Darren Klein - Profile and Journalist Details

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Biography

Major League Baseball Writer & Content Creator Darren is the founder & CEO of Grunttalksmlb.com A life long Yankees fan with knowledge that stretches all across the league. Follow his personal account @Grunttalksmlb From 2008-2012 Darren was enlisted in the United Marine Corps and served in Afghanistan as an infantry light armoured recon scout. Grunt Baseball https://youtube.com/c/GruntTalksMLB https://calltothepen.com/author/dklein/ https://Grunttalksmlb.com/

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Total articles 51

• Johnny Damon: The Hall Of Fame Case

  By Darren Klein| Call to the Pen@ It’s Hall of Fame season. Congratulations to Adrian Beltre, Todd Helton, and Joe Mauer on their inductions. Today, though, I want to talk about one Hall of Fame snub: Johnny Damon. In Damon’s 18-year career, he totaled 2,769 hits and 408 stolen bases. Yet, in his first year of eligibility in 2017, Damon only got 1.9% of the votes and fell off the ballot. Damon believes he had a Hall of Fame career, so let’s look at his case. According to Baseball Reference, Damon amassed 56.3 WAR in his career.

  By Darren Klein · Call to the Pen

  Jan. 31, 2024

• Baseball Hall of Fame first-timers: Who should be in and who should be out

  By Darren Klein| Call to the Pen@ With 12 first-time players on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, let's see which ones are worthy of being enshrined in Cooperstown. By Darren Klein | Dec 1, 2023There are 12 first-timers on the 2024 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot. Let’s look at them (alphabetically) one by one to see who should make the cut when votes are made by members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. José Bautista – I like Bautista. He played with a swagger that was hard to match.

  By Darren Klein · Call to the Pen

  Dec. 01, 2023

• MLB history: What is the most heartbreaking loss of a perfect game?

  By Darren Klein| Call to the Pen@ What is the most heartbreaking loss of perfection? Perfect games in baseball are rare and beautiful things. So much has to go right, and nothing can go wrong, for one team to keep the other from reaching first base through an entire game. It takes an unparalleled combination of luck and skill … not just from the pitcher, but all the fielders around him. Sometimes teams come agonizingly close to perfection. There’s a walk or an error or a batter hit by a pitch that mars the perfect game.

  By Darren Klein · Call to the Pen

  Apr. 28, 2023

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