1,000 baseball player thread

[stringer bell]

Purdue QB and Twins second baseman Bernie Allen.

[the_youngster]

Hometown guy, and current Cedar Rapids DL member, Blake Schmit, who my sister had a crush on in elementary school.

[Craig Arko]

Playing the Angels now.

 

Alex Johnson.

[luckylager]

My favorite Twin of the early 80's. Long-time (now former) Angels hitting coach.

 

A genuine goofball - Mickey Hatcher

[twinsnorth49]

Best player from Manitoba to play MLB and one of my favourite Twins, Corey Koskie.

[puckstopper1]

My first favorite Twin - Rodney Cline Carew.

[puckstopper1]

Since I'm late to the thread - I thought I'd add a 2nd -

 

To quote Calvin Griffith - "Love that kid" - Butch Wynegar!

[BK432]

The guy with whom I had an odd infatuation with as a young Twins fan who also followed the Mets. Played with San Diego, the Mets and Kansas City in his career. Career slash of .265/.328.447 and a career OPS+ of 115. Not a particularly good defender, he still managed a career bWAR of 29.9 in 12 season, including 30 seasons of 4.2 or greater. Finished 3rd in NL MVP voting in '88, in a season where he slashed .288/.336/.496 with 27 HR, 21 SB and 99 RBI.

 

Kevin McReynolds. Accomplished MLBer.

Edited July 21, 2015 by BK432

[Monkeypaws]

The pride of Appleton Minnesota and former Twin:

 

http://bioproj.sabr.org/bp_ftp/images4/KoosmanJerry.jpg

 

 

Koooooooooos!

[nicksaviking]

A forgotten Twin despite having a single season at the age of 39 that saw 37 SB vs only 7 CS and a .361 OBP, Otis Nixon.

 

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3283/1916/320/nixon1.jpg

 

Oh good lord! That's why we forgot.

[stringer bell]

Former Twin from St. Paul--Tom Burgmeier. I remember him as a very versatile pitcher, who might go 5 innings one day and then be a LOOGy for a week, never facing more than a batter or two.

[twinsnorth49]

I think the Twins would really value Geoff Zahn's consistency right now.

[BeenHazy]

 

A forgotten Twin despite having a single season at the age of 39 that saw 37 SB vs only 7 CS and a .361 OBP, Otis Nixon.

 

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3283/1916/320/nixon1.jpg

 

Oh good lord! That's why we forgot.

I'll taken one-season Twins with drug problems for $200, Alex...Who was Steve Howe?

[Oldgoat_MN]

In high school I played against a catcher from Chaska, MN named Brad Gulden.

 

Next thing I ever heard about him after high school was when I read that he was catching for the Yankees.

[Pius Jefferson]

http://cdn.retrowaste.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/MelOtt.jpg

 

I don't know why but he might be my all time favorite player. 'Master Melvin' Mel Ott.

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

Closest I can get to my age, my hometown (but not quite on either): 2200+ MLB PAs, six teams...Mike Kingery, Atwater Minnesota.

I'm from Murdock! I was a Senior when Mike Kingery was a Junior, and he struck me out at least once. Very impressive player. I was glad he had a successful Major League career. I lived in San Francisco when he played there and was quite proud to say that I was from a tiny MN town and had played against him. Way to go, USAFCHIEF!

Edited July 23, 2015 by ScrapTheNickname

[puckstopper1]

Sticking with the hometown and ex Twin slant - David Mark Winfield - in my opinion the greatest athlete the City of Saint Paul ever produced (sorry Joe!)

[Jham]

From my hometown of Faribault, Minnesota.  Current White Sox reliever, Jake Patricka.

[stringer bell]

Not an ex-Twin and not my hometown (I went to college there) Bill Gullickson born in Marshall, MN.

[Craig Arko]

Playing the Yankees.

 

Bobby Murcer

[nicksaviking]

Another guy from my hometown and one time Twin (who never actually played) Rick Helling.

[WxMan17]

Local guy, inspiration for my screen name, the rocker, the collecter, the side-armer

Pat Neshek

[WxMan17]

This little known Twin had zero hits and two strike outs in his 12 plate apperances with the team, but did catch all 9 innings of a  J. Santana 11 - strikeout win vs. the White Sox

 

 

Corky Miller

Edited July 25, 2015 by WxMan17

[Pius Jefferson]

He had a career ERA of infinity 

 

Fred Bruckbauer

[WxMan17]

An homage to my time living in Hawaii, the most Hawaiian MLB name:

 

 

Kila Ka'aihue

[Pius Jefferson]

How many players have been named so far?

 

 

Continuing the Aloha theme.

 

Benny Agbayani

[WxMan17]

 

How many players have been named so far?

 

 

This is post #117, so 117 now..

 

Another Hawaiian, an almost-Twin (Drafted in the 16th round in 2008), I got to see him play at the U. of Hawaii, now 2B for the Cardinals

Kolten Wong

[ashbury]

Old Hoss Radbourn

[Pius Jefferson]

 

This is post #117, so 117 now..

 

Another Hawaiian, an almost-Twin (Drafted in the 16th round in 2008), I got to see him play at the U. of Hawaii, now 2B for the Cardinals

Kolten Wong

 

Duh. I was thinking not every post included a player.

 

He made his major league debut this week. 

 

Aaron Nola

[stringer bell]

 

He had a career ERA of infinity 

 

Fred Bruckbauer

I named Fred a while back. I read his bio when he passed away. Born in New Ulm and a resident of Sleepy Eye, he made one appearance with the '61 Twins and failed to retire a batter.