Jim Edmonds' career might be over. He came up lame while rounding the bases after a home run the other day. He might have torn his Achilles tendon. He is, or was, one of the best center fielders I've seen. When he was on the Angels in the early 90s, one of the baseball shows, probably on ESPN, would regularly have a segment when one of the talking heads said, "What did Jim Edmonds do today?" And then they would show video of him making an impossible catch. He did it over and over. One of his catches is the best ever captured on video, IMHO. It was on a long line drive directly over his head. He is completely horizontal, diving away from home plate, when he caught the ball. The ESPN people must have played it ten times. It makes Willie Mays' catch look like a Little League play, with all due respect to Willie Mays who might be in the top 3 players all time.

If Edmonds is done, someone should do a TV special on him. He was a human highlight reel. Good hitter, too.

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