This morning I compared Buster Posey and Craig Biggio, but lamented that I couldn’t find any scouting reports of what kind of catcher Biggio was. The lesson here: I’m really, really lazy and should leave the researching to people who know what they’re doing. People like lar from Wezen-Ball, who tracked down this old story about Biggio from USA Today:
He was a competent catcher, tough, aggressive, good at blocking pitches
in the dirt but not very accomplished at throwing runners out.“They’ll
never win a championship with him catching,” St. Louis manager Whitey
Herzog said. Herzog admires Biggio’s speed and bat, not his throwing.
Posey, in contrast, is supposed to have a canon back there. Still, it’s a neat idea to talk about it, and may become even neater if the Giants keep him squatting in the hot Fresno sun all summer.
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- motherscratcher - Jan 25, 2010 at 5:16 PM
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1989 Donruss…nice.
I have about 3,000 of those from back when my baseball cards were going to fund my first corvette. Heck, my Billy Ripken is probably worth about $20,000 all by itself, right?
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- Luke - Jan 25, 2010 at 5:53 PM
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the billy ripken/f*ckface card was from the fleer set.
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- motherscratcher - Jan 25, 2010 at 6:24 PM
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Yes, I know that. I was just kind of refering to the value of all of the cards from the junk wax era. Looking at my comment I can see how it reads that way, though.
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By the way, I have a Jose Canseco rated rookie I’d be willing to trade for a flat screen TV of any size, if you’re interested.
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- Vic Conte - Jan 26, 2010 at 2:30 AM
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I have a picture of Canseco injecting Mr. McGwire in the a** with a needle that i’d be willing to trade…….
