Dan MeyerWally Pipp was a good player and the first Yankee to ever win a home run title. One day in 1925, the New York manager benched Pipp and other veterans to shake up a slumping lineup and replaced the first baseman with a young Lou Gehrig. Gehrig never relinquished the position, playing 2,130 consecutive games in 14 years after that fateful substitution.
The Marlins currently have a Pipp/Gehrig situation in their bullpen due to Matt Lindstrom's injury and Dan Meyer's success. While Meyer w
