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Email a copy of 'Carlos Delgado Talks Career, Retirement' to a friend
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pastlives
cheers to a great person, player, and career. thanks for making some tough years in toronto watchable, carlos.
BenchedMark
one of the greatest Jays of all time!!
Lunchbox45
best home grown position player by far
Encarnacion's Parrot
Hmmm.. I’m not sure I can agree with this. Tony Fernandez was ok, and played a premiere position like a beast.
Andrew
He hit so many home runs off of windows restaurant that it looked easy. Now it very rarely happens that anyone hits one up there. He is one of the classiest players to ever play. He is one of the main reasons I have become such a big baseball fan and he has been missed in Toronto since 2004. Enjoy your retirement.
Cobby Box
I feel this weird sense of pride and accomplishment that MLBTR gets phone calls and emails from players and teams now. I’ve been around since the days when you could actually go a full day with no new updates, there really weren’t regular features and you certainly weren’t getting inside info. *sniff* our little website is all grown up.
Chris Strovel
Shows you how skewed the steroid era was. Averaged 35 homers over a 13-year stretch and made exactly two all-star teams.
$1519287
I heard some people talking about that yesterday and I don’t think ASG appearances are a fair way to evaluate Delgado. Giambi and Tino Martinez got much more support in terms of fan votes, as far as I can recall, and first base is a competitive position. Delgado has 49 WAR which puts him in Vizquel, Puckett, Grace, Lou Brock, Carlos Beltran, Will Clark territory. HoF territory but no sure thing.
– BNS
Anon Smith
One of the greatest Jays ever… in true “where is Toronto?” style, pictured in a Mets uniform.
Infield Fly
Ey, I loved Delgado in Toronto AND NY.
Two great towns, and two teams to love him on. Works for me!
(But yeah, he is definitely pride of the Jays. I give props!).
$1519287
We didn’t have access to any Jays photos. Mets and Marlins only. Would have loved an old shot of him in the catching gear.
– BNS
Lunchbox45
ask and you shall recieve
Infield Fly
I see you’re still smarter than us (and more drunk)!
GO JAYS!!
(didn’t forget it THIS time!)
Encarnacion's Parrot
Glad you filled in the last bit this time.
$1519287
That’s great!
boraswannabe
God Bless America…
NickinIthaca
So here’s my question… with all of the hooplah and backlash against confirmed (and accused) steroids users getting into the Hall, does that mean that someone like Delgado, who has never been implicated as far as I know, gets in now? His numbers are close/borderline (if only because of the injuries), but if all of the players with first ballot numbers (Bonds, Manny, A-Rod, Palmeiro, Clemens, etc.) are going to be ignored because of their association with steroids, someone has to get in right? Are voters just planning on not voting any one in for the next 15 years because those with Cooperstown numbers are thought to have juiced, and those who didn’t juice didn’t reach those numbers?
Just wondering where the madness will end, I guess….
Joshua
The real problem is that there are still enough guys who would vote for Bonds, Sosa, Clemens and McGwire that they’ll stay on the ballot, but not enough to actually vote them in. This, combined with the 10 vote limit, will really hurt some of those fringe candidates.
Lunchbox45
I think your phrase ‘someone has to get in right?’ is the biggest issue..
I for one don’t think that because admitted or caught steroid users are refused entry that lesser players make the cut. I think they will just not annoint anyone a HOF instead
John Reynolds
to this day i will never understand how A-Rod beat Delgado in the 2003 MVP voting. Delgado’s stats were better than A-Rod’s, and he wasn’t juiced, but was it because of A-Rod’s defense? I know Delgado wasn’t a valuable fielder, but he still put that Jays team on the map for sure. He made players around him better, ala Vernon Wells. Too bad we can’t take MVP awards away 🙁 delgado still deserves it over that steroid freak.
BlueJaysFTW
Why is there a picture of him as a Met?
Chris Bosh
Carlos Delgado, the 2003 AL MVP.
wickedkevin
Delgado comes off as the guy who would cry his eyes out for a WS ring late in his career. I wish that could have happened for him.
brian
Looking forward to all the hack sports writers stories about how they can’t vote for him.
The Big Clayboski
How did you get Carlos Delgado’s phone number?
bobbybaseball
Delgado and Shawn Green both benefitted from Roger Clemens, if you know what I mean.
buchachan
Hmm… Trolling, what a new concept. Now go away.
bobbybaseball
Hmmm…ignorance, what a new concept. You are blind.
Neel Kamal
Another Traffic Post! Keep Going…
shk66
He had a great career. Disappointed he couldn’t make one last run.
I was in the crowd his last day as a Blue Jay. He fell short of 100 RBI that season, finishing with 99. He was on deck for the last out with one man on (Orlando Hudson was on base, Vernon Wells flew out to end the game). If he had hit 100, he would’ve had 9 straight years of 100 RBI seasons.