time they could, to the Jays never bunting. Two Niekro's around, multiple side arm pitchers (loved Mark Eichhorn for example), even a one armed pitcher (Jim Abbott - if you are too young to remember him look him up). Helped make me a fan even though I'm a stats guy - variety makes for fun.
Well these things usually kind of take care of themselves, don't they? If everyone is trying to do the same thing, some will be good at it, and others won't be, and the ones that won't be will have to figure out how to beat the other teams by taking a different approach.
Abbott has one hand.
had a colleague who tried a lead after Abbott's no-hitter for the Yankees that was something like:
"All across America, you could hear the sound of one hand clapping as Jim Abbott...."
that one was "spiked," in newspaper parlance.
not quite "The imperfect man pitched a perfect game today" re Don Larsen.
byline of Joe Trimble but widely said to have been the legendary Dick Young - having long finished his own story - helping out a panicked Trimble by sitting down at Trimble's typewriter, thinking for a moment, typing in the lead, and then turning it back over to Trimble.
(And yes, I know that this famous headline turned out to be likely apocryphal.)
I guess we all deal with the hand (ha! crack myself up) we're dealt, but Abbott and, to a lesser extent, that guy I played against, defy my imagination.
I read Abbott's autobiography a while back - I remember it being pretty good, and he comes across as more self-aware than most players. Granted, low bar there.
I totally missed he did get to hit - found video of a hit of his. I always thought he never did. so anyone hitting lower than 095/095/095 (190 OPS) is below the Abbott line? IE: a guy could out hit you with one hand on the bat.
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