Nomar Garciaparra announces retirement.

• Nate

  Nomar Garciaparra is now retired. He is joining ESPN this year. Is Nomar a HOF?
• Nate

  Career statistics
  Batting average .313
  Home runs 229
  Runs batted in 936
  Hits 1747
  Slugging percentage .521
  On-base percentage .361
• Lovejoy1984

  

  He's got an outside shot of making it. But I'd lean more towards no.
• devil1197

  He is on the fence.
• killdeer

  

  one of many great players who fall just short of HOF.
  
  definitely a gamer.
  and he landed Mia Hamm.
  so he's got that going for him.
• Benny The Jet

  

  Doubt it...but his kid might be someday. Got some athleticism in those genes.
• THE4RINGZ

  

  killdeer wrote: one of many great players who fall just short of HOF.
  
  definitely a gamer.
  and he landed Mia Hamm.
  so he's got that going for him.

  Landing Mia Hamm is an accomplishment? She will take off her shirt each and every time her team scores a goal. Just another socceer skank.
• killdeer

  

  THE4RINGZ wrote:

  killdeer wrote: one of many great players who fall just short of HOF.
  
  definitely a gamer.
  and he landed Mia Hamm.
  so he's got that going for him.

  Landing Mia Hamm is an accomplishment? She will take off her shirt each and every time her team scores a goal. Just another socceer skank.

  1. you're thinking of Brandi Chastain...:rolleyes:
  
  2. ...and...what's wrong with that?
• LJ

  

  NOOOMAAAAAAAAr!!!!!
  
  http://www.hulu.com/watch/4149/saturday-night-live-sully-and-denise
• lhslep134

  

  Not a HOF.
• IggyPride00

  

  Not even close. I liked him, but way too short a window of "great" years.
  
  He also had his greatest seasons during the steroid boom period, and his numbers proceeded to drop off a cliff around the same time as baseball started to clean up the game. I hate to put 2 and 2 together like that, but he went from hero to zero awful quick.
• THE4RINGZ

  

  killdeer wrote:

  THE4RINGZ wrote:

  killdeer wrote: one of many great players who fall just short of HOF.
  
  definitely a gamer.
  and he landed Mia Hamm.
  so he's got that going for him.

  Landing Mia Hamm is an accomplishment? She will take off her shirt each and every time her team scores a goal. Just another socceer skank.

  1. you're thinking of Brandi Chastain...:rolleyes:
  
  2. ...and...what's wrong with that?

  I was being sarcastic, and there is nothing wrong with women disrobing to celebrate a score. I would encourage more of that. Except for maybe the WBNA.
• just_a_swimmer

  

  And Omar Vizquel is still playing. Go figure.
  
  Nomar's stats
  
  CAREER STATS
  G? AB? R? H? TB? 2B? 3B? HR? RBI? BB? IBB? SO? SB? CS? AVG?OBP?SLG?OPS?GO/AO
  
  CAREER 1434 5586 927 1747 2908 370 52 229 936 403 54 554 95 31 .313 .361 .521 .882 0.74
  
  Omar's Stats
  G? AB? R? H? TB? 2B? 3B? HR? RBI?BB? IBB? SO? SB? CS? AVG?OBP?SLG?OPS?GO/AO
  CAREER 2742 9922 1378 2704 3519 433 74 78 906 978 25 1007 389 156 .273 .338 .355 .693 0.92
• Benny The Jet

  

  just_a_swimmer wrote: And Omar Vizquel is still playing. Go figure.
  
  Nomar's stats
  
  CAREER STATS
  G? AB? R? H? TB? 2B? 3B? HR? RBI? BB? IBB? SO? SB? CS? AVG?OBP?SLG?OPS?GO/AO
  
  CAREER 1434 5586 927 1747 2908 370 52 229 936 403 54 554 95 31 .313 .361 .521 .882 0.74
  
  Omar's Stats
  G? AB? R? H? TB? 2B? 3B? HR? RBI?BB? IBB? SO? SB? CS? AVG?OBP?SLG?OPS?GO/AO
  CAREER 2742 9922 1378 2704 3519 433 74 78 906 978 25 1007 389 156 .273 .338 .355 .693 0.92

  I had to do a double take on the stat line for Omar..saw hits above the number 9922 and thought for a split second jesus omar! then realized they were misaligned haha
• bcubed

  

  I remember when he was with the Red Sox and they were talking about him actually having a chance at hitting a 400 average!
• just_a_swimmer

  

  Benny The Jet wrote:

  just_a_swimmer wrote: And Omar Vizquel is still playing. Go figure.
  
  Nomar's stats
  
  CAREER STATS
  G? AB? R? H? TB? 2B? 3B? HR? RBI? BB? IBB? SO? SB? CS? AVG?OBP?SLG?OPS?GO/AO
  
  CAREER 1434 5586 927 1747 2908 370 52 229 936 403 54 554 95 31 .313 .361 .521 .882 0.74
  
  Omar's Stats
  G? AB? R? H? TB? 2B? 3B? HR? RBI?BB? IBB? SO? SB? CS? AVG?OBP?SLG?OPS?GO/AO
  CAREER 2742 9922 1378 2704 3519 433 74 78 906 978 25 1007 389 156 .273 .338 .355 .693 0.92

  I had to do a double take on the stat line for Omar..saw hits above the number 9922 and thought for a split second jesus omar! then realized they were misaligned haha

  It was all aligned before I posted.:huh:
• september63

  

  Nomar had a nice career. Injuries cost him dearly. He wont ever sniff the HOF!! Omar Vizquel will get in the HOF after several years of trying.
• Ironman92

  

  An absolute no doubter of the roids. No doubt. Could his numbers and timing and legs breaking down be more obvious. He and Luis Gonzalez are the 2 most obvious that NEVER get mentioned.
• HitsRus

  

  IggyPride00 wrote: Not even close. I liked him, but way too short a window of "great" years.
  
  He also had his greatest seasons during the steroid boom period, and his numbers proceeded to drop off a cliff around the same time as baseball started to clean up the game. I hate to put 2 and 2 together like that, but he went from hero to zero awful quick.

  
  Agree with this....just not that many great years.