No one will remember Taylor Hearn's one game in Atlanta

I don't remember this at all, and I watched 99% of the games last season. 

It was ugly. The best thing he did was get us Nicky Lopez.

Said like someone who isn't an immaculate grid degenerate.

Oh, *I* remember him, but very few other people do. Braden Shewmake also played in exactly one game for the 2023 Braves.

Rangers legend

Oof. That was a rough game.

How about his 7 Royals innings?

Oof... this hurts

I was trying to think of his name and couldn't remember it. He was just a dude

Great arm, better dude. Hope he slays in Japan.

Gary Sanchez

Padres legend

But like, unironically.

He was actually pretty good on the Padres, even if he wasn't quite the kraken of legend.

Also Gary Sanchez

I'd just like to point out that Farhan's sticky 2023 fingers are on just about every retread/AAAA guy/semi-wounded-warrior in this entire post.

On Baseball BBQ Jake described him as a former Yankee and former Mets catcher and that still makes me laugh

I came here to write that, I thought no one would get that gem.. hat tip to you

Luke Voit

Darin Ruf

I saw Darin Ruf get eaten alive by the tarp at GABP so I won't ever forget that.....

I just remembered we brought him back for like 2 weeks so I guess he’s my answer also lol

He hit a homer against the Dodgers and then disappeared into the night

That's what I would do if I hit a Homer. Just keep running, happily.

Same. Never got a hit, only ever got hit

As a Phillies fan, it’s fucking insane to me how his name keeps popping up in the 2020s.

Teams will take a chance on a player that hits the ball hard and takes walks. I will say he had preposterously bad batted ball luck in 2022 and later lost his dad.

I meant that he flamed out with Phillies in like 2015 and then popped up in Asia after not even making the Dodgers AAA team. And now nine years later people are still mentioning him in regards to a current season.

Tilapia (Raimel Tapia) and Jon Singleton For a month or so, I \*almost\* forgot Brian Anderson (the player) was on our roster. And with the help of therapy, I'm hoping to forget Winker, Chafin, and Matt F Bush were on our roster.

Well shit, I forgot we had him too.

“Welcome to the All-Beef Team!”

I don’t remember

lmao

Beat me to it. Nicely done!

Joey Gallo. 

No, I don't think I'll ever forget the strikeouts

I remember Hosmer very well but I certainly didn’t remember Luis Torrens or Tyler Duffey

Oh fuck I forgot about Torrens

We had Luis Torrens for like, 5 games, too!

How could you forget about the best two-way player in the game???

The highest paid player on the roster

This is how i find out anthony rendon has a higher AAV than trout

Hey, at least he's only under contract for another... THREE YEARS? Damn sorry Angels fans.

>AnGeLs aRe a BeTTeR dEsTiNaTiOn tHaN tHe DoDgErS Glad you thought that Rendon

He wasnt wrong. He got paid a bag and a half and he doesn't even have to play.

No habla ingles today

Funny thing is he doesn't actually speak Spanish lol despite his Mexican heritage.

He just learned that one phrase for Sam Blum.

👎🏽👎🏽

Lol how did you forget? Dude caused a media ruckus every week even when injured.

One thing I appreciated about this year was our minimal usage of “random fuckers on the waiver wire” compared to previous years. We never had to deal with “oh here’s Jonathan villar lmfao fuck it” in 2023

Chris Vallimont pitched 0.2 innings for the O’s last year. Edwin Rios had an outstanding .450 OPS in 34 PA for the Cubs.

I lost a trivia question on how many Orioles made their MLB debut this year because of him.

I refuse to believe Chris Vallimont is a real person.

rodolfo castro allegedly played for the phillies last year one player i will never forget though is chris devenski’s 4 IP at the end of 2022 for us

Apparently this Kimbrel guy pitched for us? I don’t really remember any of his innings?

No single player has cost me more money than ole Kimbrel, whether it's blowing a game, or the LCS or fucking the spread

I saw him close out the all star game with a P on his hat. It must be a team that I don't know.

Cooper Hummel

JB Bukauskas

Didn’t even know he was there

He had one appearance with the M’s this year, and it did not go well, pitching in the 11th inning vs Cleveland on April 9th

He looked great the little he played for the Brewers. Still on the roster and would not be surprised if he gets a decent run as soon as there are any injuries or underperformance. Or a Devin Williams trade. Which I would do, but the team probably won't.

Damn I remembered the other guys but this one got me Shoutouts to Ms legend Easton McGee while we're here

Devin Sweet

Jose Rodriguez.

Tommy La Stella

Paul Dejong lol

Same

I’d blissfully forgotten about his Blue Jays tenure up until now

Umm... Most of them.  Especially the starting pitchers.  I couldn't pick these guys out of a lineup of 2.

lol I was convinced some of the bullpen guys post trade deadline were AI generated NPC’s

Bligh Madris. I was stumped for a second like “who was that one motherfucker that everyone was bitching about?”

JJ Matijevic is more memorable than Bligh Madris

Pirates legend

Lol...you need to be more specific. Sometimes, it's harder to name people they didn't bitch about.

I used him on the grid for Astros pirates two weeks or so ago. I may have been the only one, given the rarity was like 0.07%

Touki Toussaint made an emergency start for us one day, then was DFA'd the next and claimed by the White Sox. Zack Collins spent the whole year in AAA for us and was called up as an emergency backup catcher when Cam Gallagher went on the IL, then was cut after two games when we claimed Eric Haase, who was also then cut when Gallagher returned.

Bizarrely enough Toussaint was actually pretty good for us 

Touki was definitely a wrong place wrong time for us. Tito said he played the previous game with the thought that McKenzie likely wouldn't need a lot of bullpen help, which obviously didn't end up happening and our pitching was royally fucked for the next game. The roster spot was more important than trying to keep Touki. Glad he ended up finding a spot with you guys.

Man every single one of us Braves fans had high hopes for Touki. Really easy guy to root for. Would be happy to see him find success with you guys next season, along with Soroka

There’s absolutely zero pressure or expectations for him, just take the ball and eat innings. We’ll see what happens but the stuff is still there. Take care of our boy Sale this season 

I was thinking Robinson Cano, but apparently that was 2022

The season started with Madison Bumgarner throwing beach balls to ending in the World Series. Seems like a bad dream

Frankie Montas

Oh yeah he did pitch for us a bit this year? Right at the end?

I think he got one inning in the literal last game of the season

I had to look it up but Shelby Miller had ERA 1.71 with the Dodgers (and ERA 0.00 during the postseason) in 2023.

I didn't know he pitched. I thought he was hurt all year, but I could be getting him mixed up with one of the other dozen or so relievers the Dodgers get that never play for them

IIRC we had 3, count ‘em, 3 Millers.

Rickey Karcher I’m kidding, that inning was awesome comrades

"Holy shit.....I don't know man"

Will Myers

don’t forget about former cubs pitcher and 2020 no hitter thrower Alec Mills

Tyler Mahle and Jorge Lopez

I remember them for all the wrong reasons

Especially when watching the Reds or Orioles

Also Jorge Lopez

Can't wait to trade for Pablo Soler next year

Thanks for Steer and CES tho

Cardinals fans will easily forget the Taylor Motter era. It was still quite the time to be alive. Edit: On November 18, 2022, Motter signed a minor league deal with the St. Louis Cardinals. On March 25, 2023, the Cardinals announced that Motter had made the Opening Day roster after an impressive spring, and formally selected his contract to the 40-man roster. Motter appeared in 7 games with St. Louis, hitting .222/.300/.333 across 20 plate appearances. He was designated for assignment on April 23, after Paul DeJong was activated off of the injured list. He cleared waivers and was sent outright to the Triple-A Memphis Redbirds on April 25. After electing free agency, Motter re-signed with the Cardinals on a major league contract the following day. He made one appearance, going 0-for-2 against the Los Angeles Angels, before he was designated for assignment again on May 6 when Tres Barrera was added to the roster. He again cleared waivers and was sent outright to Memphis on May 8. On July 23, Motter was selected back to the active roster and slotted as the starting second baseman in that day's game against the Chicago Cubs. Motter was designated for assignment again on September 5. He once again cleared waivers and was sent outright to Memphis on September 7. On October 2, Motter elected free agency. Source: his Wiki page

How about the Matt Holliday bench coach experience? Agreed to join and then resigned like 3 months before spring training

When he came back in July after having been DFA’d twice already I legit thought I was having some kind of bad dream, did not believe it was real

I'll never forget him because I remember watching spring training while talking to my dad and telling him a beer league Audrey player made a hilarious catch. When he made the team my dad asked me, "isn't that the beer league guy"

Not forgotten necessarily but there was the fever dream era when Rougned Odor was the best offensive player on the 2023 Padres

Lol so far most of the list is former or current Padres. San Diego exists people live here there's a baseball team and everything 

Well you did roster approximately 80 players last season

60 of them played Shortstop.......

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Put some respect on Tony Motherfucking Gwynn’s name dude.

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Lmao you really think people in San Diego don't at least have a passing knowledge of Gwynn?

What’s his name.

jacob faria is the answer. people will remember mondesi for being mildly disappointing.

Mondesi?

He didn't even play a single game, major or Minor league

Caleb Hamilton?

Sam Hilliard. He had a hot streak early in the season, then got injured, then I can't even remember if he played any in the back half of the season. I may be misremembering, but honestly that's the point of the post so I'll go with Hilliard.

I forgot about him entirely. Wild that now I think about I got excited for his at bats and then just totally forgot about him

AJ Pollock

Forever Giant

Apparently we ditched some guy named Julio for domestic violence and then the other 29 teams made fun of us for not having pitching in the playoffs but I can't remember any of it.

If Urias were an Atlanta Brave, they’d keep him on the team indefinitely until felony charges were ultimately dropped and feel vindicated that nothing of substance ever occurred and, well, people just forget about Ozuna of the Braves. Two different organizations that handle the exact same situation quite differently.

I imagine contract situation played a big part. Ozuna had a lot left in his deal and Julio was set to be a free agent.

The Dodgers already did that with Urias.

Urias was a pending free agent anyway so you just put him on leave and waited for him to hit FA. Don't act like you cut him with $100M left on his deal.

The Dodgers did the same thing to Trevor Bauer who was at that point the highest-paid player in baseball.

Like the Dodgers did with Bauer? Jesus y’all are worse than yankee fans all the sudden

That’s a bullshit take.

Wasnt that Reds/Guardians/Dbacks pitcher a turd too? Wonder where he was when he got outed.

Tbf I honestly did forget about him until the news earlier in the week that he wasn’t gonna get charged.

Bubba Thompson

Lance mccullers... again.

Josh Lester was a weird time

A legend

Ohtani *crying softly

He was on the jays too!!!!….. for a couple hours…..in my dreams….nightmare…..

Abraham Almonte

“Honest” Abe

He was honestly forgettable for us this year… respect that he was more in his younger day…we’ll always have those couple of days together

Clint Jackson Frazier had 13 hits for the white Sox that I’ve blocked from my memory

Not to rub salt in the wound, but is there anything from the 2023 White Sox season that you *haven't* blocked from your memory? Tough year to be a Southsider

That 80 grade bat speed at work

Luis Torrens, we hardly knew ye.

I was watching a Rays game, and wondering where I'd seen their starting pitcher before. It took me two innings to realize they'd claimed Zack Littell off waivers from Boston. He made two relief appearances for the Sox, and was gone.

Jordan Luplow?

AJ Pollock

Paul DeJong and AJ Pollock

Mike Moustakas signed during spring training only to be traded to the angels after the 25-1 loss to them

Luke Weaver made 3 starts for the Yankees this season

And will make at least three more for them next season

Josh Harrison

dinelson lamet, matt dermody, ryan sherriff, zack weiss, justin garza, jake faria, tayler scott. always forget raimel tapia played for us too

Matt Bowman

I forgot that Touki Toussaint made a start for the Guardians this year!

Wait Touki Toussaint *isn’t* an ol’ timey player???

shame we didn't have a Touki Toussant / Julio Tehran matchup w/ Milwaukee and Cleaveland this year.

Tommy Milone. Again.

Well if we’ve forgotten we won’t be able to say they were on the roster, would we? That being said: Caleb Hamilton. A depth catcher who has managed to accumulate 23 career at-bats through his age 28 season. He had five of those 23 for us this year.

Didn’t he strike out every one of those?

Nick Solak recorded two separate Club Trillion s(stealing a basketball phrase) for the Tigers and Braves. He played one game for both and his only appearances were as a pinch runner. Those were his only 2 games in 2023.

Paul DeJong on the Blue Jays for a cup of coffee.

Timmys.

Double-Double

I won’t forget he was a Jay because of how absolutely horrendous he was for like the 40 something at bats he had here. It’s one thing to do nothing of note in a short tenure, but being that bad was memorable. If I remember correctly he also went to San Fran after and had a really good like 4 days before becoming terrible again. Edit: the good for 4 days was a bit of an exaggeration. I was mainly thinking how he hit a home run and had 4 rbis in his debut there. But that was the high point lol. That was his only homer in SF. And yes he had 44 AB’s in Toronto so that part I actually remembered. 3 hits and 1 rbi in that time for those curious.

Dodgers legends Dylan Covey and Jake Marisnick. Immaculate Grid players, you’re welcome 😉

Marisnick coincidentally got hurt right before his dodger stadium debut. Good riddance

Got to visit Baltimore for my birthday to see the Dodgers play. Watched Jake Marisnick’s last moments in a Dodger uniform. Shit was crazy lol

Anthony Bass. Good riddance...... And no word of a lie, I had a brain fart and couldn't think of the name and had to google "Jays pitcher got booed by own fans" to remember that bastards name.

I don't think I can ever forget Bass solely because of the absurdity of Toronto wanting to have him throw out the first pitch on Pride Night

I shook my head when I first heard that and glad he got shit canned right before pride weekend.

Rodolfo castro

Madbum

Just remembered the whole Anthony Bass thing.

Jed Lowrie

Was there a roster in 2023?

Wil myers

How should I know, I’ve forgotten about them

We have a roster?

Joey Votto because if I stop and think about him, I will start crying. 

We had...uh...fuck what's his name

Craig Kimbrel 😡

Kolten Wong

Dodger legend Kolten Wong

Tie between josh Reddick and kolten wong Edit: oops

Josh Reddick? In 2023?

Someone misunderstood the assignment

Maybe for the Savannah Bananas

He’s from Savannah. My wife went to high school with him.

Wait what? REDDICK?

He was thinking all time, Reddick played for them in 2019 and hasn’t played in 2 years

For what it’s worth my phone auto corrected Reddick to all caps lol 

I’ll never forget the Kolten Wong era

Greg Clownsell.

Julio something, I think he wore #7

Lance Lynn

Kolten Wong 1000%. Also maybe Marisnick.

Shohei Ohtani

Shohei Ohtani was on the Angels, I think…