Calling all Braves fans...

[murfsteve25]

Remember the former Braves catcher Javy Lopez? I only remember him wearing #8 for the team. There is a bat I'm looking at that he used with Atlanta and on the knob it has #18 and it has his name on the barrel. Any explainations to this? It's an old Glomar bat.

[ironmanfan]

FWIW he wore #18 with the Orioles

[suave1477]

Well if the bat was used during his time with the Braves chances are he didn't use it and another player did.

These players wore #18 during his time on the team.

Ryan Klesko - 8 years
Wes Helms - 2 years
Ryan Langenhaus - 1 year

[thrush29]

Here is a good website where you can research a players number with all of the teams he played for. According to this he only wore # 8 throughout his career with the braves.

Dave




http://baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=lopezja01

[ham1963]

Don't forget Ruben Gotay he wore #8 this season:)

[ham1963]

Sorry I ment Gregor Blanco he wore #18 during the 2008 season

[murfsteve25]

Thrush29- thanks for the website, its really helpful.

This bat looks pretty old. The fact that its a Glomar is a givaway. I believe its legit but prolly used by another player. Either that or he wore number 18 for a very short period during spring training. Maybe used by Klesko?? Its on Ebay right now if anyone needs to take a look at it.