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I don't think Hardin should be on that list. He had a great year as a starter in '68, when Palmer was out. In '69 and '70 he was the fifth starter in a four-man rotation. Just because he couldn't beat out Palmer, Cuellar, McNally, or Dobson doesn't mean he was bad. He did okay those years, especially 1970.

Jim Hardin was nowhere near the pitcher he was in 1968. I remember it and the stats back it up. Whether you look at WHIP, ERA, percentage of starts that were complete games, K/9, the "okay" was very far from the great 1968 season. We eventually found out an injured arm was the reason and he was out of baseball after 1972 at the age of 28.

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Josh Towers. Though I don't know if that was a full season, maybe one really good month.

The one full year we had Eric Davis. What a monster that guy was. I really think he's one of baseballs "what if" stories. If that guy stayed healthy, there's no telling what he could have done. The fact that he came back after cancer and assorted injuries at age 36 and did what he did was remarkable.

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Josh Towers. Though I don't know if that was a full season, maybe one really good month.

The one full year we had Eric Davis. What a monster that guy was. I really think he's one of baseballs "what if" stories. If that guy stayed healthy, there's no telling what he could have done. The fact that he came back after cancer and assorted injuries at age 36 and did what he did was remarkable.

A truly remarkable comeback.

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Glenn Gulliver. Imagine if 2015 Nick Markakis hit .200 and played third base. In 1982 Gulliver actually hit .200 with no power whatsoever but walked 37 times in 50 games to give him a .363 OBP. He was the guy the O's called up to play third when they moved Cal to short. I once read that was the only time in Earl's entire tenure as manager he plucked someone out of the minors and put him directly in the lineup in mid-season.

I remember one of the chapters in Earl Weaver's book was called "Why I Played Glenn Gulliver".

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The one full year we had Eric Davis. What a monster that guy was. I really think he's one of baseballs "what if" stories. If that guy stayed healthy, there's no telling what he could have done. The fact that he came back after cancer and assorted injuries at age 36 and did what he did was remarkable.

Huge Eric Davis fan. Wow, I didn't know he had cancer in the midst of his career. I was very happy to have him as an Oriole and I was a big fan of him elsewhere too.

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Josh Towers. Though I don't know if that was a full season, maybe one really good month.

It was amazing that Josh Towers had a major league career. He was a Baysox back when I had a partial season plan and he wasn't even that good in AA. He was a guy with a fringe-average fastball and a fetish about never throwing a ball out of the strike zone. I think he got MLB hitters out for a while because they didn't believe he was going to throw that 87-mph heater over the plate to avoid a walk, but, no, he really was.

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