I noticed that Luis Gonzalez, Wiki Gonzalez and Alex Gonzalez all hit homers today and wondered what the record was for most guys with the same last name hitting homers on the same day?
As you know I’ve been kind of tied up, but I did try to post on Friday. Blogger ate my home work. Whenever that happens I swear I will save every post before I post, and I do, for a while. But then nothing bad happens and I get lazy and blammo. Blogger is really a great system, but it’s not terribly reliable. That doesn’t make it less great, it just means one has to make adjustments.
It seems that since the end of April, when I advised someone to take Jay Gibbons over the then very much struggling Tim Salmon, Salmon has been a substantially better ballplayer. How much better?
AB H AVG R HR RBI SB
Salmon: 126 43 .341 26 8 27 4
Gibbons: 112 26 .232 14 3 16 0
Since I compiled these stats Salmon has dinged twice, Gibbons once.
The fact is I got it wrong. Salmon had been pathetic for so long I violated rule number one, which is Don’t ever underestimate the capability of vets with track records to resurrect their careers. You could also call it the Gary Gaetti rule. Or the Vinny Castilla rule.
I like taking credit when I get something right. Well, this one I got wrong. Sorry.