It's an apt time to compare them: McCann has now played 15 seasons, 1755 games. It's regretful that PASTE was able to get outįor whatever reason my mind drifted to comparing McCann to Bill Freehan, an excluded catcher who had a damn good career and played on some damn good (and title winning) teams. I expect the other two to drop off on the first ballot.Ģ. Add in reputation and I expect Molina to make it eventually (maybe pretty easily, maybe not until a VC).

(Martin has a similar case to Molina based on WAR but not based on the stats listed in that sentence other than post-season appearances.)Īnyway, based on the stats we have, none of them deserve serious HoF consideration. Martin has no business being in that sentence. Now if you want to make a case that McCann is the good bat, mediocre glove version of Molina's great glove, mediocre bat career then maybe you've got something to talk about. Does this guy work for Trump in his free time or something? I don't think I've ever seen a sloppier construction to make a misleading point. 9 of those AS selections are Molina's (McCann with a very healthy 7). 9 of those 10 GG awards belong to Molina (Martin has the 10th).

A field guide to hunting down script typewriters.The other three catchers form a decorated group with 28 trips to the postseason, 20 All-Star selections, 10 Gold Glove awards, and eight Silver Slugger awards between them.

Saya!” (Photos courtesy of Russell Molina.) It helps when I create stories and commercials. “Usually I have postcards, poetry, pictures and clippings in front of me.

“So anything and everything that inspires me, I put it here,” he says. He hangs this on the wall in front of his desk. Russell asked an organizer-maker to customize a 14-pocket inspiration board. (Above) “Tuwing Sabado” has won, for Russell, both a Don Carlos Palanca Award for Literature and a Best Reads citation from the National Children’s Book Awards. I write for children so I can say “thank you” for letting me into their world. I write for myself so I can grab that rare opportunity to become child-like again. I write books for them so once in a while I get to visit that wonderful place inside their heads where true imagination resides. They are original thinkers and creative geniuses. His work, both as an illustrator and writer of children’s books, has won him accolades from the PBBY, the Don Carlos Palanca Awards for Literature, and the National Children’s Book Awards.

Russell Molina writes and illustrates books for children in between deadlines at work as a creative director in an advertising agency.

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