Steve Pearce Appreciation Thread

[Can_of_corn]

Good for Steve. I hope he gets a minimum 400 AB with TB and rediscovers the 2014 magic.

I can do without a division rival acquiring a five win player on the cheap.

[sportsfan8703]

Pearce has the rare RH pretty swing. It's a shame he wanted multi years to start the offseason. If not I don't see us choosing Reimold over him.

[webbrick2010]

Always enjoyed watching Steve play. Max effort type guy

I'd bet that he hits more homers and plays much better defense than Trumbo this year.

[25 Nuggets]

Steve Pearce, owner of the most out-of-nowhere age 31 seasons in baseball history. I'll have to run some queries, but there can't be many players with a ~5 win season on their resume and a career worth less than six wins. By fWAR Pearce's 2014 was 88% of his career value.

Dan Duquette, paraphrasing: "We always knew he could hit left handed pitching, but in 2014 he hit right handed pitching too."

[isestrex]

This one hurts. I know we don't need him this year but I realized how much I love the guy.

Best of luck in that horrible stadium

[Number5]

Steve Pearce, owner of the most out-of-nowhere age 31 seasons in baseball history. I'll have to run some queries, but there can't be many players with a ~5 win season on their resume and a career worth less than six wins. By fWAR Pearce's 2014 was 88% of his career value.

Nowhere near age 31, but Mark Fidrych came to mind. He was 9.6 in 1976, 11.4 for his career. Not quite the same.

[TheBee]

This will always be a moment I remember from 2014...wish him the best.

"The Orioles have re-signed IF/OF Steve Pearce, Dan Connolly of the Baltimore Sun tweets. The Orioles have announced that it?s a big-league deal. The O?s had previously designated Pearce for assignment. The Blue Jays claimed Pearce on release waivers, but he elected to become a free agent rather than accepting the claim." MLBTR

[tntoriole]

He rakes at Tropicana and lives in Lakeland. He will help them a lot.

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[Why Not?]

I'd take Guyer for selfish reasons. We went to the same elementary, middle, and high schools. He was a year ahead. I even played against him in baseball and basketball.

I covered his Little League team.

[weams]

I covered his Little League team.

I like him a lot.

[Palmoripken]

I covered his Little League team.

Cool, I doubt our time intersected that much since as I said I'm a year younger and obviously nowhere near as athletic. He was a pretty good basketball player too. I remember playing his team one winter since a couple of my friends were on that team and he was a man among boys. I remember feeling a little conflicted when he got his first homer off of Britton a few years back. Glad to see he's had a decent ML career though. I think only one other Hornet has made the majors and that was way before our time.

[Moose Milligan]

Man, this is sad. Great team player, did everything he was asked and did everything as hard as he could. 2014 was great for a ton of reasons, he was one of them. Not only did he contribute a ton but I think we were all just happy for HIM because he was playing damn near every day at the end of the season, playing his ass off and doing damage. A journeyman should be so lucky to have a season like that on a team like that.

I think we all knew that it probably couldn't carry over to next year but I just remember being genuinely happy for that guy when he was mashing and making a difference on a great team.

[Why Not?]

Cool, I doubt our time intersected that much since as I said I'm a year younger and obviously nowhere near as athletic. He was a pretty good basketball player too. I remember playing his team one winter since a couple of my friends were on that team and he was a man among boys. I remember feeling a little conflicted when he got his first homer off of Britton a few years back. Glad to see he's had a decent ML career though. I think only one other Hornet has made the majors and that was way before our time.

He seemed like a good kid as a 12-year old. Definitely a man among boys at that age.

[Palmoripken]

He seemed like a good kid as a 12-year old. Definitely a man among boys at that age.

Yeah I don't remember him being a braggart. As I said, it's really cool to see someone from your school succeed like that. I didn't know him well to know if he was an O's fan growing up or not but I always thought he was a decent MLer.

[Hank Scorpio]

Hard not to like Steve Pearce. Real hard.