December 07, 2005
Olerud Retires
John Olerud is hanging up his spikes. He was one of my favorites. John had a picture perfect swing; no wasted motion, no wasted energy. When I was working on Baseball Tonight Online, Tom Candiottie was asked to name the nicest guy in baseball. Candiotti said, "Not only would I let him baby sit my children, he has baby sat my children!"
Congratulations to John Olerud on a fine career!
Posted by David Pinto at
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Rock solid, true professional. Showing him the door, via a sub market offer, is one of Steve Phillips' forgotten blunders. Utter foolishness, you'd do well to find more Oleruds, not less. Maybe ESPN will do a Phillips' fake news conference to discuss the retirement.
Since 1970 Olerud has the third highest winning percentage of any player in the majors. Can anyone name the top two?
Can you define how you arrived at Olerud's winning percentage?
His team's records for games has has played in.
Position players, not pitchers
Razor: If I had to guess, I would probably say something along the lines of Chipper Jones and Derek Jeter.
I'd throw in someone from the Orioles of the 1970s. Possibly Mark Belanger. Jeter is a very good guess, also. Lonnie Smith always seemed to be playing on a winner, so he is a possibility also.
None of those guesses are correct.
I will give some hints. One is currently a manager in the majors and the other played for the Yankees during their most recent run.
I remember reading something that Mike Stanton made the playoffs every season from 1993 through 2001 or something.
One has got to be David Justice, he always went to the play-offs.
I will give the answers. THe first is Willie Randolph and the second is Paul O'Neill
I'm still convinced that if he didn't hurt his ankle in the 2004 ALCS, knocking him out of the last few games, the Red Sox would have never made it tothe World Series. He would have knocked in at least ONE of those guys Tony Clark stranded on base.
