MEXICO CITY.- With qualities to become one of a kind, the recently deceased Vida Blue was close to that orbit, but far from the Cooperstown Hall of Fame due to his drug addiction that cost him a suspension.
He raised a harvest of 24 victories, another 22 and one of 20, in addition to 37 shutouts and 142 complete games, in a long career that had its climax with three World Series titles in the ranks of the Oakland Athletics.
A 209-161 record, 3.29 ERA and 2,175 strikeouts, a Cy Young and 6 All-Star Games adorn his plaque in the A’s gallery of immortals.
Blue, who was a college football extraordinaire, fell short of the top 10% five times on ballots for Cooperstown.
RAMÓN Urías (.278, 1, 16) became the ninth Mexican injured in 2023, of whom, including the Baltimore Orioles utility, eight remain on the disabled list.
The eldest of the Urías again suffered from the left hamstring that has bothered him since 2022 and in principle, they will miss him for 10 days, according to the doctors’ report.
Not so many countrymen are remembered at the same time in the Big Show repair shop, the 9 required to play ball, in an unexpected thinning of the legion that took off with great impetus.
Urias joined Humberto Castellanos (Arizona), Luis Gonzalez (San Francisco), Luis Urias (Milwaukee), Victor Arano (Washington), Andrew Munoz (Seattle), Adrian Martinez (Oakland) and Jose Urquidy (Houston) in the procession from which Dodger Victor Gonzalez emerged.
ON THIS DAY IN 1999: Banished from all aspects of the game by Commissioner Barlett Giamatti in 1989, Pete Rose appears as a special instructor for the newly created Sacramento Steelheads.
The team plays in the Western Baseball League, which is independent and therefore not governed by Major League Baseball.
**“Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have appreciated.” – Jim Sensenbrenner, politician
IN consecutive.- Despite not acting since April 18 and having only consumed seven shifts, the Houston Astros keep Sonoran César Salazar (.286, 0, 0) on their roster as the third catcher… The Cardinals from San Luis promoted second baseman Irving López from AA (.189, 2, 7) to AAA, a category in which he performed in 2022 at the Memphis affiliate (.263, 1, 7)… He died in Compostela, Nayarit, former outfielder Víctor Manuel Félix (1950-2023). He had a long career in the LMB (.267, 39, 395) and LMP (.214, 12, 77), where he was champion with the Tomateros de Culiacán (1982-1983). A native of Bacobampo, Sonora, Félix also celebrated the 1984 Leones de Yucatán title.
With qualities to become one of a kind, the recently deceased Vida Blue was close to that orbit, but far from the Cooperstown Hall of Fame due to his drug addiction that cost him a suspension.
2023-05-10 07:14:01
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