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[Stangstag]

Damn that was close lol. Picked up 2 games on the sox in 2 days!!

[Spanky__99]

Woohoo... 3 Back, baby!!!

[saskjayfan]

Good s***

 

The Rays win, because that's what they do.....hand out demoralizing losses!

[Solaxys]

Damn that was close lol. Picked up 2 games on the sox in 2 days!!

 

Now we need Astros to win

[JFD]

Go Astros!

[Ray]

If the Astros win, we’ll jump ahead of the Mariners in the Wild Card standings with 3 left to play against a scuffling Yankees team and the O’s coming up in the weekend.

 

This team has certainly made it interesting this past week. Still lots of work to do, but gotta give them credit.

[Jays24]

Wow... did not expect Tampa to win that one.

[Spanky__99]

If the Astros win, we’ll jump ahead of the Mariners in the Wild Card standings with 3 left to play against a scuffling Yankees team and the O’s coming up in the weekend.

 

This team has certainly made it interesting this past week. Still lots of work to do, but gotta give them credit.

 

Feels like the drive of '85... or '15 when we picked up Price!! GO JAYS GO!

[Stangstag]

5-0 Astros in the 2nd!!

[jaysguy44]

And now Seattle is down 5-0... life's good.

[Spanky__99]

5-0 Astros in the 2nd!!

 

That was a bomb by Meyers!

[Ray]

10-2 Astros now. I hope to god this is start of the Mariners tailspin closer to their true talent level.

[Ray]

Also, pretty crazy stat:

 

[connorp]

Damn I got click baited.

 

Headline was: “Dave Roberts gets brutally honest about Cody Bellinger”

 

..so I’m thinking he was going to say some diplomatic version of “he’s terrible right now” but it was just basically “he has to keep fighting” lol

[Olerud363]

I'll move this here, because it is distracting from the "Vlad to Indy Ball" (not today, he's hot again) discussion

 

I think it's interesting and kind of weird that mention Ohtani's fWAR of only 7 (lower than most people probably think it is) and the reaction is "Hey, hey, hey! Keep the fWAR out of it. This is history. No place for numbers. No one has pitched and hit like this before."

 

Wasn't saying any different, 2 things can be true. No one has pitched and hit like this before, and his fWAR is "only" 7, on track for 8, lower than a few recent MVP seasons.

[TheHurl]

I'll move this here, because it is distracting from the "Vlad to Indy Ball" (not today, he's hot again) discussion

 

I think it's interesting and kind of weird that mention Ohtani's fWAR of only 7 (lower than most people probably think it is) and the reaction is "Hey, hey, hey! Keep the fWAR out of it. This is history. No place for numbers. No one has pitched and hit like this before."

 

Wasn't saying any different, 2 things can be true. No one has pitched and hit like this before, and his fWAR is "only" 7, on track for 8, lower than a few recent MVP seasons.

 

He is (somewhat unfairly) getting the DH negative defensive value. As a hitter alone playing RF every day I think his fWAR would be at least a full win higher. As a pitcher he's a part-timer pretty much. He's been closer to Pablo Lopez than he's been to Corbin Burnes.

 

He's also done it taking up just 1 roster spot, should that be factored in to MVP? It's certainly valuable.

[Spanky__99]

He is (somewhat unfairly) getting the DH negative defensive value. As a hitter alone playing RF every day I think his fWAR would be at least a full win higher. As a pitcher he's a part-timer pretty much. He's been closer to Pablo Lopez than he's been to Corbin Burnes.

 

He's also done it taking up just 1 roster spot, should that be factored in to MVP? It's certainly valuable.

 

He's got MVP locked up, guy's a unicorn, doing s*** the best players in Little League did at that level in the MLB, an alien I tell ya!!!

[King]

[Brownie19]

He is (somewhat unfairly) getting the DH negative defensive value. As a hitter alone playing RF every day I think his fWAR would be at least a full win higher. As a pitcher he's a part-timer pretty much. He's been closer to Pablo Lopez than he's been to Corbin Burnes.

 

He's also done it taking up just 1 roster spot, should that be factored in to MVP? It's certainly valuable.

 

It's kind of sad you have to spell this out.

[Jimcanuck]

I'll move this here, because it is distracting from the "Vlad to Indy Ball" (not today, he's hot again) discussion

 

I think it's interesting and kind of weird that mention Ohtani's fWAR of only 7 (lower than most people probably think it is) and the reaction is "Hey, hey, hey! Keep the fWAR out of it. This is history. No place for numbers. No one has pitched and hit like this before."

 

Wasn't saying any different, 2 things can be true. No one has pitched and hit like this before, and his fWAR is "only" 7, on track for 8, lower than a few recent MVP seasons.

 

The awards are really just a MLB marketing thing, WAR is low on the list of considerations. No. 1 consideration is probably who do the casual MLB fans want as the MVP?

[Jimcanuck]

 

Uh huh

[connorp]

The awards are really just a MLB marketing thing, WAR is low on the list of considerations. No. 1 consideration is probably who do the casual MLB fans want as the MVP?

 

Or you know, winning. Like when there’s an MVP of the game, or MVP of a series, it’s not the best player on the field. I know it ruffles some jimmies here but there’s still a lot of old-timers doing the writing and voting

[John_Havok]

He's got MVP locked up, guy's a unicorn, doing s*** the best players in Little League did at that level in the MLB, an alien I tell ya!!!

 

It would be incredibly fun though, to watch all those old writer's heads explode if Vlad actually does win the triple crown, and then don't vote him as MVP.

 

The entertainment it would cause would be tremendous.

[Brownie19]

I was just thinking how crazy it is that Miggy just hit his 500th home run the other week. Miggy is/was incredible. A generational talent and one of the best hitters I've ever seen.

 

Pujols hit his 679th home run tonight. It's almost hard to fathom that Pujols has 177 more home runs than Miggy...insane.

[BCZ]

4 old players past their prime all having career years or best year in a long time... Crawford (34 - 131 wRC+), Longoria (35 - 142 wRC+), Posey (34 - 146 wRC+), and Belt (33 - 135 wRC+).

 

Maybe I'm a conspiracy theorist or maybe it's fishy as hell. Regardless of what you think it's some serious anomaly or seriously sketchy.

[Jays24]

Seattle just lost too. These last few days have been unreal in terms of the standings for us. Let's keep it going!

[Jays24]

4 old players past their prime all having career years or best year in a long time... Crawford (34 - 131 wRC+), Longoria (35 - 142 wRC+), Posey (34 - 146 wRC+), and Belt (33 - 135 wRC+).

 

Maybe I'm a conspiracy theorist or maybe it's fishy as hell. Regardless of what you think it's some serious anomaly or seriously sketchy.

 

Everyone loves to give Pete Walker credit for any pitcher who bounces back with us. Why can't the Giants feel their hitting coach has magic powers too? Lol

[Spanky__99]

Oakland getting rekt, nice.

[Terminator]

Oakland getting rekt, nice.

 

Not only did we beat the Yanks but all 3 scoreboard games are going to go our way.

[Spanky__99]

Everyone loves to give Pete Walker credit for any pitcher who bounces back with us. Why can't the Giants feel their hitting coach has magic powers too? Lol

 

Maybe he gets accolades. As does Pete, stfu. You know nothing.