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Which Player's [Baseball] Career Do You Wish You Could Resurrect?

JackWESQJackWESQ Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭
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After reading this story about the Giants hiring Will Clark as a special assistant, I thought I would pose this question ...

Which player's career do you wish you could resurrect?

Preferably, a player from 1980 and on, but any player would do. For me, off the top of my head, I probably would go with Will Clark. You?

/s/ JackWESQ


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  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    Either DARRYL STRAWBERRY or DOC GOODEN

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  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,144 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Larry Walker



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  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
    Bret Saberhagen, the Royals version, not the spit on reporters and throw fireworks at them (not that there is anything wrong with that) version.
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  • IchiroDeportedIchiroDeported Posts: 1,610 ✭
    honestly i hate to see talent wasted, either by injury or drugs. daryl strawberry could have clubbed 600 homers, Doc Gooden could have won 300 games and Eric Davis could have gone 40/40 about 7 times.
  • PSASAPPSASAP Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭
    Dickie Thon was on his way to becoming one of the best shortstops in the game, when he was hit in the face by Mike Torrez. Although he did struggle to make it back to the bigs, he was never the same.
  • MantleMarisFordBerraMantleMarisFordBerra Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭
    Kerry Wood & Mark Prior
  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,283 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bo Jackson, just to see if he could have improved much. He wasn't very good, I can remember him striking out in bunches. But it would have been interesting to see if he could get better year by year.

  • Bosox1976Bosox1976 Posts: 8,557 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bo Jackson. He was really just starting to reach his potential. Maybe Tony C. too.
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    Andy Van Slyke
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  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Dickie Thon was on his way to becoming one of the best shortstops in the game, when he was hit in the face by Mike Torrez. Although he did struggle to make it back to the bigs, he was never the same. >>



    +1

    As for the original topic, Jeff Bagwell is a GM assistant.
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  • bman90278bman90278 Posts: 3,453 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Bo Jackson, just to see if he could have improved much. He wasn't very good, I can remember him striking out in bunches. But it would have been interesting to see if he could get better year by year. >>



    Bo Jackson was a freak of nature...Incredible athlete. I remember seeing Brian Jordan play a few times...He was nothing like Jackson but that guy was built like a rock.

    I guess I would have loved to see Sandy Koufax pitch like his prime, but when I was a kid in the 70's...that would have been hot. This is a good thread and there will be lots of good ones.
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  • bman90278bman90278 Posts: 3,453 ✭✭✭


    << <i>After reading this story about the Giants hiring Will Clark as a special assistant, I thought I would pose this question ...?

    /s/ JackWESQ >>

    I just wanted to say congrats to the Giants...Hiring Will Clark is awesome and he will be a great addition to the Giants. I wonder if he ends up as a manager one day?
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  • lsutigers1973lsutigers1973 Posts: 11,093 ✭
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  • FanOf390FanOf390 Posts: 288
    I'd have to go with Doc Gooden. In 1985, I lived about 250 miles from New York. I used to listen to Mets radio broadcasts through the terrible static of AM radio -- just to hear "the Doctor" operate on National League hitters. Gooden was absolutely amazing -- he won the Triple Crown of pitching that year -- and he's the last pitcher to do so in either league.
  • JackWESQJackWESQ Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭


    << <i>he won the Triple Crown of pitching that year -- and he's the last pitcher to do so in either league. >>


    Gooden did win the triple of pitcher, e.g. leading the league in wins, strikeouts and E.R.A. But he is not the last pitcher to do so, to wit ...

    1. Roger Clemens, 1997;
    2. Roger Clemens, 1998;
    3. Pedro Martinez, 1999;
    4. Randy Johnson, 2002;
    5. Johan Santana, 2006;
    6. Jake Peavy, 2007

    /s/ JackWESQ
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  • FanOf390FanOf390 Posts: 288
    "Gooden did win the triple of pitcher, e.g. leading the league in wins, strikeouts and E.R.A. But he is not the last pitcher to do so,"

    Yep, you're right JackWESQ. Now I'm not sure why I thought Gooden was the last pitcher to do so.

    Gooden had a 1.53 ERA in 1985. Is that the lowest ERA since then? Could that be what I was thinking?
  • rbdjr1rbdjr1 Posts: 4,474 ✭✭

    Herb Score

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  • FanOf390FanOf390 Posts: 288
    "Herb Score"

    I might be wrong [again] on this one, but I think Gooden broke Herb Score's record of "Strikeouts by a Rookie Pitcher". If I'm correct, then Gooden broke Herb Score's record in 1984 -- and then followed up that amazing rookie year with his 1985 Cy Young Award (where he had a 1.53 ERA).
  • JackWESQJackWESQ Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭
    Gooden's 1.53 E.R.A. in 1985 is the lowest since. Greg Maddux had a 1.56 E.R.A. in 1994. To find an E.R.A. lower than 1.53, you have to go back to, what else, Bob Gibson's 1.12 in 1968.

    Gooden did break Herb Score's rookie strikeout record. Score had 245 SO in 1955, which Gooden topped with 276 in 1984.

    /s/ JackWESQ

    P.S. Gooden also has eight (8) career HRs. Nice.
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  • jivanjivan Posts: 1,009 ✭
    joe charboneau or pete incaviglia, just kidding......kirby puckett.. loved that guy
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  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nomar's, before he got plunked on the wrists.

    Since then, he went from being a HOFer SS to being a journeyman infielder.
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  • FanOf390FanOf390 Posts: 288
    "Nomar's, before he got plunked on the wrists. Since then, he went from being a HOFer SS to being a journeyman infielder."

    Hmmmm, wasn't Nomar playing on the Boston Red Sox when he got plunked? How could you consider him "a HOFer SS" when he was playing on a minor league team?
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  • JackWESQJackWESQ Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Hmmmm, wasn't Nomar playing on the Boston Red Sox when he got plunked? How could you consider him "a HOFer SS" when he was playing on a minor league team? >>


    Whoa! Reminds me of when I heckled my friend who was a Clippers fan. I used to tell him that the Clippers were an exceptionally talented high school basketball team and probably could go undefeated and win the State title.

    /s/ JackWESQ
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  • killingdreamkillingdream Posts: 232
    Barry Bonds while with the Pirates. Well only if he would once again be with them!! Once Bonds left the franchise went down the drain. Perhaps if Bonds would have stayed he may have stayed straight and contributed to a few championships.
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