Guest Kong76 Guests Posted November 9, 2010 Posted November 9, 2010 Similar Batters: 1. Chase Utley (917) 2. Al Rosen (904) 3. Matt Holliday (902) 4. Rusty Greer (894) 5. Jason Bay (884) 6. Hideki Matsui (883) 7. Bob Horner (865) 8. Casey Blake (865) 9. Kevin Mitchell (864) 10. Larry Hisle (858)Similar Batters through 27: 1. Eric Chavez (917) 2. Scott Rolen (916) 3. Duke Snider (905) * 4. Harlond Clift (892) 5. Chipper Jones (891) 6. Greg Luzinski (890) 7. George Brett (889) * 8. Ron Santo (886) 9. Carl Yastrzemski (886) * 10. Gary Sheffield (886)I didn't look at this to post it, but I thought some of the nameswere interesting and some of them funny so I threw them up here. Kevin Mitchell? Carl Yastrzemski?This is of course from http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wrighda03.shtml
Fman99 Old-Timey Member Posted November 9, 2010 Posted November 9, 2010 Wow, did Eric Chavez fall off the side of the Earth or what?
metirish Old-Timey Member Posted November 9, 2010 Posted November 9, 2010 Fman99 wrote:Wow, did Eric Chavez fall off the side of the Earth or what?good call, the last decent year he had was 2006, injured a lot.....I mean this is a guy you would think steroids right?The only player in both lists I never heard of is Harlond Clift, decent numbers too
Guest Edgy DC Guests Posted November 9, 2010 Posted November 9, 2010 Harlond Clift --- nicknamed "Darkie" because one of his teammates, upon being introduced, misheard his name as "Harlem," and from there things got really clever.Good ballplayer.
seawolf17 Old-Timey Member Posted November 10, 2010 Posted November 10, 2010 Considering there's a positional piece of the similarity formula, it's interesting that there are a lot of OFs up there. I guess David hits like a corner outfielder; lots of doubles, home runs, and Ks.metirish wrote:Fman99 wrote:Wow, did Eric Chavez fall off the side of the Earth or what?good call, the last decent year he had was 2006, injured a lot.....I mean this is a guy you would think steroids right?Plus the Oakland connection. Might as well assume yes.
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