Melvin Mora Not Yet An Ex-Ballplayer

I was reading something the other day that reminded me about old graveyards. Used to be that graves would have bells by them, with attached strings that descended into the caskets below. That way, if one were to have been mistakenly buried alive, he could simply tug on the string, and voila! No more dead!

This reminded me of that. Jon Morosi:

Pretty bad. From AZ Snakepit’s Jim McLennan, a list of the five worst seasons in franchise history, with our retiring hero not far from the top of the list:

It was a sorry end to a pretty good career.

Earlier today, I published some perfunctory thoughts about the reported retirement of Melvin Mora, last seen in a utility role with the Diamondbacks before getting released last summer. Fortunately, FanGraphs’ Matt Klaassen has gone a little deeper in his retrospective:

If you’re looking for a comprehensive summary of Mora’s odd and surprising career, this is the place. And Klaassen tops it off with an account of Mora’s biggest game.