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Merkle923 · 12-27-2015, 08:58 PM

Boy, did the Yankees oversell this guy. After consecutive 20+ homer seasons in the minors they forecast the MVP of the 1959 NAIA baseball tournament as the next great outfield slugger in the Bronx (neglecting to note, since the number was rarely included in the stats, that he had struck out 286 times in his previous 263 games).

They gave Roger Repoz 296 plate appearances in New York (66 strikeouts) before dishing him off to Kansas City in '66 in a package for Fred Talbot. A year and five days later the A's called up a minor leaguer named Reggie Jackson, and trundled Repoz off to the Angels for the last three months of the career of Jack Sanford, and in '72 the Orioles traded Jerry Davanon for him and buried him in the minors. Repoz did 122 homers in five seasons in Japan (but still struck out 360 times).

Oddly for all his contact problems, between 1967 and 1970, Repoz set a record for non-pitchers by going 347 games and 894 At Bats without hitting into a double play. He did steal 26 bases in his 831 major league seasons (in 51 attempts) indicating he was no speed demon but not a lead foot.

There are three widely-known color images of him in A's gear - a George Brace image from Comiskey, and his 1967 Topps and Coke/Dexter Press cards. This shot was taken at Yankee Stadium at the end of May, 1967, just before the deal to California.

12-27-2015, 08:58 PM	#26822
Merkle923 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 2,192	Roger Repoz 1964 Boy, did the Yankees oversell this guy. After consecutive 20+ homer seasons in the minors they forecast the MVP of the 1959 NAIA baseball tournament as the next great outfield slugger in the Bronx (neglecting to note, since the number was rarely included in the stats, that he had struck out 286 times in his previous 263 games). They gave Roger Repoz 296 plate appearances in New York (66 strikeouts) before dishing him off to Kansas City in '66 in a package for Fred Talbot. A year and five days later the A's called up a minor leaguer named Reggie Jackson, and trundled Repoz off to the Angels for the last three months of the career of Jack Sanford, and in '72 the Orioles traded Jerry Davanon for him and buried him in the minors. Repoz did 122 homers in five seasons in Japan (but still struck out 360 times). Oddly for all his contact problems, between 1967 and 1970, Repoz set a record for non-pitchers by going 347 games and 894 At Bats without hitting into a double play. He did steal 26 bases in his 831 major league seasons (in 51 attempts) indicating he was no speed demon but not a lead foot. There are three widely-known color images of him in A's gear - a George Brace image from Comiskey, and his 1967 Topps and Coke/Dexter Press cards. This shot was taken at Yankee Stadium at the end of May, 1967, just before the deal to California. Last edited by Merkle923; 08-03-2017 at 12:19 AM.