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Post by chiyankee on Aug 31, 2024 10:15:46 GMT -5
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 31, 2024 10:16:18 GMT -5
Wells starting a day after a night game.
Stanton on the bench, Grisham in CF. Yeah
Didn't realize at first that Oswaldo is starting at first.
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Post by ypaterson on Aug 31, 2024 10:31:02 GMT -5
One thing we don't know about Wells is how his bat will play once the innings add up. It shouldn't be anythig today as there was no work on Thursday, but it will be something to watch. It is hard to hit when your body is beaten up.
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Post by bumper on Aug 31, 2024 11:10:51 GMT -5
out of town so didn't see yesterday's win - the stroman & wells show. gonna miss most of the games this week.
surprising day after nite game but good to see wells in there again. w righties pitching think wells will get more reps as the balance of ABs has shifted in his direction. also happy to see cabrera at 1B though he hasn't had many games there. definitely the best bat out of the 3 choices. thinking rice gets swapped out for dominguez tomorrow.
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Post by bruner4329 on Aug 31, 2024 11:20:02 GMT -5
out of town so didn't see yesterday's win - the stroman & wells show. gonna miss most of the games this week. surprising day after nite game but good to see wells in there again. w righties pitching think wells will get more reps as the balance of ABs has shifted in his direction. also happy to see cabrera at 1B though he hasn't had many games there. definitely the best bat out of the 3 choices. thinking rice gets swapped out for dominguez tomorrow. Rice will go down when Rizzo comes back. That will be the swap. They can expand roster 9/1 and add one position player and one pitcher. Dominquez should be the add on but they also have Berti in the wings. Honestly if Dominquez comes up Grisham is expendible but that makes too much sense. There will be some necessary roster juggling coming up. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 31, 2024 11:29:05 GMT -5
In the middle game, the Cards start veteran righty Kyle Gibson. He's had maybe 3 good seasons in his 12-year career, but he has been a member of the rotation of contending teams in an impressive number of seasons. 3 of his 7 Twins teams finished first or 2nd, he was in the rotation of the Phillies teams that finished 2nd in 2021 and made it to the World Series in 2022, was in the Orioles rotation last year when they won the AL East and now he's in a Cards rotation fighting for a playoff spot. Drafted by the Twins with the 22nd pick of the 2009 June Amateur Draft, Minnesota did not let him pitch that season, but based on his draft status and reputation, Baseball America and Baseball Prospectus had him in their top 100 prospect lists before the 2010 season. The Twins started him in A-ball in 2010, and he made 7 outstanding starts in high-A ball, 16 solid starts in AA, and before the year was over, he made three good starts at AAA. Because of Gibson's rapid rise through the Twins orgaization without any problems, both BA and BP had him in their top 100 prospects list before 2011. BA also named him the #1 prospect in the Twins organization. He started 2011 in AAA, and pitched solidly in 15 starts, then had three very bad starts at AAA, and in late July, they put him on the IL with a tear in his UCL. He tried the rest and rehab approach, but it didn't work and he had the inevitable TJ surgery that wiped out the rest of 2011, and the first half of 2012 as well.
He started rehabbing in July of 2012, with 9 short appearances in rookie-ball, they moved him to AA for 2 short starts, then to AAA for 2 short starts. After the season, they sent him to participate in the Arizona Fall League and he made 6 more starts there, hoping to get him ready for 2013. On sheer health and speculation, all three top prospects list had him in their top 100 before the 2013 season. He started 2013 in AAA, and made 15 strong starts, with an ERA just over 3.00 and averaging over 6 innings per start. The Twins called him to the majors for the first time in late June, and he was very bad in 10 starts, 2-4 with a 6.53 ERA and just 29 K's in 51+ innings. They sent him back to AAA to make two starts to finish that season. He was in the rotation the whole way in 2014, and did OK, going 13-12 with a 4.47 ERA. He broke through as a solid rotation starter in 2015, 11-11 with a 3.84 ERA. He got off to an OK start in 2016, but after a terrible beating in his 4th start, the Twins put him on the IL with a shoulder strain. He sat out for a month, came back with 2 rehab starts at high A and one more in AAA, and the Twins brought him back to the majors, but his season was crippled. He made 21 starts, and was 6-8 with a 4.90 ERA after his return. Gibson started 2017 in the rotation, but after 6 starts, he was 0-4 with an 8.20 ERA and the Twins optioned him back to AAA. He made two good starts there, and they called him back up, and he pitched better, but just slightly, going 6-4 with a 5.27 ERA in 12 starts. They had a stretch where days off didn't require a 5th starter, so they sent him back to AAA for one start, then brought him back for the rest of the season, and he was very good, 6-2 in 11 starts with a 3.56 ERA. He was 12-10 on the season with an ERA of 5.07. He carried that good pitching over to 2018, his 2nd good season, going 10-13, but with a 3.62 ERA, the lowest of his career to this point. He fell back again in 2019, again losing his spot in the rotation for a few weeks, and was 13-7 with a 4.84 ERA in 29 starts adn 5 relief appearances. Rather than let Gibson go to arbitration in his final season of team control, they simply let him walk, and he signed with Texas, a 3-year deal for 2020-2.
He was in the Rangers rotation for all of the COVID season, but pitched poorly again, going 2-6 with a 5.35 ERA in 12 starts. He was in the rotation to start 2021 as well, and got off to the best start of his career. After 19 games, he was 6-3 with a 2.83 ERA. With his contract eating a hole in their team payroll and the Rangers 30 games under and way out of contention nearing the deadline, the Rangers sent Gibson, ex-Yankee Ian Kennedy (at that point the Rangers' closer) and a 3rd pitcher for a package of three prospects headed by elite pitching prospect Spencer Howard. Howard, whom the Yankees picked up for a month in August of last season, never got anywhere with his career, and has bounced from the Giants to the Guardians and back to the Giants AAA team where he is at the moment. Gibson pitched poorly for the Phils down the stretch, going 4-6 with a 5.09 ERA. They kept him for the last year of his three-year deal, and the relatively cheap 3rd year (7.67 million) cost them, but he had another bad season, going 10-8 with a 5.05 ERA. In the post-season run, the Phils sent him to the pen, where he pitched one low-leverage inning in both the NLCS and the World Series. The Phils let him go free agent and he bounced to another team on the rise, the Orioles. He piled up a good record with the suprise division winners, going 15-10, and he soaked up innings, but he pitched no better than usual, a 4.73 ERA, leading the AL in hits allowed. The O's were not terribly impressed and let him go free agent as well.
Gibson signed with the Cards for 2024, and has been his usual mediocre self. He's 7-6 with a 4.54 ERA. In 25 starts, he's pitched 140 2/3 innings, allowing 138 hits, 76 runs, 71 earned, 19 HR, 56 BB and struck out 128. His WHIP for the season is a sub-par 1.379. Of the 31 ERA-title qualified NL starters, Gibson has the 4th-worst WHIP, the 8th-worst H/9 innings, the 3rd worst BB/9, and the 4th-worst K/BB ratio. He got off to a good start, and after 14 starts, was 5-2 with a 3.44 ERA, but has been hit hard since them: 2-4 in his last 11 starts with an ERA over 6.00. Recently, he's alternately good then bad starts in his last 6 games, but the bad has outweighed the good, and not by a little. He hasn't won a game in 8 starts, and his ERA in the last 6 is 6.40. His last start was a beating at the hands of the Padres, so I guess he's due for a good one today. Unlike Fedde, Gibson has an extensive record against the Yanks, and most of it terrible. This is his 13th career start against the Yanks; he's 2-7 with a 5.94 ERA against them. In 63 2/3 innings, he's allowed 62 hits, 47 rund, 42 earned, 6 HR, 33 BB and struck out 43. His WHIP against the Yanks is almost 1.500, and their team quadruple slash line against him is .264/.361/.409/.770. He made two starts agains the Yanks last season, both at the Stadium. He shut them out for 7 innings on 2 hits and 4 BB in a 3-1 O's win in late May, and when he faced them again on Independence Day, the Yankee Doodles stuck him in their hats and called him, well, not "macaroni", but "loser", getting to him for 4 runs in 6 innings on 3 hits, 4 BB and a HR in and 8-4 Yankees win.
Repertoire: Gibson is a 6-pitch kitchen sink righty, throwing 4-seam, sinker, sweeper, cutter, change and curve, none of them more than 28% of the time. The sinker gets more sink and slightly less tail in on righties than avereage. The sweeper gets more sink but less break inside on lefties than average. The cutter gets more drop and less jamming break on lefties than average. The 4-seam gets less rise and considerably less run in on righties. The change has average drop and less than average tail. The curve gets average drop and considerably less break away from righties than average, but it's not 12-to-6, either. In run values, the only plus pitches for the change and sinker, the sweeper and cutter are small minuses, the 4-seam is a decent-sized minus, and the curve is a sizeable minus. The FB velocity and spin are both bottom 20% in MLB, the curve spin is bottom 25%. He's always had excellent extension; this season, he's almost top 10% in MLB.
His average exit velocity is pretty much major league average, but the barrel and hard hit rates are somewhat above average, the line drive rate is slightly high, the grounder rate is above average, the flyball rate is below average and the popup rate is average. The swinging strike rate is slightly below average, the called strike rate is slightly above and his CSW is dead-on average. His BABIP is a bit high, the Strand rate is a bit low, the HR/FB rate is slightly below average, and his ERA estimators think his ERA should be right about where it is. His pitch mix this season: Sinker averaging 91 about 27% of the time, sweeper 81 about 22%, cutter 89 about 21%, 4-seam averaging 91-2 about 12%, change 85 about 9%, and curve 78 also about 9%.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 31, 2024 11:34:20 GMT -5
Playing the Name Game: We've hit the first name Kyle before, multiple times this season, Bradish, Freeland, Ky Bush, the rookie lefty who somewhat stymied the Yanks for the Tigers. The best pitchers are Hendricks, Gibson, Freeland and Finnegan, Hendricks had the most bWAR, Kyle Harrison of the Giants has the potential to pass them all. On the hittig side, it's Kyle Schwarber and Kyle Seager, though Kyle Tucker of the Astros should take over as the best Kyle ever in MLB in about 3 years from now.
Ahh, but Gibson, now there's another story. Not many in MLB history, just 16, but what Gibsons they are! The best major league hitter was Kirk Gibson, the former football star who decided to make his living playing baseball because it was "safer", but he played with such reckless abandon that he kept getting hurt anyway. He was a driving force on two title teams in the 1980s, the 1984 Tigers that started 35-5 and ran and hid from everybody in the East, then demolished the Royals in the ALCS and the Padres in their 1st World Series. That win made Sparky Anderson the first manager to win titles managing teams from both leagues, he'd later be joined by Tony LaRussa and Bruce Bochy. Then Kirk was the leader of the 1988 Dodgers team that upset first a great Mets team in the NLCS and the Bash Brothers A's. Gibson was the driving force, but Orel Hershiser was the man who carried the biggest load. Gibson hit the series-changing 2-run walkoff HR off of Dennis Eckersley with 2 outs in the 9th inning of Game 1, turning the series immediately, and he did it essentially on no legs, having hurt his left hamstring stealing 2nd base in game 5 of the NLCS, then injuring his right knee sliding into 2nd in game 7. So herioc was this feat, it led to one of the great radio gamecalls of all time. Jack Buch, doing the play by play for CBS national radio...
"But, we have a big 3–2 pitch coming here from Eckersley. Gibson
swings, and a fly ball to deep right field! THIS IS GONNA BE A
HOME RUN! UNBELIEVABLE!! A home run for Gibson!
And the Dodgers have won the game, five to four;
I don't believe what I just saw!! "
The A's never recovered. Though they eked out a 2-1 win in Game 3, the were never really in the series again. Hershiser shut them out in Game 2, and shut them down on 4 hits in a complete game win in the series-clinching game 5, and won the MVP, but I don't think that's the way it would've happened if Gibson doesn't hit that HR of Eckersley, the A's great closer in the first game. Gibson won the NL MVP Award that season, one of four in which he got MVP votes. In his 17-year career, he hit over 250 home runs, stole over 280 bases, scored nearly 1000 runs, had over 1500 hits, knocked in 870, and NEVER made an All-Star team, AL or NL. Isn't that unbelievable? If you look at 1985, his best year, the public voted in Henderson, Rice and Winfield, but the backups included Tom Brunansky and Gary Ward, both of the Twins, and not Gibson. SMDH.
Is Kirk Gibson a Hall of Famer? Only if you allow the lowest common denominator selections into the Hall, i.e., was he a Famous player in his time? Yes, he was, certainly; you couldn't write a comprehensive history of baseball in the 1980s without mentioning him, he hit one of the most famous home runs in MLB history. But he's 62nd among rightfielders lifetime on the JAWS system, passes none of the four James measuring tools, and none of his stat comps are in the Hall or are likely to ever go in, including guys like Jayson Werth, Ben Oglivie and Ray Lankford and yes, Eric Davis. None of them are Hall of Famers, and neither is Kirk.
That brings us to the best pitcher Gibson, the immortal Robert "Bob" Gibson. First the pitcher, despite suffering ricketts and respiratory disease and despite having eyesight so poor he had to wear thick glasses, Gibson also developed a heart murmur as a teenager. His father had died of Tuberculosis 3 months before he was born. Despite his afflictions, in high school he was a great enough athlets to be a track and basketball star as well as a baseball start. He played basketball at Creighton after Indiana University turned him down due to a "Negro quota" on their men's team. Apparently, the Harlem Globetrotters approached him to join them, and he did for a year, but first, he signed with the Cards, and delayed joining them for 1 year to tour the country with the Globetrotters. He mostly pitched well in the minors, making the majors in 1959 at age 21, and gave up a home run to the first batter he faced, a very obscure 3rd baseman named Jim Baxes, who played just the 1959 season with the Dodgers (for whom he was playing when he HRed off Gibson) and for the Indians.
Gibson struggled in 1960, going 3-6 with a 5.61 ERA, but broke through as a solid starter, and over the next 3 seasons, he 46-34 with a 3.16 ERA, making the All-Star team for the 1st time in 1962. In that 1963 season, MLB raised the mound 5 inches and enlarged the top and bottom of the strike zone, giving fastball pitchers, especially fastball pitchers, an enormous advantage over the hitters. Gibson had both a 95 mph FB and a hard sinker, but his deadliest pitch was a wipeout slider. He took full advantage of the changes, as did other great pitchers like Koufax, Marichal, Drysdale and Bunning. The Cards had been building slowly against the other tough teams in the NL in that period, the Giants, the Dodgers, the Pirataes, and they broke through as a team and Gibson broke through as a champion. In 1964, he got MVP votes for going 19-13 with a 3.01 ERA, and in the World Series against the last gasp of the Old Yankee Dynasty, he was outdueled by sinkerballer Mel Stottlemyre in game 2, but he outlasted him in game 5, and when both came back on two days rest in game 7, the Cards got to Stottlemyre for 3 run rallies in the 4th and 5th, knocking him out. Mickey got Gibson for a 3 run shot in the 6th to make a game out of it, the Cards got one of those back in the 7th, and Gibson, though he tired in the 9th giving up solo HR to Boyer and Linz, got Bobby Richardson to popup to Dal Maxvill and the Cards had their first title in 18 years, the Yankees, their last pennant and World Series for the next 12 years.
That World Series began a run of dominance in the World Series unmatched before or since. The wins in game 5 and 7 were the first two of 7 wins in a row in the World Series for Gibson, all of them complete games, 2 of them shutouts. The Dodgers won the pennant in 1965 and 1966 behind Koufax and Drysdale, winning it all in 65, but the Cards built up again, and aided a bit by aging ex-Yankee Roger Maris, won the pennant in 1967 and got back to the Series. In that Series, the Red Sox moved their ace, Cy Young winner Jim Lonborg, to game 2 because they had needed him to wrap up the AL pennant on the last day of the season against the Twins, so Gibson outdueled the Sox' #2 starter Jose Santiago in game one and shut out the Sox and beat Santiago again in game 4. Meanwhile, Lonborg won games 2 and 5, nearly throwing a no-hitter until secondbaseman Julian Javier broke it up with 2 outs in the 8th with a double. The teams were tied 3-3, but the Cards had the advantage for game 7: Gibson was on 3 days' rest, Lonborg, just 2, and it showed. The Cards piled up 7 runs on Lonborg in 6 innings, and the Sox got just 2 off Gibson, who threw a 10-K 3-hitter for his 2nd ring, becoming the 11th pitcher to win 3 in a Series. In 1968 Gibson had perhaps the greatest season by a pitcher in modern times, winning 20 games, 13 of them by shutout, the lowest ERA in the modern ERA, 1.12, 28 complete games, over 300 innings, leading the NL in K's, WHIP and hits per 9 innings as well, he unanimously won his first of two Cy Young Awards, as well as the MVP Award for the first and only time. In the World Series, he pitched perhaps the most dominant game in Series history in game 1, striking out a record 17 Tiger batters, getting every man in the lineup at least once. The Tigers who played that day agreed they had no chance against Gibson so overpowering was his stuff. Pefhaps the most amazing thing was that the Tigers got 5 hits off him. The Tigers had their own ace, Denny McLain, who won 31 games that season, the last pitcher in MLB history to win 30 in a season, and the way trends are going, the last pitcher who'll ever win 30. Unlike the Red Sox the year before, the Tigers won by enough to set up their rotation ahead of time, and they matched McLain in both game 1 and game 4, and Gibson smoked him both times, 4-0 and 10-1. At that point Gibson had won 7 straight World series games, all of them complete games. But Mickey Lolich, their lefty and #2 starter, kept the Tigers in the series by beating the Cards #2, Nelson Briles, in game 2 and game 5. Gibson's 2nd victory put the Cards up 3-1 and with Gibson pitching again no later than game 7, it seemed sure that the Cards would win back-to-back titles and their 3rd in 5 seasons. But Lolich took game 5, and were able to bring back McLain back on two days' rest in game 6 because he had been knocked out in the 3rd in game 4. Buoyed by not having to face Gibson and a monster 10-run rally in the 3rd that blew it open, McLain went all the way to even the series. Game 7 was a battle of contrasts, the lean, mean righty Gibson, and the chunky but hard throwing lefty Lolich, and for once, Gibson was outdueled. Lolich matched zeroes with Gibson for 6 inings, then outfielder Jim Northrup broke through with a 2-run triple, and catcher Bill Freehan added a RBI double, and the Tigers had conquered the master. Both teams added runs in the 9th, and the Tigers were champs. Gibson's perfect season; but ruined by his Game 7 loss.
Gibson pitched brilliantly for the Cards for four more seasons, winning a 2nd Cy Young in 1970, but the Cards never got back to the series. He started to have knee problems and began declining at age 38 in 1974, and his knee went on him and he was finished a year later. Gibson was a great athlete and one of the fiercest competitors ever seen on a diamond. A great pitcher? Obviously. But he was also a great fielder, winning 9 Gold Gloves, and he was even a great hitter, as pitchers go. In essentially 2 full seasons worth of at bats, he hit 44 doubles and 24 HR, scored 132 runs and knocked in 144, and had a lifetime BAVG of .208. Doesn't sound like much today, but in the low-offense 1960's and early 1970's that was a ton of hitting by a pitcher. He was feared by hitters, constantly working his fastball inside so he had the outside corner open to use, knocking them down, brushing them back. Don Drysdale hit more batters, but Gibson was the one that all the hitters feared. And if you didn't like it, too bad. Nobody charged his mound; in addition to all his other athletic feats, he was an outstanding boxer, and his reputation made him ussailable. I wonder how hitters would've felt if they knew his vision was so poor that he used heavy glasses, and that his catcher McCarver painted his fingernails white so Gibson could see his signals. They might never have gotten in the batter's box.
After he retired, the Cards offered him a job; he didn't take it, so they never offered it to him again. His old teammate Joe Torre (yes, that Joe Torre) made Gibson his pitching coach with the Braves, the Mets and the Cards, but not with the Yankees. He owned a restaurant, served on the board of directors of a local bank, even hosted a pre- and post-game radio show for Cards games for 5 seasons. In 1990, he served as an analyst of baseball games for the then relatively new ESPN. In his career, Gibson was 251-175, struck out over 3000 batters, retired with an ERA of 2.91. He won an MVP, two Cy Youngs, and all those Gold Gloves. And he won two rings and those 7 World Series games in a row, when the Series was the entire playoffs; he made 8 All-Star teams. He's top 50 all-time in bWAR for both pitchers and players as a whole, wins, and innings pitched, top 20 in career strikeouts. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, 1981. He's been name in several lists of the top 100 players in basebal history. He was an indelible player of my childhood, never to be forgotten.
And that gets us to perhaps not only the greatest Gibson ever, but maybe the greatest baseball player ever: Negro League catcher Josh Gibson...no, no, that one will have to wait for another day, perhaps if the Yanks ever faced a starter named Josh. This Name Game is already way too long.
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Post by ypaterson on Aug 31, 2024 11:35:43 GMT -5
out of town so didn't see yesterday's win - the stroman & wells show. gonna miss most of the games this week. surprising day after nite game but good to see wells in there again. w righties pitching think wells will get more reps as the balance of ABs has shifted in his direction. also happy to see cabrera at 1B though he hasn't had many games there. definitely the best bat out of the 3 choices. thinking rice gets swapped out for dominguez tomorrow. Rice will go down when Rizzo comes back. That will be the swap. They can expand roster 9/1 and add one position player and one pitcher. Dominquez should be the add on but they also have Berti in the wings. Honestly if Dominquez comes up Grisham is expendible but that makes too much sense. There will be some necessary roster juggling coming up. I think Grisham goes even if Dominguez does not get the call. The Yankees have Chisholm to play center and once Bert is back I am not confident they want Jazz at 3rd in big games. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 31, 2024 11:41:39 GMT -5
The Yanks send rookie Will Warren out to face Gibson, making his fifth major league start. To say the first four haven't gone well is an understatement. I still think Warren has the stuff to be a #4 starter, but his command of it isn't close to good enough to make his pitches work, at least not yet. So far, Warren is 0-2 with a 9.68 ERA. In 17 2/3 innings, he's allowed 26 hits, 20 runs, 19 earned, 3 HR and 6 BB, with 23 K's. His WHIP is a brutal 1.811. He's never started against the Cards before. The Yanks better play on getting some serious runs off of Gibson if they want to make a game of it today.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 31, 2024 11:42:11 GMT -5
Yankees' lineup vs. Gibson:
1. Torres (2B) is 3-14 with 1 HR 3 RBI, 1 BB and 2 K
2. Soto (RF) is 1-3 with 1 RBI
3. Judge (CF) is 1-7 with 2 BB, 3 K and 1 GIDP
4. Wells (C) has never faced Gibson
5. Chisholm (3B) is 3-11 with 1 double, 1 triple, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1 BB and 3 K
6. Volpe (SS) is 0-6 with 2 K
7. Grisham is 3-12 with 1 double, 1 BB and 2 K
8. Verdugo (LF) is 2-8 with 1 double, 1 triple, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 2 K and 2 GIDP
9. Cabrera (1B) is 0-5
On the bench: ; pitcher Stroman is 0-2 with 2 K, Stanton (DH) is 1-8 with 1 RBI and 3 KRice (1B) has never faced GibsonTrevino (C) is 0-1 with 1 BB
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Cards lineup vs. Warren: He's never faced them and none of them have faced him, so here's their lineup.
1. Wynn (SS)
2. Burleson (DH)
3. Arenado (3B)
4. Donovan (2B)
5. Goldschmidt (1B)
6. Nootbaar (LF)
7. Herrera (C)
8. Walker (RF)
9. Scott (CF)
On the bench: None
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 31, 2024 11:42:51 GMT -5
Yesterday, the Yanks got 7 strong innings from Marcus Stroman, and two 2-run HR from his batterymate Austin Wells, and that was enough to beat the Cards, 6-3. Volpe got the Yanks 1st run home with a sac fly in the 2nd, and Soto knocked in the 2nd run with a double before Wells' 1st 2-run shot. Stroman gave up 2 runs on 9 hits, walking none and striking out five and got the win, improving to 10-6 on the season. Eric Fedde gave up the first four runs in 5 1/3, taking the loss, dropping to 8-8 on the season and 1-4 since coming to the Cards at the trade deadline. Clay Homes got victimized by a Volpe boot to start the 9th, but got a DP ball and a fliner to Verdugo to end it for his 29th save.
The win move the Yanks back to 23 games over .500 at 79-56 with 27 left to play.
In other AL East games...The Red Sox got solo runs in the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 6th to build a 4-0 lead in Detroit, but the Tigers rallied with 3 in the 8th on a 3-run shot by Kerry Carpenter, and tied it in the 9th on a RBI double by Jake Rogers. The Sox then struck back for 3 in the 10th on a 2-run HR by Cedanne Rafaela and a solo HR by Jarren Duran to take a 7-4 lead, the Tigers got the ghost-runner home on a fly to deep right and a RBI groundout, but that was it: Sox win 7-5. Kenley Jansen got himself a vulture win by blowing the save in the 9th, improving to 4-2 on the year; he was the pitcher of record when the Sox scored the 3 in the 10th. Chris Martin gave up the unearned ghost run and got his 2nd save. Shelby Miller started the 10th and gave up the HR to Rafaela, taking the loss to drop to 6-8 on the season.
The Padres jumped all over Taj Bradley for 3 in the first and 4 in the 2nd, and while the Rays made a fight of it for awhile by getting 4 of their own in the bottom of the 2nd, San Diego got 1 in the 3rd, 2 in the 4th, and ended all thought of a comeback with 3 in the 9th, pounding Tampa, 13-5 at the YechhDome™. Machado had 3 hits, a HR, scoring 2 and driving in 4 for San Diego, Peralta and Bogaerts also HRed for the Pads. Martin Perez struggled, but made it through 5 innings after giving up the 4 runs in the 2nd, getting the win and moving his record to 4-5. Bradley's beating was his 6th awful game in a row after, all but wiping out the memory of that white hot run of 9 starts he had early June through late July, he's now 6-9 on the year with a 4.35 ERA, one wondeers if he's hiding an injury.
In Minnesota, Pablo Lopez outdueled Kevin Gausman for a 2-0 Twins win. Lopez pitched 7 2/3 innings of 6 hit shutout ball for the win, getting to 13-8 on the season. Gausman gave up 2 in 5 2/3, taking his 10th loss against 12 wius. Jhoan Duran pitched the 9th for his 19th save. The 2 runs scored in the 5th on a RBI single by Carlos Santana and a sac fly by Willi Castro.
At Coors Field, the O's took an early 1-0 lead on a RBI single by Rivera, but the Rockies struck back for 2 in the 3rd on RBI singles by Tovar and Doyle to take a 2-1 lead. The O's got those two back right away in the 4th when Rivera hit a 2-run HR, and put it away with 2 in the 9th on a RBI triple by Holliday and a throwing error by reliever Chivilli. Rodgers HR in the bottom of the 9th off of Dominguez was just for show, and didn't prevent his 8th save for Baltimore and 9th of the season. Albert Suarez made it through 7 innings, allowing just the 2 runs, he improves to 7-4 on the year. Austin Gomber gave up the first three runs in six innings, taking the loss, dropping to 4-10.
Coming into the games today, the Yanks lead over the O's is still 1 1/2 games, the Sox are still 9 games back in 3rd, the Rays drop to 12 1/2 back in 4th and the Jays lose a game to fall back to 14 games behind, but still in 5th.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 31, 2024 11:43:18 GMT -5
In other East games today: in the 2nd game in Tampa at 4:10 pm, Randy Vasquez (4-6, 4.22 ERA) starts for San Diego, Shane Baz (1-2, 3.48 ERA) throws for Tampa. At 6;10 pm in Detroit, the Sox and Tigers play their middle game; Nick Pivetta (5-9, 4.61 ERA) starts for Boston, Tigers' ace and Cy Young candidate Tarik Skubal (15-4, 2.58) gets the start. At 7:10 pm in Minneapolis, the Jays and Twins play their 2nd game. Jose Berrios (13-9, 3.72) starts for Toronto; rookie righty Zebby Mathews makes his 4th major league start for the Twins; he's 1-1 with a 3.00 ERA. And at 8:10 pm in Coors Field, the O's and Rockies play their middle game. Dean Kremer (6-9, 4.31 ERA) goes for Baltimore; Ryan Feltner (1-10, 4.95 ERA) starts for Colorado.
And at 1:07 pm, it's Gibson vs. Warren.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 31, 2024 11:44:09 GMT -5
Now comes The Saturday Leaders™ for August 31st.
Among AL hitters....Aaron Judge leads the AL in bWAR at 9.17Bobby Witt, Jr. of the Royals is 2nd 8.7. Jarren Duran of the Red Sox has hit a bunch of HRs lately and has moved into 3rd at 8.5 Juan Soto is 4th at 7.4.
Witt leads the AL in BAVG at .341, Judge is 2nd at .331, Vlad Guerrero of the Jays is 3rd at .321, and Juan Soto has dropped just to 9th at .293. In between are Yordan Alvarez of the Astros at .312, Steven Kwan of the Guardians at .303 Yanier Diaz and Jose Altuve of the Astros at .299 and .298, resprectively, and Duran at .295.
Judge still leads in OBA at .464, Soto is 2nd at .422, and Alvarez is 3rd at .399.
Judge still leads in slugging at .725; Witt is 2nd at .609 and Soto is 3rd at .592.
Obviously, Judge still leads in OPS at 1.188, and Soto is still 2nd at 1.013, but Witt is now a close 3rd at 1.002.
Witt is first in games played with 136. Anthony Volpe is tied for 3rd at 134 with Henderson, Guerrero is now 2nd at 135. Judge is in a 5-way tie for 5th at 133 with Marcus Semien of the Rangers, Jarren Duran of the Red, Sal Perez of the Royals, and Willi Castro of the Twins. Juan Soto has dropped out of the top 10.
Jarren Duran or the Red Sox leads in plate appeances with 616; Henderson is 2nd with 605. Soto is tied for 3rd with Witt and Semien at 600, and Judge and Volpe are tied for 6th with 594.
Durran has leads in at bats at 559. Volpe is still 2nd at 548.
Witt leads in runs scored with 115, Soto is 2nd at 109, and Judge is 3rd at 104, with Henderson in 4th at 102.
Witt still leads in hits with 185, Guerrero is 2nd at 167, Duran is 3rd at 165. Altuve is 4th at 160. Judge is 5th at 156. Soto is 10th with 142 hits; in between are Alvarez (147), Henderson (146), Diaz (145) and Jose Ramirez of the Guardians (143).
Judge's white hot streak is over an while he still leads in total bases at 342, Witt is now just 12 behind.. Judge is now on pace for 410. Duran is 3rd at 298, Guerrero is 4th at 288, and Soto is 5th at287.
Duran leads in doubles at 44. Judge is tied for 6th with Ramirez at 31 doubles. In between are Witt at 39, Guerrero at 38, Bleday at 36, and Rafael Devers of the Red Sox with 33.
Duran still leads in triples at 13, and Witt is still 2nd with 11. Volpe is still 3rd with 7, and still tied with Kyle Isbel of the Royals and Daulton Varsho of the Jays.
Judge still leads in HR with 51, and Anthony Santander of the O's is 2nd at 38. Soto is 3rd at 37. There are 3 hits who are 4 HR behind Soto, including Henderson, Ramirez and Brent Rooker of the A's.
Judge still leads in RBI with 123, Jose Ramirez of the Guardians is now 19 behind at 104; he's still the only other AL player with more than 100. Josh Naylor of the Guardians had a big week, he's 3rd at 98, Vinnie Pasquantino of the Royals is 4th with 97, Soto is 5th with 96.
Zack Gelof of the A's leads in batter K's with 152, Cal Raleigh of the M's is 2nd with 149. Judge is tied for 5th at 141 with Adolis Garcia of the Rangers.. Jose Siri of the Rays and Rooker are tied for 3rd-4th with 143.
Judge and Soto are still way out front, 1-2 in walks with 110 and 109. Henderson is a distant 3rd at 66.
Jose Caballero of the Rays still leads in steals with 37, 3 ahead of Ramirez. Volpe is in a 4-way tie for 8th with Gimenez of the Guardians, Blanco of the Royals and Neto of the Angels, all with 25. In between is Hamilton of the Red Sox and Garcia of the Royals with 33, Duran with 32, and Witt and Moore of the Mariners with 27.
Vinnie Pasquantino leads with 13 sac flies Verdugo is 2nd at 10. Gleyber Torres is in a 4-way tie for 5th with Diaz, Adley Rutschman of the O's, and Witt at 7. Alejandro Kirk of the Jays is now by himself in 3rd with 9.Austin Wells is a 5-way tie for 9th with teammate DJ LeMahieu, Pena of the Astos, Gimenez and Schnauel of the Angels.
Tyler Freeman of the Guardians leads in HBP with 19, 1 ahead Randy Arozarena of the Mariners.
Diaz and Judge are tied for the AL lead in GIDP with 20. Giancarlo Stanton is back on the "leader' board, tied for 9th at 13 with 4 other players, and does anyone really care who they are or who 6 players between them and the leaders are?
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 31, 2024 11:44:42 GMT -5
In the NL:
Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers leads the NL in bWAR at 693. Francisco Lindor of the Mets has moved just ahead of Ketel Marte of the D'backs into 2nd, both at 5.9.
Marcell Ozuna of the Braves still leads in BAVG at .309. Arraez is still 2nd at .307
Jurickson Profar of the Padres had taken back the lead in OBA at .384. Ozuna is 2nd at .382
Ohtani's still leads in slugging at .620, Ozuna is 2nd at .581.
Ohtani leads in OPS at 0.999, Ozuna is 2nd at 0.962
Pete Alonso and Francisco Lindor of the Mets two of the 7th players tied for the NL lead in games at 135. The other five are Willie Adames, Matt Olson and Ozuna, Nick Castellanos and Profar.
Lindor leads in PA at 616, Ohtani is 2nd at 605.
Lindor leads in at bats at 553; 4 ahead of Ezequiel Tovar of the Rockies
Arraez still leads in hits with 166, 9 ahead of Ozuna.
Ohtani still leads in runs scored with 106, Corbin Carroll of the D'backs is still 2nd at 98.
Ozuna leads in RBI with 98, Ohtani is 2nd with 96.
Ohtani still leads in total bases with 325, 30 ahead of Ozuna.
Alex Bohm of the Phillies continues to leads all of MLB in doubles with 44, Tovar is 2nd in the NL, but now just 4 behind.
Corbin Caroll of the D'backs still leads in triples at 12, Mike Yastrzemski of the Giants is 2nd at 9.
Ohtani has still leads in HR with 43, now 6 ahead of Ozuna .
Kyle Schwarber of the Phillies still leads in BB with 93, Ian Happ of the Cubs has jumped over Ohtani into 2nd with 70, Ohtani has 69, as does Brandon Nimmo of the Mets.
De La Cruz of the Reds continues to be way out front with 61 stealsbut Ohtani has jumped into 2nd with 43. De La Cruz still leads in K's with 173. Tovar is 2nd with 169.
Profar now leads in HBP with 16. C.J. Abrams of the Nats is tied for 2nd with Joe Pederson of the D'backs at 15.
Marte still leads the NL in sac flies with 9, but he's now tied with teammate Eugenio Suarez.
Manny Machado of the leads the NL and all of MLB with 25 GIDP, Josh Bell of the D'backs is 2nd with 21.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 31, 2024 11:45:07 GMT -5
Among AL pitchers:
Tairk Skubal of the Tigers now leads in pitcher bWAR at 5.4, Eric Fedde is still 2nd at 5.0, and he's still with the Cards, and it doesn't look like anyone else in the AL is going to take 2nd away from him.
Skubal leads in ERA is 2.58. Logan Gilbert of the M's is 2nd at 3.09.
Skubal is leads in wins with 15. Caros Rodon is tied with Seth Lugo of the Royals for 2nd with 14. Grayson Rodiguez of the O's and Framber Valdez of the Astros are still tied for 3rd with 13, together with Jose Berrios of the Jays and Framber Valdez of the Astros. Luis Gil is tied for 8th with 12, along with Corbin Burnes of the O's and Bailey Ober of the Twins, Brayan Bello of the Red Sox, and Kevin Gausman of the Jays.
Brayan Abreu of the Astros leads in games pitched with 67. Hunter Gaddis of the Guardians is 2nd with 65.
Four pitchers are tied for the league lead in starts, Luis Castillo, Kutter Crawford, George Kirby and Seth Lugo all have 28. Nestor Cortes and Rodon are two of the 14 pitchers tied for 2nd with 28. No one cares who the other 12 are.
Kevin Gausman of the Jays is still the only AL pitcher with 2 complete games; 8 others are tied for 2nd with 1. Gausman is one of four pitchers in the league with a shutout; the other three are Joey Estes of the A's, Ronel Blanco of the Astros, and Tanner Houck of the Red Sox.
Lugo leads in innings pitched at 179. Logan Gilbert of the Mariners in 2nd at 171 1/3.
Skubal leads in K's with 193. Cole Ragans of the Royals is 6 behind.
Skubal has regained the lead in K/9 innings at 10.83, Ragans is 2nd at 10.77.
Logan Gilbert leads in WHIP at 0.903, Skubal is 2nd at 0.954.
Ronel Blanco is back in first with just 6.15 hits per 9 innings. Gilbert is 2nd at 6.501. Luis Gil would be 2nd at 6.0, but he's no longer near having enough innings to qualify.
Zack Eflin of the O's leads in BB/9 at 1.00; George Kirby of the M's is 2nd at 1.17
Eflin has passed Kirby for 1st in K/BB ratio at 7.47, Kirby is 2nd and 7.23. Nesotr Cortes is 7th at 4.58. Joe Ryan, Skubal, Gilbert, and Pablo Lopez are in between Eflin and Nestor.
Tanner Houck of the Red Sox still leads in fewest HR per 9 innings at 0.55. Valdez is 2nd at 0.66. Skubal is 3rd at 0.73.
Gil leads the league in walks allowed at 66. Marcus Stroman is tied for 4th at 57, together with Spencer Arrighetti, Chris Bassitt and Ronel Blanco. . In between are Anderson at 62, and Michael Lorenzen of the Royals at 58.
Emmanuel Clase of the Guardians still leads in saves with 40. Josh Hader of the Astros is tied with Clay Holmes for 2nd at 29.
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