Maybe another old timer will wear the script A again

Most of y'all might have seen this, but I missed it.

Julio, old Julio, has hung up his spikes as a player. Here's hoping he returns to A town as a coach one day. I might have this wrong, but I'm pretty sure Julio's last major league at-bat was in a Braves uniform. Appropriately enough, he singled to right field in the 7th inning of a 12-4 win over Houston at Turner Field, on July 31, 2007.

As a Brave, Julio hit .291 in 1,218 at-bats.

Fare the well, Old Man. We hope to see you again soon.

* As Erik points out in his comment below, the Old Man's last big league AB was in a Braves win at Florida on Sept. 17. Juley stroked an RBI single to right.

While we're at it, another note about Julio. Baseball-Reference lists 659 teammates, from Ivan DeJesus and Gorman Thomas to Yesco, including 189 active players and seven Hall of Famers. Compare that to another guy who played seemingly forever, Pete Rose. He only had 370 teammates.

--CD

Comments

[Tokyokie]

And hey, he was a teammate of Pete Incaviglia with the Chiba Lotte Marines. Although they might have been with the Rangers at the same time as well.

[CD]

Arg. Thanks for the correction, Erik. I was relying on my faulty memory. I forgot the Braves called him back up in September.

[Erik]

Actually, according to the game log:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/gl.cgi?n1=francju01&t=b&year=2007

It was an RBI single to right field on September 17th in an 11-6 win over Florida.