Jays Journal » Joe Carter http://jaysjournal.com A Toronto Blue Jays Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Carlos Delgado: Excellent enough for the Level of Excellence? http://jaysjournal.com/2011/04/26/carlos-delgado-excellent-enough-for-the-level-of-excellence/ http://jaysjournal.com/2011/04/26/carlos-delgado-excellent-enough-for-the-level-of-excellence/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:55:56 +0000 http://jaysjournal.com/?p=7417 On April 13th 2011, Carlos Delgado officially retired from Major League Baseball. The 38 year-old Puerto Rico native had spent 17 seasons in the big leagues, accumulating very impressive rate and counting statistics. Delgado spent 11 years with the Blue Jays, and set a number of club records. These include: home runs (336), RBI (1058), [...]

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On April 13th 2011, Carlos Delgado officially retired from Major League Baseball. The 38 year-old Puerto Rico native had spent 17 seasons in the big leagues, accumulating very impressive rate and counting statistics. Delgado spent 11 years with the Blue Jays, and set a number of club records. These include: home runs (336), RBI (1058), walks (827), slugging percentage (556%), OPS (949%) runs (889), total bases (2786), doubles (343), extra base hits (690), and home runs per at bat (14.9). Delgado also finished 2nd in MVP voting in 2003. These stats alone make it pretty obvious that Delgado was one of the best Jays position players of all time, my question is: Should Carlos Delgado be honoured on the Jays level of excellence?

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