Archive Nomar Garciaparra announces retirement.

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Nate

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Mar 10, 2010 1:51pm

Nomar Garciaparra is now retired. He is joining ESPN this year. Is Nomar a HOF?

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Nate

Posts: 3,949

Mar 10, 2010 1:52pm

Career statistics
Batting average .313
Home runs 229
Runs batted in 936
Hits 1747
Slugging percentage .521
On-base percentage .361

Lovejoy1984

Posts: 5,277

Mar 10, 2010 1:53pm

He's got an outside shot of making it. But I'd lean more towards no.

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devil1197

Posts: 6,220

Mar 10, 2010 1:59pm

He is on the fence.

killdeer

Posts: 1,538

Mar 10, 2010 2:02pm

one of many great players who fall just short of HOF.

definitely a gamer.
and he landed Mia Hamm.
so he's got that going for him.

Benny The Jet

Posts: 2,987

Mar 10, 2010 2:05pm

Doubt it...but his kid might be someday. Got some athleticism in those genes.

THE4RINGZ

Posts: 16,816

Mar 10, 2010 2:09pm

killdeer wrote: one of many great players who fall just short of HOF.

definitely a gamer.
and he landed Mia Hamm.
so he's got that going for him.

Landing Mia Hamm is an accomplishment? She will take off her shirt each and every time her team scores a goal. Just another socceer skank.

killdeer

Posts: 1,538

Mar 10, 2010 2:11pm

THE4RINGZ wrote:
killdeer wrote: one of many great players who fall just short of HOF.

definitely a gamer.
and he landed Mia Hamm.
so he's got that going for him.
Landing Mia Hamm is an accomplishment? She will take off her shirt each and every time her team scores a goal. Just another socceer skank.

1. you're thinking of Brandi Chastain...:rolleyes:

2. ...and...what's wrong with that?

LJ

Posts: 16,351

Mar 10, 2010 2:11pm

NOOOMAAAAAAAAr!!!!!

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4149/saturday-night-live-sully-and-denise

lhslep134

Posts: 9,774

Mar 10, 2010 2:11pm

Not a HOF.

IggyPride00

Posts: 6,482

Mar 10, 2010 2:30pm

Not even close. I liked him, but way too short a window of "great" years.

He also had his greatest seasons during the steroid boom period, and his numbers proceeded to drop off a cliff around the same time as baseball started to clean up the game. I hate to put 2 and 2 together like that, but he went from hero to zero awful quick.

THE4RINGZ

Posts: 16,816

Mar 10, 2010 2:37pm

killdeer wrote:
THE4RINGZ wrote:
killdeer wrote: one of many great players who fall just short of HOF.

definitely a gamer.
and he landed Mia Hamm.
so he's got that going for him.
Landing Mia Hamm is an accomplishment? She will take off her shirt each and every time her team scores a goal. Just another socceer skank.
1. you're thinking of Brandi Chastain...:rolleyes:

2. ...and...what's wrong with that?

I was being sarcastic, and there is nothing wrong with women disrobing to celebrate a score. I would encourage more of that. Except for maybe the WBNA.

just_a_swimmer

Posts: 674

Mar 10, 2010 2:41pm

And Omar Vizquel is still playing. Go figure.

Nomar's stats

CAREER STATS
G? AB? R? H? TB? 2B? 3B? HR? RBI? BB? IBB? SO? SB? CS? AVG?OBP?SLG?OPS?GO/AO

CAREER 1434 5586 927 1747 2908 370 52 229 936 403 54 554 95 31 .313 .361 .521 .882 0.74

Omar's Stats
G? AB? R? H? TB? 2B? 3B? HR? RBI?BB? IBB? SO? SB? CS? AVG?OBP?SLG?OPS?GO/AO
CAREER 2742 9922 1378 2704 3519 433 74 78 906 978 25 1007 389 156 .273 .338 .355 .693 0.92

Benny The Jet

Posts: 2,987

Mar 10, 2010 6:50pm

just_a_swimmer wrote: And Omar Vizquel is still playing. Go figure.

Nomar's stats

CAREER STATS
G? AB? R? H? TB? 2B? 3B? HR? RBI? BB? IBB? SO? SB? CS? AVG?OBP?SLG?OPS?GO/AO

CAREER 1434 5586 927 1747 2908 370 52 229 936 403 54 554 95 31 .313 .361 .521 .882 0.74

Omar's Stats
G? AB? R? H? TB? 2B? 3B? HR? RBI?BB? IBB? SO? SB? CS? AVG?OBP?SLG?OPS?GO/AO
CAREER 2742 9922 1378 2704 3519 433 74 78 906 978 25 1007 389 156 .273 .338 .355 .693 0.92

I had to do a double take on the stat line for Omar..saw hits above the number 9922 and thought for a split second jesus omar! then realized they were misaligned haha

bcubed

Posts: 410

Mar 10, 2010 7:11pm

I remember when he was with the Red Sox and they were talking about him actually having a chance at hitting a 400 average!

just_a_swimmer

Posts: 674

Mar 10, 2010 8:45pm

Benny The Jet wrote:
just_a_swimmer wrote: And Omar Vizquel is still playing. Go figure.

Nomar's stats

CAREER STATS
G? AB? R? H? TB? 2B? 3B? HR? RBI? BB? IBB? SO? SB? CS? AVG?OBP?SLG?OPS?GO/AO

CAREER 1434 5586 927 1747 2908 370 52 229 936 403 54 554 95 31 .313 .361 .521 .882 0.74

Omar's Stats
G? AB? R? H? TB? 2B? 3B? HR? RBI?BB? IBB? SO? SB? CS? AVG?OBP?SLG?OPS?GO/AO
CAREER 2742 9922 1378 2704 3519 433 74 78 906 978 25 1007 389 156 .273 .338 .355 .693 0.92
I had to do a double take on the stat line for Omar..saw hits above the number 9922 and thought for a split second jesus omar! then realized they were misaligned haha

It was all aligned before I posted.:huh:

september63

Posts: 5,789

Mar 10, 2010 8:51pm

Nomar had a nice career. Injuries cost him dearly. He wont ever sniff the HOF!! Omar Vizquel will get in the HOF after several years of trying.

Ironman92

Posts: 49,363

Mar 11, 2010 9:51pm

An absolute no doubter of the roids. No doubt. Could his numbers and timing and legs breaking down be more obvious. He and Luis Gonzalez are the 2 most obvious that NEVER get mentioned.

HitsRus

Posts: 9,206

Mar 13, 2010 6:55pm

IggyPride00 wrote: Not even close. I liked him, but way too short a window of "great" years.

He also had his greatest seasons during the steroid boom period, and his numbers proceeded to drop off a cliff around the same time as baseball started to clean up the game. I hate to put 2 and 2 together like that, but he went from hero to zero awful quick.

Agree with this....just not that many great years.