Proposition: Carl Crawford's lifetime OPS+
Odds: Even
Stakes: $10
Parameters: Over/Under: 110
Bettors: Me, Jake
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I took the under and won--incidentally, Carl Crawford's career OPS+ is currently 105. This seemed low to both of us, actually. (Even though I took the under I regretted doing so all the way up to the moment we learned that I'd won the bet, at which point I became much happier about my choice.) Apparently, in his first two seasons in MLB Crawford OPS+'d under 80, probably because he was only 20 and 21 in those seasons and, while certainly a precocious talent, was clearly not in the mold of the Harpers and Trouts of the world. His propensity to get injured has also hurt him; he's turned in a couple of sub-100 seasons since being traded to the Red Sox.
There isn't much more to say about this bet so I thought I'd make a list of my favorite Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays players over the last ten years:
Rocco Baldelli--number one because of his mitochondrial disorder that actually just turned out to be laziness and also because he shares a first name with one of my favorite animated wallabies.
Grant Balfour, because he's Australian.
Evan Longoria
Fred McGriff, briefly.
James Shields
Sam Fuld, because he's Jewish but never had a Bar Mitzvah, and you know what? That's okay.
Desmond Jennings, because he makes me think of Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Wade Boggs...sike!
That is all.
Definitely NOT B.J. Upton
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