
Effectively Wild Episode 1966: Joe West, Young Man
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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The Most Deserving Number Retirees
Some organizations are more liberal with retiring numbers than others. Dazie Vance is actually the most deserving number retiree whose number is not retired and who is no longer active because Clayton Kershaw would of course be quite deserving but he is still active. If you go by more recent players on the Dodgers specifically then Ron Se shows up at the top of the list followed by Willie Davis, Fernando Valenzuela and Mike Piazza. The first modern player who at least doesn't have a PD stuff associated with him Andrew Jones so Andrew Jones for the Braves ranks very high here and has not had his number retired.
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