Comments on: Remembering Melvin Mora

By: hushbrother

hushbrother — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:03:21 +0000

I was at that game. I remember Daubach’s walk-off hit, but I don’t remember Mora’s error that preceded it. I also seem to recall Pedro serving up a couple of homers in that game, one being to Luis Lopez.

By: cogitobaseballergosum

cogitobaseballergosum — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:34:42 +0000

My lasting memory of Mora is as the anti-Andruw Jones of facial expressions. Even after a bases-clearing double or behind-the-bag diving stab, he always looked like someone had just ruined the viewing of his Night-bloooming Mock Orchid.

By: osayorioles

osayorioles — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:15:45 +0000

I wrote a piece in my blog today about Mora – before seeing this … and did not have him in the Hall of Fame. I will remember him negatively for hitting into so many rally killing double plays, but recall him positively for the incredible improvement he made defensively over the years at 3B. But more than anything, he is a guy who came a long way from his roots where his father was murdered when he was a boy, to being a father himself of quintuplets! Melvin is a good guy.

By: 18thstreet

18thstreet — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:50:36 +0000

I saw Melvin Mora playing third base for the Orioles, poorly. I tried to piece it together from baseball-reference, and it looks like the game must have been 2004, Mora’s first year at third and a year in which they opened against Boston (which is why I would have been there).

Here’s what I remember, though I could be getting the details wrong: the Orioles told him very shortly before the season started that third would his new position. He was just terrible there. I remember thinking admirable it was. His team had set him up to look awful, but he was doing his best. Whatever he was getting paid (and it was surely a lot), I thought he was showing more dignity than his manager.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:10:45 +0000

I Remember Mora would make a great title for a heartwarming family drama about Latino immigrants.

By: The Common Man

The Common Man — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:58:20 +0000

Craig, you never addressed the central question. Is Melvin Mora a Hall of Famer?

By: natsattack

natsattack — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:34:45 +0000

I know it is ESPN, but Jim Caple has a good piece on Prince Fieder/Scott Boras’s 7 page book.