passionate about helping people with disabilities as well as mental illness. huge pro wrestling fan! huge fan of the White Sox, bears, blackhawks, and bulls.
Mark Buehrle was cut from his high school team as a sophomore and drafted 1,139th overall in 1998, a 38th rounder out of a Missouri junior college.
On July 23, 2009, he threw a perfect game for the White Sox.
The play that saved it came leading off the ninth, when DeWayne Wise, in the game as a defensive replacement, climbed the wall in left center and pulled back a home run from Gabe Kapler.
Buehrle won 214 games.
Could you name any of the 1,138 picks before Buehrle?
Danhausen defeated rock the Dwayne Johnson and Cold Steve and Mideon to become the WWE world heavy weight champion in the same night, show some respect and learn your wrestling history.
If you never watched Buehrle pitch, the thing to understand is the tempo. He got the ball and threw it.
Games he started ran under two and a half hours regularly, and hitters hated stepping in against him because he never gave them a second to think.
He made fourteen consecutive seasons of two hundred or more innings, which nobody does anymore.
He threw a no hitter in 2007 and a perfect game against the Rays in 2009, and he was on the mound for the White Sox team that finally ended their long championship drought in 2005.
I still have him on the outside, narrowly. He rarely struck anybody out and he was almost never the best pitcher in his league in a given year. Durability that extreme is a real skill and I wish the voting rewarded it more than it does.
Is showing up every fifth day for fifteen years a Hall of Fame skill?