I nominate Royce Clayton.  Seriously.  How is this dude still alive, let alone still on the field?

Honorable mention goes to Endy Chavez for being able to eke out a starting position with the Mets.  Look beyond that empty average from last season, and you don't got much else.

Nuff Said

Alex Sanchez was just signed to a minor league deal by the Marlins.  He's not out of the running yet!

Especially since I picked him, privately, thank Xenu, to have a breakout year last year?

..the Vancouver Canadians played a team who had a middle reliever that had such a ferocious 'head whip' in his follow-through that his hat would fly off every second pitch.

He got clobbered, and the entire crowd was laughing through the sole inning I saw him throw - the PA announcer even played 'You Can Leave Your Hat On' between pitches...

But I can't remember his name. Anyway, that guy gets my nod.

And praise be to Allah, Buddha, Jesus Christ, Zeus, Mother Earth and Jim Jones I'm not, I might have to put Allen Embree on the list.

OFer Billy Beane.

but Jeff Reboulet was always the biggest scrub that managed to find teams that wanted his .650 career OPS, and he played till he was 39.  

One of the funniest things Ive ever seen at a game, was Dave Magadan steam rolling Reboulet while he tried to field a grounder.  Classic.

C Yadier Molina -- his hitting started out offensive -- and his Avg, OBP and OPS have dropped every year in the league.
1b Travis Lee -- .224 batting average, 11 HRs.
2b Not awarded -- Jose Castillo is still young and no one else was THAT bad.
3b Abraham Nunez -- when a guy with a career .243/.313/.318 line sets a career low in batting average and just misses it in OBP and Slg you kind of have to wonder why someone saw fit to send him to the plate 2,500 hundred times.
SS Angel Berroa -- A .259 OBP almost makes a career .305 look good.
OF Scott Podsednik -- a part of one of those "all-time great trades" like the Mulder trade that leads to winning the WS. Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.
OF Brad Wilkerson -- My computer is threatening to erase this, but can anyone say, 'Ben Grieve'?
OF Jeromy Burnitz -- He had a good year that one time in Colorado ... but you have to be able to hit that ball in order for it to matter how hard you're swinging.
SP Russ Ortiz -- When a guy's ERA has gone up and his IP has dropped for six years in a row, it might be time to give up on him.
SP2 Jose Lima would go in this spot, but his wife is really hot, so that's as good of a reason as any for keeping him around.

Peg leg gets no love???????

If Elarton gets the award, then that means that the entire starting rotation for the 2006 KC Royals gets the honor, as Elarton was the #1 starter.  No wonder why they're shelling out $55 million to Meche...

Joel Pineiro gets one, for performance against the A's alone.  His performance against everyone else the past couple years didn't hurt his prospects for an Alex Sanchez Award one bit, either.  Ex-rotation mate Ryan Franklin gets one, too.  Imagine how bad he would've been if he wasn't on roids.

Danny Kolb.  Great move by Schuerholz there...

Speaking of the Brewers, some of their pitchers from a few years back definitely deserve the award.  Jamey Wright was one, there were at least a couple others.

Russ AND Ramon Ortiz...if it wasn't for David, this should be the Ortiz Award on the strength of both of their contributions.

Dave Hansen and Lenny Harris get one for carving out careers as pinch hitters, even if they were decent ones.

Todd Hollandsworth always kind of sucked, and he hung around for a while, on the strength of his ROY award, probably.

Mike Morgan, the quintessential journeyman.

Rick Ankiel, although he's probably a better fit for the Chuck Knoblauch Award, the rarer and more presitigious award reserved for those professional baseball players who inexplicably lose their ability to throw a baseball.

Other blasts from the past: Rafael Belliard (for the homerless streak) and Anthony Young, SP from the Mets (for the, what, 19-game losing streak...)

 

In two seasons with the Cleveland Blues (1902/3) Gochnaur put up a .187/.258/.240 line (including 0 HR) in 908 at bats.

But his horror show wasn't all bat. Playing at shortstop he made 146 errors in 264 games (including a record 5 in one memorable double-header) with a "career" fielding percentage of .901 that included a record .869 in 1903.

Now what were you saying about Bobby Crosby ?

the guy who held out as a rookie, saying "I've done it all. It's not my fault I haven't done it in the majors."

 or maybe I'm just bitter because he spat tobacco juice on my shoes when I was covering AAA in Indianapolis.

Anybody remember that catcher for the M's in the 80's/90's?  A friend of mine in Seattle loved that guy and I could never figure it out.  In 13 seasons, he hit .237/.314/.373

Another favorite in this category is Mark Lemke, a big favorite of Bobby Cox for a while.  "The Lemmer" hit .246/.317/.324 in 11 seasons (he did hit .444/.516/.630 in the '96 NLCS).

Bad SS who conmtinually found employment, Fred "Chicken" Stanley.