Article: Game Thread: Twins @ Braves, 8/16 @ 6:10pm CT

[jimbo92107]

At this point I'd keep E Santana around next season as a top ro starter and mentor for Berrios, Duffey and Gonsalves. They're going to need a sage vet like ESan. 

[Craig Arko]

Pop quiz time! We're on the honor system here.

How many MLB players have played in 20 or more seasons during their career?

42.

[jimbo92107]

 

Perhaps with a link to the posting guidelines:

 

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9vkroRwsA1r3s5n0o1_500.jpg

I tried to copy this list, but my mouse can't grab the letters!! ;-)

[ashbury]

Pop quiz time! We're on the honor system here.

 

How many MLB players have played in 20 or more seasons during their career?

50?

 

I'm taking a guess there's a followup question planned, and if not, here's mine: how many of these are NOT in the Hall of Fame? (I don't know the answer, I just want to know.)

[USAFChief]

Hahahahah...Dick was crushed Polanco lined a single to center instead of bunting.

[ashbury]

I tried to copy this list, but my mouse can't grab the letters!! ;-)

Rule 12, which I got from somewhere: Don't Plagiarize!

[Vanimal46]

50?

 

I'm taking a guess there's a followup question planned, and if not, here's mine: how many of these are NOT in the Hall of Fame? (I don't know the answer, I just want to know.)

It took way more googling than I thought to figure out the original question! We need spycake to find out that answer... Or someone who knows how to use Baseball Reference well.

[jimbo92107]

Mauer's trying to bait the pitcher into an outside pitch...

[Vanimal46]

Pop quiz time! We're on the honor system here.

 

How many MLB players have played in 20 or more seasons during their career?

So we have 63, 42, and 50 as guesses so far. Who else is in before the answer is revealed?

[jimbo92107]

Joe is looking very good at the plate. Finally healthy?

[Willihammer]

Pitcher's duel. Pretty good game.

Careful

[Vanimal46]

Typical Plouffe....

[USAFChief]

So, in my military career, I found myself in a very dangerous situation in Iraq.  

 

But I figured a way out.

 

Iran.

[Danchat]

And there's Plouffe with the clutch double play ground out.

[ashbury]

It took way more googling than I thought to figure out the original question! We need spycake to find out that answer... Or someone who knows how to use Baseball Reference well.

You said Honor System, but now I looked:

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/leaders_most_seasons.shtml

 

A LOT more non-HoFers than I would have imagined.

[USAFChief]

Well that de-escalated quickly.  

[Squirrel]

Well, poop.

[twinssporto]

 

So, in my military career, I found myself in a very dangerous situation in Iraq.  

 

But I figured a way out.

 

Iran.

Syria works too...

[Vanimal46]

How many MLB players have played in 20 or more seasons during their career?

 

The answer is...152!

 

The article I found it on is from last offseason, and I don't know if there's any 20 year vets this year. So it could be a couple more than that!

 

AJ's going to join that elite group of guys next year, don't you think?

[Craig Arko]

Syria works too...

Babylonia.

[ashbury]

Syria works too...

[ashbury]

 

How many MLB players have played in 20 or more seasons during their career?

The answer is...152!

The article I found it on is from last offseason, and I don't know if there's any 20 year vets this year. So it could be a couple more than that!

AJ's going to join that elite group of guys next year, don't you think?

I counted 153 on the bb-ref page previously quoted. David Ortiz joined the club this season, was he on your list?

[Platoon]

Wow, I think the last time an American said that to a Canadian must of been around 1814.

Typical Canadian, shows up for The War of 1812 two years late!

[D. Hocking]

 

So, in my military career, I found myself in a very dangerous situation in Iraq.  

 

But I figured a way out.

 

Iran.

 

Weren't they were known as Persia and Mesopotamia when you were there?

[ashbury]

Typical Canadian, shows up for The War of 1812 two years late!

History lesson no doubt from 'North in three... two...

[Vanimal46]

I counted 153 on the bb-ref page previously quoted. David Ortiz joined the club this season, was he on your list?

Nope then 153 is the true number. Who would have guessed out of the thousands of people who have played the game, AJ of all people will be #154.

[Platoon]

Wow, Bert just said we have 6 more errors than we had all of last season and only the Brewers have more than us currently. I didn't realize it was that bad.

Then you haven't been watching closely. :). We catch ground balls with the same enthusiasm, and profiency as my wife catching mice!

[Vanimal46]

After Grossman's attempts at the plate tonight, he needs a few days sitting on the bench.

[LaBombo]

 

Syria works too...

I had syria but a corpsman gave me some ointment that cleared it right up.

[formerly33]

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