Who was your favorite scrub player when you were young?

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Rafael Belliard.

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LOL this is exactly who I was going to say after reading the thread title.

One homer in 87 with the Pirates, another a decade later in Atlanta. Always came in for Blauser late in games cause Jeff played a [censored] SS and Raffy had a great glove.

I remember watching the game where he hit his 2nd homer. I just about [censored] my pants. Ironically I seem to remember it was at three rivers...I might be imagining that though.

Raffy was an important part of that 95 team, the only championship of one of my favourite teams (Braves, Flames) I've ever experienced.

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Dave Magadan

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I loved Joe Orsulak for years, and if I could meet any pro athlete it would still be him. I loved watching him on the horrible late eighties Orioles teams. The dude would dive to make a catch when there was clearly no reason to. Every year they would talk about whether Joe would make the team in the spring training talk, and every year he would have the best or second best batting average on the team.

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Terry Leach

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Okay, could we stop nominating solid players? Esa Tikannen scored 244 NHL goals, and is probably in the top 20 of career NHL playoff goals scored. He became washed up early and was certainly a scrub on his last go around with the Rangers, but there are way better scrubs from the Rangers teams of that time (Darren Langdon, Joey Kocur, etc.)

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Esa was never particularly solid. He played 20 seasons in the NHL and has 244 goals. An average of about 12 goals (12.2?) per season is not what I consider good.

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Esa Tikannen was a very good player. wtf. Goals aren't the only measure of talent.

My selection was Curt Ford, a baseball player who played 6 seasons, only had 742 career AB's, and hit 7 homeruns and had 89 RBI's, with 36SB's

For BP guys: 742 career AB's of .245/.305/.345 lol

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Roberto Kelly

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Scot Pollard (Kings version)

[Jack of Arcades]

Even better than Three Rivers: it was at Shea.

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Between B. Ripken, Devereaux, Orsulak and Mickey Tettleton the late-80s Orioles were a veritable juggernaut of lovable scrubs.

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