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Nah--the real reason I've been scarce around here lately is that it's November and very, very little is happening on the baseball front, sad to say. The Cubs are spending the entire payroll of the Nationals on their bullpen, but that's about it.

But I'll keep trying to find good stuff. Say, maybe I'll post today, if I find something interesting about Bobby Valentine or Raul Mondesi.
 

I really hate it when people argue or whine about lists such as this, but....

If pitchers were eligible for this list (and they obviously were since Gooden, Morris and Clemens were on there), how could Orel "Bulldog" Hersheiser not be on there?

I'm in now way a Dodger fan, but always had the utmost respect (and fear when he was pitching against my team) for him.
 

I was gonna say ... Only two pitchers?
 

There is not much talk of pitchers in the six pages of dialogue preceding the list.
 

I think I remember that Bill James tends to value position players over pitchers, but it does seem weird that so few pitchers are on the list. And you're right, Toby--by the time the 1988 Abstract would have come out, before the '88 season, Hershiser had already established himself as one of the best pitchers in the game.

And then Tommy Lasorda slagged his arm by having him throw every inning of every game, more or less.

But at least Hershiser's had a good second career as a pitching coach, and apparently a good one.