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Clues added for some of the trickier ones. BATTERS: ARUBA: Most career everything, more or less (2013-present) - current AL East wunderkind AUSTRALIA: Most career HR (105) (1992-1999) - Dave Nilsson (Edgy) BRAZIL: Most career HR (57) (2012-present) -- NOT Jonny Gomes. Close, though. COLOMBIA: Most career HR (140) (1996-2011) - Edgar Renteria (FK) CURACAO: Most career HR (434) (1996-2012) - Andruw Jones (CF) CUBA: Most career HR (569) (1986-2005) DR: Most career HR (609) (1989-2007) - Sammy Sosa (BG) DR: 2nd in HR (591) (2001-present) FRANCE: most career HR (26) (1978-1987) - former Met GERMANY: Most career HR (78) (1989-1999) - best known as a Yankee/Mariner JAMAICA: Most career HR (350) (1981-1999) JAPAN: Most career HR (175) (2003-2012) - Hideki Matsui (JCL) MEXICO: Most career HR (320) (1991-2006) - Vinny Castilla (JCL) NETHERLANDS: Most career HR (42) (2012-present) - current AL East wunderkind NICARAGUA: Most career HR (54) (1995-2003) - had an RBI single in the 2000 NLDS PANAMA: Most career HR (358) (1999-2012) - Carlos Lee (MGIM) PR: Most career HR (473) (1993-2009) - former Met SOUTH KOREA: Most career everything, more or less (2005-present) TAIWAN: Most career HR (2) (not a typo) (2007-2011) - former Met UK: Most career HR (264) (1946-1960) - Bobby Thomson (FK) PITCHERS: ARUBA: Most career everything, more or less (1998-2009) - Sidney Ponson (Edgy) COLOMBIA: 1st in W (47), 2nd in Ks (709) (2011-present) COLOMBIA: 2nd in W (46), 1st in Ks (781) (2012-present) DR: Most career W (243) (1960-1975) - Juan Marichal (sharpie) DR: 2nd in W (233) (1997-present) - Bartolo! (JCL) FRANCE: Most career W (62) (1980-1988) - Frenchman who played in French Canada JAPAN: Most career W (123) (1995-2008) - former Met NETHERLANDS: Most career everything, more or less (1970-1992) - Bert Blyleven (BG) NICARAGUA: Most career everything, more or less (1976-1998) - Dennis Martinez (LWFS) PANAMA: Most career W (1998-2015) - Bruce Chen (Edgy) PANAMA: Most career W (1995-2013) POLAND: Most career everything, more or less (1956-1972) PR: Most career everything, more or less (1998-2011) SOUTH KOREA: Most career everything, more or less (1994-2010) TAIWAN: Most career W (68) (2005-present) - Chien-Ming Wang (JCL)

BATTERS: ARUBA: Most career everything, more or less (2013-present) AUSTRALIA: Most career HR (105) (1992-1999) BRAZIL: Most career HR (57) (2012-present) -- NOT Jonny Gomes. Close, though. COLOMBIA: Most career HR (140) (1996-2011) - Edgar Renteria (FK) CURACAO: Most career HR (434) (1996-2012) - Andruw Jones (CF) CUBA: Most career HR (569) (1986-2005) DR: Most career HR (609) (1989-2007) DR: 2nd in HR (591) (2001-present) FRANCE: most career HR (26) (1978-1987) GERMANY: Most career HR (78) (1989-1999) JAMAICA: Most career HR (350) (1981-1999) JAPAN: Most career HR (175) (2003-2012) - Hideki Matsui (JCL) MEXICO: Most career HR (320) (1991-2006) - Vinny Castilla (JCL) NETHERLANDS: Most career HR (42) (2012-present) NICARAGUA: Most career HR (54) (1995-2003) PANAMA: Most career HR (358) (1999-2012) - Carlos Lee (MGIM) PR: Most career HR (473) (1993-2009) SOUTH KOREA: Mosr career everything, more or less (2005-present) TAIWAN: Most career HR (2) (not a typo) (2007-2011) UK: Most career HR (264) (1946-1960) - Bobby Thomson (FK) PITCHERS: ARUBA: Most career everything, more or less (1998-2009) - Sidney Ponson (Edgy) COLOMBIA: 1st in W (47), 2nd in Ks (709) (2011-present) COLOMBIA: 2nd in W (46), 1st in Ks (781) (2012-present) DR: Most career W (243) (1960-1975) - Juan Marichal (sharpie) DR: 2nd in W (233) (1997-present) FRANCE: Most career W (62) (1980-1988) JAPAN: Most career W (123) (1995-2008) NETHERLANDS: Most career everything, more or less (1970-1992) - Bert Blyleven (BG) NICARAGUA: Most career everything, more or less (1976-1998) - Dennis Martinez (LWFS) PANAMA: Most career W (1998-2015) - Bruce Chen (Edgy) PANAMA: Most career W (1995-2013) POLAND: Most career everything, more or less (1956-1972) PR: Most career everything, more or less (1998-2011) SOUTH KOREA: Most career everything, more or less (1994-2010) TAIWAN: Most career W (68) (2005-present) - Chien-Ming Wang (JCL) When I was a kid, I was pretty sure Denny and Tippy Martinez were brothers.

Inspired by a blog post about Nicaragua's Al Williams, who spent five years with the Twins in the early 80's after being a guerrilla fighter in his native Nicaragua (!!), I went down the B-R rabbit hole of "players by country of birth." So it's quiz time! Name the player who holds each of the following records. I've given each players active years as a clue. (Usual CPF rules about one guess per post, no double posting, etc.) BATTERS: ARUBA: Most career everything, more or less (2013-present) AUSTRALIA: Most career HR (105) (1992-1999) BRAZIL: Most career HR (57) (2012-present) COLOMBIA: Most career HR (140) (1996-2011) CURACAO: Most career HR (434) (1996-2012) CUBA: Most career HR (569) (1986-2005) DR: Most career HR (609) (1989-2007) DR: 2nd in HR (591) (2001-present) FRANCE: most career HR (26) (1978-1987) GERMANY: Most career HR (78) (1989-1999) JAMAICA: Most career HR (350) (1981-1999) JAPAN: Most career HR (175) (2003-2012) MEXICO: Most career HR (320) (1991-2006) NETHERLANDS: Most career HR (42) (2012-present) NICARAGUA: Most career HR (54) (1995-2003) PANAMA: Most career HR (358) (1999-2012) PR: Most career HR (473) (1993-2009) SOUTH KOREA: Mosr career everything, more or less (2005-present) TAIWAN: Most career HR (2) (not a typo) (2007-2011) UK: Most career HR (264) (1946-1960) PITCHERS: ARUBA: Most career everything, more or less (1998-2009) COLOMBIA: 1st in W (47), 2nd in Ks (709) (2011-present) COLOMBIA: 2nd in W (46), 1st in Ks (781) (2012-present) DR: Most career W (243) (1960-1975) DR: 2nd in W (233) (1997-present) FRANCE: Most career W (62) (1980-1988) JAPAN: Most career W (123) (1995-2008) NETHERLANDS: Most career everything, more or less (1970-1992) NICARAGUA: Most career everything, more or less (1976-1998) PANAMA: Most career W (1998-2015) PANAMA: Most career W (1995-2013) POLAND: Most career everything, more or less (1956-1972) PR: Most career everything, more or less (1998-2011) SOUTH KOREA: Most career everything, more or less (1994-2010) TAIWAN: Most career W (68) (2005-present)

batmagadanleadoff wrote: At his current pace of approximately 60 games per season, K-Rod is about 5 and a half years away from passing Orosco as the all-times games pitched leader. We can't let that happen.

2016: "FUCK IT I'M TAKING EVERYONE WITH ME."

Lefty Specialist wrote: I went this year for the Piazza induction. I'll go for the next Met induction. Which may be a problem because I'm not seeing anything coming up until I'm kinda old. "You rang?" (Sorry. I'll stop.)

Centerfield wrote: I guess you could say that if we trade for Hamilton, we don't need Granderson, but then you are talking about trading 60 HR's away to make room for Hamilton. Just move the fences way back again. Voila! Hamilton hits eighty triples this year. (I don't like Hamilton for Bruce at all.)

Centerfield wrote: It would be strange to have a rotation without any lefties. "You rang?"

Centerfield wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Still going to want some kind of lefty out there at some point. Yeah. I have no idea who though. Maybe the Pirates will give us Bastardo back. "You rang?"

Sweet. Submariners are the BEST.

We can start cutting overpriced players with impunity, yes?

I thought he got some job working for MLB and turned his focus away from the Mets.

Lefty Specialist wrote: I'm spot on with Clemens, unfortunately. Day and year. Ryan Freel and Juan Encarnacion for me; both star-crossed former MLBers. Only Met I share a day with was Willard Hunter.

Oh, there's hope. Hang on. There are five active MLBers who are older than I am: 1. Colon born 1973-05-24 2. Suzuki born 1973-10-22 3. Dickey born 1974-10-29 4. Nathan born 1974-11-22 5. Uehara born 1975-04-03 Colon and Dickey will be in Atlanta, and Uehara signed with the Cubs... but there are two bullpen arms there. Uehara was still VERY effective last season, and Joe Nathan was solid coming back from injury. (Plus, Stony Brook.)

Grounded out once. (?)

There's no question in my mind that Cap'n Intangibles is an MFY HOFer and worthy of number retirement.

This would literally be the only thing he's done that makes any sense. And it only BARELY makes any sense.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I'm exaggerating, of course. 75 at most.

A Boy Named Seo wrote: seawolf17 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: That's Chris Carter getting non-tendered ... following a 41-homerun season. Wow. Imagine that 2-headed platoon monster with Duda. They would hit like 90 home runs.

Ashie62 wrote: Marc Carig, Bruce or Grandy for a reliever with team control. I would trade Carig for a reliever. Any time you can get a useful part for a reporter, I say go for it.

Edgy MD wrote: That's Chris Carter getting non-tendered ... following a 41-homerun season. Wow.

Here you go. NL fWAR Leaders, 1983–1987 1) Tim Raines, MON: 32.6 2) Mike Schmidt, PHI: 31.2 3) Dale Murphy, ATL: 26.4 4) Gary Carter, MON/NYM: 25.9 5) Tony Gwynn, SDP: 25.6 6) Keith Hernandez, STL/NYM: 25.5[/bigpurple] 7) Ozzie Smith, STL 24.1 8) Ryne Sandberg: 21.6 9) Pedro Guerrero: 20.8 10) Bill Doran: 20.3 If you go league-wide, three American Leaguers finish ahead of him: Wade Boggs, Cal Ripken, and (naturally) Ricky Henderson. But that still suggests he's one of the top five players in either league, and the best in the National League, over a meaningful period of time. I could also include pitchers in there. The leading pitcher, as far as fWAR, over that period is Dwight Gooden, with 26.5

Edgy MD wrote: As cherry picked as it may be, that case for Matt Stairs was more compelling than I expected. Can't wait for the induction ceremony.

Vic Sage wrote: If you voted in this poll, which of your candidates received the fewest votes from your fellow Poolers? Now make an argument for that player. Fun challenge. I voted for Matt Stairs as my baseball doppelganger, not as a serious candidate. But rules are rules. Pinch-hitting is perhaps the most misunderstood skill in all of baseball. Spending several innings on the bench each game, chewing gum and spitting, then suddenly to be called on in a spot where your manager says "I need a guy who can get things going RIGHT NOW, and the guy I'm supposed to send up there right now isn't that guy." Well, did you know, my fellow Poolers, who hit more PH home runs than any other player in the HISTORY OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL? I'll give you a hint. It's Matt Stairs, with 23 over his career. With the expansion of baseball over the past fifty years, more fans in more parts of the US and Canada have found teams to call "home." And yet, no modern Hall of Famer played for more than nine different teams, and such, how reflective can the Hall really be of today's game of free agency and player movement? But there's one guy on this year's ballot who got paychecks from TWELVE different major league franchises... and his name starts with "M" and rhymes with "Bat Stairs." There are plenty of Hall of Famers who have never won a World Series. But Matt Stairs not only won a ring with the 2008 Phillies (boo), but he did it while hitting to a 1.250 OPS, including a game-winning pinch-hit home run (!!) in Game 4 of the NLCS. In 1999, Ivan Rodriguez won a very close MVP race in the American League. However, considering that several players who received votes that year were steroid users and should be disqualified (Rodriguez, Manny, Palmeiro, Giambi, A-Rod), two had already won an MVP award (Griffey, Juan Gonzalez), two were pitchers (Pedro, Mariano), two played in Canada (Green, Delgado), three were middle infielders (Alomar, Nomar, Vizquel), one was a MFY (Bernie Williams), and one sucks (Jeter)... the case could be made that the player who finished 17th in the voting should have actually won. That was Matt Stairs. DID YOU KNOW? For a guy not known for his fielding prowess, Matt Stairs made only 40 errors in his entire career. Hall of Famer Pee Wee Reese made 47 errors HIMSELF in 1941 alone. In 2001, Cubs manager Don Baylor sensed that one of his players was a threat to Baylor's legacy as one of the greatest DHs of all time; so late in a blowout June loss to Arizona, he inserted that player at second base, even though he'd never played second base before. Unfortunately, for Baylor, that player played one flawless, chanceless inning of defense, and is now a Hall of Fame candidate... Matt Stairs. Among all right fielders in major league history, Matt Stairs is 169th all time in JAWS. Fellow right fielder Whitey Herzog, however, somehow made it to the Hall despite being 311th all time. Stairs finished his career with 265 home runs, which ties him for 191st all time. There's a certain former shortstop who played across town for a good chunk of his career who's going to get a lot of Hall press when he becomes eligible, despite ONLY hitting 260. Born in Canada, Stairs' 19 seasons is the most of any Canadian player, and his 265 homers are second all time. He also ranks second all-time among Canadians in games (1,895) and walks (717) and third in RBI (899) and doubles (294), and is just one of four Canadians to play for both the Expos and Blue Jays. I rest my case.