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Originally Posted by David Watts
Have you had Puig show up in your random debut? Man does random debut love this guy. He's well on his way to the Hall of Fame once again my new league. I'm just surprised how consistently good he is from one random debut to another. Then again, there are so many guys I've never seen debut, yet Puig always seems to make it into my leagues in the early stages.
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Hah! He showed up at age 22 in the inaugural season of my league (1901). On April 14, 1904, the poor bastard tore the meniscus in his knee, and on June 20, 1904, injury setbacks resulted in the end of his career (even though I disable Career Ending Injuries in the injuries.txt file - they can still bite you). He retired on October 22, 1904. In his brief career, he was selected to the All-Star team twice (1902 and 1903), and won the 1902 Silver Slugger at DH, while finishing second in AL MVP voting. He also won the 1901 World Series with the only team he ever played for - the Washington Senators, who've only managed to win two more championships since he retired (1906, and 1926).
Puig was not a star on the 1901 team. That team was led by RF Red Murray (All-Star), LF Joe Lahoud (All-Star), SS Freddie Patek (All-Star), and starting pitchers John Lackey (All-Star), Bobby J Jones, and Lefty Williams (All-Star). No real superstars really stand out. Must've been a real team effort. Closer Harry Boyles also made the All-Star team and posted 52 saves to lead the AL that year.
That team has one player in the HoF, who was my first ever inductee, Zack Greinke. Zack went 4-2 in 13 GS that year with a 3.77 ERA in 76.1 IP. It was only his age 23 season though. He had a very short career, and is definitely on the floor of the HoF SP. He never managed to win a Cy Young, but he did finish 2nd three times and 3rd three times, and finished 3rd in MVP voting once. It was a brilliant, brief career with 9 All-Star selections, 2 rings, and 1 ALCS MVP Award in 13 seasons.