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Post by dukecrunchybagel on Feb 21, 2014 14:32:08 GMT -5
We are both first round picks from the same year and were drafted one after the other. We both started on the same team. One of us was infielder and the other an outfielder. One of us was an All Star in a Reds uniform.
Between us we had 67 stolen bases and 112 home runs.
We were both traded together in a deal which involved three other first-round draft picks.
Who are we?
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Post by psuhistory on Feb 21, 2014 16:16:08 GMT -5
This is a hard one to figure without looking things up, at least for me. I guess one angle involves identifying Reds All-Stars who were also first round picks. Barry Larkin, Jay Bruce, but obviously neither of them are part of the answer. Good question...
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Post by schellis on Feb 22, 2014 18:38:34 GMT -5
Tim Costo and Mark Lewis
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Post by psuhistory on Feb 22, 2014 20:49:07 GMT -5
Good one, Schellis, no memory of Costo for some reason. One approach is just listing Reds All-Stars, though this means a lot of wrong guesses...
Ron Gant
Reggie Sanders
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Post by schellis on Feb 23, 2014 10:17:52 GMT -5
THat guess of mine was way way wrong. I know the Reds have had two guys picked back to back recently though.
Austin Kearns and Felipe Lopez.
Yeah I like that answer. Kearns and Lopez were both 1st round picks and I believe they were taken back to back, they were dealt in a very large deal that included at least one other first round pick in Bray.
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Post by psuhistory on Feb 23, 2014 11:42:55 GMT -5
Having looked it up, the Reds didn't draft Lopez. I'd have made it to him as an All-Star eventually, because of the year (?) in which he was the token Red, but wouldn't have pegged him as a number one pick. Tricky question...
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Post by schellis on Feb 23, 2014 13:01:02 GMT -5
Having looked it up, the Reds didn't draft Lopez. I'd have made it to him as an All-Star eventually, because of the year (?) in which he was the token Red, but wouldn't have pegged him as a number one pick. Tricky question... Well the question did state that the picks were drafted back to back. That would make it tricky for both of them to be drafted by the Reds. |
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Post by psuhistory on Feb 23, 2014 15:18:15 GMT -5
I think it's a harder question because the All-Star wasn't drafted by the Reds...
In the great tradition of the Stonewall Infield [Stonehands if we include Anson] and the $100,000 Infield:
EE + FL = The Launching Pad Infield
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Post by dukecrunchybagel on Feb 23, 2014 17:28:06 GMT -5
Lewis was the #2 pick in the 1988 draft while Costo was #8 in the 1990 draft. Different years, so no. |
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Post by dukecrunchybagel on Feb 23, 2014 17:29:10 GMT -5
Good one, Schellis, no memory of Costo for some reason. One approach is just listing Reds All-Stars, though this means a lot of wrong guesses... Ron Gant Reggie Sanders 4th and 7th round picks so no. |
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Post by dukecrunchybagel on Feb 23, 2014 17:32:08 GMT -5
THat guess of mine was way way wrong. I know the Reds have had two guys picked back to back recently though. Austin Kearns and Felipe Lopez. Yeah I like that answer. Kearns and Lopez were both 1st round picks and I believe they were taken back to back, they were dealt in a very large deal that included at least one other first round pick in Bray. You win the gold star! Kearns was drafted by the Reds with the 7th pick in the 1998 draft which was followed by FeLo with the #8 pick by the Jays. FeLo was subsequentally sent to the Reds in a four-team blockbuster (the Reds basically sending Elmer Dessnes to the dBacks). Both were dealt along first-rounder Ryan Wagner to the Nats, for which the Reds got a couple of first-rounders Billy Bray and Royce Clayton. Good job! |
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