Your Random Mid 80's to Early 90's Baseball Player of the Day is: Matt Nokes.Quick question: if we told you Matty Nokes was one of the top 500 home run hitters of all time, would you believe us?
Matty Nokes is in fact one of the top 500 home run hitters of all time. He has 136 home runs. The cut off is 134, so Matty, along with other surprises such as Pedro Feliz, the Molina who's name doesn't start with a J, Trot Nixon, Steve Buchelle and Matt Lawton, Matty can call himself one of the top 500 home run hitters of all-time. Frankly, that is a lot more impressive than it sounds. 134 home runs isn't all that impressive if Trot Nixon and Matt Lawton did it.
How did Matty do it? Well he took the road less traveled. He had a break out rookie year and it was all downhill from there. He hit 32 home runs, batted .289 and knocked in 89 runs in his rookie year in 1987, all career highs for Matty.
However, don't let this career .254 hitter fool you into thinking he's just some average shlub. You too can strive to be like Matty and a top 500 all-time home run hitter by going to "The Art of hitting your way" at http://www.mattnokes.com/. By following Matty's "Ride and Stride Drills", you can, and we're directly quoting Matty's site:
"Eliminates the jumpy feelings at the plate."
"Enhances rotationaly stability and dynamic balance."
"Increases torque and accelleration with proper rhythm."
"Allows the hitter to find his center of rotation and eliminating any leaking of energy."
"Dancing with the pitcher is often misunderstood; Executing this program keeps it simple so you can keep your mind free of distractions."
With advice like that, we don't know how we wouldn't be able to make the top 500 home run hitters club with one of the Molina brothers.
But not only was Matty the 1987 third place finisher for Rookie of the Year in the AL, inFebruary 2000 prior to spring training, Matt landed his high performance Lancair IV airplane on the south bound (I-15) freeway at Rancho Bernardo Road. So take that Sully Sullenberger. Also, according to his Baseball Reference.com sponsor, Matty is the only person Barb W. would leave her husband for. So he has that going for him, which is nice.
So here's to you, Matty Nokes, our Mid 80's to Early 90's Random Baseball Player of the Day, you may have hit only 136 home runs, but you've made much more than 136 baseball dreams possible.
Matty Nokes is in fact one of the top 500 home run hitters of all time. He has 136 home runs. The cut off is 134, so Matty, along with other surprises such as Pedro Feliz, the Molina who's name doesn't start with a J, Trot Nixon, Steve Buchelle and Matt Lawton, Matty can call himself one of the top 500 home run hitters of all-time. Frankly, that is a lot more impressive than it sounds. 134 home runs isn't all that impressive if Trot Nixon and Matt Lawton did it.
How did Matty do it? Well he took the road less traveled. He had a break out rookie year and it was all downhill from there. He hit 32 home runs, batted .289 and knocked in 89 runs in his rookie year in 1987, all career highs for Matty.
However, don't let this career .254 hitter fool you into thinking he's just some average shlub. You too can strive to be like Matty and a top 500 all-time home run hitter by going to "The Art of hitting your way" at http://www.mattnokes.com/. By following Matty's "Ride and Stride Drills", you can, and we're directly quoting Matty's site:
"Eliminates the jumpy feelings at the plate."
"Enhances rotationaly stability and dynamic balance."
"Increases torque and accelleration with proper rhythm."
"Allows the hitter to find his center of rotation and eliminating any leaking of energy."
"Dancing with the pitcher is often misunderstood; Executing this program keeps it simple so you can keep your mind free of distractions."
With advice like that, we don't know how we wouldn't be able to make the top 500 home run hitters club with one of the Molina brothers.
But not only was Matty the 1987 third place finisher for Rookie of the Year in the AL, inFebruary 2000 prior to spring training, Matt landed his high performance Lancair IV airplane on the south bound (I-15) freeway at Rancho Bernardo Road. So take that Sully Sullenberger. Also, according to his Baseball Reference.com sponsor, Matty is the only person Barb W. would leave her husband for. So he has that going for him, which is nice.
So here's to you, Matty Nokes, our Mid 80's to Early 90's Random Baseball Player of the Day, you may have hit only 136 home runs, but you've made much more than 136 baseball dreams possible.
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