One of the most "Good guys" you'll ever see. RIP

 

Damn, just saw the news. Terrible loss for baseball. RIP Tony.

 

Another crazy stat I just saw tweeted by Peter Abraham, Gwynn K'ed 434 times in 10,232 plate appearances. He faced Pedro Martinez 36 times and never K'ed and faced Schilling 43 times and K'ed 2 times. Guy had just insane hand/eye control and plate coverage/knowledge.

 

RIP...a well liked and respected man.

 

What!!? Oh man no way? Sad day

 

Rip tony Gwynn...one of the classier athletes/people around

 

:'(

 

So sad...

 

Sad sad news. A life cut drastically short for choosing dipping instead of sunflower seeds to keep oneself occupied.

 

Ah, he was my favorite ball player as a youth, it always amazed me that as chunky as he was, he could steal bases and was a point guard on the SDSU BBall team

He also had a rare blood clotting condition that nearly took his life.

Good man all around, though tbh, talked like he just sucked down some helium..:lol:

 

Yeah people forget about this because of his size. He stole 319 bases in his career, currently more than players like Carlos Beltran and Jacoby Ellsbury for example.

 

Gwynn had 107 career plate appearances against Greg Maddux, he hit .415 off of him with ZERO K's.

 

If you added Pedro and Schilling the number only went up to 15.


Tony was a monster of a contact hitter and from every account I ever heard an all around great guy.

 

Yep, he was one of those athletes that one would watch and wonder "how does he do it?"

IIRC he also won some gold gloves, his arm was never really strong but he was so accurate

 

He won 4 GG in his career.

 

Loved Gwynn. Seemed luck such a good guy as well as an amazing player. Definately on my all-time team of players I've seen play as a fan.