A World Series ring. The absolute pinnacle for any baseball player, regardless of what the playing level. An entire lifetime of hard work and dedication is culminated into a single piece of historic jewelry. However, there is only one way to attain such an accolade. To be a member of the best team in Major League Baseball and earn it through your winning ways. Well, not exactly. Imagine if you could play in the World Series, but no matter what the outcome, you were guaranteed a ring. Impossible, right? I thought so too.
Texas Rangers' catcher, Bengie Molina, is guaranteed a World Series ring no matter what the outcome of the series. He is the first catcher in Major League history to play in the World Series against a team in which he played for earlier in the season. Molina appeared in 61 games for the San Francisco Giants in the regular season, before joining the Texas Rangers in which he played 57 games. Therefore, he is considered a member of each organization, having held a roster spot for both teams during the season.
Still skeptical about the whole situation, I decided to do some detective work. I researched the minimum number of appearances a player must make for a team in order to be considered eligible for a World Series ring. The results are as follows. The MLB has no eligibility rules regarding the allocation of rings. The winning organization purchases the rings themselves and therefore distributes them at their own discretion. Therefore, having been a contributor to the organization for more than one-third of the regular season, it is within all likelihood that if the San Francisco Giants were to win the World Series, Bengie Molina would be awarded a championship ring for services rendered during the regular season.
So, I now know two things are for certain this World Series.
1.) Bengie Molina will walk away with his second World Series ring. Congratulations.
2.) The San Francisco Giants will not intentionally walk David Murphy to get to Molina.
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