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In this July 27, 2008 photo, Albuquerque Isotopes manager Dean Treanor shakes the hand of former Dukes manager Del Crandall after he and five other members were inducted into the Albuquerque Professional Baseball Hall of Fame. Treanor and Crandall worked together in the Dodger organization at the same time. Crandall died this week at age 91. (Jim Thompson/Journal)
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. – Del Crandall, a star catcher who played on two Milwaukee Braves teams that reached the World Series in the 1950s before managing one of the great minor league teams of all time in Albuquerque, has died at age 91.
Crandall had Parkinson’s disease and died Wednesday in Mission Viejo, California, surrounded by family, his son Bill Crandall said.
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Top 60 All-Time Greatest Blue Jays: #20 Joe Carter
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Joseph Chris Carter | RF, LF, 1B | 1991-1997
This is the one I cheated on. Most of the other guys are with a few spots of where they landed on the little formula I use. Joe, well, he ended up nearer the back of the list. But I decided I’d put him here as kind of an honorary spot. I made a ‘Joe Carter’ rule, zeroing out seasons where a player had a negative WAR, figuring a player shouldn’t be better off not to play than to play badly. But it didn’t move Joe up as far as I thought it might, even with bonuses for playoff performances.
Forgotten Cubs Opening Day position players since 1980
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Earlier this week I posted this article, listing a few Cubs Opening Day starting pitchers who you might not have remembered getting that honor.
Well, the article proved pretty popular, so I thought I’d extend it by noting a few Opening Day position players you might not recall.
Let’s remember some guys!
1981: Ken Reitz
Reitz had been part of the Bruce Sutter trade with the Cardinals, the one that brought Leon Durham to the Cubs. He had a couple of decent seasons for St. Louis in the mid-1970s, but he rarely walked (.290 lifetime OBP) and by the time the Cubs got him, he was pretty much done.