Or alternately, all teams in a particular division?

Steve Finley and Derrel Thomas have the LA, SF, SD, and ANA superfecta.

Stan Javier has the LA, SF, ANA, and OAK superfecta.

Elias Sosa has done SD, LA, SF, and OAK.

Mike Aldrete, John D'Aquisto and Dave Kingman have done SD, ANA, SF, and OAK.

And the first to do it in the division as it was aligned throughout his career. When Nelson retired, he hadn't done it at all. McLemore's stop in Anaheim was prior to realignment.

(I've always sort of liked Nick Markakis...)

"In our database, we can compare - if I was to say to you, I want to compare Babe Ruth to Ty Cobb to Matt Holliday, I could have that information for you in a matter of probably two minutes. Our database goes back to 1871."

--agent Scott Boras

http://baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=5865

Denny Reyes, Shawn Estes, Eric Young, Chris Jones, Trenidad Hubbard, and Brent Mayne are some of those players.

Gagne started the season as part of "closer of committee" but that changed after he got that first save in Game No. 6, he was the guy from that point.

Herges was traded because they had a pretty good bullpen though they did not know who would close during the 2002 Spring Training, but with Paul Quantrill, Paul Shuey, Gio Carrera and Jesse Orosco already with Gagne and then adding Mota in the mix, this started a nice 3 year run of an excellent pen followed by an okay year in 2005 and better year in 2006.

21 They wanted longer games so they can sell more concessions.

No, throwing John Wetteland away in the deal for a washed-up Eric Davis is why we had to get Jeff Shaw.

And also why we had to get Todd Worrell before Shaw.

A better argument for a bad deal (okay not Pedro bad, but pretty bad) is the decision to not deal Karros when he had some value as a player with a low salary but he had hit a ceiling as far as much better he would be and promote Konerko to play 1B when he is ready.

The 1990's were a time when the Dodgers could never decide to pull the trigger on one philosophy, sign a lot free agents or build from within, the Rookie of the Years hid the lack of production from the farm system, (Piazza was drafted only as a favor to a friend of Lasorda's, Nomo wasn't really a rookie in the classic sense, Mondesi was signed out of the Dominican) the only 2 drafted, Karros and Hollandsworth, while solid MLB players, were not huge impact guys who led the team to any playoff victories.

Its funny but Broxton has the first real chance since Steve Howe to come up in the farm system and be a force in the pen and remain economically feasible. Gagne did it for a few years but he came up and pitched as a starter first. It took over 20 years to find another from the system to close the door.

I wasn't talking specifically of 1992 per se, just the fact that the Dodgers spent a lot of money and Paul Konerkos on closers throughout the 90s, when they had one of the best closers of the decade in their own system for cheap (at least the first six years).

http://tinyurl.com/2s5mkr

Just thought I'd pass that along.

"If Colletti could flip any collection of spare parts to the Orioles for Markakis, I'd get his name and portrait tattooed on my butt. But I don't think that'll happen."

Andrew, you realize this could give a whole new meaning to having your tail in a sling.

And pictures. We'd want pictures.

On second thought...

But just in theory, does Loney have the tools for CF?

Trading for Davis never bothered me. It was the throwing in of Wetteland that bothered me. Of course, he did bring Kip Gross in return, who was our second-best pitcher named K. Gross that year.

But for some reason I never saw who. Anyone know?

Think I heard Clemente hit him reasonably well (for Koufax). ??

They have cut GT's lead to 22.

Guy: "Well, how many brides will you be marrying today, Mr. Simpson?"

Bart: "Just one."

Guy: (Makes disgusted noise) "What are you, gay?"

*Backwards R

http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/K/MU1_koufs101.htm

For guys with a long career, Henry Aaron fared pretty well, batting .372 from 1957-1966 against Koufax. He had a .644 slugging in those years.

Clemente batted .292 against Koufax.

Bob Uecker has always claimed to have hit Koufax well, but he was really 7 for 38.

Rico Carty must have celebrated Koufax's retirement as he was 0 for 18 against him.

Jackie Brandt was 1 for 21.

Jerry Kindall, who would go on to be a great coach at UA, was 2 for 28 and struck out 18 times.

Although it's missing two years, Retrosheet has Ernie Banks going 21 for 127 in his career against Koufax, although seven of the hits were homers.

Small sample size?

http://tinyurl.com/23vfot

Dusty Baker was 11 for 69 with one home run. That home run was #30 for him in 1977 which made the Dodgers the first team to have four 30 homer guys on one team.

Bill Russell was 11 for 60 against Richard.

Ron Cey was 9 for 61 against Richard.

In his career, J.R. Richard was 15-4 with a 1.86 ERA against the Dodgers. That included five shutouts, one of them a one-hitter in 1980.

I don't know if the youngsters here realize how intimidating J.R. Richard was to the Dodgers.

Richard lost one game in October of 1974 to the Dodgers when they hit him hard.

The other three losses:
1975- Final weekend, 3-2 loss when the Dodgers get two hits, one of them a 2-run homer by Garvey to end the game.
1976 - A 2-1 loss in L.A. to Burt Hooton with Yeager and Russell driving in the runs. The other was a 1-0 loss to Rick Rhoden later in the year in Houston when Ted Sizemore had a sacrifice fly to score Rhoden, who had doubled.

Greg Brock if your interested Jay Jaffe at BP put together his JAWS for Bernie at
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/unfiltered/?p=192

Just short, but counts the WS stuff and the "Fielding Grammies" (Love that term). Once again, first ballot Hall of Very Good, but I think he'll get in because he was a Yankee.

Don Mattingly suffers from having to play with guys like Dan Pasqua.

http://www.xyzrgb.com/holos/soccer.html

Did we already know about this offer...? I can't recall...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIIOwONgmJY&eurl=

http://www.slate.com/id/2159581/fr/flyout

Ironic, given the topic of an acromonious split, that I'm about to finish watching the DVD of the indie film "Mutual Appreciation." (I think this movie is scaring me because it appears to be about my friends and my life.)

I'll start. Should Jason Repko be: Platooned, traded, or sold to a sweatshop in Belize?

95 The book was a let down, but an interesting read for the layman. Much like most of Crichton's stuff. He's a pretty polarizing dude. It was better than Prey, that's for sure.

http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/2007/02/blocked_and_loa_1.php

Of course Kemp could have spent one year being a crummy CF, and then be moved over next year. It's so simple. What's one year of bad CF defense in the face of five years of Juan Pierre?

Nothing.

*But I'm not leaving

I guess I might seem kinda bitter
You got me feeling down in the dumps
Cause I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love
And I have to use the self-service pumps

In fact, I sang that in front of my 8th grade English class (we had to memorize songs of our choice to sing; one person daily was chosen at random)

Consider me a D4P fan for life.

(the poster, not the trade)

I remember we had a feral child chat a while back.

Meanwhile, you might have made a powerful enemy somewhere else across the internets. I sense a great disturbance in the tubes.

And, therefore, an enemy of Andrew's for said life.

I was in 4th grade when "In 3-D" came out. My friends and I formed a lip-sync band called "Boogie and the B-Bops", using tennis rackets for guitars. We performed in the cafeteria a few times during lunch. Our biggest hit was "Eat it."

I remember being so amazed by that song, and the entire album.

Great Weird Al songs:

Eat It
One More Minute
Good Enough for Now
(This Song's Just) Six Words Long
Lasagna
Smells Like Nirvana
You Don't Love Me Anymore
The Saga Begins
Ode To a Superhero
Ebay
Headline News

That proves it.

Is this where I'm supposed to ask "What?"...?

I kid.

It was a momentous day.

Yes, tell us more of Weird Al!

Seriously, it would be.

Thanks. Within the past PC*, I decided to buy the ROTN DVD. I was excited to see that it was being sold in a 2-for-1 deal along with ROTN2, which I hadn't seen.

Shortly into ROTN2, it became painfully obvious why it was free.

*Pierre Contract (i.e. five years)

Do you mean

1. It is always unethical to talk about particular instances of serving customers in a library,
2. It is unethical to discuss your particular experience serving Weird Al, or
3. Something else?

What if your labrarian was on random mesage boards telling people that "[D4P's real name] has renewed Madonna's sex book 28 times!"

Librarians tend to be big on privacy. This is why they loved John Ashcroft so much.

What if I posted "D4P came to me to find books on STDs."?

But I know must quote Buck Freeman in Eric's bio of him in "Deadball Stars"

"I'd walk 20 miles to go see a good cockfight."

Anyway, I wasn't specifically asking you (Bob) to tell us what Al looked for. Surely, there must be other details of the encounter that you could share with us that wouldn't violate ethical standards.

1) Bob Newhart
2) Weird Al Yankovic

That proves it.

And what's wrong with that, Mr. Timmermann? I loved Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. I was 14 years old, man!

28 of them!

http://worldcat.org/oclc/1000370

Just another reason for Bob to go to Oregon.

One wonders if the other flight attendants would have found that sexy.

Its true that when Bill James said that one, Pedro Guerrero was the best hitter in the NL and that he loved Bobby Grich, I became in instant fan. Historical Abstract was a great read when it first came out, his essay on why Drysdale should be in the Hall of Fame is something everyone here should read.

BTW, saw a note this morning that Carlos Zambrano has given the ultaminum of sign him or lose him, would you offer Penny (who has three years counting his option at probably 70% of the cost) and maybe a prospect for Zambrano (if you were willing to pay slightly above Jason Schmidt money for a few more years.)