Scholarship table
Honus Wagner was a SS.
sorry meant Rogers Hornsby...dont know why i often confuse those two
I think Hornsby is consensus #1.
Joe Morgan dead. Damn. It has been a bad year for my childhood heroes.
Maybe #1 once Javy moved over to SS.
Top 10 by career WAR:1 Rogers Hornsby2 Eddie Collins3 Nap Lajoie4 Joe Morgan5 Charlie Gehringer6 Rod Carew7 Robinson Cano (active)8 Bobby Grich9 Ryne Sandberg10 Frankie FrischJackie Robinson is #12, but how many years did he lose because baseball was segregated?
Top 10 by career WAR:1 Rogers Hornsby2 Eddie Collins3 Nap Lajoie4 Joe Morgan5 Charlie Gehringer6 Rod Carew7 Robinson Cano (active)8 Bobby Grich9 Ryne Sandberg10 Frankie FrischAnd, Hornsby and Frisch were traded for one another. (nice little few decade run there for the Cards)
Jackie lost maybe one year to segregation. He didn't play Negro League baseball until 1945. Assume he started playing white organized baseball in 1945 it is safe to assume he'd have spent one year in the minors (like he did in 1946) and would have started in 1946.Robinson was an amazing football player and track athlete and did not focus on baseball when he was a younger man and was really not anything like a finished baseball player in 1945. He was an incredible athlete. If he had focused on being a baseball player from the start and there was no segregation, he'd have probably gotten 5 or 6 more big league seasons before 1947, though even that couldn't have happened because of WWII. He also could've tacked on another year or two at the back end of his career, but he was traded to the Giants and retired rather than play for the Dodgers arch-enemy. That would never happen today.
If you normalize the WAR stat by doing a "per game WAR," Jackie Robinson is only second to Hornsby. To put in perspective, Joe Morgan almost played twice as many games as Robinson.
White Sox job is LaRussa's if he wants it according to Bob Nightengale.Ugh!
Key phrase in bold.If we kept track of baseball reporters' accuracy like we do batting averages, Nightengale would be well below the Mendoza Line.But I won't rule this out because Reinsdorf has had a boner for LaRussa ever since he fired him.
Agreed, if someone other than Nightengale starts reporting more, I'll believe it. Reinsdorf throws Nightengale rumors, so whatever favor is due to LaRussa here is weird. The guy is 76 years old, I don't understand the intent here to get LaRussa's name out there. They can't possibly hire the guy to manage this team in 2021. This whole story is bizarre, but is Reinsdorf-esque.
I have seen a couple other tweets confirming that the Angels gave Chicago permission to talk to Tony.
I firmly believe Rick Hahn in no way, shape, form is hiring LaRussa. If LaRussa were a strict Reinsdorf hire, bypassing Hahn, then Hahn should quit immediately.
I think that's just standard operating protocol for LaRussa and Reinsdorf/Kenny/Hahn to talk about whatever they have in mind for LaRussa, be it cashing in some favor to get LaRussa's name out there (would have no idea why), or to see if Tony is interested in retiring as a member of the Sox front office in some role. I firmly believe Rick Hahn in no way, shape, form is hiring LaRussa. If LaRussa were a strict Reinsdorf hire, bypassing Hahn, then Hahn should quit immediately.
Arozarena is on that 2011 NLCS Braun cycle.
The guy is 76 years old