'84 Cubs Finally Establish a Body Count

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Still trailing the '84 Padres in the Body Count Standings, but the first member of the first Cubs posteason team in 39 years, Gary Woods, has passed away at 60 (H/T to Yeti).

Fun fact:  the seldom-used marginal outfielder had more hits off of Steve Carlton than any other pitcher he faced.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

DPD.  It just occurred to me that Tom Veryzer--who was Alan Trammel's predecessor as Detroit SS-- was actually on the '84 Cubs also and thus is the first player from that team who has died.

So Woods makes 2.  Still behind San Diego, though.

[Quality Start Machine]

Still trailing the '84 Padres in the Body Count Standings, but the first member of the first Cubs posteason team in 39 years, Gary Woods, has passed away at 60 (H/T to Yeti).

Fun fact:  the seldom-used marginal outfielder had more hits off of Steve Carlton than any other pitcher he faced.

Kind of like Uecker and Sandy Koufax? Ueck said he probably got an extra 2 years in the bigs because of his unexplainable ability to hit Koufax.

[R-V]

Alan Tarmmel outlives another one.

[Slaky]

Tom Veryzer was the name of an extremely shitty poster on the old Cubs talk forum so I'll always hate that guy. I guess I'm sorry he's dead.

[Brownie]

Tom Veryzer was the name of an extremely shitty poster on the old Cubs talk forum so I'll always hate that guy. I guess I'm sorry he's dead.

Tom Veryzer was also an extremely shitty baseball player.

[Quality Start Machine]

Morgan Freeman played for neither of these teams.

[SKO]

Still trailing the '84 Padres in the Body Count Standings, but the first member of the first Cubs posteason team in 39 years, Gary Woods, has passed away at 60 (H/T to Yeti).

Fun fact:  the seldom-used marginal outfielder had more hits off of Steve Carlton than any other pitcher he faced.

Kind of like Uecker and Sandy Koufax? Ueck said he probably got an extra 2 years in the bigs because of his unexplainable ability to hit Koufax.

He hit .184 with a .560 OPS vs. Koufax

[Bort]

Still trailing the '84 Padres in the Body Count Standings, but the first member of the first Cubs posteason team in 39 years, Gary Woods, has passed away at 60 (H/T to Yeti).

Fun fact:  the seldom-used marginal outfielder had more hits off of Steve Carlton than any other pitcher he faced.

Kind of like Uecker and Sandy Koufax? Ueck said he probably got an extra 2 years in the bigs because of his unexplainable ability to hit Koufax.

He hit .184 with a .560 OPS vs. Koufax

Whick, for Ueck, was pretty good.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Still trailing the '84 Padres in the Body Count Standings, but the first member of the first Cubs posteason team in 39 years, Gary Woods, has passed away at 60 (H/T to Yeti).

Fun fact:  the seldom-used marginal outfielder had more hits off of Steve Carlton than any other pitcher he faced.

Kind of like Uecker and Sandy Koufax? Ueck said he probably got an extra 2 years in the bigs because of his unexplainable ability to hit Koufax.

He hit .184 with a .560 OPS vs. Koufax

Whick, for Ueck, was pretty good.

Not really.  IIRC from reading Uecker's autobiography "The Catcher in the Wry", Uecker's career batting average landed right at .200.

I would also like to take this moment to thank SKO for pointing out that Uecker really didn't do jack against Koufax.  I intended to look this up out of curiosity but then I saw a dog with a fluffy tail.

Woods, on the other hand, really did have retarded numbers against Carlton.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

DPD

Uecker did have his third most hits off of Koufax (7) but did so in 38 at-bats, yielding the paltry line which SKO referenced--a far cry from Woods' .353/.450/.490/.940 against Carlton--which occured in 19 more Plate Appearances (60) than Ueck had against Koufax (41).

Seriously, the more I look at it this the more intrigued I am by Woods' success against Carlton.   Not only did he consistently hit him, but he actually faced Carlton far more often than any other pitcher (Larry McWilliams is second with 42 Plate Appearances against, and Woods actually hit McWilliams harder than Carlton).  This is a journeyman with a career .243/.302/.337/.639 line and yet he pretty much PWNED the greatest southpaw of his generation while also facing said southpaw far more than any other pitcher.

I realize I've probably written more words about Gary Woods than anyone else in the universe this week. I'm just glad that my recollection actually holds up (unlike Uecker's).

Carry on.

[Bort]

This is the last time I make a "Uecker Was a Terrible Hitter" joke on the Autism Awareness Page.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

This is the last time I make a "Uecker Was a Terrible Hitter" joke on the Autism Awareness Page.

I'm an excellent historian.

[Quality Start Machine]

Still trailing the '84 Padres in the Body Count Standings, but the first member of the first Cubs posteason team in 39 years, Gary Woods, has passed away at 60 (H/T to Yeti).

Fun fact:  the seldom-used marginal outfielder had more hits off of Steve Carlton than any other pitcher he faced.

Kind of like Uecker and Sandy Koufax? Ueck said he probably got an extra 2 years in the bigs because of his unexplainable ability to hit Koufax.

He hit .184 with a .560 OPS vs. Koufax

Pretty comparable to Banks vs Koufax.

Whick, for Ueck, was pretty good.

[CT III]

This is the last time I make a "Uecker Was a Terrible Hitter" joke on the Autism Awareness Page.

I'm an excellent historian.

Except when it comes to establishing a correct Deadpool thread title, apparently.