Moose Milligan

Strike three!

Cano and Rutschman let’s goooooooo!

That was a lot of work! Thank you!

I was looking for a good joke, you found it. Well played.

Oh man, I think I was pretty much all in on Victor Victor Mesa. Hard to believe that was 5+ years ago.

I think there was a time when he was playing that he was looked at as a surefire Hall of Famer.

I'm embarrassed to admit that Jackie Robinson was the first player I thought of but I thought myself out of picking him...I just didn't think he'd got 200 hits in a season. I only picked Sax because someone on here mentioned him a last week and I was actually looking at his stats. He had a few really good years.

Looks like Immaculate Grid is now a part of baseball reference. Off the top, it looks like this means they're more forthcoming with possible answers. Like for example, the 11:30 one today will show you all 14 players who got 200 hits for the Dodgers. I hope the people that made this game made some money if they sold it to bbref. Anyway, for my 11:30, I finally got a perfect score. And a 104 rarity score. My answers Left to Right:

To further split this hair, there was always a 35-50 point difference between whatever his batting average was and his on base percentage no matter where he was in his career. The year he had a .414 on base percentage, his batting average was .372. The year he had a .396 OBP, his batting average was .351. To your point, yes, he did think this were the best way to get on base. He wanted to put pressure on the defense.

I don't think Ichiro was a great on base guy. He was .355 for his career which isn't terrible, but it was propped up by a .311 career average. I think Ichiro just wanted to get as many hits as he possibly could and if there was a ball an inch or two off the plate he'd be happy to slap it the opposite field instead of taking it for a ball. Adley, on the other hand, I do believe he wants to get on base and won't sacrifice anything for that. I don't know if he's ever going to sell out for power, although he does take some pretty big rips at the plate. But I also think he's really content with delivering a single to the opposite field.

You're both forgetting it was applied to Gary Carter, too.

I'm more annoyed by the Basquiat rip-off crown being used here.

That's a real good one. I forgot all about him. And I didn't see the option to hide comments on my phone either last night. I missed two this morning, the Angel/Ray and the Angel/Brave. Was proud to have pulled these two also:

Also for my Orioles picks this morning

Man, that's a good pull. I would have thought he'd have done that, too.

Gotta like this pick based on this story alone. Driven kid, obviously coachable.

Hoping to take some high upside high schoolers here. I think this your perception has to do strictly due to the fact that we aren’t picking high. Had we a top 5 pick and landed someone like Crews or Clark or Langford I think you’d feel differently. I don’t think Elias is taking his foot off the pedal, I just think he’s leaning into picking guys that have a lot of upside and that’s due to where he’s picking in the draft.

No, I agree. I think for the most part he’s okay but trying so hard to be clever is annoying. That voice of his that’s always tinged with a tone of irony/cleverness is grating. I don’t think it’s all bad with him and I’m aware we could have been stuck with a broadcaster like Bob Carpenter who is as bland as his name implies. So I’ll take Kevin and his cleverness and be thankful we’re still not listening to Michael Reghi.

You can whine about it, but Heim has had a great first half. Now I’ll agree this is the All STAR game, not the Who-Had-The-Best-First-Half Game and there’s a reason Adley was in the derby last night and not Heim. Rangers fans simply stuffed the ballot box to get 4 of their guys in the game but it’s not as if Heim doesn’t belong.

He said it after a save against the Mariners. Something like “move over, there’s a new King Felix!”

Adley made him work for it though.

Adley killed it!!

I bet Arozarena could have doubled his total if he asked and Orioles pitcher to throw to him.

I don’t think Kevin Brown can let quest for cleverness rest for just one night.