2015 MLB spring training thread

That is hilarious. And so is his Twitter handle.

 

There was a moment in time when Juan Pierre looked like a reasonable bet to reach 3,000 hits, which would have set off seamhead Armeggedon between the stat dorks and dinosaurs.

 

Really? Even Coors and 700 ABs can't work that kind of magic for more than a few seasons.

 

I think after his White Sox years he was up to 2,100 hits or something like that, and not that terribly old, and still cranking out 180 a year. He dropped off fast after that, of course, and it would have been difficult to find an Ozzie Guillen to take him on for the seven or eight more seasons it would have taken. But he doesn't walk, so even when he batted .280, he was rapping 180 hits a year.

Problem with a guy like him, of course, is that if he's not hitting .300, he's not worth it.

So, yeah, I don't think he was ever better than even money or anything like that to reach 3,000. But it looked feasible, at least. This is a guy with a .295 lifetime average, 617 stolen bases, led the league in triples multiple times, 2,200-plus hits. That's dangerously close to HOF numbers in some people's book.

 

He's no Minnie Minoso.

 

Juan Pierre. Hall of Famer?

 

Willie McGee approves.

 

Kenny Lofton was three times the player that Juan Pierre was, and Lofton didn't get a sniff for the Hall of Fame.

 

Among your personal Hall of Fame of posting idiocy, we can now add the fact that you think it's HIGH-larious that people might think that a guy kept out of the major leagues because of his skin color during some of his prime years might, just might, merit a career evaluation that takes that into account.

 

Their initial gripe is with the way the Cubs sale happened - limiting how much the Cubs were able to spend and basically saying that they were tanking on purpose the last couple of years. Makes no sense considering numerous teams do this every year and the Cubs aren't a team that gets money for being a small market team.

 

Play nice, Dickie. Your head might go BANG again.

 

Well, Minoso reached the majors briefly in 1948 when he was 23 after signing with Cleveland but he played most of the next two years in the PCL, so I'm not sure he really missed any prime time in the majors.