Your Random Mid 80's to Early 90's Baseball Player of the Day is: Tom Pagnozzi!

Your Random Mid 80's to Early 90's Baseball Player of the Day is Tom Pagnozzi.

Pagnozzi, was a catching man's catcher. Pagnozzi made it possible for the Brad Ausmus's to have a lengthy career in the Major League Baseball. Although his wikipedia page may claim that Pagnozzi had moderate power and was a RBI threat, they are giving Pagnozzi way to much credit. Pagnozzi hit more than seven home runs in a season one time and never drove in more than 57 runs in a single season. Pagnozzi wasn't in there to hit the ball. Pagnozzi was in there to play defense, throw motherfuckers out at second base and to call the perfect game for the Donovan Osborne and Rheal Cormier. Pagnozzi did manage to make the 1992 All-Star team and won three gold gloves in the early 1990's.

Perhaps Pagnozzi's best claim to greatness was forcing Cardinals' hot shot catching prospect Todd Zeile to third base. Take that Todd Zeile!

After his retirement, Pagnozzi moved back home to the place of his birth in Arizona to live a "normal life of doing nothing". Now I don't know about Pagnozzi, but to the average person, a normal life consists of something we fucking like to call "work". "Work", Mr. Pagnozzi is what "normal" people do to earn money so they are be able to do "normal" things like put food on the table for their families, clothe their children, and if they're single and in their twenties, to buy booze and video games with. Now for Pagnozzi, "doing nothing" in Arizona was "hot as hell" and "too hot" for him so he moved his family to his college hometown in Fayetteville, Arkansas. "Doing nothing" was also not something Pagnozzi could handle so he joined his alma matter Razorbacks as a volunteer assistant for the baseball team.

This was apparantly too much for Pagnozzi to handle because he "wasn't getting as much out of it as the time he was putting in". Rumor has it Pagnozzi started his own business with his brother in law building houses in Fayetteville. Now, Pagnozzi can set his own hours and "get out of it" as much time "as he puts in".

That being said (and Pagnozzi is obviously taking the heat for my still being at work at 6:13 pm on a Friday), Pagnozzi does a shit load of good charity work. Here check it out. So he's not all that bad of a guy.

So here's to you Tom Pagnozzi, you may not understand the "normal people", but we sure understand you.