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Originally Posted by George_Bell
I never would have known that about Left O'Doul if you didn't mention it. 349 career average is crazy, but like you said, did not get to 1000 career games. Looking at his wiki page, ya, he should be in the Hall of Fame, he did lots for the sport. Maybe this dynasty will correct that..haha
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Hey you give me joy with these awesome recaps, I'll try to throw in some tidbits
I cannot believe Dots Miller is still playing! He is always out of my league in less than 5 years...good on fictional him this go round
I have 2
Sammy Vick (who was in the Shoeless Joe trade) was the Ed Norton (Honeymooners) of the Yankees...he was 160lbs but apparently could eat like a horse and not gain weight. He is noted for being the rare PH for Ruth, but that is not true. However, when Ruth was traded to the Yankees, Vick was the odd man out, and became the second trade where they Yankees hosed the Red Sox, as he was one of the players traded for Wally Schang and Waite Hoyt.
Hoyt would go on to become the winningest P in World Series history (since beaten by another Yankee Whitey Ford) and if not for his alcoholism, would have been so much better.
BUZZ ARLETT
Was called the Babe Ruth of the PCL
The reason he is highly rated in OOTP yet you never heard of him?
He was a spitball P, his career was over in that are when the spitball was disallowed, he would have not been grandfathered in MLB which caused MLB scouts to back off, then he hurt his arm, and they disappeared.
He was also a wretched fielder, like Riggs Stephenson, who you will meet soon in the draft...he couldn't judge a fly ball, or scoop a slightly errant throw
He IS the U.S. minor league HR king... the two Mexican league guys Hector Epino and Andres Mora have to be taken with a grain of salt. He was also the minor league RBI king, and was beaten by Tomato Face Nick Cullop, not your Pitcher of the year, the OFer
He also is a reason I rarely see eye to eye with SABR...they named him the greatest minor leaguer of all time, but he was a DH essentially and cost his teams runs in the field on numerous occasions, and even the bottom dwelling Phillies were eventually forced to only use him as a PH in his 1 yr tryout.
He also was a big guy with a bad work ethic (Less than 50 in OOTP terms) scouts didn't like his demeanor when he was losing, and he went from 180lbs to 240lbs
OOTP will always love him, but if historical perspective was fixed, he'd go 3rd round not #1
He was a monster with the bat though, but when I think greatest PCL position player of all time, I go with Jigger Statz then Eddie Mulligan (main man on Portland's 1910-20 dynasty) then Buzz