Monster Card Monday: 2000 Keith McDonald

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Today’s Monster Card was suggested by Steve, someone who knows something about power.  Steve won the 2014 APBA Convention Homerun Derby with the 1953 Ted Williams card.  Congrats, Steve!

Steve passes on this 2000 Keith McDonald card (as viewed by BBW).  McDonald was a short-lived catcher and pinch hitter for the St Louis Cardinals.  While he only had seven at-bats in his first year, he made the most of them.  All three of his hits were homeruns. 

Split G GS PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA OBP SLG
2000 Totals 6 1 9 7 3 3 0 0 3 5 0 2 1 .429 .556 1.714
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 7/14/2014.

 

Keith gets a very normalized card for his three HR in 9 PA performance.  He does get power numbers 1-1-1-1-1-5 but strangely, he get singles numbers 8-8-9-9, too. 

Fun numbers:  55-1, 44-1, heck, 22-1 too.

McDonald only lasted one more year in the majors.  He does have the honor of retiring with a slugging percentage of 1.333 albeit with just 9 at-bats. 

Thanks Steve and congratulations again!

Thomas Nelshoppen

I am an IT consultant by day and an APBA media mogul by night. My passions are baseball (specifically Illini baseball), photography and of course, APBA. I have been fortunate to be part of the basic game Illowa APBA League since 1980 as well as the BBW Boys of Summer APBA League since 2014. I am slogging through a 1966 NL replay and hope to finish before I die.

3 Comments:

  1. I’ve never even heard of this guy but it’s hard for me to believe that a guy who has three homers in just 9 ab’s wouldn’t get more than 9 ab’s in the majors….sabermetrics over common sense once again!!
    (I don’t even want to look up his minor league stats though…don’t want to spoil the illusion.)

  2. In my mind cards like this belong in Weird Wednesday or maybe a new category Freaky Friday for those with awesome numbers in a few at bats. Now the 1953 Ted Williams card belongs in Monster Monday. Just an opinion.

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