what current major leaguer is missing here

[swampdragon]

Dunston ss 4 0 0 0
Matthews lf 4 0 0 0
Sandberg 2b 3 0 0 0
Speier 2b 1 0 0 0
Moreland rf 2 0 0 0
Francona 1b 1 0 0 0
Cey 3b 4 1 2 0
Durham 1b 3 0 1 1
Martinez cf 1 0 1 0
Mumphrey cf,rf 4 0 0 0
Lake c 3 0 2 0

[mjl]

is that Moyer's first game? Amazing.

[DMT]

He's pretty amazing.

[Moonlight J]

Had Tom Glavine not tried to pitch in 2008, he would have been voted into the HOF in the same year Moyer pitched. Why is that meaningful? They were both drafted in the same year

[swampdragon]

I pitch old man slo-pitch softball at the same age - so like we are both pitchers - pretty cool huh


Also Davey Lopes was on that team but not a regular

[revo]

is that Moyer's first game? Amazing.

Was that game in 1986? Cripes, who's the 2nd longest tenured player? Vizquel?

[cavebird]

Had Tom Glavine not tried to pitch in 2008, he would have been voted into the HOF in the same year Moyer pitched. Why is that meaningful? They were both drafted in the same year

Who says he won't pitch next year?

[Lurker765]

Is that Matthews in the box score Junior or Senior?

Oh wait, it doesn't matter since Moyer's career has outlasted both of them. Hard to believe you can pitch with someone's dad in MLB and then their son and still be playing when both of them are out of the Show. And that includes the younger one being given a $50 million contract so it isn't like he was a complete scrub either.

[Erik]

The Matthews is Sr. -- but I was having trouble remembering which Francona it was.

[NIN]

It was Terry Francona. He was more of a bench player for them than a starter.

[Lurker765]

Moyer has faced 1425 batters of the 15926 that have had at least one plate appearance in MLB history. That means Moyer has pitched to 8.95% of all batters....ever

Moyer against batters:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/batter_vs_pitcher.cgi?pitcher=moyerja01#gotresults&pitcher=moyerja01&min_year_game=1986&max_year_game=2012&post=1&opp_id=&bats=any&opponent_status=&c1criteria=&c1gtlt=eq&c1val=0&c2criteria=&c2gtlt=eq&c2val=0&orderby=PA&orderby_dir=desc&orderby_second=Name&orderby_dir_second=asc&ajax=1&submitter=1

15926 hitters with at least one plate appearance:

http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2011&month=0&season1=1871&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&players=0&sort=3%2cd

[Lurker765]

Moyer gave up his first home run to Juan Samuel on June 23rd, 1986.

Possibly watching that Cubs-Phillies game on TV was Mr Martinez who might have thought "I could hit that salad being tossed to the plate". A few months later he and his wife had the joy of discovering that she was pregnant with a baby boy who would be born in Miami on August 21, 1987. Their son was a great kid and grew up loving to play catch and watch the Florida Marlins play when their city was one of the expansion teams in the National League in 1993 (he was six years old and just getting interested in t-ball).

Being a Marlins fan the little Martinez was disappointed when his favorite team lost three times to the soft throwing Moyer during his senior year of high school. He just knew he could hit that soft tossing pitcher -- why couldn't the favorite players on his team do it?

He graduated from high school in 2006. Not supremely gifted he was drafted by a major league team as the 1086th overall pick. Figuring an education was better than a slim shot at the majors he decided to go to college on a scholarship instead. While in college he watched Jamie Moyer beat his team again as a freshman, but they finally got revenge on August 5th 2008.

After a few years of hard work he was picked 611th overall in the 2009 draft before he finished college. This time he decided to take the offer.

He started with the Rookie level Greeneville team, where he batted .403 before earning a promotion to Short-Season Tri-City. He started the 2010 season with Single-A Lexington, where he earned a mid-season promotion to Double-A Corpus Christi. He started the 2011 season with Corpus Christi before earning a promotion to the big leagues.

On July 30, 2011, he was called up to replace Hunter Pence, who was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies.

On April 7th 2012 JD Martinez hit the 513th home run off Jamie Moyer.

Perhaps he or his Dad might have said "I told ya so"

[Fresno Bob]

That is just amazing.

#2 has got be less than half of Moyer's number I bet...

[Judge Jude]

I went on my first pilgrimage to Wrigley weeks after Moyer made his debut in 1986. I'd have to look it up, but I may have seen him pitch on my weekend there. We came across Darling, Orosco, HoJo and other Mets at a huge bar that weekend in Chicago. Place had a dunking booth, lifeguard chair, and bullseye, and we busted on the Mets for missing the target on their baseball tosses too often (thus keeping the bikini-clad girl on the ledge dry for too long).

My future wife lived in the Chicago suburbs then, and was contemplating starting high school that fall.

SO glad we didn't meet until my 11th annual pilgrimage!

[revo]

so how long until Moyer is DFA'd? 53 hits allowed in 38 IP.