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Everything posted by notin
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I disagree with the choice for a couple reasons. 1. He barely played. Sure he was a waste of money, but not nearly as much of one as some other players, notably Pablo Sandoval.And the Sox have had plenty of players who barely played who were worse. Jose Peraza, for example. 2. Castillo did play elite defense, which really shouldn’t be ignored.
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I get proven wrong all the time out here. Proven wrong, not “disagreeable opinion.” I move on…
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Not to mention, is it really all that insulting? “Worst player ever capable of playing/starting in Major League Baseball for the Red Sox” really might not be that shameful of a dishonor. Just being eligible contains a certain amount of accomplishment. Like coming in last in the Olympics…
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Then stop getting so defensive every time someone else expresses one. If some else’s opinion is “You’re wrong,” aren’t they entitled to that?
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In think the worst Red Sox player should be someone who actually, you know, played. You know someone who, when you saw them starting, made you think “when are they going to replace this guy?”
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Maybe we could also have a “Biggest Letdown Prospect” thread. And hear about disappointing players besides Lars Anderson…
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I think if Rusney didn’t keep getting hurt, and if he didn’t get caught up in a luxury tax limbo, he would have been fine. Probably not $72 mill worth of fine, but good enough to make other flops more noticeable…
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1.6 WAR isn’t an opinion. It’s data…
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He also started for what? 4 years? Rusney played the equivalent of 1/2 of a season in a 5 year deal. Playing time matters
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He was also very injury-prone, with my personal (and completely unsubstantiated) theory being that his foot problems began when Will Middlebrooks tripped him in the 2013 World Series. After that, Craig just got hurt doing anything. It got to the point that if he tried to make tuna fish on toast, he’d end up in the burn unit with mayonnaise in his hair…
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If contracts don’t matter, Rusney’s defense - which can be placed among the best outfielders in MLB by some metrics - keep him off this list. And worst contract puts Pablo Sandoval squarely atop this list The issue with a “worst player” is playing time needs to be a factor. Dwayne Hosey was a really bad player, but he also only had 168 plate appearances over 2 seasons. Jack Lopez didn’t look like much either, but these were AAA or AAAA guys called up for emergencies and shouldn’t have been relied upon. Someone like Glenn Hoffman (Trevor’s older brother) who posted a.635 OPS (OPS+ 71) in over 2000 PA while providing weak defense needs far greater mention…
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Bad idea. Someone will inevitably nominate Curt Schilling. While Schilling can be polarizing and Carrie’s many extremist ideas, at the end of the day all he does is talk a lot. If e want Sox scumbags, let’s nip the political rheotoric in the bud and agree Schilling is not in the same league as spousal abusers and cheaters and plenty of other insufferable players whose laundry made us cheer…
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Everett was a jackass, but Julio Valdez was a pedophile…
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You only put her on a pedestal so you could look up her skirt…
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If the Yomiuri Giants want you, the Yomiuri Giants get you. Why would anyone settle for Chunichi between those two teams. It’s like trying to choose between joining the cast of Saturday Night Live or teaming up with some guy named Dave who has some puppets and works the occasional kid’s birthday party…
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I see only 7 of 20 on the west coast. Of course you left off Kasahiro Sasaki (Sea), Kenjhi Jojima (Sea), Shigetoshi Hasegawa (Anaheim), Hideo Nomo (LAD), Kaz Ishii (LAD). But then you left out a bunch to play on non-west coast teams, too, like Kaz Matsui (Mets) and Nori Aoki (Brewers). And when did Kikuchi retire?!?
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It does seem like the majority of Japanese players do sign with teams on the West Coast originally…
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Or the rest of MLB. The rampant cocaine abuse back then lead to the steroid ban, as illegal steroids were just rolled into the MLB policy for illegal drugs. Gooden and Strawberry were certainly big offenders, but four members of the Kansas City Royals (Willie Wilson, Willie Aikens, Vida Blue and Jerry Martin) spent an off-season in jail in cocaine charges back then. And during the famous Pittsburgh Drug Trials in the late 80s, members of the Pirates (including the late Rod Scurry) testified to meeting dealers and using coke during games. Steve Howe admitted to using cocaine in the bullpen during games and was received multiple lifetime suspensions. And Hall of Famer Tim Raines testified in court that he used to slide into bases head first because he had glass vials of cocaine in his back pocket.
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I do agree the whole POP PEE thing is a bit childish. Now if David Ortiz had tested positive for cocaine and someone labeled him David Snortiz, I could get behind that for a while. Oh great. Now I put the words “David Ortiz had tested positive for cocaine” in a sentence. Apparently that’s enough to convince some people he did that too…
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So instead of “innocent until proven guilty,” you prefer “guilty due to unsupported accusation”? Did you also think Richard Jewell was guilty?
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At least twice…
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Attitude
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While laughably bad and lacking in physics knowledge, it’s still not really relevant…
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Oh but in the CPI, we’re all judges, screaming an array of verdicts with or without evidence. For instance, we don’t even know what substances MLB tested for in 2003, let alone whether or t they were legal. Someone mentioned Sammy Sosa testing positive. One thing we do know about Sosa is he was an admitted creatine user. Did they test for creatine then? Was that what he allegedly failed for? If so, probably worth noting creatine has never been banned by MLB and is still legal today…
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Not really relevant, but the “Dodge Falling Iguana” was actually a finalist in their pickup truck naming meetings…
