Craig Biggio : Welcome to the 3,000 Hit Club

[dawade]

My all-time favorite player, Mr. Craig Biggio just reached a feat that just 26 other MLB players have ever reached: 3,000 hits.

In the bottom of the 7th inning with his team trailing 1-0, Biggio smacked a pitch into right field for hit number 3,000 and tied the game in the process.

CONGRATS BIGGIO!

[Scary_Tiger]

K good, now retire. Thanks.

[NajdorfDefense]

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K good, now retire after beating Barry Bonds into a coma with your bat. Thanks.

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[Shadowrun]

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K good, now retire. Thanks.

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[MikeyPatriot]

Hate to do it, but...

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K good, now retire. Thanks.

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[Needle77]

Not sure why you want him to retire. If he just goes to the American League he can extend his career by 3 or 4 more years just by playing DH and relief pitching.

Anyway, I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Biggio and am very happy to see him get to 3k. Can't wait for him to get his 68% vote by the sports writers in year one then 72% in year two and finnally 75.1% in year 3.

[Card08]

I'm happy for two reasons.

1. Biggio milestone that he really earned.

2. More Chris Burke PT to see if he is worth a damn.

[Card08]

Oh, and here is a cross-post from my beginning of the year projection thread where I tried to guess when Biggio would get #3000.

"CLIFF NOTES: Huge Astros fan. Wanna see Biggio hit #3,000. Will be out of state over the summer. Want to calculate best guess of when Biggio will do it.

With 280 ABs we would require 299 PAs when considering the walkrate (280/15+ANS=299). This would give us Biggio crossing the mark after 69 games started (299 PAs/4.35 PA/g). We will edge that number down to 68 to account for intermittent pinch hitting success. Assuming Biggio plays 6/7 games a week, that comes out to 79 games (68*7/6).

This number (79 games) sounds very optimistic to me. Game 68 against Seattle, just before a 9 game road-trip, sounds too early to come into play. Games # 78-89 comprise a 12 game homestand from June 28-July 8. "

The gist of my previous calculations had Biggio getting hit #3000 in PA 299 on the season. I guessed that this would happen in game 79. Tonight Biggio collected hit #3000 in PA 301 of game 79. Pretty uncanny, huh? He hit .245 rather than the .250 I projected, but drawing 3 or 4 fewer walks thank I projected evened that out.

Needless to say I am a pretty happy Biggio homer.

[prohornblower]

wtf!?!? I'm up at work studying for licensing exams until 9pm...didn't pay attention to the game at all...didn't expect him to get 3 hits tonight.

Christ, I wanted to see it live. Oh well, congrats Craig! You make me proud to say I'm an Astros fan! Great player, great guy, great ambassador for the game! Can't wait for that #7 to get retired!

[Jack of Arcades]

Now he's the shoe-in he should have been 8 years ago.