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Old 01-21-2024, 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards View Post
I agree, and that helps my point.

I will mention that a guy I think is at least interesting as a discussion for the hall is Dan Quisenberry, and contrary to my point above, even including the minors, he only started one game in his career (though it's interesting to note that one game was a complete game!) so there is the occasional guy who is slated to be a reliever from day one and that's likely more common now than it was back then. Quis was a special case because every pitching coach in history hated his delivery.
He's still a failed starter because if anyone thought he was good enough to start, they would have tried him there first.
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