Let’s not forget J.”F.”C. Romero, either, or Kyle Lohse. Silva had his rage-inducing moments, the Crain Train turned into the Crain Drain, and Mike Lamb was pretty worthless overall (though I never hated him with the vitriol reserved for the aforementioned players). And yes, Rivas. Always Rivas.

(I just realized how many of my “most disliked” are pitchers. LOL. Sorry, Bert.)

Sorry if this is not PC, but wasn’t the problem with Luis Rivas that he got fat?

If I’m not mistaken, we signed him at 16 from our Venezuela camp. (Is that still there?) He was on commercials with Guzman the year we finally got good again. Remember, we only saw photos of the backs of their legs – because they were so fast?

He could always turn the double plays. And he had some pop, which was nice. (Took the sting out of the Knoblauch trade.) But then he beefed up, and his ability to go to his backhand – already challenged – diminished to one or two steps.

And welcome to Knuckleballs… glad you found us. We’re actually a lot more fun around here during the season, though! Hope you keep coming back.

I always just looked at Rivas as the epitome of mediocrity. I didn’t hate him, but certainly agreed that the Twins should have been looking to upgrade sooner than they finally did. He was just “there”.

I’m sure Andrew and Mark represent the vast majority of Twins fans, though, in their “support” for Chuck. He certainly did nothing to deter people from feeling that way about him. I just find it somewhat sad that he reached the level of play that he did and has ended up wanting to so totally and completely distance himself from anything related to Major League Baseball.

Isn’t the obvious candidate Tommy Herr? We traded him in 1988 for Tom Brunansky and he turned out to be a whining bust. I’ll never forget seeing a sign comparing him to the second baseman he replaced, “Lombo, we want himm.”

For what it’s worth, my least favorite Twin probably always will be Luis Rivas. A poor hitter who really didn’t have much range in the field, either, yet the Twins kept running him out there, year after year, because he’d stolen 31 bases as a rookie and Gardy really liked the way he turned the double play (which the local press mentioned constantly). There have been other bad players to wear the Twins uniform, and there will be more, some of them worse than Rivas, but I hope it’s a long while before the Twins give such a player a starting job for FOUR AND A HALF YEARS. That’s what really got me.