The SJ.com 2008 charts ... today!

Don't know why, but the name Jack Brohamer always makes me laugh.

 

I used to call one of my friends "broham." Still do, actually.

 

Dude, the '80 Indians were so damn bad. Out of nearly 6,000 at-bats, including walks, they hit 89 homers, and 23 of those were by IJAG's mustachioed crush, Joe Charbonneau

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CLE/1980.shtml

 

how'd that career turn out?

 

A little better, I think, than the Indians' 29th-round draft pick in '80: Jack Fimple, out of Humboldt State.

Not sure which is funnier: the name Fimple, or the fact the Indians drafted a dude from Humboldt.

At least they drafted Drabek that year.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?franch_ID=CLE&year_ID=1980

 

Looking more into the Indians' drafts of the 80s ... who was the scouting director, and what was he smoking?

1981
http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?franch_ID=CLE&year_ID=1981

1982
http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?franch_ID=CLE&year_ID=1982

1983
http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?franch_ID=CLE&year_ID=1983

1984 (Cory Snyder was a decent pick, but he never lived up to the hype)
http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?franch_ID=CLE&year_ID=1984

1985
http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?franch_ID=CLE&year_ID=1985

1986 (Swindell was a good pick)
http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?franch_ID=CLE&year_ID=1986

1987 (Joey Belle ... insert joke here)
http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?franch_ID=CLE&year_ID=1987

1988 (not one guy from rounds 12 to 58 accrued a single MLB stat)
http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?franch_ID=CLE&year_ID=1988

1989 (Thome might be their best pick ever)
http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?franch_ID=CLE&year_ID=1989

 

sidebar: snyder spent 4.5 years at the MLB level. after his career was over, he spent like another 10 years trying to catch on for a half year so he could get the pension. poor bastard never got the other half year in.

 

My attempts to move up the charts are succeeding.
I'm now on page 2.... closing in on full member status, just 56 posts away

 

Maybe the scouting director was a Humboldt State grad.

 

joe - didn't anyone tell you you had to have a sponsor to become a full member?

 

No :

 

it's like a three-week process. you might want to PM moddy.