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Keep in mind Chipper Jones’ 1999 season?
Nationwide League Most Useful Participant. A career-high 45 homers, together with 4 round-trippers towards the Mets in a three-game September sweep of a sequence that started with the Mets simply two video games behind the Braves. A .517 on-base share within the subsequent Braves-Mets Nationwide League Championship Sequence, that includes 9 walks and a hit-by-pitch in six video games, reflecting how badly Bobby Valentine’s Mets needed to get beat by anybody apart from Jones as they dropped an exhilarating, six-game set.
It seems that Larry, as Mets followers started to name him that very same yr (it’s his actual first identify, bear in mind?), benefited from some visionary recommendation — distributed by a beloved old-schooler.
As he described in his 2017 autobiography “Ballplayer” with Carroll Rogers Walton, the Braves employed 1979 American League MVP Don Baylor as their hitting coach for the ‘99 season. And Baylor, who performed three years for the Yankees and later turned a Mets coach, gave the switch-hitting Jones some attention-grabbing recommendation.
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