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PRODcast 170′s Old School Player of the Week: THAD BOSLEY

Thaddis Bosley spent 14 seasons with seven different teams (including the Angels twice) as a replacement-level outfielder and pinch-hitter. During his career with the Halos, White Sox, Brewers, Mariners, Cubs, Royals, and Rangers, Bosley never had more than 220 ABs in a season, never hit more than seven dingers, or 27 RBI, was voted the best pinch hitter in baseball in 1985 (by someone?), and had a career OPS+ of 89. We’re not sure the Thad Bosley type exists anymore – an extremely average player who just rides the pine for a decade and a half, but somehow carves out a spot as “Guy Who Should Grab A Bat In The 6th Inning” … and keeps it. At his peak, Bosley had a 70-grade fro and accompanying DadHat, 70-grade death stare, and a 50 stache.

After his playing career ended, Bosley had a couple coaching stints in the bigs with the A’s as a bench coach in the early 2000s, and as a hitting coach for the Rangers in 2010. Wikipedia also mentions that Bosley was briefly in a funk band called Ballplayers with Lenny Randle.

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PRODcast 186′s Old School Player of the Week: Ernie Camacho

Ernie kinda pitched for 10 years in the bigs, with the A’s, Pirates, Indians, Astros, Giants and Cardinals from 1980 to 1990. He only threw 262 innings in his career, 100 of them in 1984 when he was the “closer” on a shitty Indians team that finished in last place in the AL East.

He finished his career 10-20 with a 4.21 ERA, 1.508 WHIP, 45 saves, and 2.5 WAR.

re: that Brewers pic -- He was in camp with the Brewers in 1983, started the season at AAA Vancouver, got released, pick up by the Tribe, and spent his next four years in Cleveland. That sansabelt abuse is TROUBLING.

Since his retirement he’s given back and worked at schools in Salinas, and done work in the fight against Alzheimer’s, and set up foundations for youth education and baseball leagues.

We tip our cap to Fred Armisen’s alter ego.

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PRODcast 185′s Old School Player of the Week: SALOME BAROJAS

He pitched five seasons in the bigs with the White Sox, Mariners, and Phillies and was … fine. He was worth just over a win a season, had a career ERA a hair below 4, a FIPof 4.38, and averaged 4.1 K/9 and 4.1 BB/9. While he was an extremely whatever spot starter, closer, and middle reliever he was a magnificent looking human – twice-baked, sliver teeth, hair that looks like he drove to the park with his face sticking out the car window, a sheen that falls somewhere between glazed and downright damp. He’s the total package, and there was even a mustache era (probably team-mandated) for Mr. Barojas.

According to a NYT article, Salome Barojas was one of Bob Sheppard’s favorite names to say.

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– THE BASEBALL THINGS –

SO MUCH “BASEBALL” TO TALK ABOUT

The World Series happened

Loveable Kurt Suzuki wore a MAGA hat

UGH The Astros: cheated a lot, fucked up the Taubmann situation, lost

Postseason Awards:

HOF Voting: JeterBrained dipshits

Rob Manfred’s dumbass contraction/relocation plan in the interest of “wellness”

Mark Trumbo’s next step

The Winter Meetings approacheth

UNIFORM NEWS

Padres went brown again, and nailed it

Brewers new threads are toyt

FREE AGENT SIGNINGS

Yasmani Grandal to the White Sox for 4 years/$73 mil

OLD SCHOOL PLAYER OF THE WEEK: JESSE JEFFERSON

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PRODcast 168′s Old School Player of the Week: Sid Monge

Isidro Pedroza Monge was a slightly better than replacement-level, multi-purpose, left-handed pitcher who bounced around the bigs between 1975 and 1984. Sid pitched for the Angels, Indians, Padres, Phillies, and Tigers, won 49 games, lost 40, saved 56, finished his career with a 108 ERA+, was an All-Star in 1979, and gave up Tony Gwynn’s first big league hit in ‘82. But we didn’t pick him as our OSPOTW because of any of that. We picked him because he looks like the long lost sixth member of At The Drive-In with his 60-grade fro and DadHat, and because his name “Monge” looks like it could be pronounced MUNj or MONj, but it’s actually pronounced MON-jee (which is a little disappointing).

After his 10-year big league career, Monge was named to the Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame, and went on to be a minor league pitching coach for a handful of teams. He is currently the pitching coach for the Sultanes de Monterrey.

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– THE BASEBALL THINGS –

THE GOOD

Astros the first to 100, Yanks second, the ALCS is gonna be bonkers

Braves clinch

NL Central race

The fucking A’s are still doing it, nobody knows how

Gerrit Cole is killing it and is gonna get PAAAAAAID

Pete Alonso is mashing

Acuña is 40/30 (psst he’s also 21)

THE BAD

Mike Trout OUT

Christian Yelich OUT

Shohei Ohtani OUT  

THE UGLY

Domingo German arrested for domestic violence

Felipe Vazquez arrested for child sexual abuse

OLD SCHOOL PLAYER OF THE WEEK: SID MONGE

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PRODcast 165′s Old School Player of the Week: Dave Goltz

GAVE DOLTZ!

Dave was a lumpy DadBod™ havin’ pile of a starting pitcher who spent 12 years as a mediocre starter in the bigs (1972-1983) with the Twins, Dodgers, and Angels. He won 20 games and finished sixth in the AL CY Young vote in 1977, and won a World Series with the Dodgers in 1981, but aside from that, he was a middling fixture at the back-end of whichever rotation he was in.

Goltz looks like he could be a sibling of Fred Willard, the father of Drew Magary, and the grandfather of Sam Darnold. The EveryDad vibes are extremely strong with this one, from head to toe. “KYLE, GET DOWN FROM THERE OR YOU’RE GROUNDED!”

He is now an insurance salesman in Minnesota because of course he is.