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Old 07-23-2012, 08:31 PM   #4
Young Drachma
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Bobby Carter, P, 1838-1853



SAN MATEO N.L. 1838, ROUGH RIDERS N.L. 1839-1840, PHILADELPHIA A.L. 1841-1842, 1844-46, LOS ANGELES N.L. 1842-1843, WINNEMUCCA A.L. 1847-1850, SYRACUSE A.L. 1851-1853

A five-time all-star who managed to have a successful career as both a starter and reliever. Only player in SLOP history to end career Top 20 in both wins & saves.

This guy was just so dominant and able to do either thing from pretty much the start to the end of his career. Which is especially unique in this league. If he'd been a consistent starter, you'd have to think he could've broken records and if he'd been a consistent closer, he'd easily have even more stats. So to have been dominant at both, you have to give him his due. You could have put him in the Hall as a Quaker, given the same amount of time was spent there as well as Winnemucca, but he won a title in Winnemucca and if he hadn't been a starter for them and been as good as he was for that period of time, he wouldn't have been a first-ballot guy in my mind.

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