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3 days ago · That 31% tally was the highest El Tiante would ever reach. His voting support plummeted to 10.5% in 1989, a year with a stacked ballot that featured first-time candidates Yastrzemski, Johnny Bench, Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins, and Jim Kaat. Yaz and Bench were first-ballot inductees.
1 day ago · This stat made me smile: the STL bullpen was called on for 20 and ⅔ innings during the ‘82 postseason, but future Hall of Famer Bruce Sutter handled 58 percent of those innings. The other relievers in ‘82 – Jim Kaat, Doug Bair, Jeff Lahti, and Dave LaPoint – worked only 8⅔ innings collectively in 10 games.
12 hours ago · Throughout Game 2 of the 1992 ALCS, Jim Kaat was stricken with a bad case of laryngitis. [26] As a result, Johnny Bench had to come over from the CBS Radio booth and finish the game with Dick Stockton as a "relief analyst."
2 days ago · Over the next seven years, Steve Carlton (329 wins and four Cy Youngs), Don Sutton (324 wins), Phil Niekro (318 wins), Gaylord Perry (314 wins and two Cy Youngs), Tom Seaver (311 wins and three Cy Youngs), Tommy John (288 wins and a surgery named for him), Fergie Jenkins (284 wins and a Cy Young), Jim Kaat (283 wins) and Jim Palmer (268 wins and three Cy Youngs) all came on the ballot, the ...
1 day ago · During the latter year, he won the first of four consecutive Gold Glove Awards. (Jim Kaat, who had won the award 14 consecutive seasons, moved to the National League, where he won the award that year and in 1977.) Palmer pitching for the Orioles in 1977. After making $185,000 in 1976, Palmer hoped for a raise in 1977.
3 days ago · Rodney Cline Carew (born October 1, 1945) [1] is a Panamanian-American former professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a second baseman, first baseman and designated hitter from 1967 to 1985 for the Minnesota Twins and the California Angels.
Sep 21, 2024 · The five hurlers all taking a spot at the top include Walter Johnson (1914), Jim Shaw (1919), Bob Porterfield (1953), Pedro Ramos (1961), and Jim Kaat (1964). First Base: Harmon Killebrew, 46 Home Runs in 1961. Harmon Killebrew has completely dominated our single-season and all-time Twins home run leaderboard blog posts.
