This Wednesday, San Francisco Giants lefty Randy Johnson will attempt to earn career victory #300. He will also land on MLB's endangered species list.The 45-year-old future Hall of Famer, who's enjoying his 22nd year in the majors, will become just the 24th pitcher in the history of this great game to accomplish the feat. To put that into perspective, this guy has pitched from a big league hill longer than some of you have even been alive.
He began his career with the Montreal Expos, who are all but forgotten at this point. Yeah, it's been that long.
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5 comments:
Mullets? Oh... the 300 win thing.
Expos! 1994 NL East Champs!
Oh, right...
Hey, that link didn't work, so I didn't get to read it, but I agree that there aren't too many more like the Big Unit left. How appropriate it would be if he were to get #300 against the Washington Nationals, who, of course, also began as the Montreal Expos.
Yeah, there is constant site maintenance going on over there. It will work some day. :)
Finally got the article to work over there, and it was a great one! I never considered the possibility that Johnson would be the last 300-game winner, but clearly, there is little shot for anyone else to do it these days. Well done!
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