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Post by dukecrunchybagel on Jul 14, 2014 10:32:09 GMT -5
I was a prodigious home run hitter and had a 1.045 OPS with 55 dingers in my two plus seasons with the Reds. I might have helped the Reds to a World Series had things turned out differently.
Jim Bowden stole the headlines from a different major league event when I was acquired in a quite nasty deal. I wore #7.
Who am I?
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Post by quantumfootball on Jul 14, 2014 12:01:39 GMT -5
Is this Ron Gant?
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Post by tnredsfan on Jul 14, 2014 12:23:10 GMT -5
Glenn Braggs?
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Post by dukecrunchybagel on Jul 14, 2014 13:15:11 GMT -5
No it is not. Gant was signed as a free agent following a 1994 injury which led the Braves to release him. Gant played for the Reds for only one year in 1995 and powered 29 dingers a .940 OPS and an all-star berth. Gant wore #6 (since #5 was taken). Good guess though. |
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Post by dukecrunchybagel on Jul 14, 2014 13:18:48 GMT -5
Sorry, no. Braggs (#15) only 25 dingers for the Redlegs and put up an anemic .770 OPS over his two and a half years in a Reds uniform. He was also acquired by Bob Quinn and not Jim Bowden. |
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Post by schellis on Jul 14, 2014 14:32:16 GMT -5
Kevin Mitchell?
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Post by dukecrunchybagel on Jul 14, 2014 15:11:42 GMT -5
We have a winner.
Jim Bowden essentially preempted the 1993 expansion draft (forming the Diamondbacks and Devil Rays) with this blockbuster trade, dealing the former MVP from the Seatlle Mariners in exchange for Nasty Boy Norm Charlton. Mitchell, responded with a respectful .341/.385/.601 and 19 diners in an injury shortened year in LF when he appeared in 93 games.
The next year, a more healthy Mitchell belted an incredible 30 HR, 77 RBI .326./.429/.681 slash line for an incredible 1.110 OPS in 95 games in the strike shortened 1994 campaign. The Reds were in first place at the time of the strike and saw their playoff run erased. The 1994 Expos were incredible, but given the chance, you'd have to wonder how Rijo, John Smiley, Erik Hanson, and Pete Schourek might have done against Pedro Martinez, Butch Henry, Jeff Fassero & Ken Hill.
Mitchell didn't improve his situation by putting on close to 30 pounds, and upon entering free agency, he elected to become the highest paid player in the Japanese leagues rather than settle for a lesser MLB contract among skeptical teams. He returned to the Reds following a trading deadline deal for a couple of minor leaguers and had a productive couple of months in 1996 with 6 dingers and a .325/.447./.579 slash line in 37 games during the fairly futile stretch run, where's Ray Knight's teamed entered
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