Baseball Flotsam and Jetsam - Ken Griffey Jr. Edition

Miscellaneous baseball thoughts and observations about Ken Griffey Jr.

Ken Griffey Jr. had an RBI today to move his career total to 1733 which broke his tie with Honus Wagner to give Junior 18th place on the all-time RBI list all to himself... Junior needs just one more run scored to tie Rogers Hornsby for 45th place. Currently Griffey has 1578 and with 5 more he can tie George Brett in 44th place... Even though Ken Griffey Jr. is an all-time great - I don't see the Reds picking up his $16.5 million option for 2009. I also don't see them trading him. Junior could be one of the only reasons to go out and see the Reds in the last two months of the season... Griffey is huge in Cincinnati in large part because he came from Cincinnati and went to Moeller High School there. It was out of Moeller that Griffey was taken with the 1st overall pick in the 1987 draft. It should be noted that the 2nd overall pick in that draft was also a outfielder taken out of high school. Mark Merchant was taken with the 2nd pick of the 1987 draft by the Pirates out of Oviedo HS in Florida. Merchant was one of the biggest draft busts in history and he never saw a single plate appearance at the MLB level...