Found December 03, 2010 on
Jaybird's Jottings:
We are now getting down to the nitty-gritty, the point where yours truly has to play bad guy and say, sorry fellas, that’s it, the door is closed, at least for now.
I went through “The Giants Encyclopedia” and wrote down every player and pitcher with 5 or more years with the team. Since the book was published in 1999, I looked at Baseball Reference for the gap up to the current season.
This produced a list of about 100 players (obviously I ignored those already chosen). For each of these players, I wrote down their Average WAR (my new favorite toy) with the Giants.
I decided to eliminate those with 1.9 or less. With this, some of your, and some of my favorite players, or ones we took a liking to, and ones that created life long memories, are not going to make my Hall of Giants. This is the tough part (makes me feel like a bouncer at a Giants reunion party). At the same time, some mig...
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