baltimoresun.com - 5/25/2008
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Observations, opinions and musings from this week in Major League Baseball. Mike Piazza , one of the greatest underdog stories in baseball history, announced his retirement last week after 16 seasons in the major leagues. The Los Angeles Dodgers drafted him in the 62nd round in 1988, partially as a favor to then-Dodgers manager Tom Lasorda, who was a close family friend. Now, Piazza is being ...
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Baltimore Sun: Connolly: Piazza might catch break in bid for Hall
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
Baltimore Sun: Connolly: Piazza might catch break in bid for Hall Mike Piazza...a possible HOF casualty of the Steroid Live Ball (Pt II) Era? He’ll end up enshrined in Cooperstown, but there are two potential chinks in his Hall of Fame armor. For one, Piazza was below average defensively. He was a liability in most catching aspects besides calling a game. If he had played the majority of his career in the American League, he likely would have been switched to designated hitter much sooner. Secondly, though he never failed an MLB-announced drug test and wasn’t ...
Tris Speaker = Borderline Hall of Famer
vorosmccracken.com —
Dan Connolly is unsure whether Mike Piazza meets his requirements as a Hall of Famer.
Now it’s easy to jump all over someone when they say something that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, and sometimes sensible people spout nonsense. I myself once argued that Major League pitchers have very little difference between them on balls in play. Ah foolish youth.
Anyhow, his reasoning is what bothers me. I mean far be it from me to get in the way of a good mad on over steroids, but the arbitrary way I’m sensing folks want to start applying ...
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