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A year ago, Belegond Lucier was a throw-in.<\/p>\nA year ago, Belegond Lucier was a throw-in.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old third baseman arrived at Old Forest on June 26, 2051, packaged with pitcher Xu-gang Sharmistha in a deal that sent Pol\u00e9bio the Seer, Hildibrand Zooty, and Ecaeris Belondir to Dol Guldur. He’d hit 11 home runs in his Tolkien career. He hit 4 more the rest of that summer.<\/p>\n
Then he hit 48.<\/p>\n
Lucier was named the Shire Conference’s Aragorn Award winner Wednesday after a season in which he led the league in home runs (48), RBI (123), and hits (206), batted .338 with a 1.033 OPS, and scored 113 runs. He walked (73) more than he struck out (64) \u2014 a rarity for a hitter with that kind of power \u2014 and posted 9.5 WAR, second in the league only to Dead Marshes’ Ugak the Masher.<\/p>\n
He did it on a winner, too. The Merry Fellows went 92-70 and took the Elf Division, with Lucier hitting alongside four-time MVP Alrond Hubbard Jr., who added 37 homers of his own. For the first time in a while, Hubbard wasn’t the best hitter in his own lineup.<\/p>\n
The Merry Fellows’ side of that June trade looked like a depth move at the time. It now looks like the best day in franchise history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A year ago, Belegond Lucier was a throw-in. The 25-year-old third baseman arrived at Old Forest on June 26, 2051, packaged with pitcher Xu-gang Sharmistha in a deal that sent Pol\u00e9bio the Seer, Hildibrand Zooty, and Ecaeris Belondir to Dol … Continue reading