Time for another player: who’s a player who started good and ended bad
November 19, 2024
So far we have Jose Abreu and Rat Boy
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My vote would be for Carlos Lee.
Carlos Beltran: started with his legendary postseason run, ended by spearheading the 2017 scandal
Carlos Correa.
Dallas Kuechel?
Brad Lidge.
Lmj
Verlander – 2024 was by far the worst year of his career.
Carlos Beltran early ’04…then ’17.
Tyler White
I mean, it wasn’t really Randy Johnson’s fault, the offense no-showed all series, but he did go 0-2 in the ’98 Playoffs. That series still haunts me…
If we’re going off-the-field, you can’t end much worse than Gerrit Cole wearing a Boras hat instead of an Astros hat after the game.
I would say Uncle Mike, but that ended sad, not really bad.
Probably Carlos Lee
Lidge.
Jose Lima – He went a from 21 game winner that made the All Star Game to being traded away back to Detroit. A fan favorite during his brief peak, but was quite literally one of the worst pitchers in franchise history with 16 losses and a ton of homers allowed in 2000.
Lima has the franchise record for most earned runs allowed in a season (145) and most homers allowed in a season (48)
Colby Rasmus
Morgan Ensberg if you want to go older
Martin Maldonado
Raphael Montero
Mike Fiers
Rat shouldn’t be on here. Bigger loser in franchise history.
You could throw Nolan Ryan in here. He came in with so much justified hype and love…only for it to end with John J McMullen deciding he didn’t want to pay the money/draft his son to Nolan…driving him to Arlington.
Could even throw in how Nolan and McLane started off well, before there was a falling out causing Nolan to go back to Arlington with the AAA club and the publicity.
Then him coming back again, but Crane letting his son go for his own son and Nolan sort of floating now.
There are quite a few:
Brad Lidge was phenomenal until teams realized he was a 2 pitch closer.
Carlos Lee had a great 2007/2008 then went missing after.
Carlos Beltran if you include both stints (given the context of the game, I feel like this is a stretch).
Morgan Ensberg had 1 good season in 2005 and dipped.
If we want to go closer to present day: LMJ, unfortunately.
Machete
I’m sure that I’ll miss the actual thread, so I would like to nominate the three 100+ loss seasons as the center square. There were no expectations of winning. We just watched our team of mostly inexperienced young guys play. Winning any random series during that span was as fun as watching the postseason imo. I still have amazing memories of that period.
Jeff Kent…just cause he went on survivor and complained about having to pay taxes on the winnings.
Verlander (sorry, may be too fresh)
I had a run in with Mike Fiers. He’s more of an idiot than I thought he would be…
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My vote would be for Carlos Lee.
Carlos Beltran: started with his legendary postseason run, ended by spearheading the 2017 scandal
Carlos Correa.
Dallas Kuechel?
Brad Lidge.
Lmj
Verlander – 2024 was by far the worst year of his career.
Carlos Beltran early ’04…then ’17.
Tyler White
I mean, it wasn’t really Randy Johnson’s fault, the offense no-showed all series, but he did go 0-2 in the ’98 Playoffs. That series still haunts me…
If we’re going off-the-field, you can’t end much worse than Gerrit Cole wearing a Boras hat instead of an Astros hat after the game.
I would say Uncle Mike, but that ended sad, not really bad.
Probably Carlos Lee
Lidge.
Jose Lima – He went a from 21 game winner that made the All Star Game to being traded away back to Detroit. A fan favorite during his brief peak, but was quite literally one of the worst pitchers in franchise history with 16 losses and a ton of homers allowed in 2000.
Lima has the franchise record for most earned runs allowed in a season (145) and most homers allowed in a season (48)
Colby Rasmus
Morgan Ensberg if you want to go older
Martin Maldonado
Raphael Montero
Mike Fiers
Rat shouldn’t be on here. Bigger loser in franchise history.
You could throw Nolan Ryan in here. He came in with so much justified hype and love…only for it to end with John J McMullen deciding he didn’t want to pay the money/draft his son to Nolan…driving him to Arlington.
Could even throw in how Nolan and McLane started off well, before there was a falling out causing Nolan to go back to Arlington with the AAA club and the publicity.
Then him coming back again, but Crane letting his son go for his own son and Nolan sort of floating now.
There are quite a few:
Brad Lidge was phenomenal until teams realized he was a 2 pitch closer.
Carlos Lee had a great 2007/2008 then went missing after.
Carlos Beltran if you include both stints (given the context of the game, I feel like this is a stretch).
Morgan Ensberg had 1 good season in 2005 and dipped.
If we want to go closer to present day: LMJ, unfortunately.
Machete
I’m sure that I’ll miss the actual thread, so I would like to nominate the three 100+ loss seasons as the center square. There were no expectations of winning. We just watched our team of mostly inexperienced young guys play. Winning any random series during that span was as fun as watching the postseason imo. I still have amazing memories of that period.
Jeff Kent…just cause he went on survivor and complained about having to pay taxes on the winnings.
Verlander (sorry, may be too fresh)
I had a run in with Mike Fiers. He’s more of an idiot than I thought he would be…
Chris Devenski
Okay i’m going there …
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Verlander?