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1. TomH Posted: July 07, 2022 at 02:20 PM (#6085901)The top 5 Teams in the AL, by Wins. And along with those, the LA Angels:
NYY 59
HOU 53
BOS 45
TAM 45
TOR 45
LAA 38
Next, I add the (bb-ref) WAR of the top 2 players on each team
NYY 59 .. 6.0 Judge, Cortes …. 31
HOU 53 . 7.8 Alvarez, Tucker .. 23
BOS 45 .. 5.9 Devers, Pivetta .. 17
TAM 45 .. 5.3 McLanahan, Diaz 18
TOR 45 .. 6.0 Kirk, Manoah ….. 17
LAA 38 .. 8.1 Ohtani, Trout …….. 8
The # at the end is “rest of team WAR”; defined by team WAR minus top 2 WAR, minus 22.
No way we would ever see Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen have great years while the Bulls go 36-46.
He was such a mess with the Phillies.
While obviously the arrival of Pippen helped a lot (and pushed the Bulls to perennial champ level), the rest of the roster was a big improvement. Krause had been taking a pretty Angels-like approach to that point. The year before Pippen's arrival, the Bulls went 40-42 with a non-Jordan lineup of Oakley, Paxson, Gene Banks, Dave Corzine, Earl Cureton, Brad Sellers, Sedale Thrett and Steve Colter. If that's not the Trout Angels of the NBA I don't know what would be. When Pippen arrived they did improve to 50 wins although that wasn't much to do with Pippen who got only 20 minutes a game -- the lineup was much the same, they just played better defense. Oakley out, Cartwright in, Pippen to the starting lineup didn't make a big difference the next year.
Maybe the Angels need to hire Phil Jackson.
I miss the old O'Neill-Bader-Carlson outfield----seems like it's been intact for about 10 games this season.
This is the third season in a row when the team has basically relied on Wainwright and a mish mash of other pitchers. When you are counting on your rotation to be a 40 year old, a couple rookies and some vets with previous arm injuries, it's not going to end well. They made one signing for Matz which was good and he promptly sucked and then was hurt (possibly related ).
Yet another "transition" year waiting for Molina and Pujols and Wainwright to leave while we waste great seasons from Goldschmidt and Arenado.
At least the second half schedule looks easier
I agree it seems a subby like lineup, but Yepez has the third most homeruns on the team, 4th most total bases and a 133 ops+ for the season and 7th most pa on the team. He's getting playing time because he has earned a starting position.
On another game thread it was wondered about teams with 100 ops+ at all positions, the Cardinals as constructed right now, have 100 ops+ at all positions except catcher if you consider Carlson the centerfielder. (Donovan and Yepez corner fielders and Gorman second base) Sadly it's a relatively poor/average defensive team when you do that.
According to baseball almanac
Most strikeouts by a pitcher through innings
1st inning = 4 (Hough, Young, Finley, Burnett)
2nd inning = 7 (Dreifort)
3rd inning = 9
4th inning = 11
5th inning = 13
6th inning = 16 (Randy Johnson)
7th inning = 17 (Clemens/Sale)
8th inning = 19 (Clemens)
9th inning 20.
So my guess is at best 11, but at least 9.-- if you are talking outs recorded via strikeout, since Strider wasn't consecutive.
I thought this was gonna be the inning he imploded: Liberatore had second and third, nobody out to start the bottom of the 4th, but got out of it wihtout allowing a run. Still zip-zip.
EDIT: And Strider didn't strike out anyone in the top of the 4th. Still, 9 Ks through four is pretty good.
EDIT: Scoring changed to error on Cordero (Costas applauds).
And he's pulled after 4. Not a terrible outing---6 baserunners, zero runs---but I guess Marmol believes a third time through the order might not go so well, and I have to agree.
Jordan Hicks now on in relief, and he should be able to go three easily, if he doesn't put a bunch of runners on.
Box score indicates this is the case. I don't remember ever seeing an error ruling on a ball like that which went untouched.
Hicks--who began the year as a starter---is pulled after two scoreless innings and 34 pitches.
His replacement, Gallegos, allows a game-tying homer to the first batter he faces.
It wasn't consecutive for Strider, not really it was 9 k's for 9 outs, but he allowed a hit and a walk in the first inning, and a hit in the third inning.
And then it was changed back to a double again, by the official scorer Stevie Wonder.
Whatever the scoring decision, that run won the game - a bit of a gift.
The offense remains solid. We can even put 7, maybe even 8, average or better hitters in the lineup at the same time. Morel keeps going along OK -- 799 OPS over the last month or so despite a 37% K-rate in that stretch. I think Ross has to find more PT for Nelson Velazquez (one of our kids) but that probably won't happen until we make some trades. Still too much PT going to guys who don't really deserve it and an apparent unwillingness to move Wisdom to 1B.
Consider that your mid-season Cubs update.
R/G 2022 2021 2019
Apr 4.03 4.26 4.63
May 4.43 4.41 4.79
Jun 4.49 4.66 4.97
HR% 2022 2021 2019
Apr 2.45 3.08 3.44
May 2.86 3.01 3.58
Jun 3.14 3.42 3.67
Tomorrow they will change it to a single and an error, and then they will change it to catcher's interference because, why not.
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