I still remember being a kid and learning that Williams, Ruth, and DiMaggio weren't in the 3K hit club. I had like the 93 or 94 baseball almanac and read that shyt until the covers came off and pages were worn out. But, I was so convinced that book was wrong I remember running to my like all sports almanac of some kind that had and even larger list or all time leaders. And it matched and they still weren't there. I was like WHAT!!
Just went yard again.
I still have Bill James' baseball abstract from the late 90s or early 2000s. It's like a 900 page book that talks about each decade, then ranks the top 100 players overall and top 100 by position.I still remember being a kid and learning that Williams, Ruth, and DiMaggio weren't in the 3K hit club. I had like the 93 or 94 baseball almanac and read that shyt until the covers came off and pages were worn out. But, I was so convinced that book was wrong I remember running to my like all sports almanac of some kind that had and even larger list or all time leaders. And it matched and they still weren't there. I was like WHAT!!
Also speaking of reading physical almanacs
I had that as well. I think the last time I picked up one of his books was probably the 2017 or 2018 handbook. My main baseball buy now days in terms of books. Is I get the Baseball America Prospect Handbook like every 2 years.
Carpenter has struggled against lefties during his career but he also doesn't have many at-bats against them. Coming into tonight's game, he's had 24 plate appearances against lefties on the season. They've constantly been benching him when lefties have started games. Complete idiocy by the Tigers. It's a lost season; let this kid get as many reps as possible so he can learn and improve against southpaws.
He has an OPS of .932 on the season and they don't want him to hit against lefties.
