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2023 Baseball Eligibles (24)

Matt Cain played all 13 of his seasons and 342 Games with the San Francisco Giants, a rarity in this day and age.  Cain made the starting rotation immediately and while he lost a lot of games early in his career, he hardly had a lot of run support and actually led the NL in Games Started in a season where he went 8 and…
Mike Napoli had a good career where he played for four teams (Los Angeles, Texas, Boston and Cleveland) in the American League.  Napoli played at Catcher and later First Base, where he was a good defensive player was that led the AL twice in Total Zone Runs among First Basemen and power wise, he had eight 20 Home Run Seasons, which included one for each…
One of the more unique careers in baseball is that of R.A. Dickey, a journeyman and conventional Pitcher who did not make a fulltime Major League roster until he was 28.  That team was the Texas Rangers, where his new pitch, the knuckleball which found him a place in baseball.  He still bounced around going to Seattle, Minnesota and to the New York Mets and…
Stephen Drew’s best seasons came with the Arizona Diamondbacks where he had a pair of 150 Hits seasons with 15 Home Runs.  Drew would finish in the top ten in Triples four times and he would have 1,109 Hits over his career.   He would help the Boston win the World Series in 2013.
Ubaldo Jimenez struck out 1,720 batters and retired in the top 50 in SO/9.  Jimenez did most of his work with the Colorado Rockies where he was an All-Star in 2010 and finished third in National League Cy Young voting based on his 19 and 8 record and 2.88 ERA.  Jimenez never had a season like that again and he had control issues where he…