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WEEKEND OMNICHATTER for May 20-22, 2022
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Having watched most of the Cardinals' games this year, it's not an understatement to say that Edman's 2B defense has played a big part in the Cardinals being over .500 (20-18) to this point; he leads all MLB in defensive WAR, and all MLB 2B in Defensive Runs Saved with 7. He has incredible range, and is extremely aggressive on throwing to 2B to get the lead runner on balls hit deep to the right side. He plays practically a shallow right field sometimes and I'm amazed at balls he gets to there on which he is still able to get the runner at 1B.
The word on Gorman---who only moved to 2B from 3B last year, after the Cardinals signed Arenado---is that someday he may be an average second baseman.
I'm excited to see his debut tonight against the Pirates, and curious to see how well Edman handles short; he's played there before, but has only 15 starts at short in MLB, almost all of them in 2020.
In advance of tonight's CIN@TOR game (series), the Reds have placed on the restricted list (for not being vaccinated, and thus unable to enter Canada) OF Albert Almora Jr. and IF Brandon Drury. They've also placed RP Joel Kuhnel and SP Tyler Mahle on the restricted list (presumably also for not being vaccinated, but also possibly for having a silent "H" - a common practice in Quebec Nation but not supported by the rest of Canada.)
And so OF Aristides Aquino, IF Taylor Motter, and RP Graham Ashcraft and have been called up and get to spend at least a weekend in the majors (and in one of North America's finest, cleanest, funnest, safest cities.) (And most expensivest, my friend would say? Then again a co-worker flew down to SF last week and went to a Giants game at PacBell (Oracle?) He said it was $15 for a beer, $30 for a hiball.)
And <drum roll> the fourth offsetting transaction for the Reds was activating 1B Joey Votto from the IL. The favourite local son, from Etobicoke (a suburb of Toronto), second round pick of the Reds in 2002 out of high school, 2010 MVP of the National League, six time All-Star, currently sporting sixteen year career line of 300/415/516, who was nine years old when the Blue Jays won their first World Series in 1992, will get to play "at home" for the first time since 2017.
https://www.mlb.com/amp/news/how-to-watch-cardinals-pirates-on-apple-tv-may-20-2022.html
Note: it does require an Apple ID, but you don't need to be an Apple+ TV subscriber to get the game.
So Rojas whiffed leading off the 9th, but the next batter, Christian Walker, did hit his 10th home run of the year, which ties him with two other first basemen, Pete Alonso and CJ Cron, for the NL lead.
(only six commas in that sentence)
Bet365 (the world's favorite casino), Ghost River Casino, Betway, BetMGM, DraftKings Sportsbook (only available in Canada to Ontarians), BetSure, SureBet, Gila River Casino, in addition to a number of casinos in the Niagara Falls area, all had the O/U at 4 commas for your next post. And that's just from the NHL broadcasts.
I bet the over, and made out like a bandit, not that I was trying, or that we are in cahoots, or bet the maximum, but somehow I just had a hunch that, despite the windy weather in Chicago, I decided to bet that salvo is feeling good, and whilst keeping it on point, and informative, he will go over 4.
One of them uses the word "velo" constantly, and for some reason I find it really annoying.
The other one is just one inanity after another, and just identified Brendan Donovan through an entire at-bat as "Carlson," even on the call on the groundout.
She just says a lot of things really awkwardly. Just now, speaking of Cardinals' reliever Genesis Cabrera, she mentions that he pitched a scoreless inning on Thursday, and follows up with this:
"That was a 10-inning performance that ultimately came up on the Mets' side."
"Performance"? "Mets' side"?
Almost every other sentence she's saying something that you can understand, but it just sounds off.
Earlier, when a hitter grounded a single through the left side, he "beat the defense." Not "wrong," just a bit off.
It just makes you turn your head and say "huh?"
Wanwright has the fewest innings pitched among the four--behind by a little to kershaw, then Scherzer, and almost 600 innings behind Verlander and over 700 innings behind Greinke (3,154 ip).
I would not suggest escalating things against a team that has so many heavyweights.
edit...and the Anderson thing, which I didn't see, and I can't trust your description of it.
Donaldson was on the HP side of third (as he needed to be). It had nothing to do with momentum.
*You're not lying about this, you're just misrepresenting. You're just a liar, in general.
There's the history.
Now, onto the Cubs. Christopher Morel has looked pretty good so far (it's just a handful of PAs and plays in the field). But the way, the Cubs' broadcasters have been talking about him, you'd think he was 20 or something. He'll turn 23 in a month (so this is his age 23 season) ... that's great, not old or anything but he was only in AA in his age 23 season while at times they make it sound like he's had some meteoric rise like Franco. The other day JD said something about him adding strength the last couple of years and "he's going to be a very large man" (or similar) again as if he was a 20-yo Sosa.
Anyway, the defense at third has looked quite nice and he's splitting his time with 2B and CF too. I suspect there are some holes in the swing and he'll be under a 100 OPS+ by season's end but he has shown good patience and had that 11-pitch PA the other day so I don't think we're looking at a 200/240/320 guy.
And the Red Sox go ahead in the 8th!
Oh, please. Anderson's complaint was that Donaldson called him "Jackie". The problem is that Donaldson's reference didn't come out of thin air, since here's what Anderson himself said about himself.
You can slam Donaldson for that play at third last week, but that "racist" crap is a total stretch.
P. S. Anderson is one of my favorite players, and this non-incident from today isn't likely to carry over unless some White Sox pitcher tries to send a "message" at some point tomorrow. Because tomorrow's the last time these two teams will meet in the regular season.
Tell that to Anderson (and Grandal, because what else would he have been in Donaldson's face for?).
If a WS pitcher hits Donaldson, it won't entirely be the pitcher's decision. The team may want it to happen. That's baseball. I know some of youse don't like to hear that, but, it's a part of the game. It's unsavory, but it's part of the game.
The big tests for the Red Sox will be the ten game west coast trip coming up, and the 17 game stretch sandwiched around the AS break where they play Tampa, NYY, and Toronto. Those 27 will tell the tale of the Red Sox season. If they win 16-20 of them, they're in it. If they split, they'll hover around .500 all year. If they lose 16-20, they'll be trading Bogaerts and hopefully others before 8/1.
If a WS pitcher hits Donaldson, it won't entirely be the pitcher's decision. The team may want it to happen. That's baseball. I know some of youse don't like to hear that, but, it's a part of the game. It's unsavory, but it's part of the game.
Since when does trash-talking warrant a bean-ball? Donaldson seems to be a tedious jerk, but that's hardly uncommon in pro sports.
There are degrees of trash talking. Larry Bird was a great trash talker, but not to the point where someone wanted to punch him for it. Donaldson's brand seems different, for reasons mentioned above.
edit..and I don't think you're wrong about how common it is. I think guys get hit for being jerks more than we hear about, but they put their heads down and take their base without complaint because they know they earned it.
2nd edit...when the trash talking leads to benches emptying, that's when guys get hit. Not all trash talking leads to benches clearing.
P. S. Anderson is one of my favorite players, and this non-incident from today isn't likely to carry over unless some White Sox pitcher tries to send a "message" at some point tomorrow. Because tomorrow's the last time these two teams will meet in the regular season.
Tell that to Anderson (and Grandal, because what else would he have been in Donaldson's face for?).
Right, nobody ever overreacts to anything. But Grandal's sticking up for a teammate is totally understandable.
And so was Anderson's reaction understandable in the heat of battle, for that matter. Doesn't mean it wasn't also an overreaction.
In the pool hall, wouldn't you maybe get a beating for what Donaldson said? Or at least get threatened?
In most contexts, I think the guy who compared himself to an all time great would be hearing about it from a lot of people for years. If I told my golf buddies "My swing is a little bit like Jack Nicklaus", I'd expect to hear "nice shot Jack", ever time I sliced one.
Real life example. One of my friend said one day, after a birdie, "I think I average about a birdie per round". He heard about that every time he had a birdie free round for about a decade.
In the pool hall, wouldn't you maybe get a beating for what Donaldson said? Or at least get threatened?
Only in pool halls I'd never been in before. But more to the point, in the hundreds of pool rooms I've been in over the years, I've never met a pool player who'd be comparing himself to Jackie Robinson, because if he did he'd be laughed out of the room by players of every racial background.
However, Anderson's comparing himself to Robinson was silly, but that doesn't mean that comments from guys like Donaldson aren't motivated by racism. I don't know Donaldson's history there. Do you? I mean, can't you see how racists might use any excuse to elevate themselves by pointing out that a black man made a dumb comment that other than it's dumbness was harmless?
What did he do the next round? See? AVERAGES!
I average about .75 birdies a round. That's a good idea....keeping track of birdies. I shall do that for the rest of the golf season and see how many end up with/round.
I've posted 16 rounds this year and probably have 4 or 5 birdies. But I don't play well until June, usually. I broke 85 for the first time this year on Friday. I'm usually below 85 from June thru October. So yeah, I'll track them. I think .75 is close, maybe a bit low.
First batter: home run.
Second batter: double.
Third batter, the position-player-pitcher Josh Van Meter (who the Cardinals homered twice against in the top half of the inning): single.
Fourth batter: line out.
Fifth batter: out.
Sixth batter: another homer.
Seventh batter: last out of the game.
Cardinals' position player outpitches the Pirates' position player, 5-4, with each allowing 2 homers.
He probably averaged a birdie every 10 rounds.
That's funny. Not smart of him. I'm at a course now where guys are more polite...they talk behind your back if you said something like that. Other courses I've belonged to...you'd get roasted for it.
I'd be very interested to see what the final, MLB-wide totals are on position players pitching.
I wonder if Eovaldi comes out for the 7th? Maybe. They haven't said (or I didn't hear) whether there are guys warming up.
Doesn't seem to be on YES.
I don't get that. A week or 2 ago a couple of Red Sox games weren't on NESN...you had to jump through hoops (AppleTV+, I think) to see it, which makes no sense when the team is playing .400 ball. I know the Yankees are off to a good start, but they can't make you pay for games, can they? Is that wise?
From what I can see, the night game is on ESPN, and the day game is on Amazon prime, which I have, but not on the TV in the computer room.
Scoreless, and no fireworks, heading into bottom of 3rd.
Those are subscription services, no? I'm already paying for YES, shouldn't need those.
Thanks.
As part of your basic package, or extra? NESN is basic, at least.
It's part of the package, but it's not the basic package.
I guess you're helping them re-sign Judge.
Drops the bat, and immediately signals into his first base visitor dugout. It was straight down the line, right at the CN Tower which looms over RF, but he knew he got all of it, and predicted it would stay fair. GOOOOOOOOOOOONE!
He is the brother of Mets Edwin Diaz.
Broadcast says they are #2 all-time for siblings with saves.
(Although I like trivia, and stats, I sometimes think Elias Bureau goes too far. Alexis has 1 save.
Reminds me of the true, but somewhat disingenuous trivia question in hockey: which two brothers hold NHL sibling record for scoring the most points?)
ED: Sorry, missed adding the hockey answer, don't mean to start an off-topic hockey trivia chat. It's Wayne Gretzky (~79,000,000) and Keith (4 pts)
That's his first of the year, after 36 last year.
After a horrific start before missing 15 games on the COVID list, Votto now has hits in each of the last three games, which is promising when compared to his 9-for-70 in his 21 games before the COVID.
They are both switch hitters
Both are about the same size and weight
They both star/starred for iconic teams
They both hit leadoff for their teams
They both played multiple positions with both starting out as second basemen in their first few years
Both are known as excellent base runners but Edman is a much better base stealer
Edman is a better defensive player and his comp is a 20% better offensive player
Tommy is averaging 5.4 bWAR per 162 and his comp averaged 3.6 bWAR/162 but over a longer time.
His comp had a few years in his prime of 5-8 WAR, something that Edman may do as well.
Both were rarely injured with Tommy averaging 672 PA/162 while his comp averaged an 723 PA/162 over a longer career
Tommy's career batting line is .272/.336/.417/.743 and he is a much better RH hitter
Comp career batting line is .303/.375/.409/.784 and he is a much better LH hitter
Tommy's comp sustained a single-digit walk and K rates for his career. Tommy is slightly higher for both.
Any ideas who my comp is ?
To me, the runner seemed safe twice: his toe seemed to beat the tag, and the catcher clearly lost the ball on the tag.
Unfortunately, you couldn't see the ball after the tag. It could have been in his glove.
Franchy hit a HR, so whatever.
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