Mark Bowman’s top five best Braves shortstops in franchise history. Many youngsters have only seen Andrelton and Dansby, and have no idea who these old-timers are, much less how good they were.
1. Johnny Logan 1951-1960 only Braves SS to produce a 5.0 bWAR. Four time All Star. Helped Aaron, Mathews, and Spahn capture two straight NL pennants. Played ten years for the Braves.
2. Rabbit Maranville 1912-1920 & 1929-1935 HOF, finished in the top three of the MVP vote his first two seasons, then rejoined the Braves in 1929 at the age of 37 and finished in the top 20 for MVP in four of his 5 years. One of the most popular players in Boston. Played 16 seasons for the Braves.
3. Rafael Furcal 2000-2005 led all NL SS with 17.9 fWAR during his six seasons with the team. His 40 stolen bases in 2000 are the most ever for a Braves rookie. Furcal, Logan, & Maranville are the only SS in Braves history to produce a 4.0 bWAR or better at least three times. Played six years for the Braves.
4. Andrelton Simmons 2012-2015 only played three full seasons with the Braves. Good field no hit.
5. Jeff Blauser 1987-1997 was the best hitting SS in Braves history. Ranked second among NL SS to HOF Barry Larkin with 110 wRC+. Spend eleven seasons with the Braves.
HM: Rafael Ramirez ranks fourth in Braves history with 852 games played at SS.
HM Alvin Dark was 1948 ROY with a .786 OPS.
HM Alvin Dark was 1948 ROY with a .786 OPS.
HM: Denis Menke had the Braves SS highest single season fWAR in 1964 (6.1).
My favorite: Craig Robinson, who later became a minor league coach for the Braves, then a cameraman on telecasts.
Back in 2018 there was a rumor the Alabama Crimson Tide was dumping their multi-million dollar contract with Nike and changing over to the tiny designer brand Southern Tide.
How do you keep up with what day it is?
Barney came upstairs again last night. We didn’t let him get on the bed. Then this morning he went back upstairs when both C and I were up there. Don’t think he likes the rain, and there was a little bit of thunder. He does well going back downstairs.
Early this year I changed up long-running several things in my life, and it makes me wonder if that has anything to do with what’s happened in the world this year. Ditched my briefcase for a backpack. Put a license plate frame on the back of my car. Ditched cable TV for Hulu. Started exercising again. Bought two new pair of sneakers.
Chilly this AM. More bundled up than yesterday. NFL Draft starts tonight. Will be interesting to see where all the QB’s go: Tua, Burrow, Fromm, Herbert, Jalen Hurts. Also RB Swift and kicker Rodrigo. The NFL Draft takes forever. Just a bunch of talking heads. All the mock drafts they come up with every day are usually wrong. Mel Kiper Jr made a name for himself the first year the draft was televised, and he’s been doing it ever since. I’m not a big fan.
Kid on Twitter said a great running back combo for the Packers was John Brockington and MacArthur Lane. I asked if he’d ever heard of Paul Hornung and Jim Taylor. The kid said Hornung & Taylor only had better stats & HOF busts. Well yeah. Twice as many touchdowns. Also a few more championships. Not that those matter.
.yards..TD..
15544 155 JT & PH
13924 071 JB & ML
Denison: Writing for the Federalist, Glenn T. Stanton notes the "extravagant beauty" in nature that defies evolutionary explanation. His article describes in detail the contradictory ways Charles Darwin and other evolutionists have tried to explain beauty that does not seem to serve any evolutionary purpose. Yale University's Richard Prum's theory is "captured in his simple phrase 'beauty happens.'" The bottom line is that naturalistic evolutionists have no compelling explanation for what Stanton calls their "most persistent problem." The same can be said of humans who perform deeds of sacrificial altruism. If evolutionary theory is right in claiming that survival optimization is our basic drive, then why is this person taking such risks? If survival of the species is the explanation, then why isn't everyone doing the same?
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