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kairos12

(13,242 posts)
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 05:40 PM Sep 2020

Our local sports radio guys said today

that as of this date every uniform number from 0-99 has now been used in MLB. I think I heard him say the last numbers were 86, 89, and 92. Don't hold me to those numbers because I may be off by a digit. I think they said some Cardinal players used those numbers.

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Our local sports radio guys said today (Original Post) kairos12 Sep 2020 OP
I don't understand. OF COURSE all the numbers have been used. Jeebo Sep 2020 #1
Perhaps In A Single Season? sfstaxprep Sep 2020 #2
See post #3 underpants Sep 2020 #4
80, 86, 89, & 92 must be this season. This doesn't have anyone. underpants Sep 2020 #3
I think they should use the lower numbers. cachukis Sep 2020 #5

Jeebo

(2,255 posts)
1. I don't understand. OF COURSE all the numbers have been used.
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 05:54 PM
Sep 2020

There are, what?, 25 or 30 players on each team, and is it 28, or 30 major league baseball teams? I think 30. That would be 25 players per team times 30 teams, or 750 team uniforms, and only 100 numbers (0 through 99) available. OF COURSE all the numbers have been used.

Please define "have now been used". Apparently you're talking about something else that you need to explain better. Are you talking about teams retiring their best players' numbers? Or something else? Clarify, please.

-- Ron

sfstaxprep

(10,555 posts)
2. Perhaps In A Single Season?
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 06:02 PM
Sep 2020

Maybe because of all the replacement players, every team must keep on their roster, and are being brought in to play, all the #'s have been used in a single season. Just a guess.

Some #'s are more common than others. Generally players use lower #'s. I'm guessing #'s like 58 don't have a lot of takers under normal circumstances.

underpants

(186,481 posts)
3. 80, 86, 89, & 92 must be this season. This doesn't have anyone.
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 06:03 PM
Sep 2020

Dated January 2019. Of course the author could be wrong.
The author even states that #’s 70 & 71 are a reach.

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlbs-best-player-at-each-uniform-number-from-no-1-ozzie-smith-to-no-99-manny-ramirez-and-every-digit-in-between/

Okay. Couldn’t resist.
80-Ryan Eades - Twins
86 - Jose Cruz - Cards and Brandon Liebrandt - Marlins
89 - Miguel Yajure - evil empire
92 - Genesis Cabrera - Cards

https://www.baseball-reference.com/friv/numbers.cgi

cachukis

(2,637 posts)
5. I think they should use the lower numbers.
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 06:57 PM
Sep 2020

Keep the retired ones retired. The fans could look up who wore the number before and it would connect them to the history of the game. The broadcasters would have something besides billyball to fill the airtime. Part of the success to baseball is father to son and now must include mother to daughter. American history lives on the diamond.

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