Post the name here of a random 1980s baseball player

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I think some people don't understand what an "obscure" player is.

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the thread title says random, although the post does say obscure. Do you think any of these guys are obscure? I've heard of nearly all of them.

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I guess "obscure" depends on your level of baseball knowledge. To the average fan, no one knows who in the hell these guys are:

Bill Bathe

Reid Nichols

Herm Winningham

Joe Oliver

Andy McGaffigan

Joe Hesketh

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Dane Iorg

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With a mangerial twist:

Bob Geren

Dusty Baker

Joe Girardi

Bruce Bochy

Bud Black

Buddy Bell

Clint Hurdle

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Don't forget Terry Francona

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Brewer time:

Cecil Cooper

Gorman Thomas

Dave(?) Ogilve

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I think it was Ben Ogilve.

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With a mangerial twist:

Bob Geren

Dusty Baker

Joe Girardi

Bruce Bochy

Bud Black

Buddy Bell

Clint Hurdle

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Don't forget Terry Francona

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I also forgot Ron Washington.

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greg brock

don slaught

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Brewer time:

Cecil Cooper

Gorman Thomas

Dave(?) Ogilve

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I think it was Ben Ogilve.

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THAT sounds better. Now Oriole time:

Ken Singleton

Al Bumbry

Fred Lynn

Tippy Martinez

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Kaat was pretty well known before his broadcasting career.

Kaat won 25 games and was A.L. pitcher of the year in 1966.
He would have won a Cy Young that year but they only gave one award for both leagues then and the award went to Sandy koufax.
He started 3 World Series games in 1965 and lost game 7 to Koufax in a classic duel.

He would regularly get around 20% of the votes for Hall of Fame induction (75% needed for election).

He still gets plenty of votes via the Veterans committee.

(note that most people wouldn't really consider him a 1980s player even though he did technically play a few yrs in the 80s).

also is one of the few players to have played in 4 different decades (Ted Williams, Tim McCarver, Willie McCovey, Carlton Fisk, Nolan Ryan, Rickey Henderson and Jesse Orosco being a few of the others)

His 25 yrs in the big-leagues rank him 3rd all-time among pitchers behind Nolan Ryan and Tommy John.

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Not obscure for sure, but these guys are all still playing despite debuting in the 80's:

Barry Bonds (86)

Greg Maddux (86)

Roger Clemens (84)

Randy Johnson (88)

David Wells (88)

Jamie Moyer (87)

Glavine (87)

Smoltz (88)

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Kaat was pretty well known before his broadcasting career.

Kaat won 25 games and was A.L. pitcher of the year in 1966.
He would have won a Cy Young that year but they only gave one award for both leagues then and the award went to Sandy koufax.
He started 3 World Series games in 1965 and lost game 7 to Koufax in a classic duel.

He would regularly get around 20% of the votes for Hall of Fame induction (75% needed for election).

He still gets plenty of votes via the Veterans committee.

(note that most people wouldn't really consider him a 1980s player even though he did technically play a few yrs in the 80s).

also is one of the few players to have played in 4 different decades (Ted Williams, Tim McCarver, Willie McCovey, Carlton Fisk, Nolan Ryan, Rickey Henderson and Jesse Orosco being a few of the others)

His 25 yrs in the big-leagues rank him 3rd all-time among pitchers behind Nolan Ryan and Tommy John.

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Yeah, I dropped the 10-ton leaded ball on my foot on that one.

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