Sean Casey Retires

[Jim]

http://blogs.weei.com/robbradford/20...o-mlb-network/

The mayor is retiring. Thanks for the memories!

[chettt]

Now he gets paid for what he does best. Talk!!!!!! He was one of my favorites. Thanks again.

[PedroBourbon]

Sean was/is a class act, both in and out of baseball. Best of luck to Sean. One of my favorites. The only player to do the "macarena" before every pitch at the plate, even if he didn't swing just had to do the batting gloves again.

[Chi-Town Red]

One of my favs...thanks Sean!

[BigJohn]

This is a baseball career ruined by the steroid era. Teams wanted a homerun guy to play first base(thanks mark), not one who gets the job done.

[Z-Fly]

He never turned out to be good as I thought he would be. I thought he could be a .300 25 90 guy year in and year out. It is hard to believe he lasted only a little over 10 years. It seems like it was not too long ago when he was the future of the reds.

[ChatterRed]

Originally Posted by Z-Fly

He never turned out to be good as I thought he would be. I thought he could be a .300 25 90 guy year in and year out. It is hard to believe he lasted only a little over 10 years. It seems like it was not too long ago when he was the future of the reds.

I have to agree with your assessment, although I did like Sean and thought he was a quality person and decent b-player.

I envisioned him being more of a Paul O'Neill type hitter, though. He never quite reached that.

[BigJohn]

Had the Reds never have gotten rid of him he would still be a star! He was a GREAT player and person but the Reds, dumped his salary! What a tragedy!

[akron3344]

a star, are you kidding, he was a walking GIDP master

[mroby85]

He wasn't a star. he was a really good guy, who i still like, but i can't say i was upset when they unloaded him from a baseball aspect.

[BigJohn]

There were some pretty good players that were ahead of him in GIDP

http://www.baseball-reference.com/le...P_active.shtml


Rank Player (age) Grounded into Double Plays Bats
1. Ivan Rodriguez (36) 286 R
2. Manny Ramirez (36) 230 R
3. Mike Piazza (39) 229 R
4. Gary Sheffield (39) 225 R
Frank Thomas (40) 225 R
6. Jeff Kent (40) 224 R
7. Vladimir Guerrero (32) 220 R
8. Royce Clayton (38) 218 R
9. Miguel Tejada (34) 216 R
10. Luis Gonzalez* (40) 212 L
11. Paul Konerko (32) 210 R
12. Edgar Renteria (32) 209 R
13. Chipper Jones# (36) 204 B
14. Sammy Sosa (39) 202 R
15. Magglio Ordonez (34) 199 R
16. Brad Ausmus (39) 197 R
17. Moises Alou (41) 195 R
Derek Jeter (34) 195 R
19. Omar Vizquel# (41) 192 B
20. Ken Griffey* (38) 190 L
Rank Player (age) Grounded into Double Plays Bats
21. Alex Rodriguez (32) 189 R
22. Garret Anderson* (36) 180 L
23. Shawn Green* (35) 174 L
24. Mark Grudzielanek (38) 170 R
25. Jermaine Dye (34) 169 R
26. Barry Bonds* (43) 165 L
27. Andruw Jones (31) 164 R
28. Albert Pujols (28) 157 R
29. Sean Casey* (33) 156 L

I loved him as a person and as a player. He may not have become a huge star, but he was successful in other ways. He will have a wonderful post-baseball career. The success or failure of a baseball career can't be based merely on numbers - Casey left his mark on the game with his attitude and kindness. That is more rare than a .300, 25, 90 guy.

[mroby85]

Don't know if it already said this or not, but he's joining mlb network. The Reds will be represented well with Casey, and Larkin.

[BigJohn]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/le...P_season.shtml

Even his highest year(gidp) wasn't record breaking, it cracks me up that people say that crap and then defend Dunn striking out!

[BigJohn]

Year Ag Tm Lg G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG *OPS+ TB SH SF IBB HBP GDP
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
1997 22 CLE AL 6 10 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 .200 .333 .200 43 2 0 0 0 1 0
1998 23 CIN NL 96 302 44 82 21 1 7 52 1 1 43 45 .272 .365 .417 104 126 0 3 3 3 11
1999 24 CIN NL 151 594 103 197 42 3 25 99 0 2 61 88 .332 .399 .539 132 320 0 5 13 9 15 MVP-14,AS
2000 25 CIN NL 133 480 69 151 33 2 20 85 1 0 52 80 .315 .385 .517 124 248 0 6 4 7 16
2001 26 CIN NL 145 533 69 165 40 0 13 89 3 1 43 63 .310 .369 .458 108 244 0 3 8 9 16 AS
2002 27 CIN NL 120 425 56 111 25 0 6 42 2 1 43 47 .261 .334 .362 81 154 0 3 6 5 11
2003 28 CIN NL 147 573 71 167 19 3 14 80 4 0 51 58 .291 .350 .408 102 234 0 3 4 2 19
2004 29 CIN NL 146 571 101 185 44 2 24 99 2 0 46 36 .324 .381 .534 136 305 0 6 5 10 16 AS
2005 30 CIN NL 137 529 75 165 32 0 9 58 2 0 48 48 .312 .371 .423 109 224 0 5 3 5 27
2006 31 TOT 112 397 47 108 22 0 8 59 0 1 33 43 .272 .336 .388 87 154 0 3 9 7 10

Ave 18 GIDP per season, Albert Pujols 21