Wednesday 5/28

I haven't necessarily been doing this until now, but from now on I am going to give the exact parameters of the actual guy in the club as the parameters. I may actually have been doing this but I'm not sure, either way from now on I won't just say "2B>600" if the guy really had 668 doubles.
The reason for this, as you will see from the John Olerud example, is that if there is an active player on the guy's tail I want to make the club as exclusive as possible so it is as hard as possible for the active player to join. Also, during each off season (if this thing is still around) I will go through every single club I made and put a big fat * next to the ones that no longer apply along with the new player who holds the club with the slightly superior standards. And of course, its just nice to know exactly what statistics the player had.
In general, lastly, I will try and mention who the active player close to the current stats but that is not always easy to find.

1. John Olerud: 2B>= 500, 3B<=13
Edgar Martinez on Steroids.
Not literally of course. I don't think either player did steroids. I mean in terms of being a speedless masher, he is in even more of an exclusive club if you don't care about homers (less doubles, even less triples, but no homerun requirement). He's Edgar with more doubles, fewer homers (so the same XBH power but less HR) and even fewer career triples (although both are negligible by career standards).
Frank Thomas has 492 doubles and 12 triples. If he gets 8 or more doubles without getting 2 or more triples before retiring, this club is either a tie or has a new leader with stronger standards (for example it might become the 2B>=503, 3B<=13 club or something). The only thing I want to mention about Olerud is Jim Rome's nickname for him, John "C3P0-lerud" (he wore a helmet in the field) which gets me every time.

Late.