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February 16, 2012

Gary Carter career highlights

The baseball world learned Thursday the sad news of the passing of baseball Hall of Famer Gary Carter. The former catcher was only 53 years old when brain cancer claimed him.

Any time a person dies it is first and foremost a personal tragedy. Others can eulogize the man far better than I can. What I can do is provide a retrospective to his career. This is something I’ve done in the past here at THT when someone passes on.

Below is a list of Gary Carter’s career highlights. The list includes the greatest and most memorable games he participated in, as well as his personal best and worst moments. Also included are some odd or unusual or memorable moments he happened to be on hand for.

In chronological order:
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Posted by: Chris Jaffe

January 23, 2012

Career highlights: Orlando Cabrera

A fewdays ago, longtime shortstop Orlando Cabrera announced he’s retiring from baseball after 15 seasons.

When news like this happens, it’s natural to look back on a player’s career, and for me that means putting together a list of career highlights. This list includes the greatest and most memorable games Cabrera played in, his personal bests (and some worsts), as well as some oddities he was on hand for and great moments by other players that occurred in games in which he participated.


Cabrera in his element - fielding the ball.

Basically, it’s a list of Orlando Cabrera’s best “I was there for that game.” Here they are, in order:

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Posted by: Chris Jaffe

January 14, 2012

Is there an asterisk in Brandon’s future?

Doing a little research in preparation for doing the comments on San Francisco Giants players in this year's THT Forecasts (yes, Greg, I will make the deadline!), I stumbled across a nugget of very interesting trivia.

Brandon Belt put together the following batting line in his partial major league season with the Giants in 2011:

     G    PA    AB     R     H    2B    3B    HR   RBI    BB    SO    BA   OBP   SLG   OPS
    63   209   187    21    42     6     1     9    18    20    57  .225  .306  .412  .718

And another player in a partial major league season from many years ago put up this line:

     G    PA    AB     R     H    2B    3B    HR   RBI    BB    SO    BA   OBP   SLG   OPS
    51   202   182    26    41     5     1     9    27    17    33  .225  .287  .412  .699

Belt's was about as close to an exact replica of the earlier one as practically possible.

Do you know who that second player was?
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Posted by: Steve Treder

January 03, 2012

Don Mueller career highlights

Last week former New York Giants outfielder Don Mueller died at age 84.

His playing days predate a large majority of our readership at THT, but he had a nice career for himself, almost entirely with the New York Giants. The right fielder was a career .296 hitter, albeit without tremendous power or many walks.

In fact, he was the consummate contact hitter. He was so good at poking balls through holes he earned the nickname “Mandrake the Magician.” In 4,594 career plate appearances, he had only 167 walks and 146 strikeouts. That’s 313 walks plus strikeouts in a full 12-year career. Adam Dunn had 306 walks and strikeouts in the 2006 season alone.

Others can eulogize the man better than I can. Here, I’ll just review his career highlights. The list below contains his personal bests (or worst) performances, the greatest and most important games he took part in, and some of the oddities he was on hand for, as well as great moments by others. I've done this before for other recently departed baseball players.

So here it goes:

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Posted by: Chris Jaffe

November 03, 2011

Matty Alou career highlights

Recently, the world heard the sad news that former major league outfielder and 1966 batting title champion Matty Alou died at age 72.

The main tragedy is the loss of the person. Others can speak of that loss better than I (including THT's Bruce Markusen). What I can do is a career retrospective, some career highlights.

The list includes several types of games. There are the most important games he appeared in, some of the greatest games he saw, his personal highlights, some lowlights, and some of the stranger and more unusual things Alou was on hand for.

Here they are, divided up by teams he played for:
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Posted by: Chris Jaffe


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