Favorite Player??
by omar moreno on Mar 5, 2009 9:41 AM EST
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This might be a super random post, but I just wanna know who everyones favorite players are. I am just interested to see what players are popular with the members of this blog. And this is favorite player in the Majors. I have a few players in my head who I think many people love, but I wanna see what you guys have to say.
I will start by saying that my favorite players are...
1. Jose Reyes
2. Pedro Martinez
3. Manny Ramirez
4. Carl Crawford
Those are my 4. In that order.
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Current players?
Tops would have to be Craig Wilson, who’s technically stil active, though he didn’t play in the majors last year. I’m also fond of Nate and Kendall and Tim Wakefield, and I pull for a whole bunch of fringe-ish guys scattered across baseball: C.J. Nitkowski, Rico Washington, Charlton Jimerson, etc.
One of my long-time favorites, Bronswell Patrick, just retired to become a pitching coach in the Padres system. I’ve had a lot of fun over the years, following him from indy league to foreign league and back again.
Among historical players: George Davis, Luke Easter, Fred Carroll, Arlie Latham, and Pete Browning. Probably a bunch more I’m not thinking of right now, too.
Vlad
Thanks for the interesting response. I’m only 18 so I dont know all those old guys, but I know Nitkowski, Jimerson, Davis, Carroll. And the Bronswell Patrick guy looks like a beast haha.
BRING BACK TIKE REDMAN
jimerson isnt who i thought he was at all. i looked up him and washington. why do you like them?
BRING BACK TIKE REDMAN
I'll tell you:
I took note of Washington when he was playing in our system back in ‘99. He’s a quality guy, and he really had to pay his dues to make the majors, with eleven years in the minors in four organizations before he made the Cards out of camp last year. I admire guys who are willing to put up with yearly uncertainty and bad food and bus rides to tiny fields in hick towns because they just flat-out love the game. He also had to come back from a broken cheekbone in an on-field collision, which demonstrates character. And he’s an interesting player in terms of skills – he’s done some catching, some third base, some second base, and a little outfield.
Jimerson is a really inspirational story. Homeless, physically-abusive father, crack-addicted mother, four siblings in dire poverty. Jimerson stayed in school and got good grades, earned an academic scholarship to Miami, walked onto the baseball team (not an easy trick in that program), and worked his way into the starting lineup, where he was CWS MVP, then got drafted by the Astros and hustled his way up through the minors. How can you not root for a guy like that?
agreed
those are really cool stories. i’ll be definetly rooting for those two from now on and checking out their stats.
idk who i thought jimerson was, but the guy i was thinkin of is white. maybe jeff jimerson? jk.
BRING BACK TIKE REDMAN
hmmm
historically, my favorite player was/is Tony Pena, the former Pirates/Cards/Red Sox/etc. catcher, although it was Stargell’s Fam-uh-lee in the late 1970s that initially made my young self interested in the Pirates. recent Hall-of-Famers like Ryan, Puckett, Gwynn, and Schmidt were always fun to watch play. and I never saw older-era players like Koufax, Clemente, Bob Gibson, etc., but you have to acknowledge their greatness.
among current players, I dunno. obviously, I root for all current Pirates (and even rooted for Matt Morris’ expired carcass last spring, even though watching him pitch was only slightly more pleasant than watching a root canal surgery). it’s fun to watch Albert Pujols hit, and it’s easy to root for him (unless he’s facing the Pirates, I guess) since he does not seem to have an ego problem like Bonds or Manny. likewise, it is fun to watch a fiery competitor like Carlos Zambrano pitch (or hit, for that matter).
Moyer/Stargell
When I was a kid it was Stargell. After that, I never connected with anyone on the Pirates. Now, it’s Moyer because when he’s on it’s like watching a sculptor. There are a few other guys I root for in the same vein as Vlad. Sometimes it’s just rooting for a guy to get a cup of coffee, like Tommie Watkins. He was never really good at baseball but played all over the diamond for the Twins org, and finally got the call after 10 years as a soldier and was in the right place at the right time. And he hit .357 for the Twins.
I like Craig Wilson, Brian Giles (guess it’s hard to like him as much as I used to), and Rickey Henderson. It’s weird, but I always liked watching Byung-Hyun Kim pitch. When I was growing up, my favorite player was Bobby Bonilla.
The first game...
I remember going to was a 1988 game in Three Rivers against St. Louis. Andy Van Slyke made one of his famous diving catches in center field. After that he was always my favorite player. I was also a big Bob Walk fan too. If my life depended on it and I needed a pitcher to go 6 innings and give up only five runs I’d hand the ball Walkie.
Older than most
Roberto and Maz were my favorites as a kid. Pops later but he is my all-time fav.
i’ve always enjoyed watching pitchers with strange or high-stress deliveries like el duque, k-rod and tim lincecum or submariners like brett saberhagen, byung-hyun kim and chad bradford. knuckleballers too. more often than not, i’m fascinated by pitchers than position players and my fantasy drafts usually show it.
as a kid though, my favorites were andy van slyke and jay bell.
I think
you meant Quisenberry instead of Saberhagen. :-)
Interesting trivia question that’ll win you lotsa bar drinks:
Who is the only pitcher ever to have more victories than walks in a season (since 1919, 150+ IP)?
Bret Saberhagen, 1994 Mets (14 W, 13 BB, 177+ IP)
And to add my 2 cents, my favorite players as a kid were Clemente, Sanguillen, Jim Rice & Glenn Beckert.
Currently, I still enjoy watching Wakefield (soft spot for the knuckleballers), Lance Berkman and of course, Nate.
"Gimme an 'F' ! " - Country Joe MacDonald
by cocktailsfor2 on Mar 6, 2009 10:07 PM EST up reply actions
You ever see Craig House pitch?
Before they “fixed” him, he had probably the most unusual mechanics I’ve ever seen.
Unfortunately, no.
Which is a shame, because I’ve never seen anyone like him.
You ever see one of those 16th-century engravings of African animals, where the artist was working purely from a verbal description by a drunken soldier down at the docks? Where elephants have trunks on both ends, and the rhinoceros is wearking a shell like a turtle, that kind of thing? Imagine one of those sailors decribing baseball to a young kid, and you’d maybe wind up with something like Craig House’s motion. The best written description I’ve seen was something along the lines of “a guy trying to throw his body out of his shoes”, but really, you had to see it.
Bonds
My first baseball memory is going to a game in 1985. I instantly loved Johnny Ray and Barry Bonds. To this day, Barry Bonds is still my favorite player. He is an arrogant SOB, but he is argueably the best player in Pirates history.
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