Just wait until my team is good again in like, idk, 2-3 years.
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That would time up nicely with the Royals probably going back into a rebuild. I want to playoff party post again but it's gonna be tough for them to get there.
Nice to get a solid outing from Eddie tonight.
I am becoming intrigued by the possibility now.
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Dansby Swanson is a god
You ready Gryph? Big series starts tonight.
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First inning mantis assault tonight. Hopefully it holds up.
Nobody loves Swansom here but me. :(
We are locked up in a pant shitter here Gryph.
Pitching
B. Pounders
1.1 IP, 0 ER, 0 H, 2 SO, 0 BB
*giggle*
I'm sure there weren't really any better options but losing with Chris Young out there is tough.
These games have been such gut checks for both teams, I think at the time all y'all had left in the bullpen was Kelvin who threw what? 25 the last night? Same with us except with Dellin. Regardless, Yankees last 30 games, 24 of them are against AL East opponents, here we go. The best time of the year, September baseball.
Braves spoiled me for 14 years. Life is hard now
Just noticed this, I find there is usually an adjustment period for hitters as well. Especially guys who burst on the scene and show immense power without the prospect pedigree. An example of this would be trevor story, he inevitably regressed considerably before making his own readjustment (aided by coors But still very impressive) I always jump on callups with big power and high swing and miss their first weeks (gallo, judge, story, sano) In dfs because pitchers inevitably underestimate them and it takes a couple games before the holes in their swings get exposed. Pitchers usually only take a couple abs before batters and scouting reports catch up unless they just have devastating stuff or they match up well against the team theyre facing.
I'm still stunned by how good the Red Sox lineup is right now. An .820 team OPS at this point in the season is fucking ridiculous.
ya theyre devastatingly good and only getting better. Benintendi also looks like a stud.
As great a hitter as Giancarlo Stanton is, I wouldn't want him. He's missed significant time in 4 of the last 5 seasons, and he's still very young. I don't see that pattern improving with age.
The Marlins go the way he goes, of course. They were a good team all year and have tanked since he went down. You just can't count on him. Actually you can count on the fact that he's going to be awesome and one of the most dominant power hitters in baseball and then go on the DL for 3 months. Just not worth it.
Agree with the premise. I'm thinking the Royals should move on from Cain after his contract is up for this reason. Last year was his most healthy year and he played 140 games. Plus he will be I think 32 or 33 when this contract is up so yeah.
Big Papi has to be the MVP this year, right? Wouldn't it just be wrong not to give it to him?
The crazy thing is that he won't even get the most votes on the team. Not playing on defense really does hurt his case, and Mookies non-counting stats are definitely better.
Edit: the more I look, it really just comes down to Mookie being an infinitely better base runner while playing gold glove caliber defense. He leads the league in total bases where Papi leads in OPS, and ultimately I don't think you could call either ones season at the plate better than the other.
Just about ready to call the Royals dead, just losing too many games to bad teams down the stretch. They at least made it fun though, especially considering the injuries (which KC had been pretty fortunate in avoiding last year). In the end maybe it's only a couple games back but I don't see them getting a wc spot as it would take something like 15-4 down the stretch to pull off and even that MAY not do it.
Mariners are back in the wild card race after winning 7 straight. I wouldn't have thought them or the Yankees would still be in the discussion 2 weeks ago.
Check your emotions at the door, Sano.
In other words, you don't get to vote.:)
Mike Trout? You think David Ortiz deserves it over a player who has produced 9.3 WAR, and should probably already have the other past 4 MVPs if baseball writers didn't like rewarding the same player consecutively?
All I said was "no" and I get told to check my emotions lol.
It was a joke, man. I thought you were joking too.
But the conversation won't go anywhere because I don't believe the league MVP should go to a player on a bad team. That's my opinion. You can be the best player in baseball, which Trout likely is, but the most valuable player, in my opinion, has to bring some degree of success along with stats. It's like someone saying " Without Mike Trout, the Angels would have never been able to...finish 20 games under .500 and 5th in the AL West?"
Ortiz is leading baseball in OPS and SLG %, which is ridiculous for a 40 year old player. His numbers this year are incredible , and considering the way so many young Red Sox are hitting this year, his last year, and what he's doing, I think he's more responsible for the success of his team than any single player in baseball this season.
To say the hitting the youth is doing is because of Ortiz is kinda silly. He's not the hitting coach. He's not involved with how well a rookie hits. He might give tips here or there but Betts's success and other player's on that team's offensive success is their own doing.
Ortiz doesn't bring anything to the table but a bat. To not give a player MVP just because the rest of the team is under performing is silly and and an old school mentally that has no place in today's game or in any sport. Value is the most opinionated word to being with and the award should simply be renamed to "Most Popular Player That Played Well". If it was the MPPTPW award then yeah give it to Ortiz. WAR is as exact as we are going to get as fans with measurable value. Why should any player who puts up astromincal numbers every year get punished because the rest of his team blows massive cocks? In the same instance, Ortiz's value isn't a huge impact to his team and you can point to other players on that team that have done just as much and more than him offensively. He's basically on average if not a little better offensively in the grand scheme of things with the rest of the Red Sox offense. So how is he bringing the most value?
What's more impressive to me is players that have to play the field and bat and are only .020 behind Ortiz in alugging. The AL MVP belongs to either Trout or Altuve.
They should just change it to the Best Player Award and give it Mike Trout ever year then. Actually they should just call it the Mike Trout Award.
In Mariners news: 8 str8 m8! That's gr8! They almost control their f8!
Don't h8.
Well no, because there are several players bringing more value to their teams this season, because of what their teams are accomplishing and how important they are to that. As important as Trout is to the Angels, they're still in last place and obviously would also be in last place without him. It's not a difficult concept.
It's why Griffey only won one MVP all those years in Seattle. I thought he was the best player in baseball most years, but he only won it in 97 when we won 90 games and went to the ALCS. He carried the team that year and they wouldn't have made the playoffs without him.
It's not the Best Player Award. Never has been.
It started changing the year they gave King Felix the Cy Young when he went, what? 12-10 that year?
Cy Young is for the best pitcher in baseball, which he was that year. Nothing changed at all. A pitcher can win the MVP. Verlander, Kershaw. They won it the years they were the main reason for their teams success. The years they were the MVPs.
Again, not a difficult concept.
Gold Gloves go to players who play the best defense. Silver Sluggers are the best offensive players at their position. Batting titles, home run titles, triple crowns, all awards for the specific things.
The MVP is for the player who is most important or valuable to his team in that season.
Just look at the history of winners and the teams they were on.
Yeah, my point being though is that even if he was the best pitcher that year, it would of gone to someone else because the BBWA valued a useless stat like Wins for a pitcher back in the later 90's early 00's (See, Bartolo Colon [Angels] over Johan Santana [Twins]). Like Sano said, it's most valuable player, not most valuable on a good team.
Sano or whoever can want the award to be something other than what it is, but what it is is clear and I believe right.