He was a damn fine player — a seven-time All-Star, in fact. Quietly, Oliver hit 219 homers, scored 1,189 runs and drove in 1,326 while putting up a 795 OPS and 121 OPS+ over an 18-year career. He toiled for seven teams, but was best known for spending a decade in Steel City.
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Take Verlander, for example. We’re probably so accustomed to seeing him dominate year after year that we may be missing the big picture here — that we’re witnessing an all-time great put together a Hall of Fame career that he simply keeps adding to.
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Given that under any circumstances, nothing resembling a full season is in store for us, allowing more teams into the postseason actually makes a lot of sense. Yes, we used the word “sense” in a sentence about the MLB negotiations.
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Then again, both were once budding stars that turned into meh players and bounced around a bit as they neared the end of the careers. We’re of course assuming Headley is done; in Heyward’s case, his story has yet to be completed.
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Then came the offseason trade in December 2018 to St. Louis, where Goldschmidt didn’t hit nearly as well (.260) and saw his ISO dip to its lowest level since 2016. The result was his worst full-season OPS ever.
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Kemp has sunk so far so fast that it’s easy to forget that a mere four years ago, he was on the same career path as an all-time great like Winfield.
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Of course, that got us thinking about Inciarte’s career path and his ultimate place in history, the topic of today’s post.
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