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Old 02-20-2008, 06:26 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by PotatoPeeler View Post
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Is there anyone who deserves his name on a line of baseball cleats less than David Ortiz? Frank Thomas maybe? How the hell do you even market these?

Announcer: Now you can wear the same cleats David Ortiz wears when he's... ummmm.... walking to the plate.
Extra Bases (excluding Home Runs) 2007

Granderson - 84
Rollins - 78
Holliday - 62
Ramirez - 60
Reyes - 60
Utley - 58
Rios - 57
Uggla - 55
Cano - 55
Crawford - 55
Ordonez - 54
Ortiz - 54

JD Drew - 38
Manny - 35
A. Rod - 31

so, there's some logic behind it - he had to do a fair bit of running to 2nd and 3rd base (although even I'm impressed with the fact he recorded 1 triple last season!!!)

I excluded HRs because there isn't quite the running urgency on it as there is for a double or triple
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