I know nothing about baseball but found my old gym teachers stats page are these any good?
January 31, 2026
I know nothing about baseball but found my old gym teachers stats page are these any good?
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Making it to even just AA meant that at one point, he was within the top 0.01 % of baseball players. In comparison to MLB players, he was trash, but compared to the average recreational ball player, he was super elite.
Not particularly, but he got a hell of a lot further than most people who set out to play baseball for a living.
Meh but he played professional ball so he’s insanely good
>APPY
Fuck I could fuck up some wings right now.
He made it to pro ball (meaning he got paid to play) … so yeah, he was pretty damn good.
Compared to your average ball player trying to make it professionally, AA is a huge accomplishment.
Those stats, on their own, though are very underwhelming
That age 22 season in the Rookie league was good. The rest are meh, but being a meh player at that level means he was really freaking good at baseball.
he was very good at the lowest professional level, then ended up to be pretty average as he progressed, eventually he wasn’t good enough to reach the highest level, but he still had a career most players would dream of, just to play professionally at all is a massive honor, let alone to go as far as he did. i’m sure he has some good stories! in 1995 he was teammates with Jermaine Dye, who ended up being a very good player, and Ryan Klesko, who was a good player for my favorite team, so I find that really cool.
There was a year of that man’s life when he must have felt like an absolute beast
So the minor leagues have many levels, but you could put them in two groups. Lower minors and upper minors. AA is upper, so he made it to some serious competition. After AA, there is AAA then the big leagues. He was on average about a year older than those he played against in the lower minors but did pretty well. At AA in the upper minors he didn’t have a great year and that looks like where his professional dream ended. Overall it’s incredibly difficult to play minor league ball at all, and to make it to AA is an accomplishment. But he was still a minor league level away from the majors.
The rest of his statline makes me wonder how good he could have been if he stayed in the rotation in AA and had more time.
Sure aren’t. But if they were he would have made it.
He’s still better than 99.9% of every human to ever pick up a ball
Good year at rookie ball then he progressively got worse as he leveled up. Still, making it to AA is an amazing accomplishment, as is lasting 4 years in organized ball.
He played in an elite organization when they were winning titles, so he rubbed shoulders with some Hall of Famers. Plus he played during the strike. He’s probably got some stories.
He hit .500 (4-for-8) in 1995. I bet he’s proud of that!
Getting a paycheck from an affiliated league is good. He did a lot better than 99% of people in this country playing baseball. Anyone who tries to put him down can pound sand.
Atlanta had some really good pitching prospects back then. Those weren’t bad numbers and to make it to AA Greenville at that time, not bad at all. Surprised he didn’t stick with it. Injury maybe? I’ve only seen what you have posted.
Making it to AA ball isn’t quite MLB-level but it’s still far better than most baseball players. His stats that year weren’t elite but the fact that he still made it to that level is impressive.
He played in the upper minors so compared to the rest of the world yes he is insanely good. Compared to major leaguers he’s not very good.
Reaching AA is very hard and a huge accomplishment in and of itself, as is getting drafted in the first place.
Great first year
Not horrible but kinda ok second year
Kinda rough 3rd year
God awful last year
Everyone is saying those stats are bad. They definitely arnt that bad. Dude definitely belonged there and was 1-2 phone calls from the majors. He didn’t dominate at that level but didn’t suck either. Average to a little below average performance. I’m going to guess that he didn’t have something exceptional like high velocity to keep him around longer.
He played for my hometown team the Macon Braves. They ended up moving to Rome. I wish they never left. Got to see loads of amazing players play at Luther Williams Field. Thanks for sharing!
Pitching in AA is an incredibly impressive achievement on its own.
He won more professional games he pitched than he lost. That’s not nothing
Since he didn’t play professionally until 22, baseball probably put him through college. He was almost certainly a guy in high school where even the other teams knew his name, then a really good college player, then a pretty decent pro. He didn’t make it to the big leagues, but almost nobody does.
He was really good. He’ll have some good stories, both about things he did himself and about the players he pitched against that went on to the Show.
Edit: Yep. Pitched four years in college. A whole lot of us here would have sacrificed a lot to have his baseball career. He was really good.
Means that at one point he was probably one of the best 1500-2000 pitchers on Earth.
Dude this guy is in the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame.
My guess is he had an injury at some point. It’s odd he stopped when he did. I’d assume a team would put him on their AAA squad and see what they could do.
Better than my dad, who hit .193 in A ball.
EDIT: tldr even bad minor league players are studs at any rec level.
Hell, most NCAA level players are really good compared to rec, mostly due to the amount of reps they have put in over the years.
After he ‘retired’ and moved back home to play men’s league with his brother.
He was well under 6 ft but in our league was a monster that ripped pitches everywhere.
By far the best player in the league and was just an after though in the pro system.
Everybody’s already given you the consensus correct answer. I hope he’s extremely proud he got as far as he did, that makes him a fucking baller.
making it to AA as a pitcher with an organization that had the best rotation in the league is pretty good.
Are you from Falmouth? I painted your gym teacher’s house like 10 years ago
Mr. D’Andrea was undrafted coming out of the University of Maine but somehow managed a 4 year career in the same organization as John Smoltz, Tom Glavine, Steve Avery, Greg Maddox.
As others have said, good enough to be a pro baseball player but not quite good enough to be a major league baseball player
Your gym teacher is one of the best people of all time to play baseball. I’m not being hyperbolic or ironic.
making it to AA means he was one of the top ~2500 baseball players at that point. It’s something definitely to be proud of, but if your idea is to tease him about it a 4.88 ERA is why he didn’t make it to AAA most likely.
Your teacher made it to AA and was moved from a starter into a reliever. Its very difficult to make that transition, getting to AA is an achievement in itself. Your teacher appears to be a starter who had mixed success and when he moved to reliever he wasn’t able to get out of innings clean, could be any number of reasons why, the stats we can see don’t tell us much.
Dude was a pro ballplayer! He was an average pitcher at least in the minors, that’s really good. Just because guys didn’t separate themselves to make the Majors doesn’t mean they weren’t good.
You’re getting invested in and getting paid to play at AA. It’s high-level baseball.
How’s Coach D’Andrea doing these days?
As others have said, he probably never would’ve made the majors but he is almost certainly the best baseball player you’ll ever interact with for more than the time it takes to get an autograph
He played with Jermaine Dye and Ryan Klesko! Both pretty good ballplayers.
He was an extremely good player that just wasn’t the top 1% of the 1%. Making it to AA is a hell of an accomplishment even if you got absolutely shelled.
Baseball is extremely hard and to make the majors is next to impossible
To get to AA baseball, you are an excellent baseball player.
He was pretty good until he got to a level where hitters could smoke his offspeed pitch and that was it for him. Unless he suffered an injury which is highly likely for a pitcher. Probably had a really good fastball.
Yeah that’s really impressive. Making it to the minors at all means you’re an incredible player. He was good enough to move up a few levels and was solid at each level.
That AA level is a good proving ground and I think most guys that go up a level from there to AAA usually at least get a chance in the Majors. So amongst the pool of guys that are competing to play at the highest level in the world he was decent. Obviously not good enough to make it, but not out of place to be there trying for it
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Making it to even just AA meant that at one point, he was within the top 0.01 % of baseball players. In comparison to MLB players, he was trash, but compared to the average recreational ball player, he was super elite.
Not particularly, but he got a hell of a lot further than most people who set out to play baseball for a living.
Meh but he played professional ball so he’s insanely good
>APPY
Fuck I could fuck up some wings right now.
He made it to pro ball (meaning he got paid to play) … so yeah, he was pretty damn good.
Compared to your average ball player trying to make it professionally, AA is a huge accomplishment.
Those stats, on their own, though are very underwhelming
That age 22 season in the Rookie league was good. The rest are meh, but being a meh player at that level means he was really freaking good at baseball.
he was very good at the lowest professional level, then ended up to be pretty average as he progressed, eventually he wasn’t good enough to reach the highest level, but he still had a career most players would dream of, just to play professionally at all is a massive honor, let alone to go as far as he did. i’m sure he has some good stories! in 1995 he was teammates with Jermaine Dye, who ended up being a very good player, and Ryan Klesko, who was a good player for my favorite team, so I find that really cool.
There was a year of that man’s life when he must have felt like an absolute beast
So the minor leagues have many levels, but you could put them in two groups. Lower minors and upper minors. AA is upper, so he made it to some serious competition. After AA, there is AAA then the big leagues. He was on average about a year older than those he played against in the lower minors but did pretty well. At AA in the upper minors he didn’t have a great year and that looks like where his professional dream ended. Overall it’s incredibly difficult to play minor league ball at all, and to make it to AA is an accomplishment. But he was still a minor league level away from the majors.
He’s closer to Randy Johnson than you are to him
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=dandre001mic
The rest of his statline makes me wonder how good he could have been if he stayed in the rotation in AA and had more time.
Sure aren’t. But if they were he would have made it.
He’s still better than 99.9% of every human to ever pick up a ball
Good year at rookie ball then he progressively got worse as he leveled up. Still, making it to AA is an amazing accomplishment, as is lasting 4 years in organized ball.
He played in an elite organization when they were winning titles, so he rubbed shoulders with some Hall of Famers. Plus he played during the strike. He’s probably got some stories.
He hit .500 (4-for-8) in 1995. I bet he’s proud of that!
Getting a paycheck from an affiliated league is good. He did a lot better than 99% of people in this country playing baseball. Anyone who tries to put him down can pound sand.
Atlanta had some really good pitching prospects back then. Those weren’t bad numbers and to make it to AA Greenville at that time, not bad at all. Surprised he didn’t stick with it. Injury maybe? I’ve only seen what you have posted.
Making it to AA ball isn’t quite MLB-level but it’s still far better than most baseball players. His stats that year weren’t elite but the fact that he still made it to that level is impressive.
He played in the upper minors so compared to the rest of the world yes he is insanely good. Compared to major leaguers he’s not very good.
Reaching AA is very hard and a huge accomplishment in and of itself, as is getting drafted in the first place.
Great first year
Not horrible but kinda ok second year
Kinda rough 3rd year
God awful last year
Everyone is saying those stats are bad. They definitely arnt that bad. Dude definitely belonged there and was 1-2 phone calls from the majors. He didn’t dominate at that level but didn’t suck either. Average to a little below average performance. I’m going to guess that he didn’t have something exceptional like high velocity to keep him around longer.
He played for my hometown team the Macon Braves. They ended up moving to Rome. I wish they never left. Got to see loads of amazing players play at Luther Williams Field. Thanks for sharing!
Pitching in AA is an incredibly impressive achievement on its own.
He won more professional games he pitched than he lost. That’s not nothing
Since he didn’t play professionally until 22, baseball probably put him through college. He was almost certainly a guy in high school where even the other teams knew his name, then a really good college player, then a pretty decent pro. He didn’t make it to the big leagues, but almost nobody does.
He was really good. He’ll have some good stories, both about things he did himself and about the players he pitched against that went on to the Show.
Edit: Yep. Pitched four years in college. A whole lot of us here would have sacrificed a lot to have his baseball career. He was really good.
Means that at one point he was probably one of the best 1500-2000 pitchers on Earth.
Dude this guy is in the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame.
Source: Maine Baseball Hall of Fame https://share.google/ZOb18lI1Kh1TOuZxU
My guess is he had an injury at some point. It’s odd he stopped when he did. I’d assume a team would put him on their AAA squad and see what they could do.
Better than my dad, who hit .193 in A ball.
EDIT: tldr even bad minor league players are studs at any rec level.
Hell, most NCAA level players are really good compared to rec, mostly due to the amount of reps they have put in over the years.
I pitched against this guy in the late 2000’s
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=foley-001ste
After he ‘retired’ and moved back home to play men’s league with his brother.
He was well under 6 ft but in our league was a monster that ripped pitches everywhere.
By far the best player in the league and was just an after though in the pro system.
Everybody’s already given you the consensus correct answer. I hope he’s extremely proud he got as far as he did, that makes him a fucking baller.
making it to AA as a pitcher with an organization that had the best rotation in the league is pretty good.
Are you from Falmouth? I painted your gym teacher’s house like 10 years ago
Mr. D’Andrea was undrafted coming out of the University of Maine but somehow managed a 4 year career in the same organization as John Smoltz, Tom Glavine, Steve Avery, Greg Maddox.
As others have said, good enough to be a pro baseball player but not quite good enough to be a major league baseball player
Your gym teacher is one of the best people of all time to play baseball. I’m not being hyperbolic or ironic.
making it to AA means he was one of the top ~2500 baseball players at that point. It’s something definitely to be proud of, but if your idea is to tease him about it a 4.88 ERA is why he didn’t make it to AAA most likely.
Your teacher made it to AA and was moved from a starter into a reliever. Its very difficult to make that transition, getting to AA is an achievement in itself. Your teacher appears to be a starter who had mixed success and when he moved to reliever he wasn’t able to get out of innings clean, could be any number of reasons why, the stats we can see don’t tell us much.
Dude was a pro ballplayer! He was an average pitcher at least in the minors, that’s really good. Just because guys didn’t separate themselves to make the Majors doesn’t mean they weren’t good.
You’re getting invested in and getting paid to play at AA. It’s high-level baseball.
How’s Coach D’Andrea doing these days?
As others have said, he probably never would’ve made the majors but he is almost certainly the best baseball player you’ll ever interact with for more than the time it takes to get an autograph
He played with Jermaine Dye and Ryan Klesko! Both pretty good ballplayers.
He was an extremely good player that just wasn’t the top 1% of the 1%. Making it to AA is a hell of an accomplishment even if you got absolutely shelled.
Baseball is extremely hard and to make the majors is next to impossible
To get to AA baseball, you are an excellent baseball player.
He was pretty good until he got to a level where hitters could smoke his offspeed pitch and that was it for him. Unless he suffered an injury which is highly likely for a pitcher. Probably had a really good fastball.
Yeah that’s really impressive. Making it to the minors at all means you’re an incredible player. He was good enough to move up a few levels and was solid at each level.
That AA level is a good proving ground and I think most guys that go up a level from there to AAA usually at least get a chance in the Majors. So amongst the pool of guys that are competing to play at the highest level in the world he was decent. Obviously not good enough to make it, but not out of place to be there trying for it