06-15-2005, 12:30 PM
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All Star Starter
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Grand Island, NE
Posts: 1,117
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Originally Posted by attackemu
While we're telling stories, I had a 37 year old, four time Rhoden Award(best pitcher) winner in my solo league who tore his rotator cuff in June, effectively ending his career with 199 wins. This guy wasn't a hall of famer, too short a peak, but he was a sentimental favourite of mine, and had dominated the league in four different years.
The first off-season after I got 6.5, he returned from surgery and retirement, presumably to get his 200th win at the age of 39. Opening day, he went eight solid innings to pick it up.

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Interesting . . . Is a player who's close to a milestone more likely to comeback? (It would make some sense, as both of those features were added in 6.5)
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