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The Mariners in 2009 were able to replace the sudden retirement of Ken Griffey Jr. by replacing him with an adorable sleeping Corgi.
randomkeys
You might want to link to Rabbit Maranville’s major league stats… They’re a bit more interesting than the minor league ones you’ve got:
baseball-reference.com/players/m/maranra01.shtml
BlueSkyLA
I don’t think anyone believed that Juan Pierre was going to be a “disaster” replacing Manny. Pierre has always been an excellent slap hitter, and a much better outfielder than Manny, except for his arm.
bigpat
I don’t think anyone seen Sam Fuld being as good as he’s been so far, but it appears they are much better of with him instead of Manny. And I remember arguing on here about Manny being done, seems I got the last laugh…
Paul
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Richard Janvrin
Fuld is from my home state of NH and I saw him on the Cubs since ’07, he’s got talent just didn’t get playing time. Had an “Ofer” yesterday striking out 4 times, but he is a god send to our team. We can still compete.
Guest 6762
Wait… Manny couldn’t hit anyway… how was it at all hard to replace him? (He still was able to get walks… that’s it…)
TapDancingTeddy
The loss of Thurman Munson was made so much worse by the futility of those who replaced him.
It is hard to forget about a man like Munson and the loss his family had to endure, but watching Narron and Gulden made it impossible to forget about the baseball side of the loss, too.
I’m sorry for going on about it here, but Thurman, though a gruff player, was a really good family man. Hard to forget him or how bad I felt watching games for a long while after he died.
The Big Clayboski
Um, I heard of Sam Fuld. Probably because I watch teams other than the Mets, unlike the writer of this article.
Robert Gaito
I love this website immensely. I check it everyday. But good golly, Howard, I can’t say I’m a fan of your writing style. In a usually very well written direct style of analysis/link roundups, your “authors note: ZOMG is… well.. Doesn’t really blend in with the rest of the site….