Portal:Baseball/Did you know/11


 * ... that after future all-star Phil Nevin was taken first overall in the 1992 Major League Baseball Draft, Houston Astros' scout Hal Newhouser quit, protesting that the club should have taken Derek Jeter instead?
 * ... that 21-year-old Danny Duffy abrupt retirement from the Kansas City Royals organization in 2010 reminded many of when Zack Greinke left the baseball club in 2006?
 * ... that Rudy Árias was a replacement player during the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, though he retired as a player in 1979?
 * ... that Koji Mitsui was unsuccessfully posted to Major League Baseball twice in one offseason?
 * ... that baseball executives thought that Toe Nash was a hoax, similar to Sidd Finch?