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Originally Posted by koohead
I love guys like that. Always fun when people come out of nowhere to play meaningful roles.
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Another thing I love is signing guys who are about to hit a serious milestone but who are left languishing in FA. In one of my previous games, Al Kaline was about to hit 600 HR (he was maybe 3 short) and nobody wanted to sign him since he was 43 and any semblance of hitting for average had left him. He had played for me in his prime but had left in FA.
Mammoth power with rookie league level contact. So I signed him as a bench bat/platoon guy and he got his 600 HR in July. He was just awful, hitting sub .200, but I couldn't leave him 3HR short. He retired with 600 flat.