Whos that? Playing Where?

[suave1477]

Hey Members I thought this would be a fun thread to start up!!!

Can you name a player who totally played a position out of his norm?

Ill start!!

Jose Canseco actually pitched in a game for Texas in 2003
Paul Oneil actually pitched in a game for the Reds in 1987

Anyone else have any?

[JasonM33]

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Canseco pitched for Texas in 1993. The story is that Clemens wanted to come in and bat agains thim but the manager would'nt let him. That would have been cool.

-Jason M

[cjclong]

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Mike Lamb caught in a game for the Rangers a few years back. Due to the results I don't belive its been repeated.

[Kid4hof03]

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Boggs pitched for the Yankees

[3arod13]

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Arod playing 3rd base for the Yankees, which beyond what many may say, he has played at 3rd as if he's played 3rd base his whole career! Played 10 years at SS (1994-2003) before switching to 3B (2004) with the Yankees.

[bscott]

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Speaking of "out of position"....

Jason Giambi has been seen playing first base for the Yankees the past few seasons.

Ouch.


Many things have been said about him, but nobody has ever accused Giambi of having "soft hands" in the field.

[sylbry]

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Although not being known to play any one position in particular Cesar Tovar played all nine positions in one game for the Twins in 1968 becoming only the second player to do so. Bert Campaneris was the first in 1965.

Scott Sheldon and Shane Halter are the two players who have done it since.

[sylbry]

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While we are on the topic, although it never happened Tom Kelly said that he had planned on using outfielder Dan Gladden to pitch the 13th inning of Game 3 of the 1991 World Series. All of the Twins relief pitchers had been used. However Mark Lemke's game winning hit in the 12th prevented Gladden from making his World Series pitching debut.

[suave1477]

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3arod13 dont know if that qualifies for being completely out of the norm all he did was mover a position.

Like Sheff moving from outfield to first base.

[3arod13]

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3arod13 dont know if that qualifies for being completely out of the norm all he did was mover a position.

Like Sheff moving from outfield to first base.

Question was: Can you name a player who totally played a position out of his norm?

Arod TOTALLY played a position out of his norm as he never played 3rd base before! Just because he remained there, doesn't mean this doesn't qualify.

[suave1477]

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3arod13 ok I think your missing the jist of the topic there are tons of players who have tried a different base thats nothing uncommon. This subject is about pointing out completely uncommon.

[3arod13]

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3arod13 ok I think your missing the jist of the topic there are tons of players who have tried a different base thats nothing uncommon. This subject is about pointing out completely uncommon.

Whatever. I'm not going to turn a fun thing into a debate. Have a nice day!

[Yankwood]

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Sam McDowell was once removed from pitching and inserted into the game as a 2nd baseman. I think Ron Guidry played CF for the Yankees, too.

[suave1477]

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I got another one Yogi Berra moved form catcher to outfielder

[TNTtoys]

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An all time classic for all of you Mets fans... Mets trailing in a July 1986 game vs. the Cincinnati Reds. Ray Knight gets tossed from the game after getting into a fight with Eric Davis... Davey Johnson uses all of his bench players to fight back into the game... Jesse Orosco and Roger McDowell platoon between OUTFIELD and pitcher until the Mets finally pull out the win.