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The first of our 5-time World Series winners the Cincinnati Reds began in 1882 in the American Association and won their first WS in 1919 vs. the Black Sox.  We think of the 'Big Red Machine' but there have been some other great Reds teams and players that we talk about. Should have mentioned Eppa Rixey holds most of the Reds pitching records.  Bid McPhee was an original Red and was a second baseman not a pitcher. 

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We've not been doing our 'This Week in Baseball' Episodes but thought that New Year's Day would be the perfect time to summarize where things are in baseball halfway through the off-season. There are still a bunch of free agents to be signed, players to be traded and rosters to be filled out.  We talk about which teams have done well and might be winning this off-season.

The Royals also signed Michael Wacha.  

The 2024 season opens March 20 in Korea! We want to wish everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year!  Thanks for listening!

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We read some of the 1950's scouting reports on famous players and they are both hilarious and entertaining. Baseball scouting movies are plentiful with Moneyball being one of the most important baseball  stories regarding the scouting of players.  From being a '5-tool' player to the 20-80 evaluation system for players things have come a long way. 

Is scouting today easier or more difficult before technology and data came into playing such an important part? We discuss it all and had great fun reading the scouting reports of Sandy Koufax, Willie McCovey and Tom Seaver! 

This is our final podcast of 2023 so we want to wish everyone a healthy and Happy New Year since on Monday next year is here!

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The 'D' on the Tigers cap is one of the most iconic logos in all of sports.  Ty Cobb holds most of the all-time hitting offensive categories.  Yet the Tigers have an amazing amount of Hall of Famers around the diamond. Harry Heillman, Al Kaline, Charlie Gehringer, Alan Trammel, and George Kell all were Tigers through and through.

They've won 4 World Series and lost 7. We talk about the other great Tigers and the greatest manager in Tiger history.  Lance Parrish had a career bWAR of 39.5.   

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Lance Parrish had a career bWAR of 39.5.  

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A listener Chris S. suggested we talk about the HOFers who wore team caps on their plaque in Cooperstown, and those that did not. This year HOFer Andre Dawson again petitioned to have his HOF plaque changed to have him wear a Cubs cap instead an Expo cap which the Baseball Hall of Fame mandated. Sometimes a HOFer had an unusual reason for not going in wearing a logo on his cap at all. 

We discuss all the teams HOFers and only the Rays and the Marlins have zero players wearing that team's cap.  We also discuss players on this year's HOF ballot and if they were to be elected, what cap the player might wear.

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They are 4 time World Series Champions - the Braves. First in Boston, then to Milwaukee and since 1966 in Atlanta. The Braves have dominated the NL East for more than 30 years.  It wasn't always like that and when they were in Boston from 1912-1952 they won 1 WS and were only in 1 other. We talk about their triumphs as well as their years of lousy baseball.

Tommy Holmes fell short of 2,000 hits not 3,000.  And the Braves did win the NL East in 1982 but lost the NLCS.  

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In addition to pitching in MLB having only one arm, Jim Abbott was one of the players to go straight to the Major Leagues without ever playing in the minors. There are many interesting players who skipped the minors entirely.

We also discuss a list of 10 year or more players who went straight to the bigs before the MLB draft was instituted in 1965.  It does not happen much anymore and we talk about the reasons for that. 

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Last week we did the 3x champion Cubs and this week the 3x champion White Sox.  The Pale Hose have the 2005 improbably championship to live off of since the other two were before 1918!  Lots of great ChiSox to talk about given the long 50 year drought between WS appearances - 1919 to 1959!

Mark was wrong - Luis Aparicio is a HOFer but did not ever win the MVP although he was Rookie of the Year.

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Correction - The Dodgers will open the 2024 season in South Korea vs. the Padres.   

Have you noticed that MLB dugouts are getting crowded? With all the coaches old and new beyond the manager?  Bench coaches have not been a regular thing in baseball history but they are now and have been since the late 1980s.  We discuss coaches, The HOF Contemporary Committee and Ford Frick Award votes AND talk about baseball winter meetings. We do wish we were there!

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2016 slayed a lot of demons for the Cubs. Considering that their prior WS championships were back-to-back in 1907 and 1908.  They have a winning record all-time and 11 pennants since 1901.  Born as the Chicago White Stockings (but not the White Sox) the Cubs have fewer all-time great players than you might think for a 148 year old franchise!

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