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EDIT: Sanchez goes back-to-back with HR to CF. 4-0.
This is a team with a 45-20 record and not a single player who deserves to be an All-Star starter.** Think about that for a minute.
** With the possible exception of Severino, who's at least within striking distance.
EDIT: Severino coming out for the 8th.
This Yankees team is powered by lots of guys having above-average-but-not-great years.
[Edit] #9 beat me due to my slow typing.
With a tough K zone last night Juan Soto struck out twice for just the 2nd time in his MLB career. The other was 5/23 vs San Diego in just his 4th MLB game.
"Major League Baseball exclusivities" with Fox. They want to impede as much as possible your ability to watch their valuable product.
Gleyber Torres' .911 OPS (going into today) is 63 points higher than any AL 2nd baseman with 175 PA. Some voters may discount that somewhat because he wasn't called up until April 22, but there is no requirement to do so.
Bryce Harper since the start of June: .179/.289/.256 with one home run, 4 BB’s and 18 K’s in 11 games.
So...Soto es mayor! (And not injured.)
Right, since I don't pay attention to All-Star voting I keep forgetting that they lump the OF positions together. And yes, Judge should be #3. I guess he'd be in RF, with Trout in CF and Betts in LF, or vice versa for those last two.
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Gleyber Torres' .911 OPS (going into today) is 63 points higher than any AL 2nd baseman with 175 PA. Some voters may discount that somewhat because he wasn't called up until April 22, but there is no requirement to do so.
I wouldn't disagree with that, either. I had no idea he was that much better than his competition, and I was assuming that his fewer games would be a negative tiebreaker.
If you want to go Deep Stat about it, Severino's actually 1st in FIP. In that stat he's helped by the somewhat mediocre defense behind him.
As a Yankees fan, I love how fantastic Torres has been. And if Altuve were sucking, I could see a case for him. But for the All-Star game I tend to defer to an exciting and established star in his prime and having a typically really good season versus a rookie's two great months. YMMV, and I respect that. I could see Torres as a backup at the AS game, unless there's no room on the roster after each team brings 20 relievers.
I'm in that camp. I look at a group of players having good years and then look at their last 365 days (since that is a split readily available on bb-ref) and their overall career up to that point. I find it hard to justify a guy who is having a good two months getting my vote over an established player, with the exceptions of highly touted rookies. We've all seen guys who had a good two months and by the time the All-star game comes, they are no longer having an all star type of season.
Torres fits the camp of highly touted rookie, so I can see him getting some votes, but I'll still go with the guy who won the MVP last year, has played 25 more games than Torres, and is putting up the same ops+.
Longoria having surgery Tuesday. Not needed but will help speed recovery/minimize muscle atrophy to have a permanent pin inserted. Out 6-8 weeks but aims to return shortly after All-Star break.
Watch the Giants' team offensive numbers improve over that stretch of games.
This was Max Scherzer’s 74th double-digit strikeout game of his career. That ties him with Bob Gibson and Sam McDowell for the 8th most in MLB history.
But how 'bout that Severino, huh?!
Well, let's give him several more full seasons first.
No one is doubting the greatness of Scherzer. Jesus.
He threw 8 scoreless with 9 Ks. Thanks for asking!
This was Max Scherzer’s 74th double-digit strikeout game of his career. That ties him with Bob Gibson and Sam McDowell for the 8th most in MLB history.
Dude, he lost the game. Weird day to crow about Scherzer and dis Severino.
I mean, I know Mookie Betts is great! He is very great! It is okay for him to be great!
I would argue that rooting for the Yankees is not a healthy way to go through life.
:)
I have to agree.
Pull my finger, dude !
For me, I would kill myself if I was a Red Sucks, Todgers or Barves fan. All others are neutral ##### !
I get the Yankee hate though. Most fans of other teams are fat, ergo pinstripes are not very advantageous.
Also the beards and long hippie hair, which is also not very nice.
If you possess any kind of, the smallest kind of, even a tiny amount of style, there is only one team to root for.
Ladies and Otherfans: the New York Yankees ! 7War salute
Goal : SF Giants lead the NL West by All-Star Game break. Do it !
umm guys that is the nature of the beast, on the whole, in the majors, teams allow a 4.64 era in the first inning.
Here is era by inning in 2018, and it's pretty much what you would expect
Split ERA
1st inning 4.64
6th inning 4.31
5th inning 4.27
Innings 4-6 4.26
4th inning 4.20
Innings 1-3 4.09
3rd inning 4.04
7th inning 4.02
8th inning 3.89
Innings 7-9 3.82
Ext inning 3.64
2nd inning 3.58
9th inning 3.46
Every radio broadcast, every TV broadcast, every podcast suffers the same inexorable mandate: keep that VU meter bumping. It's not limited to sports, it's not limited to a particular medium, Nature abhors a vacuum and broadcasters abhor silence. You can apply this each and every time you notice it because it always applies every time, everywhere in all situations.
Some are more annoying than others though, the national mlb broadcasts are rapid fire from subject to subject as if they have a checklist of topics they much cover per inning.
His days grow short.
Whatcha talkin' 'bout, Blue ?
At least heyward isn't hitting second for you guys.
The cards have 4 position players in their lineup with OBPs of .295 or lower. Heyward batting second is a first world offense problem. (Cubs top-10 hitters by PA have OPS+es of 97 or higher.)
Fowler, Molina, Munoz and Wong, of which only one of them doesn't have an established track record over the past 3 seasons a bit better than that. Wong has been an elite defender, and Molina is currently down simply because his ball exploded and hasn't returned to form, Fowler is Fowler, he's streaky as hell and will bounce back... Munoz is just a triple A player being asked to be a bit more than that. I'm fine with all of them, but of course I would prefer a lineup that had DeJong, Jose Martinez playing.
Just because his contract would be higher than the gdp of most 3rd world countries...doesn't mean I'm going to pretend these 3 hot weeks will make me forget the rest of his time on the Cubs.
What a shitty AB by Russell. I would have PH for Hendricks here.
Really? The Cardinals don't actually look good against him, other than the homerun by Ozuna... Martinez drove in a run by piss poor positioning, and a couple of other hits have been luck. It's a 3-3 game but Hendricks is the guy who looks like someone who knows what he is doing, while Carlos is looking like a guy he has talent but keeps getting himself in trouble and lucking his way out of it.
This game should probably be 5-2 right now in favor of the Cubs, but the Cardinals have been luckier than isht.
You're the only one in that boat. Good luck with all that.
Yeah, the Edwin Jackson "But his FIP!" boat was pretty lonely, too.
Fortunately, Hunter Pence stuck himself out.
Maybe Dipoto knows what he's doing.
He's good to very good at second, he's average to slightly above average at first, and sucks at third.. but the moving around frequently does take a bit getting used too, he really hasn't played much first this year.
having said that, he is changing a bit, he's having a good year at third this year, but that could be sample size as much as reality.
#88 ... that was for TBS yeah? And largely in the studio? Or am I misremembering that? Now on Fox and the color guy, I suspect he's been told to talk a lot, talk authoritatively, probably be more traditions.
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