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Toronto beats Yankees 2 of 3, sweep Baltimore
Yankees lost 2 of 3 in Toronto, win 2 of 3 in Tampa
Sox win 2 of 3 in Baltimore and Washington
Three way tie. Hell make it a four way tie with Seattle winning out but that's unlikely.
Adding on to Jose in #4, there are three playoff races left, and they all have the potential to be quite good. Of course, the AL wild card and NL West races have been good for a few weeks now. The Braves had a game against the Rockies rained out earlier in the month, and as far as I can tell, there is no current plan in place to make up that game. If the Phillies and Braves end the season separated by half a game, then the Braves will need to make up that game with Colorado next Monday, correct? If the Phillies and Braves are then even after the game, then the two teams would play a one-game playoff on Tuesday, correct? I suppose that would occur the same day as the NL and AL wild card games. It shouldn't affect the schedule since it would be for the NL East crown.
It's baffling that you could hit 29 HRs and have a 71 OPS+.
It was something like a 56 ops+ with 23 hr at the start of the month.
edit: He ended 3-4 with a hr and a bb today.
.375/.448/.785 now in September.
edit 2: oh wait, he had hr and a double today, so, add a few points on to that slg%
A 215 BABIP will do that to you. It would be an obvious super-fluke but he had just a 214 in 2020 too -- almost 800 PA now. This is a guy who for 2014-19 had a 316 BABIP. Very strange.
Not like we haven't seen this sort of thing before though. Tony Batista had 26 HR and a 73 OPS+ and 32 HR and a 81. Tony Armas hit 36 (and 107 RBI) with a 85 OPS+ in 1983. Kingman hit 35 with a 90 OPS+ in his last season.
au contraire
- anything dealing with the Yankees is drama (go JAYS!!!)
- The Dodgers/Giants division title fight is a big thing. LA or SF could tie or break the record for most wins by a team that did not win its division (current record is 104; 1909 Cubs and 1942 Dodgers)
Would MLB keep the AL Wildcard scheduled for Tuesday if there is a Monday playoff for the 2nd Wildcard? Might be interesting if that game goes 15 innings or has a two-hour rain delay.
I would say there's quite a bit of drama in fighting for a bye to bypass the one-game play-in for the NLDS.
He was pretty shaky last time out, also against the Crew. In fact, over his last four starts, his hits are up, walks are up, homers are up, and strikeouts are down compared to his season averages. He may be running out of gas.
just an inning or two, presumably - and no sliders, he says.
first pitch, 96 mph.
GMs, get your checkbooks ready...
I like how the first batter after he exits hits a home run
200 IP in 2021 entering Tuesday:
Wheeler PHI 208
Wainwright STL 201
Alcantara MIA 201
Buehler LAD 196
RRay TOR 188
Berrios TOR 186
Gausman SFG 185
LCastillo CIN 182
Montas OAK 181
Marquez COL 180
looks like only 4 will get to 200 - all of them in the NL
then SEVENTEEN pitchers at 170 to 179 IP - that's the sweet spot
@EricFisherSBG
Rays owner Stu Sternberg says on club's pregame radio show that they will now not hang the sign at the Trop promoting the split-season Montreal plan, and says he made "a big mistake" looking to promote concept right now.
8:03 PM · Sep 28, 2021
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That's very different, though, than saying the split-season plan itself was a mistake. Rays are still fully behind that. They just are saying now they whiffed in diverting attention away from club heading into the playoffs.
.242 team batting avg
563 walks drawn
211 home runs
team B
.239 team batting avg
608 walks drawn
213 home runs
which team has scored more runs?
team A, by... ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY TWO (!!)
That was terrible---I was shocked in real time to see Goldschmidt rounding third; with one out you go for that when you've *got it*, not when you *might* get it. If the ball bounced around a bit or if Yelich had to chase it and that's one thing, but that wasn't the case here, so they're gambling---unnecessarily--that the fielders can't execute a very doable play. The throw to the catcher wasn't even that good---Narvaez had to stab up and towards the stands and he still had time to bring it down and across home plate to get Goldschmidt.
No. It looks like the Red Sox have decided to not win any more games this season....
tie game
Good game so far, Cardinals would probably be leading if it weren't for that horrible send in the 3rd.
You are stealing my thoughts, you must be using the covid vaccine which is designed to create a hive mind.
I think if the ball hadn't gotten by Garcia, Goldschmidt would have been held at third. As he should have been.
Yeah, well, the Red Sox stink. They had Sale on the bump and playing an historically bad team(a couple of guys notwithstanding) and they couldn't get it done tonight. At this stage, NY, Seattle or the Jays deserve the 2 spots.
EDIT: Yes, he had a 2-run pinch homer in the first game of last Friday's doubleheader with the Cubs.
True, but they are a better team than Seattle.
Maybe. I never trust the A's, I generally think their record is actually better than their team, so them being on the other side of the equation is a weird oddity.
Edit: Okay I love Bader, but I also love Marte... So there is one. (history helps there)
You wouldn't take Sean Murphy over Yadier Molina? Really?
Nope. Not even a debate there. Their relative minor difference in offense.... Yadier in 988 innings this year, the other team has 25 steals and 18 caught... Sean has caught 907 innings has allowed 41 steals with 13 caught... without even knowing anything else about them, the better catcher is Yadier. 98 ops+ vs 87 is miniscule compared to that level of defense. (and I get that the bwar is 2.7 vs 1.9 but I've longed argue war doesn't remotely capture the real value of a catcher, and it's not a relative argument, it's an argument about who is actually good vs not so much)
But somehow, someway, the Braves hang on for the 2-1 victory and the magic number is down to three.
announcers lauding Snitker for sticking with Smith as closer "because he gets the job done."
um.......
meanwhile, if I'm a higher-up Cubs exec, I'm wondering how the Mets - not exactly known for being strategic pioneers - needed about 5 minutes to turn Baez away from his lifelong "swing at every ####### pitch" mentality and start drawing walks right away. he had another 4-pitch one tonight. did that ever happen in all those years in Chicago?
this year he walked 15 times in 335 AB for Cubs - and 13 for 154 AB so far for Mets.
his Ks? 131 for Cubs, and 48 so far for Mets. 10 to 1 ratio, horrible. 3 to 1 ratio, we're getting somewhere.
the Ks remain high and he hasn't quite shaken off the stupid play here and there, but he has power and great defense and great baserunning instincts (mostly, and helped win the nightcap with that tonight), so with even a so-so K/BB rate he'd be a big asset.
he might have earned himself a lot of money in a short amount of time with this "new Javy."
..............
"This is how serious the Cardinals are taking this game"
doesn't this win clinch a playoff spot? I guess they could have been the first team in MLB history to mail it in on the night that they can do that, but...
Everything beyond this is cherry on top of the cake, but want it.
They beat Woodruff twice in a week.
With five votes per voter he might get a fourth or fifth place vote.... he needed a strong September (just like pretty much everyone) but I'm fairly certain the vote is going to go Scherzer, Wheeler, Woodruff, Buehler with Burnes sucking up most of the rest. (Wheeler has the war, but it's close enough with Scherzer and the two teams thing, that the wins will separate them)
I personally favor keeping it at a one-game playoff, but requiring the lesser team to take doses of a strong laxative a few hours before game time. Make it literally a matter of intestinal fortitude.
Yankees 90-67 +2.0
Red Sox 88-69 --
Mariners 88-70 -0.5
Blue Jays 87-70 -1.0
I think the M's are a bit more than "on the periphery". They're right in the middle of it.
NPB uses a bit of that logic to decide the league representatives in the Japan Series. To quote wiki: "The First Stage is a best-of-three series involving the regular season's second- and third-place finishers, with all games played at the second-place team's home field. The winner of this series goes on to face the league's pennant-winner in the Final Stage. The Final Stage series is best-of-seven. The league champion is awarded a one-win advantage as well as home field advantage for the entire series".
Me like.
OK, this is silly. It's 100 wRC+ vs 85. Per FG, Murphy is 9 runs better with the bat, almost 4 runs better on the bases, and 12 runs better with the glove. Per BRef he's 7 runs better with the bat, 4 runs better on the bases, and 1 run worse on D. So, if you ignore framing, Murphy's a win better; include it, and he's 2.5 wins better. SBs are a triviality in modern MLB.
85 vs 100 isn't really a huge difference to be honest, game calling is ignored completely by every metric out there, and it might be a triviality, but it's still 16 singles that were turned into doubles, because of Sean, and it's 5 singles more turned into outs by Yadier. The only reason that Yadier is "so bad in comparison by rbat or whatever" is because the Cardinals manager is a ####### idiot and batting him 5th instead of 7th where he belongs, so he's getting 34 or so extra plate appearances as a negative hitter than he should be.
If Yadier is batting 7th or 8th where he belongs his overall offensive profile drops probably around .2-.3, thereby improving his cumulative war the corresponding amount.
But yes, I'll give it to the 26 year old, it's closer than it looks, but Murphy is probably better right now than Yadier overall.
I overstated my original quick look opinion.
And since their games end 3 hours later than their WC rivals, they have the added advantage of being able to play to the score.#JackMorris
At first I thought you didn't get the comment and was going to point out that you missed the point; it took me a few seconds to get your joke, hilarious.
#62 (on Baez's walk rate): It is interesting but don't get too excited. You'll notice he needed this "hot streak" to pull his seasonal walk rate up to 5.2% ... right in line with his career 4.8% and what he did in 2019 (and a bit worse than 2017). Even looking at his career splits -- and this is a weird one to look at -- in July his walk rate is 1 per 31 PA while in Sept it's 1 per 15.5 PA. In Sept of his rookie year, he actually walked 11 times in 113 PA. In April this year, it was just 1 BB in 94 PA so after that, for the Cubs, he had 14 BB in 267 PA, right around his career 5% rate.
My point isn't that he does something special in Sept (although this wouldn't shock me either) but that, like every player, his stats have variation. For now this is just a good run of 173 PA that's similar to other good extended runs he's had (possibly this is the longest such run). He was atrocious even by Javy standards in April, he was his regular self from May through Aug, he's walking a lot in Sept.
And don't be fooled by "yeah but he's taking all these close pitches for balls now." He's always done that too. I know it makes no sense -- how could a guy swing at a pitch literally a foot outside then take one an inch off the plate but, it seems especially in big situations, he has always done that. It's probably more a fastball vs breaking ball thing.
True, but you'd have to ask why? Shouldn't a rebuilding team be playing someone younger? He's a great glove and all, but I think I'd rather give the PAs to someone I don't yet know is an 80 OPS+ hitter.
I guess if the Royals have no CF prospects, he helps the pitching.
"Hilaripus," please. We have traditions to uphold ... though it's handstakingly obvious that some of us just aren't up to the challenge.
As if that was ever going to happen. With the 2022 opt out option, there was no reason he was going to opt out.
Because you need some stability at a few positions for a rebuilding team. They have a pretty good catcher, second baseman, shortstop and left fielder for at least another season, at the cost of Taylor he isn't blocking anybody, but he provides stability and defense. I don't know jack about their minors, but anyone that they bring up or acquire still has a spot to play, and it's not depressing when you have at least four league average players on the roster that you can count on.
"But look who’s batting fourth! Jim Pagliaroni and Mickey Mantle. Now who the hell is Pagliaroni?”
NYY 90-67 +2 at TOR
BOS 88-69 -- at BAL
SEA 88-70 0.5 vs OAK
TOR 87-70 1 vs NYY
NL WEST
SFG 103-54 -- vs ARI
LAD 101-56 2 vs SDP
Bo Bichette also knocks himself home for RBI #100, his 27th HR of the year.
4-0 TOR thru 3 vs Gerrit Cole.
You are playing a team that has an ERA of nearly 6....please score some runs.
A fan.
this one is Congress - Republicans vs Democrats.
reminiscent of BBTF softball, except for the high score - 11-10 in the 5th.
just had a play where a runner tries to score with no outs and he's out by about 30 feet. oof.
possibly just House members - I hadn't heard of any of the combatants, until Linda Sanchez of CA just came up to pinch-hit. she "singles" and is replaced by a pinch runner who immediately swipes second.
so second and third, one out, runner tries to steal third and - oh, crap, there's someone there. that's an out, lolz
Odubel Herrera hits the ball hard — he decides to flip his bat; secure his helmet, watch the ball, then starts running. It took a funny carom off the wall; he probably could have made third. I’m tired of his show boating. He always watches the ball instead of running. He only has 13 HRs — Odubel, it’s not going out, RUN.
Are the Republicans making it super hard to get to the bases whilst the Democrats are complaining that even if you strike out, you should get a free pass because that's best for everyone?
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