Posts Tagged ‘pirates’

Kent Tekulve 3.0

Thursday, August 18th, 2011 by I Love Nerd York City

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Kent Tekulve baseball cards are truly the gifts that keeps giving.  No one can touch him in the “lifetime achievement” category.

Question: Is this style pirates cap the tallest in baseball history?  More evidence.

Full disclosure: While this card resides in the nerd archives, this is not an original scan, as once again, the scanner here at Nerd Central is on the fritz.  I had to use google images to find a digital copy of the card, which is why the image quality is not up to usual NerdBaseball resolution standards.  Thank you to this website for the image.

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Bob Kipper

Monday, May 17th, 2010 by I Love Nerd York City

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Mr. Kipper is now a coach for the Portland Seadogs, a minor-league affiliate of the Boston Red Sox.

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Mike Brown

Monday, April 26th, 2010 by I Love Nerd York City

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Mr. Brown seems to be in competition with Scott Garrelts and Tom Hume for the title of “largest glasses in baseball history.”

Mr. Brown appears to have played part time for 5 seasons (never more than 358 AB’s in a season).  Considering he put up average to above-average OPS+ numbers in part time work, I don’t know why he didn’t have a longer career as a 4th outfielder.

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Enrique Romo

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 by I Love Nerd York City

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Never has a player’s appearance on a baseball card so literally represented the team for which they played. Two interesting facts from Wikipedia:

1) Mr. Romo served as the set-up man for Kent Tekulve on the 1979 World Champion Pirates.
2) In 1983, Mr. Romo failed to report to spring training. The Pirates attempted to locate him, but failed, and he was released. His whereabouts remained unknown until a few years ago, when he appeared publicly with his brother in Mexico (at his induction into the Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame).

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Kent Tekulve 2.0

Thursday, February 18th, 2010 by I Love Nerd York City

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Hey all, sorry for the missing nerd this past Monday. Unfortunately, technical difficulties with the official nerd-scanner have provided a roadblock to expanding the nerd archive. Thankfully, there is a seemingly never-ending supply of Kent Tekulve cards available for posting. You can see our first Kent Tekulve post here. There are many more Tekulve cards in the archive. We may have to develop some sort of lifetime achievement award.

Happy “pitchers and catchers reporting” everyone.

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Lee Tunnell

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 by I Love Nerd York City

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Mr. Tunnell was arrested in October of 2009 for allegedly soliciting an internet prostitute.

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Don Robinson

Thursday, October 29th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City

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Another deceptively young nerd…Mr. Robinson was only 29 when this picture was taken.  Mr. Robinson’s nickname was, for some reason, “The Caveman,” and not “Mr. Kotter.”  Mr. Robinson actually pitched for 14 seasons, and was considered one of the best hitting pitchers in the game.  He had 13 career home runs, including a pinch-hit-home-run in 1990.

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Felix Fermin

Monday, August 3rd, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City

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Mr. Fermin is a throwback to the days of NerdBaseball on MySpace. In 1996, Mr. Fermin was nearly traded to the Yankees for Mariano Rivera. After that same season, he ended his career with a total of four home runs in 2,767 at bats.

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WARP value continued…

Friday, March 13th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City

After I addressed the price that several of MLB’s top players were paid for each WARP (win above replacement player) that they contributed, Prof. Nerdtron posed the question of which teams did the best job finding value through free agency. I tried to at least begin answering this question by looking at the entire free agent class of 2006/7 and 2007/8. So which teams have done the best job over the past two years?

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