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re: What are some notable baseball careers that started off HOF worthy only to derail badly.
Posted on 4/7/21 at 8:56 pm to msudawg1200
Posted on 4/7/21 at 8:56 pm to msudawg1200
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Eric Davis
Him and Strawberry were best friends growing up.
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Posted on 4/7/21 at 11:44 pm to IAmNERD
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Those two were the key to the Twins decent run they had through the mid-00's. Mauer had three consecutive seasons with 30+ HRs then it seemed like he just disappeared as quickly as he came on.
Mauer had a great career, he just stopped hitting home runs and he played on bad teams that got no national attention.
Posted on 4/7/21 at 11:46 pm to LSU - Mill Valley CA
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There are some startling bad takes in this thread. Perhaps none worse than Lincecum. He is one of only two pitchers in MLB history to win multiple World Series Championships, win multiple Cy Young Awards, throw multiple no hitters and be elected to multiple All Star games. The other is Sandy Koufax. I suppose one could say that his career derailed after an injury 9 years later, but jeez, derailed badly?
He had longer sustained success than many of the guys listed here, but he completely fell off the map.
Posted on 4/7/21 at 11:48 pm to LSU - Mill Valley CA
Lincecum is not making the HOF 
Posted on 4/8/21 at 5:46 am to West Palm Tiger561
Ken Griffey Jr.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 6:30 am to West Palm Tiger561
Starting to look like Kris Bryant.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 6:49 am to Bench McElroy
quote:yep
Nomar Garciaparra.
he had 6 seasons of All-star/ MVP caliber play and then basically NOTHING
This post was edited on 4/8/21 at 6:50 am
Posted on 4/8/21 at 7:46 am to kciDAtaE
I'm going to go fairly to severely old school here.
Randy Jones
Mark Davis
John Montefusco
Cesar Cedeno (good career but four or five years into it he was being labeled the next Willie Mays and he ended up playing about 20 years and has never sniffed the Hall of Fame)
Bobby Bonds(another member of the "next Willie Mays" club)
Bobby Murcer (member of the "next Mickey Mantle" club)
Tony Oliva
Steve Busby (the pre-Tommy John era has a list of pitchers who could be on this list longer than a line at the DMV)
Herb Score
Albert Belle
Ewell Blackwell
Randy Jones
Mark Davis
John Montefusco
Cesar Cedeno (good career but four or five years into it he was being labeled the next Willie Mays and he ended up playing about 20 years and has never sniffed the Hall of Fame)
Bobby Bonds(another member of the "next Willie Mays" club)
Bobby Murcer (member of the "next Mickey Mantle" club)
Tony Oliva
Steve Busby (the pre-Tommy John era has a list of pitchers who could be on this list longer than a line at the DMV)
Herb Score
Albert Belle
Ewell Blackwell
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:03 am to West Palm Tiger561
Mark Prior
Kerry Wood
That early 00's Cubs rotation was one of the GOATs.
Kerry Wood
That early 00's Cubs rotation was one of the GOATs.
This post was edited on 4/8/21 at 9:05 am
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:27 am to PublixSubs
texas high school phenom.
last name David
pitched no hitter first mlb game. did not finish the season. blew arm out
last name David
pitched no hitter first mlb game. did not finish the season. blew arm out
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:30 am to sms151t
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Piazza
what?
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:35 am to 88Wildcat
Tony Oliva had a couple of bad knee injuries, but had a couple of batting titles before he had to give it up.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:46 am to West Palm Tiger561
nm: basically just VolsOut's post
This post was edited on 4/8/21 at 9:47 am
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:47 am to FightinTigersDammit
That dude could hit........
Posted on 4/8/21 at 10:18 am to PublixSubs
I really wanna say Adam Wainwright.
Bulldozed as a reliever in the playoffs as a rookie en-route to helping clinch a WS title.
4 top 3 finishes in CYA and likely would have at least one, or two, if not a split vote one year with Carpenter and Kershaw and Lincecum years.
Had a 1.61 ERA in 4 starts in 2015 before he blew out his Achilles stumbling out of the box.
Never been close to the same pitcher since. That LE injury just robbed him of speed on his fastball and his pitches had considerably less bite.
Would he have kept up the pace had he not gotten injured in 15? I dunno. But between COVID and the Achilles I think he lost about 50 potential wins which would put him around 218 in his career at this point.
I mean...
His peripheral numbers prior to 15 were getting better. He had a streak of 19, 20, 14, 19, 20 win seasons with 19 CG at the time. You could argue he was the best RhP in the NL during that time.
Bulldozed as a reliever in the playoffs as a rookie en-route to helping clinch a WS title.
4 top 3 finishes in CYA and likely would have at least one, or two, if not a split vote one year with Carpenter and Kershaw and Lincecum years.
Had a 1.61 ERA in 4 starts in 2015 before he blew out his Achilles stumbling out of the box.
Never been close to the same pitcher since. That LE injury just robbed him of speed on his fastball and his pitches had considerably less bite.
Would he have kept up the pace had he not gotten injured in 15? I dunno. But between COVID and the Achilles I think he lost about 50 potential wins which would put him around 218 in his career at this point.
I mean...
His peripheral numbers prior to 15 were getting better. He had a streak of 19, 20, 14, 19, 20 win seasons with 19 CG at the time. You could argue he was the best RhP in the NL during that time.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 10:22 am to Athos
Raul Mondesi
Posted on 4/8/21 at 10:30 am to tduecen
Damon Martinez at 22 he went 20-9 with a 2.92 ERA over 234 innings, the following season he went 17-13 with a 3.27 ERA over 220 innings
After that is was mostly average to below-average seasons for the guy but he managed 14 seasons and was retired by 33
After that is was mostly average to below-average seasons for the guy but he managed 14 seasons and was retired by 33
Posted on 4/8/21 at 10:32 am to EuphoricSSP
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Dontrelle Willis
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Hanley Ramirez
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Jose Fernandez
Lots of Marlins on this list. Seems to be a reoccurring theme in the franchise.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 10:33 am to PublixSubs
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Ryan Howard NL MVP (2006)
One of the biggest MVP robberies ever. Pujols was incredible that year.
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