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The hot corner: third basemen no longer expected to produce the offense they once did.
THE TERM IS LOVING AND FULL OF praise, at least in the baseball sense. Nobody outside the game would want to be singled out as a "big eater" in their peer group.
A big eater isn't a player renowned for wolfing down a postgame spread and going back for seconds. No, the term refers to offensive production, plenty of it in this case, and was the brainchild of Eddie Bane and Bart Braun, two members of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays front office with scouting backgrounds. They came up with the term when ruminating about first basemen, a big eater being, say, Todd Helton or Jeff Bagwell but not Brian Daubach or J.T. Snow.
"The big eater's got to go 30 home runs, 100 ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Massarotti, Tony September 14, 2004 700+ words
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...Age 44. . . . First season with Red Sox. . . . Signed through 2006, with club...Age 50. . . . Second season with Red Sox, fourth as major league hitting coach...Jack." . . . Deserves credit for 2003 Red Sox' powerhouse showing that led majors in...
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