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From: john smith on 18 Sep 2009 15:44
In general your bat slows as you age as a player. But the exact opposite
occured with Carl Yastremski. In Yaz's final years he hit the fastball
better than when he was younger. The breaking balls gave him more
trouble as he got older. Yaz was a great player who could turn around
any heater...

From: Zuke on 18 Sep 2009 20:24
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:

> On Sep 17, 10:39 am, Zuke <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, JustTom wrote:
>>> On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:00:53 -0400, "Bob Braun" <oxin...(a)hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>
>>>> Congratulations to a classy professional.
>>
>>> I was kind of surprised there haven't been any yanks with 3000 hits.
>>
>> Makes another case for Vada Pinson for the Hall of Fame. What was
>> he, about 200 hits short? In this day and age he could have probably
>> played another 5 years and made it easily.
>
> I doubt it. He was entering his 37 year season. Was coming
> off a terrible year and hadn't actually played well for
> years. He didn't retire in 1976, nobody wanted him.
>
> I think he's a classic illustration in how a player with
> poor plate discipline but a quick bat is finished the
> moment the bat slows.
>

Yes, I looked up the stats after I posted and saw he had played
quite a while after he left the Reds. Still though he was an
impressive player and would probably be chosen before some people
in the hall, especially in the modern game.

From: Zuke on 18 Sep 2009 20:26



On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, john smith wrote:

> In general your bat slows as you age as a player. But the exact opposite
> occured with Carl Yastremski. In Yaz's final years he hit the fastball
> better than when he was younger. The breaking balls gave him more
> trouble as he got older. Yaz was a great player who could turn around
> any heater...
>
>
From: John Kasupski on 18 Sep 2009 21:05
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:39:50 -0400, Zuke <me(a)privacy.net> wrote:

>Vada's name came up the other day when Phillips went 20-20-20 for the
>3rd time. Pinson did it five times.

The thing about Phillips is that Pinson and Eric Davis have been the only Reds
to do that three or more times in their entire careers. Phillips has done it in
each of the last three years in a row. Only one other player besides Phillips
has done it in the majors during the last three years (Hanley Ramirez, whose has
accomplished the feat with the Marlins this year and last year).

JK

From: Ron Johnson on 19 Sep 2009 17:10
On Sep 18, 8:24 pm, Zuke <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Sep 17, 10:39 am, Zuke <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, JustTom wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:00:53 -0400, "Bob Braun" <oxin...(a)hotmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
>
> >>>> Congratulations to a classy professional.
>
> >>> I was kind of surprised there haven't been any yanks with 3000 hits.
>
> >> Makes another case for Vada Pinson for the Hall of Fame. What was
> >> he, about 200 hits short?  In this day and age he could have probably
> >> played another 5 years and made it easily.
>
> > I doubt it. He was entering his 37 year season. Was coming
> > off a terrible year and hadn't actually played well for
> > years. He didn't retire in 1976, nobody wanted him.
>
> > I think he's a classic illustration in how a player with
> > poor plate discipline but a quick bat is finished the
> > moment the bat slows.
>
> Yes, I looked up the stats after I posted and saw he had played
> quite a while after he left the Reds. Still though he was an
> impressive player and would probably be chosen before some people
> in the hall, especially in the modern game.

Really? Who did you have in mind?
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