Chris Jaffe of The Hardball Times is at it again. Last time out he listed the ten worst career-ending performances. This time he trains his historical eye at the ten weirdest performances to end a career.
The first one he lists -- John Kruk’s -- is the best. I don’t think I ever knew this, but apparently Kruk stopped playing exactly when he did -- and I mean right down to the last mid-game at bat -- because he wanted to preserve his .300 career batting average. And as Chris reminds us, Kruk tore Jose Reyes a new one for asking out of his last game this season in order to ensure his batting title.
A sports talking head maintaining an inconsistent position on a given topic based on the identity of the player involved?! That’s unpossible!
