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Saturday Spotlight: Omar Vizquel

Saturday Spotlight is a weekly lightning-round of questions delving into the personalities and stories of Major Leaguers. Omar Vizquel is best known for his outstanding work at shortstop, but you may also know that he's a musician, an artist and a pretty fancy dresser. On his way to the Hall of Fame, he's now finishing out...

I Told You Carlos Gomez Was Fun To Watch

As I mentioned in a post here at FanHouse last week, Carlos Gomez is quickly becoming one of my favorite players in all of baseball to watch. Even when he's tearing my favorite team up, as he did last night against the White Sox, I still enjoy just watching him play baseball.On Wednesday night, Carlos became the first...

Carlos Gomez Is Fun to Watch, Unless You're His Manager

Since I am officially responsible for covering two divisions and nine teams here at FanHouse, I have to spend a lot of my time watching baseball. It's a hard life, I assure you, but these are the sacrifices I'm willing to make for you, the reader. One of the players I've been particularly interested in following this...

Defending Bill James on Kirby Puckett

By now, the Bugs and Cranks post taking Bill James to task on his paragraph in 2008's Gold Mine -- which loosely mentions Kirby Puckett and Gary Gaetti in the same breath as steroids -- is old news. Our boy Josh Alper has given his take too. We get it: It's not cool to bust on Puckett and the Twins for things we do not...

Bill James Should Offer Opinions About Win Shares, Not Causes of Death

The worst part of the Steroid Era in baseball is that we'll never be quite sure who was or wasn't on drugs during the years when testing was nonexistent. We all have our suspicions about players whose production and/or muscles exploded but they usually remain just that. Bill James, however, went a step further in his new...

Kirby Puckett News From the Web

05/06/12 Joe Christensen's Sunday Insider: There for history Source: The Aitkin Independent Age - Aitkin MN The Internet keeps track of nearly everything a baseball writer needs these days, so I rarely save my scorecards anymore, but after a memorable trip to Southern California last week, I returned with two keepers.
04/27/12 VAULT: Did the Tribe pass on Puckett? Source: WBNS - 10 TV Ohio News Now - Columbus OH Hindsight in life, but especially in sports, is 20/20.
04/22/12 Willingham ties Kirby with 15-game hit streak Source: MLB - Minnesota Twins The Twins couldn't get much going offensively against Rays starter James Shields on Saturday night, but Josh Willingham still managed to etch his name into Minnesota's record books.

Background on Kirby Puckett

Kirby Puckett (March 14, 1960 – March 6, 2006) was an American Major League Baseball center fielder. He played his entire 12-year baseball career with the Minnesota Twins (1984–1995) and is the Twins franchise's all-time leader in career hits, runs, doubles, and total bases.

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