Wakefield’s Influence Only Gets You So Far in Life
The Boston Red Sox have released backup catcher Doug Mirabelli. The 37-year-old backstop has amassed 89 hits against 148 strikeouts over the past three seasons and possesses exactly one usable baseball skill — the ability to catch Tim Wakefield’s knuckleball.
That may not sound like much, but it was enough to give Mirabelli a career. Hey, the ride had to end at some point…
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Catching Up with a Knuckleballer
Mar 19, 2008 at 1:17 pm
[…] guess now we know why Doug Mirabelli’s career lasted so long despite the whole sucking at baseball thing… Tags: baseball, bob uecker, doug mirabelli, jim caple, knuckleball, r.a. dickeyShare This […]
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