Immaculate Grid: Show Off Your Useless Baseball Depth Knowledge!
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Nor did Ernie Banks, in fact he had less career hits than his longtime teammate Billy Williams
9/9 Rarity score 104. Again, mostly played it safe.
I'm getting tired of these categories that only have 3-4 possible correct answers, but I'll take my 75.
Today is also the first time I've noticed that they consider the pre-1931 MVP award winners as legit answers even though they were different awards with different criteria.
Today is also the first time I've noticed that they consider the pre-1931 MVP award winners as legit answers even though they were different awards with different criteria.
I only got 7 today because I whiffed twice on the Blue Jays 30+ steal guy. Rickey stole over 50 the year he was with them, but only 22 came with the Jays. I am happy with my center square and bottom right.
Rarity score of 6, 9/9 former Red Sox:
Mike Timlin, Rick Cerone, Otis Nixon
Jose Cruz, Jr, Danny Darwin, Billy Hatcher
Spike Owen, Dante Bichette, Jerry Remy
Jose Cruz, Jr, Danny Darwin, Billy Hatcher
Spike Owen, Dante Bichette, Jerry Remy
I always fall into the trap of thinking a guy is kinda obscure but recency makes him a more popular pick than I expect. Like center left.
8/9 RS 167. Totally forgot that The Big Unit spent a year in Houston and took a guess with Phil Bradley
8/9, rarity of 180 and 4 former Sox used. I was particularly happy with my Houston Astros row
Larry Andersen 0.4, Salem's Jeff Juden 0.07 and Jim Wynn 0.3. When I got my first wrong answer I decided not to go with the obvious Houston/SB choice. I remembered Wynn as a speedster but had no idea if he ever stole 30+ let alone if he did it while while with Houston.
Went with the easy picks for the RBI category. Still pleasantly surprised with the low percentages.
7/9 - Not great today, except for former Red Sox Calvin Pickering. Guessed Mark Reynolds for 100 RBI in Baltimore and was wrong. Also suprised McCutchen never had a 100 RBI season in Pittsburgh.
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I tried an all-97-Marlins center column thinking it would get me some strong rarity points, but I guess everyone had the same idea about Jeff Conine and, to a lesser extent, Bobby Bonilla. My 100-RBI guys were pretty good - Andy Van Slyke, Ruben Sierra, and Melvin Mora.
Yeah I was surprised as well that Mr. Marlin was the top pick for bottom center.
9/9 rarity score 55 for me today. Didn't struggle as much as usual with the Marlins row.
Just finished yesterday's grid. 8/9 (fourth straight day) RS 157, 1 former Red Sox. I was hung up for a day on KC-Balt and ultimately guessed wrong.
After taking nearly 24 hours to finish yesterday's grid, today's was done fairly quickly. I think most here will have an easy time compared to some of the other grids. 9/9 RS 47 and former Sox used 6.
This amused me, because I picked a bunch of relative obscurities (by this game's standards) for eight squares, and then just blanked and picked what I knew was going to be the most common answer for the lower-left:
Jeff Kent - Bip Roberts - Julio Franco
Edgar Renteria - Kevin Mitchell - Mike Greenwell
Buster Posey (D'oh!) - Chris Sabo - Dustin Pedroia
Edgar Renteria - Kevin Mitchell - Mike Greenwell
Buster Posey (D'oh!) - Chris Sabo - Dustin Pedroia
FUCK YEAH ROGER LaFRANCOIS
I knew I knew that all these years for something.
.003% baby
41 Rarity
I knew I knew that all these years for something.
.003% baby
41 Rarity
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Apparently you don't need to have the picks be qualified any more. If I knew that I would have entered either
for the Sox / .300 square.
Roger Clemens or Dwayne Hosey
9/9 Rarity 87
I figured it had to be SoSH inflating the use of Saturn Balls. I figured Seaver was the obvious answer in the center square, but I AM old.
I figured it had to be SoSH inflating the use of Saturn Balls. I figured Seaver was the obvious answer in the center square, but I AM old.
9/9 - rarity 151, thanks to the safe choice on Giants ROY. My deep dive on the 1988 season, thanks to AppleTV+, continues to pay off, because it reminded me of a certain Red Sox batting champion (even though he wasn't on the team that year) 
You know you're getting old when you immediately remember, "That guy with vertigo", but it takes two minutes to come up with a name.
106 rarity, which is pretty good for me. Mostly due to Boston's habit of picking up pitchers on their way out when I was a kid.
I missed going 9/9 because I picked Vada Pinson for RoY, who I knew had a HoF level career through his first several seasons, but apparently lost his rookie status during a partial season that wouldn't have ruined that status by today's requirements... but then he likely would have beat out my answer to the left, who had a great rookie season the next year but only in 52 games, so only one of them could have been right anyway.
FYI: https://www.sports-reference.com/blog/2023/08/were-listening-immaculate-grid-no-longer-requires-qualification-for-rate-stats/
Got off an early flight and put in a CLE ROTY in the CIN column.
Got off an early flight and put in a CLE ROTY in the CIN column.
