Flashes in the Pan; 1980-present
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by user Manny Stiles
There's a ton of good rookies making big impacts this year. Will they last? Will Francisco Liriano go the way of Nelson Liriano? Is Justin Verlander another Todd Van Poppel? Is Jonathan Papelbon the next Gregg Olson?
Does any baseball story warm your heart like the Legend of Joe Charboneau? Here's a guy that won the RoY with .289 avg and 23 dingers, then proceeded to fall off the face of the planet. Many people forsaw a Hall of Fame career, even writing songs about "Super Joe". Back injuries and a penchant for opening beer bottles with his eyesocket did him in. 201 games played and out of baseball.
Who was going to be the BIGGEST thing but completely fizzled?
There is such guys as...
- Luis Medina
- Kevin Maas
- Sam Horn
- Ron Jones
- Chris Brown
- Tim Pyznarski
- Hensley Meulens
- Torey Luvullo
- Billy Jo Robidoux
- Rick Ankiel
- Francisco Cabrera
- Charlie Kerfeld... the list is huge once you remember 'these guys'
I wanna go beyond the Gregg Jefferies', Steve Averys, Jose Linds, Oddibe McDowells, David Wests and JD Drews of the world (all the plurals were for you Ross K) - guys with impossible hype to live up to, but had semi-lengthy careers, nonetheless
Maybe Bob Hamelin (who crushed Manny Ramirez in RoY) is the cutoff line, he played just under 500 games and disappered forever. (Pat Listach played 503 games)
Now, everyone knows Mark Fidrych, etc... Bobo Holloman who threw a no-hitter his first start and won 2 more games in his career...but let's keep it from Charboneau to present..
Since 1980, who are the biggest flashes in the pan?'
- P.S. - I still have 7 open spaces in the Stiles Fantasy Football Draftniks league.
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Date
Tue 08/01/06, 8:38 am EST
