Every Club's Player Who Dominated The 1980's

We just finished up a decade, and we wrote many, many stories commemorating the end of it, including an All-Decade Team. But now that we all have some more time on our hands, baseball-wise, it might be time for some other decade-looks-back.

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Rangers, Padres, Brewers, Twins, Nationals, Mets, & Athletics Showing Interest In Robert Puason

In 2017 and 2018, shortstops Wander Franco and Orelvis Martinez became the most pampered young people of July 2. This year, everything is projected so that another representative of this position will take over the headlines among those who will receive the most lucrative bonuses within about 15 days  (Translated)

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Why A Rick Ankiel Comeback Is Good For The Cardinals & Baseball

Once upon a time, Rick Ankiel struck out 222 batters in just 161 innings. Granted, they were minor league batters in High A ball, but his talent wasn't a secret for long. The southpaw was the #1 prospect in the game and his arrival in the big leagues carried the anticipation of a Star Wars film.

KSDK

Ruben Amaro, Sr. Dead At 81

Ruben Amaro Sr. served the Philadelphia Phillies in many roles throughout a life in which he devoted himself to baseball. He was their shortstop for five years, their first-base coach for two seasons, including their 1980 World Series win. And he was a scout too, responsible for bringing players like Julio Franco and Juan Samuel from the Caribbean to Philadelphia.

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Lotte Named Julio Franco Hitting Coach

South Korean baseball club Lotte Giants announced Tuesday they've hired former American League batting champion Julio Franco as their minor league hitting coach.

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At 57, Julio Franco Can't Quit Playing Baseball

JULIO FRANCO HAS a translator standing a few feet away, but at the moment, he doesn't need him, yelling to his players in Japanese. The three hitters taking batting practice in the grassless infield seem hesitant, so Franco switches to English and lowers the volume. His translator, a 25-year-old former salesman named Keita Sugano, jumps into action.

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Rick Hummel & Ray King On The Morning After 7-1-15

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How Jim Kaat Appeared Forever Young

Jim Kaat is a candidate for election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame because of his pitching and fielding achievements. He also accomplished base running and hitting feats for the Cardinals that enhance his status as a special baseball player.

RetroSimba

Julio Franco Will Handle Pitching Coach Duties For Caracas At Beginning Of Season

Julio Franco will wear the shirt of Leones del Caracas. The former pitching coach metropolitan will handle that role on an interim basis, while Ariel Prieto comes, who is serving coach work on large team Oakland Athletics.  (translated)

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Julio Franco To Play For Fort Worth In Opening Homestand

The Fort Worth Cats’ General Manager, Craig Brasfield, proudly announced today that former major leaguer Julio Franco will join the Fort Worth Cats Baseball Club as player/coach for the first home stand of the 2014 season, which begins on Tuesday, May 20. Based upon Franco’s addition, the United League has extended the Cats initial homestand through Wednesday, May 28. Franco’s addition to the team will allow him to join a rare fraternity of players to play five decades of professional baseball.

Fort Worth

Dail Villanueva Struggles In La Guaira's First Scrimmage

Young Hector Mayora and Dail Villanueva got in trouble and told the cops anti present with his shot under the watchful eyes of the technical staff, headed by Marty DeMerritt Julio Franco, who had talks with each of those who were mounted on the hill.  (Translated)

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Dail Villanueva & Renyel Pinto Invited To La Guaira Minicamp

Between Monday 16 and Thursday 19 September, La Guaira Sharks held a mini camp with the participation of the players in the currency this year did not travel to play in any league outside the country.  (Translated)

La Guaira Official Site

La Guaira Hires Julio Franco As Bench Coach

With a long career of 23 years playing ball in the major leagues, and a total of 2,586 career hits in that period, Julio César Robles Franco, was chosen by the board of La Guaira Sharks to be the bench coach of the campaign litoralenses 2013-2014.  (Translated)

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Julio Franco Taking Time Off Coaching To Work With Son

Julio Franco had great start as a leader in the Baseball America in its first year won the crown with the Caribs of Anzoategui in Venezuela, but as soon as this year would take a "sabbatical."

Listin Diario

GIDP: The Underrated Production Killer

Earlier in the week, I wrote a post about how grounding into double plays erased 16.5% of Jim Rice's career offensive value. Of course, Rice isn't the only player I looked into, but the story really evolved to go into Rice further. Today, I'll share a few graphs of some other players of interest.

Beyond The Boxscore

Jim Brower, Jake Woods, Dale Thaler, Andrew Baldwin, Joselo Diaz, Reggie Taylor, Joe Koshansky, & Eric Campbell To Play For Caribes

Indigenous machinery once again supported the mix of youth and experience base led by the Creole and Julio Franco, faces the 2010-2011 with the firm intention of returning to winning ways and advance to the final stages. (Translated)

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Politics Of Trading Within The NL Central

For perspective, consider that the last time the St. Louis Cardinals and Houston Astros found an agreeable deal between two division rivals, the pitcher involved had a recognizable name and a place in history with one of the franchises. He was a fan favorite. He had been the ace of the staff. He was disappointed by losing.

Birdland

The Predictably Unpredictable Career of Jamie Moyer

Sometimes my timing stinks. This is one of those times.

Last Friday afternoon I finished the rough draft of a column on Jamie Moyer that began by noting how incredible it is that a 47-year-old could be 6-5 with a 3.98 ERA so deep in the season. Then I made some comments about his overall career before concluding that as nice and heartwarming as his season was, he was incredibly unlikely to keep his performance up, because his 2010 performance was entirely dependent on a BABIP that was more than 50 points lower than his career marker.

The Hardball Times

Inside Baseball: Players Union Has A Problem Which Needs Fixing

The Major League Players Association is opposing the new immigration law in Arizona, and considering the large percentage of its members who are citizens of foreign countries, this appears to be the stance which the union should take.

STL Globe-Democrat

Julio Franco Named Caribes de Anzoategui Of The Venezuelan League Manager

The Caribbean Board of Anzoategui, Venezuela's professional baseball, made official on Saturday the hiring of Julio Franco as manager of the East set for the 2010-2011 season that begins next October. (Translated)

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