Running 2017 MLB regular season thread

MLB defenses are pretty good at handling pressure.

I mean, it depends on which Juan Pierre you are talking about and how literally you mean 9 of him.

At roughly his averagenes, assuming nine of him and an average pitching staff? You'd probably lose 90 games but you wouldn't be the worst team in history, assuming four of him could learn to play a vaguely acceptable infield.

 

No one beats Tris Speaker from Tex?

Yaz from NY? What irony.

Rabbit Marranville/Mass? (I remember Rabbit was a helluva hitter on the arcade RBI Baseball!! Man I loved that game)

 

Leave it to Johan Camargo to go on the DL before he could be Channel 17.

 

Jay Bruce traded to Indians for minor-league reliever.

http://nypost.com/2017/08/09/mets-trade-jay-bruce-to-indians/

 

I love how you have Hall of Famers, then you have guys like Duke Sims, Marty Cordova and Josh Phelps.
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The one that I find surprising is Paul Hines in Virginia. He retired in 1891 with 2,133 hits (yes, I looked it up). You'd think someone would have gotten more hits from a state as large as that one in the past 126 years.

 

A healthy David Wright would be passing him right about now.

 

Justin Upton and David Wright might each have a shot at passing Hines. Virginia probably has a better resume producing pitchers than hitters.

 

Andy Messersmith weeps.

 

Wright won't get there now. He's at 1,777, but is 34 and has 75 hits since the start of 2015. He's done.

Ryan Zimmerman, on the other hand, is at 1,622 and has undergone a career Renaissance at 32.

Upton (1,421 at age 29) could get there too, but he seems like the type of hitter who falls off a cliff in his early 30s.

 

Zimmerman grew up in Virginia, but was born in North Carolina.

 

Speaking of ....

I was on the verge of posting a, "it seems like Zimmerman has regressed to the mean," and then he went out last night and was 4-for-4 with two dongs and five RBIs.

 

If Brantley and Chisenhall return from the DL, I'm not sure Terry Francona has enough places on the diamond to put all his hitters. I guess that's a good problem to have.