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For many Yankees fans, their lasting image of third baseman Wade Boggs is of him riding a horse around Yankee Stadium after winning the World Series in 1996. After revealing a prostate cancer diagnosis to his followers on social media on Saturday, Boggs is vowing to be remembered for something else — as the guy who beat cancer. “I’ve never been a goal-oriented person but with the strength and support of my family and my faith in God,” Boggs wrote on X/Twitter , “I’m going to ring that damn bell.
” Want to bet on MLB? See the best NYC Sports Betting sites Boggs, who mostly played for the Red Sox in his career, played five seasons with the Yankees. He brought his hitting prowess to the Bronx, generating 702 hits in 601 games with a .313 batting average, helping them turn from laughing stock of the city to perennial champions.
In 2005, the Chicken Man was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame with 91.5% of the vote. In 18 big league seasons, Boggs accrued 3,010 hits, 30th in MLB history, and a career .
328 batting average. Recently, Boggs revealed that he r arely watches the game anymore . One big reason for the turn-off is baseball’s new rules .
“I enjoy aspects of the game. But for me, all the new rules? I’m not a fan,” he said via Matthew Vautor of MassLive in 2023. “When you have a ghost runner on in the 10th inning for extra innings and you lose the game, I think they’ve missed the boat on that.
” Boggs also isn’t a fan of advanced stats. This is funny coming from a player who is a sabermetrician’s dream come true. In analytics, a batter’s job is to create runs and in his prime, there was no one better than Mr.
Boggs at that. He boasted a 151 wRC+ in his first eight big league seasons. From 1982-1989, he boasted an MLB-best .
409 wOBA and .443 OBP, resulting in the top fWAR of 60 in baseball. The next-best batter, Rickey Henderson had a 53.
3 fWAR in that time, trailing by nearly seven whole points. Manny Gómez may be reached at [email protected] .
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