Say goodbye to your afternoon!
Over at Deadspin, Eric Nusbaum counts down the 100 worst baseball players of all time. This, however, is not a list of guys with bad stats. They have to embody badness in some significant, lasting way. Wait, let’s let Eric describe it:
But by worst 100 baseball players I don’t just mean the objective worst, the statistical worst, the most physically discomforting to watch. I mean the players whose failure was enduring, endearing, perplexing,and spectacular. It’s easy to identify bad players—sabermetrics has made a truly effective science of it—and it’s easy to name cup-of-coffee guys who never had the ability, physical or mental, to stick in the major leagues. But a list like that might mean leaving out guys like Jose Lima, Ray Oyler, or the Rev. Aloysius Stanislaus Travers.
The list -- today’s are the first 51 -- is broken up by category. Legendary failures. Nepotism cases. Oddballs. It all makes for great reading. At least what I’ve read of it so far. Like I said: this one will take up a good chunk of your day.
