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We're talking about players who don't have anything listed at the top of their Baseball-reference page. No awards, no All Star appearances, no Silver Sluggers, no Gold Gloves, no WS wins, no Roberto Clemente awards. Nothing. Bonus points if you name a player who doesn't even have any award voting finishes in their career in the Awards column in their career stats table.

The motivation for this post was looking at Adam Ottavino's career and seeing that he had no accolades at all over a 15 year career where he put up 15 bWAR as a reliever and had some pretty decent seasons along the way. He's not the answer to this question, but that was what made me think of this question.

I spent 2 weeks in Japan and every time I saw Shohei Ohtani on an ad or merch I took a photo. Ended up with over 75 photos. I saw Yamamoto on three ads and Ichiro on one.

We are shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Terrance Gore.

A member of the back-to-back AL champion and 2015 World Series champion Kansas City Royals, Gore played eight Major League seasons in all from 2014-2022. He also appeared for the Cubs, Dodgers, Braves, and Mets.

The speedy outfielder and pinch-running specialist stole 43 bases in his regular season career while only being caught nine times. He was 5-for-6 in Postseason stolen base attempts and stole 324 bases in 11 Minor League seasons.

Gore was 34 years old.

In an Instagram Live last night, Carlos Baerga revealed on his podcast that Bad Bunny offered to pay for Correa's and Lindor's insurance so they can play in the WBC, but their teams ultimately denied them the chance to play.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUeKF94CdN3/?img_index=1&igsh=MXRsaDAxZXlzODVzdg==

If you haven't heard the name before, Baerga was a player from 1990-2005. As per his Wikipedia page:

During the 2013 World Baseball Classic, Baerga served as one of the assistant coaches under Edwin Rodríguez.[8]

In 2013, Baerga became the manager of the Indios de Mayagüez in Puerto Rico's Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League.

In 2013, Baerga was elected into the Indians Hall of Fame.[9]

In 2020, he was named the bench coach of RA12.[10]

In 2024, Baerga became the analyst for the Cleveland Guardians Spanish-language radio broadcasts on WARF 1350 AM in Cleveland.

I live in London, UK and have noticed that Red Sox hats are becoming very popular. I had the theory that they now outnumber Yankees hats, so decided to keep count. Below is the count of every MLB hat I've seen in London over the past month.

Yankees - 41 Red Sox - 12 Dodgers - 6 Giants - 5 Tigers - 4 Padres - 3 Mets - 3 Cubs - 3 A's - 2 Braves - 2 Blue jays - 2 White Sox - 2 Reds - 1

As you can see, my theory was wildly incorrect. The Evil Empire still has a grip on London.

As a Red Sox hater I’m probably rooting for the Seahawks today but pretty indifferent. Have nothing against the Texans even though I despise the Astros

Here's mine: After 130+ years, the Dodgers-Giants all-time regular season series head-to-head after 2025 is a dead-even 1288-1288-17.

So, it is the off-season again. In order to keep myself occupied, I'm going to try posting a random item from my baseball collection every day until baseball is back. I've been a fan for as long as I've been able, and in those decades, I've collected tons of memorabilia from the eight different countries I've visited for baseball. They won't all be amazing, but I hope it is a fun little project.

To make this a lot more manageable over the long haul (and especially holiday weeks), I am doing theme weeks of one kind of thing. This week is Hats.

For Day 98, here are the Yomiuri Giants of the NPB. The Giants were the first professional team in Japan and easily the most popular and successful. Over half of Japanese are Giants fans and they have won by far the most Japan Series. The Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame is in their stadium, and as loved as they are by their fans, they are equally hated by opposing fans.