Why this card is awesome: Because of awesome color unity. Green in the team name, border, hat, jacket, and palm tree. Yellow in the t-shirt, hat bill, and that structure in the background. And let's not forget the disgusting purple, totally NOT unified and having no business on the card.
Cool stat: From 1960 to present, Rodriguez has the 3rd-worst career K/BB ratio for pitchers with at least 70 IP. But he's got a nice smile.
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Rick had unusual success in the California League. Check out the minor league stats on his card. He did pretty good at Modesto, especially given the California is a hitters' league. But when they'd try to move him up....Danger Rick Rodriguez. Like you say, he's got a nice smile and he's been the pitching coach for the A's AAA affiliate at Sacramento the last few years.
This guy's straight out of central casting for the role of token Hispanic cop on a network police-themed show.
Now, here's an interesting bit of trivia. Every player on today's posts has a mustache. As Mel would say: How about that?
The facial hair ratio must have gone down compared to today's players, right? Now all the pitchers have "intimidating" goatees, I guess.
Never the less, I'll still put my unofficial Magnum PI counter (Stache-O-Meter) at 3.
You don't often see players that overjoyed to be on a baseball card.
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