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The Case Against Poorly Constructed Cases
Published 1/28/2009 by Patrick Sullivan at Baseball Analysts
In his new, cutting edge and hip forum, the 3 Dot Blog, Bruce Jenkins takes up the Hall of Fame case for Jeff Kent, just as a number of other writers have since Kent announced his retirement last week. It's a casual piece and I suspect if Jenkins put more than fifteen minutes into it, he may have been able to come up with something better. Nonetheless, he makes three points that I simply can't let pass. There will come a day when professional sports writers and editors will take enough pride in their work that outright falsehoods will not make it to ...

Remembering Jeff Kent's great but very angry career
Published 1/22/2009 by David Brown at Big League Stew
... Kent's play improved in his 30s, which is rare, even if his behavior didn't always mature. Kent leaves the game with Hall-of-Fame credentials, including more homers for a second baseman than any other in history. He also leaves the way he preferred — ...

Jeff Kent Retires After 17 Seasons
Published 1/22/2009 at FanIQ Blog
... His career numbers compare favorably to other second basemen. His 377 home runs is more than any other second sacker is baseball history. Kent's career line is .290/.356/.500, good for 123 OPS+. This is a higher figure than all but seven of the second basement in the Hall of Fame. Admittedly though, those seven are probably the best of the best: Hornsby, Lajoie, Collins, Robinson, Morgan, Carew, Gehringer. ...

Kent to Retire
Published 1/22/2009 by StatsGuru at baseballmusings.com
... The other interesting thing about Kent's career stems from his similarity scores. He matches Hall of Famers, but Hall of Fame catchers. His top five comparisons are five of the great offensive catchers. Fisk, Berra and Bench are in the Hall of Fame and Ivan Rodriguez made a good case for himself. The only second baseman on the list, Ryne Sandberg, is ninth. ...

Jeff Kent trucks off into the sunset
Published 1/21/2009 by noreply@blogger.com (TheNaturalMevs) at Diamond Hoggers
... throughout the game. From there his miraculous consistency continued. He never garnered a ton of headlines unless it was for saying Barry Bonds was a dick or reportedly breaking his hand watching his truck. And to be honest, this was one thing about Jeff Kent that was pretty damn refreshing. Second base is a thin enough position in fantasy baseball as is, Jeff. You will be missed. Jeff Kent's career statistics. [Baseball Reference] ...

Waving Goodbye To The Bad Lieutenant
Published 1/21/2009 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... , and in light of his 355 HR’s — the most of any major league second baseman — I fully expect he’ll make the Hall Of Fame on the first ballot. ...

Jeff Kent Retires after 17 years
Published 1/21/2009 by noreply@blogger.com (SpastikMooss) at Outside the Boxscore
Jeff Kent, the best offensive 2B of all time, made the call to hang up his cleats today. So the question is, is he a Hall of Famer? Now a 377 HRs, 1,518 RBI, a .290 BA and a .500 Slg are pretty good. Damn good for a 2B in a time when those numbers just didn't happen for 2B. And 5 All Star appearances and one MVP award (that probably should have gone to Bonds, but oh well) look damn good. So I guess so. I don't think he was Rogers Hornsby good, but he was definitely Ryne Sandberg "change what people think of a second baseman" good. ...

Jeff Kent Frees Up Some Time for Truck-Washing, Homophobia
Published 1/21/2009 by Rob Iracane at Walkoff Walk
The Dodgers issues a press release today warning the media that second baseman Jeff Kent will be announcing his retirement from the game of baseball after 17 years. The five-time All Star and 2000 NL MVP played 2298 games and hit a record 351 tater dongs as a second baseman. He also retired before we ever got to write a BONILLA projection for him. Jerk. Without the pesky sport to take up hours of his precious life, Kent will now have a ton of spare time to besmirch Vin Scully's good name, fight gay marriage and "wash his ...

Dodger Thoughts: Kent To Announce Retirement Thursday
Published 1/21/2009 at Baseball Toaster
The Dodgers sent out a press release informing us that Jeff Kent will announce his retirement from baseball Thursday at 11:30 a.m. at Dodger Stadium. Kent signed his first professional contract 20 years ago this June, and played in 2,298 major-league games, setting the record for home runs by a second baseman and slugging .500 in his career. As I wrote ...

Jeff Kent Retires
Published 1/21/2009 by Tim Dierkes at MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com
... , Jeff Kent has retired after 17 seasons.  Here's a look at the career numbers.  Kent finishes with a .290/.356/.500 line in 9537 plate appearances, racking up 377 home runs. ...

HOUSTON ASTROS - ALL TIME HOME GROWN TEAM vs. ALL TIME ACQUIRED TEAM
Published 12/29/2008 by Sully (info@sullybaseball.com) at SULLY BASEBALL
... lost one of the four ALCS games against Oakland and skedaddled to San Diego. Bagwell won the Rookie of the Year, won the MVP (and nearly won it again 2 more times) won a Gold Glove and several silver sluggers and became one of the most popular players in Astros history, finishing his career in the 2005 World Series. Yup, that trade was worse than the Glenn Davis deal. Who am I to argue with Bob Costas? STARTING SECOND BASEMAN JEFF KENT In 2004, my wife was subjected to her second straight October of brutally tense ...

Top Talent-Producing Universities (Revisited)
Published 12/22/2008 by lar@wezen.net (lar) at Wezen Ball - A Baseball Blog
... California 50 1904 Jeff Kent (335 WS), Jackie Jensen (187 WS) Mississippi State University 41 1896 Rafael Palmiero ...

2008 Overview
Published 10/31/2008 by ToyCannon at True Blue LA
... 2nd Base - Jeff Kent proved once again that you can't buck history and became just another 40 year old 2nd baseman. He actually had a very strong 2nd half increasing his OPS+ by over 100 points but it wasn't enough. He should retire and make the HOF.  Ned never should have given him that two year extension as he was the wrong player for this team. ...

The SoSG 2008 Dodgers Yearbook: Students, Section 1
Published 10/22/2008 by Orel (noreply@blogger.com) at Sons of Steve Garvey
... You're graduating from the team! Like a fifth-year senior, your presence around here this year was a bit puzzling, but despite your limited defensive range you managed to sneak in some decent hitting (36 XBH!) for a fellow your age. Have a bitchin' winter. ...

Celebrate the Second Round of the Jayoffs!
Published 10/13/2008 by Lloyd the Barber (noreply@blogger.com) at Ghostrunner on First
... Scutaro SS A Rios DH V Wells CF A Lind LF L Overbay 1B R Barajas C S Rolen 3B T Snider RF Obviously Alex Rios superlative defense will keep him from DHing too often in his career, but this is more or less the 2008 Blue Jays and/or the 2009 Blue Jays everyday lineup; barring any unforeseen Adam Lind trade. Let's start with the Dodgers. Two former Blue Jays bit-players reside on their playoff roster: Jeff Kent & Casey Blake. Jeff Kent played 62 games for the Jays 16 years ago and had ...

October Candy
Published 10/3/2008 by Steve Lombardi at WasWatching.com
... 4 Ind. Games Duke Snider 3 Ind. Games Gary Sheffield 3 Ind. Games Babe Ruth 3 Ind. Games Alex Rodriguez 3 Ind. Games Manny Ramirez 3 Ind. Games Trot Nixon 3 Ind. Games Fred McGriff 3 Ind. Games Jeff Kent 3 Ind. Games Andruw Jones 3 Ind. ...

Here Come the Dodgers
Published 9/28/2008 by Jason at GoatRiders of the Apocalypse
... Takashi Saito saves games.  Yep, it's a hell of a bullpen.  Try to beat the starters. Solid, but unspectacular Matt Kemp (.292/.340/.461) I'm fairly certain these numbers are the definition of solid but unspectacular. Russell Martin (.279/.384/.395) A very good catcher, but he shouldn't be one of your best hitters.  But I'd love to have him on my team if we didn't, you know, have a ridiculously sweet catcher ourselves. Jeff Kent (.280/.327/.418) He used to be good, but now he's not.  Now he's just kind of ...

'Destroya's' season already among the greats at second
Published 9/5/2008 by Dan Lamothe, Red Sox Monster at Red Sox Monster
... that if he hadn't been hurt for part of last season, he likely could have edged teammate Jimmy Rollins out for the award. He finished with a .332 average, 22 home runs, 48 doubles and 103 RBI in just 132 games. -- Perhaps you've feared the mustache, too. Jeff Kent won the 2000 NL MVP, beating out a not-so-skinny teammate named Bonds. Kent finished with a .334 average, 33 home runs, 41 doubles, 125 RBI and an OPS of 1.620. -- ...

Published 8/22/2008 by chris (noreply@blogger.com) at A Large Regular
... Another interesting case will be Jeff Kent. Objectively - he's perhaps one of the top 3 offensive 2nd basemen in history but he's been such a prick that my guess is that he's made to wait. Especially in a year with so many great first year eligible players. My guess is that Kent is smart enough to realize this and thus comes back next year with some team desperate enough to take him in. ...

The West Ain't the Best
Published 7/28/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Craig Calcaterra) at ShysterBall
... those unfamiliar with his work, Jeff Kent really likes to run down young players. In doing so, he tends to ignore little facts such as the fact that the Dodgers' best offensive players are 23, 24, 25, and 26 years-old, and their best pitcher this year is 23. A couple of big reasons why they're struggling? Their 31 year-old centerfielder, their 30 year-old left fielder, one of their 30 year-old starting pitchers and, oh, their 40 year-old second baseman, all of whom are having below average years. I'm not ...