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Post by kaybli on Sept 19, 2024 13:16:04 GMT -5
Lineup:
1. 🇻🇪
2. 👶
3. 👨⚖️
4. 🎷
5. 💪
6. 👽
7. 🐀
8. Trevino
9. 🦊
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Post by ill636 on Sept 19, 2024 13:24:30 GMT -5
Lineup: 1. 🇻🇪 2. 👶 3. 👨⚖️ 4. 🎷 5. 💪 6. 👽 7. 🐀 8. Trevino 9. 🦊 I like this but it’s too sophisticated for me to understand 🤔 |
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Post by chiyankee on Sept 19, 2024 13:28:07 GMT -5
I hope Schmidt wasn't partying up too much yesterday. This is a big start for him.
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Post by kaybli on Sept 19, 2024 13:28:13 GMT -5
Lineup: 1. 🇻🇪 2. 👶 3. 👨⚖️ 4. 🎷 5. 💪 6. 👽 7. 🐀 8. Trevino 9. 🦊 I like this but it’s too sophisticated for me to understand 🤔 lol
Venezuelan Flag = Gleyber Baby = Childish Bambino = Soto Judge = Judge Saxophone = Jazz Muscle = Stanton Martian = Dominguez Rat = Rizzo Trevino = Trevino Fox = Volpe
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Post by JEGnj on Sept 19, 2024 13:32:26 GMT -5
Looking forward to an afternoon game followed up by an AFC East match-up which I want both teams to lose.
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Post by chiyankee on Sept 19, 2024 13:32:26 GMT -5
I like this but it’s too sophisticated for me to understand 🤔 lol
Venezuelan Flag = Gleyber Baby = Childish Bambino = Soto Judge = Judge Saxophone = Jazz Muscle = Stanton Martian = Dominguez Rat = Rizzo Trevino = Trevino Fox = Volpe
I'm still not getting the #8 guy.  |
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Post by kaybli on Sept 19, 2024 13:39:38 GMT -5
lol
Venezuelan Flag = Gleyber Baby = Childish Bambino = Soto Judge = Judge Saxophone = Jazz Muscle = Stanton Martian = Dominguez Rat = Rizzo Trevino = Trevino Fox = Volpe
I'm still not getting the #8 guy. lol I could have gone with 🇲🇽 for Trevino with his Mexican heritage but technically he was born in Texas. Notable bench/IL players include: 👨: Wells 🐶: Verdugo 🤖: DJ |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 19, 2024 14:13:15 GMT -5
I'm still not getting the #8 guy. lol I could have gone with 🇲🇽 for Trevino with his Mexican heritage but technically he was born in Texas. Notable bench/IL players include: 👨: Wells 🐶: Verdugo 🤖: DJ Just a thought; you might want to use a golfer icon for Trevino, in honor of Lee Trevino, the famous golfer who was rival of Jack Nicklaus on the PGA tour in the 60s, 70s and early 80s. He won six major championships and 29 PGA titles, and is in the World Golf Hall of Fame. If that's too direct, you can use a Mexican flag, because Lee Trevino adopted the nicknames "SuperMex" and "The Merry Mex" for himself. I know Jose was born in Texas, but so was Lee and he was proud of his Mexican heritage, and that he was a trailblazer for Latinos and people of Mexican descent in professional golf. 23 and Me names 5 cities in Mexico as the most frequent points of common ancestry for people named Trevino, if that helps. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 19, 2024 14:13:51 GMT -5
In desperation over their fading playoff chances (Monte Carlo simulation odds of the Mariners making the playoffs are at 3.1% today compared with 72% for the Twins and 36% for the Tigers) after losing 2 straight to the Yanks while the Tigers were sweeping the Royals, the Mariners have come off starting rookie righty Emerson Hancock, and instead turn to one of their five aces, tall righty Logan Gilbert. He started the first game of the 4-game series in the Bronx in May, so there’s no need to review his career. Since that start on May 20th, he’s pitched well, but hasn’t won many games. A lot of it is a lack of run support; the M’s scored just 3.4 runs per game in those 20, and 2.9 runs per 9 innings while was pitching. Gilbert is 4-9 in the 20 starts, with an ERA of 3.28. On the season, he’s 7-11 with a 3.24 ERA. In 191 2/3 innings, he’s allowed just 136 hits, 77 runs, 69 earned runs, 22 HR and 34 BB with 198 K’s. His WHIP is ridiculously low, 0.882. He’s on just about every leader board except wins and winning percentage: 8th in ERA, 1st in WHIP, 2nd fewest hits per 9 innings, 3rd n fewest BB per 9 innings, 9th in K’s per 9 innings, 3rd in total strikeouts 5th in games started, 2nd in innings pitched, 10th in fewest HR per 9 innings, and 4th in K/BB ratio, and yes, 10th in losses. The Yanks have hit Gilbert hard in recent years. He’s started 5 games against him, and famously shut them out for 7 innings, allowing just 1 hit and 0 BB while striking out 8 in his first start against them, but they’ve knocked him around the last 4 times. Overall, he’s 1-2 against the Bombers, with a 7.18 ERA. In 26 1/3 innings, he’s allowed 33 hits, 23 runs, 21 earned, 6 HR, 7 BB and struck out 17. His WHIP against the Yanks is an unsightly 1.518, and their team quadruple slash line against him is .306/.361/.565/.926; essentially, the Yanks have hit Gilbert as well as Marcell Ozuna is hitting this year.
Repertoire: Gilbert is hard-throwing 6-pitch righty, but he rarely uses his sinker; about once per start. His other 5 pitches: 4-seamer, slider, splitter, cutter and curve. The 4-seamer gets average rise and run. The slider gets slightly above average drop, and well below average break away from righties (bottom quarter of 317 pitches who throw one). The splitter gets above average drop but below average tail away from lefties. The cutter gets well above average drop, (25th most among 167 pitchers who throw one) and well above average break in on lefties. The curve has below average drop, but elite break away from righties (8th most among 212 pitchers who throw one). The slider gets above average drop, but way below average break in on lefties. In run values, of his 6 pitches, none is a minus. The 4-seam is a solid plus, the slider is as well, and so is the splitter. The curve is a big plus per pitch, and the cutter is a small plus. The sinker is a big plus per pitch, but he doesn’t use it for some reason. His chase rate is above average, the FB velocity is near-elite, but the FB spin rate is among the lowest in baseball. The curve spin is very low as well. Helping his stuff of all kinds play up is that he gets more extension than any other pitcher in MLB, starter or reliever. Good extension you’d expect from a 6-6 pitcher, but maybe not the best. But that’s one big thing (you’ll pardon the pun) that Gilbert has going for him. His average exit velocity is near MLB average, the barrel rate is slightly higher than average, and so is the hard-hit rate. The line drive rate is below average, the ground ball rate is above average, and the fly ball and popup rates are slightly below average. The called strike rate is below average, but the swinging strike rate is elite (5th highest among 57 qualified starters) and the CSW is elite as well (7th best). In luck factors, the BABIP is way below average, the strand percentage is well below average and so is the HR/FB rate. The luck factors balance each other out, and his ERA predictors say his ERA should be slightly lower, about 3.15 instead of 3.24. The pitch mix so far this year: FB averaging 96-7 about 32% of the time, slider 88 about 32%, splitting 84-5 about 13%, cutter 92 about 11%, curve 83 about 11%, and sinker 95 about 1% of the time.
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Post by 1955nyyfan on Sept 19, 2024 14:14:13 GMT -5
I'm still not getting the #8 guy. lol I could have gone with 🇲🇽 for Trevino with his Mexican heritage but technically he was born in Texas. Notable bench/IL players include: 👨: Wells 🐶: Verdugo 🤖: DJ There is a Schmidts beer if you want to use a beer stein for Clarke. |
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Post by azbob643 on Sept 19, 2024 14:21:04 GMT -5
Just a thought; you might want to use a golfer icon for Trevino, in honor of Lee Trevino, the famous golfer who was rival of Jack Nicklaus on the PGA tour in the 60s, 70s and early 80s. Yeah...and now he has "arthuritis". www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xd3TSpgCFA |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 19, 2024 14:21:10 GMT -5
Another long, meandering Name Game today...Logan is yet another modern name in this country in the last 20-40 years There have been about 25 Logans in MLB history; only one of them played before Logan Easley in the 1980s, an obscure pitcher named Logan Drake, who pitched 10 games for the Indians in 1922-1924. The best hitter named Logan is Logan Forsythe, who played three infield positions for 6 teams over 10 years. He had back-to-back very good seasons for the Rays in 2015 and 2016, averaging 4 bWAR for the two seasons. The best pitcher named Logan is still Logan Webb, having another excellent season for the Giants; he’s the same age as Gilbert and is 6 WAR ahead; even with the good season Gilbert is having, Webb is having a better one. The best Logan in MLB history is the one whose last name is Logan, shortstop Johnnie Logan, who made 4 All-Star teams, and got down ballot votes for MVP for six consecutive seasons from 1952-1957. He was the starter on the back-to-back Milwaukee Braves pennant winners in 1957 and 1958, winning a ring in 1957, the World Series in which Lew Burdette, who was briefly with the Yankees before they traded him to the Braves for Johnny Sain (who helped the Yanks win the last three pennants and World Series of the five in a row that they won from 1949 through 1953) won three games for Milwaukee, including game 7 on just two days’ rest, throwing a complete-game, 7-hit shutout.
As for first name Gilbert, several great players with first name Gilbert, including the Yanks own Gil McDougald, who played 10 years for them from 1951 through 1960, won the Rookie of the Year Award in 1951, got MVP votes in six seasons, made five All-Star teams and was a regular on 8 Yankee pennant-winners, 5 of them Series winners as well. The greatest player with first name Gilbert played for the cross-town Brooklyn Dodgers, and at the very end of his career, the Mets, Hall of Famer Gil Hodges. In 18 seasons, Hodges piled up nearly 2000 hits, over 1000 runs and RBI, 370 career HRs. When he retired at the end of the 1963 season, he was 11th in career HRs, but the big HR guys from the 1960’s (Mays, Aaron, Matthews, Robinson, Jackson, Willams, Banks and others) blew by him, and then all the 400-HR guys from the 1970s and 1980s, and finally a flood of PED era guys. He’s now 82nd on the all-time HR list. He became a manager and led to Mets to respectability, and almost immediately after that, the 1969 Miracle Mets to the first of just two championships in their history. A long campaign was conducted for his selection to the Hall of Fame, for both his playing career alone, and together with his managerial career. One of the longest selection controversies finally ended in 2022, when he got 12 of 16 votes from the Golden Days era committee, going into the Hall with Minnie Minoso, Tony Oliva and ex-Yankee and ex-Yankee broadcaster Jim Kaat (all of them were also players who had campaigns on their behalf). A qwik evaluation: is Hodges really a Hall of Fame player? As I remind you, I’m a tough grader on this, but I’d have to say: no. Hodges has a few decent credentials: he made 8 All-Star teams, and got MVP votes in 9 different seasons, and he was a key contributor to seven Dodger pennant-winners and two championships, one in Brooklyn in 1955 and the second in LA in 1959, and he did knock in 100 runs for seven straight seasons. But Hodges fails all four Bill James’ Hall of Fame measuring sticks. A look at his top 10 stat comps shows that none are in the Hall, and none are likely to ever get in, except possibly Norm Cash, his #1 comp. The Jaffee Jaws System has him as the 41st best first baseman of all time. Of the 10 above him, 4 are in the Hall, but Frank Chance probably shouldn’t be in himself, and the other three, Tony Perez, Orlando Cepeda and Fred McGriff had to wait 14-20 years after they retired for selection. Cash himself is 7 spots higher, Mark Teixeira 9 above, and Don Mattingly is 2 above Hodges. Although I don’t think Mattingly’s a Hall of Famer either, Hodges' selection helps his case a bit. Of the 10 first baseman below, none are in the Hall. So no, I don’t think Hodges should be in there, either. On the other hand, I’m not terribly unhappy he made it; by all accounts, Gil was a very fine man.
For the last name Gilbert, Logan is already the best with nearly 10 career bWAR. There are about a dozen Gilberts in all, including the wonderfully nicknamed Harold “Tookie” Gilbert, who played 2 seasons for the Giants in the early 50s, and the best Gilbert before Logan was Billy Gilbert, who played 8 seasons mostly for the Giants and Cards from 1901 through 1908, compiling almost 700 hits and 167 career stolen bases; a grand total of 5.3 bWAR.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 19, 2024 14:25:17 GMT -5
Clarke Schmidt will square off against Gilbert in the series finale. Schmidt has thrown back-to-back good games since coming off the IL, but hasn’t gotten a win yet. On the season, Schmidt is 5-3 with a 2.41 ERA. In 13 starts, he’s pitched 71 innings, allowing 58 hits, 21 runs, 19 earned, 7 HR and 22 BB, with 74 K’s. His WHIP on the season is an excellent 1.127. It’s taken him 4 seasons since he made the majors, but it looks like Schmidt is finally established as a mid-rotation starter, assuming he can stay healthy. This is Schmidt’s third start against Seattle, and he’s pitched well in both, but he’s 0-1 with a 1.69 ERA. In 10 2/3 innings, he’s allowed 7 hits, 2 runs (earned) 1 HR, and 3 BB with 13 K’s. His WHIP against the M’s is outstanding: 0.938, and the Seattle team quadruple slash line against him is .184/.244/.290/.533. In the start against Seattle this year, he was the tough-luck loser in the game at the Stadium where Woo 2-hit the Yanks for 6 innings. Schmidt gave up 2 runs in 5 innings on 4 hits, 2 BB and 1 HR, while striking out 6.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 19, 2024 14:26:46 GMT -5
Yankees' lineup vs. Gilbert:
1. Torres (2B) is 4-11 with 2 doubles, 3 BB, 3 K and 1 HBP
2. Soto (RF) is 1-10 with 2 BB and 4 K.
3. Judge (CF) is 3-11 with 2 doubles, 3 RBI, 3 BB, 3 K and 1 HBP
4. Chisholm (3B) is 1-2 with 1 K
5. Stanton (DH) is 2-6 with 1 double and 1 K
6. Dominguez (LF) hasn’t faced him
7. Rizzo (1B) is 3-5 with a solo HR and a BB
8. Trevino (C) is 108 with a two run HR and 1 BB.
9. Volpe (SS) is 1-4 with a 3-run HR, a K and 1 HBP
On the bench: Berti is 1-5 with a BB; Grisham is 0-6 with 1 BB and 3 K; Verdugo (LF) is 4-8 with 3 RBI, 1 BB and 2 K
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Mariners' lineup vs. Schmidt:
1. Robles has never faced Schmidt
2. Rodriguez (CF) is 2-5 with 1 BB
3. Raleigh (C) is 0-4 with 2 K
4. Arozarena (LF) 2-17 with 1 double, 1 RBI (sac fly) and 4 K
5. Raley (RF) is 1-6 with 1 double, 1 BB and 2 K
6. Turner (1B) is 2-9 with 1 double, 1 HR, 2 RBI (1 sac fly), 1 B and 2 K
7. Polanco (2B) is 0-1
8. Crawford (SS) is 2-6 with 1 K
9. Rojas (3B) is 1-2 with 1 double and 1 K
On the bench: Urias is 1-3 with 1 K; Moore is 1-2 with a 2-run HR; Garver is 2-5
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 19, 2024 14:27:52 GMT -5
Yesterday: the Yanks and Mariners had a real pitcher’s duel. Bryce Miller gave up just 2 hits and 1 run on a RBI single by Rizzo in 6 strong innings, and Nestor Cortes went him 1 better by throwing 6 shutout innings. The bullpens held until the 8th, where the blown save found Clay Holmes again, this time in the form of a game-tying solo HR by Turner, belted deep but just inside the left-field foul pole. It stayed 1-1 until the 10th, when Rizzo doubled home ghost-runner Jasson Dominguez with the go-ahead run and then had to hold tight as closer candidate Ian Hamilton gave up a leadoff single to Cal Raleigh, allowing ghost-runner Robles to get to third with nobody out. Then came the play that might have killed the Mariners season, Aronzarena lost the bat missing a 3-2 slider on the outside corner for the K, and the bat found it’s way to Rodriguez off 3rd, driving him to the ground. He didn’t get up fast enough, and Wells had the awareness to fire down to 3rd base with the ball live after the K, and he nailed Rodriguez trying to get back, breaking the back of the attempted rally. Justin Turner K’d on a 98 mph FB 3 pitches later and the Yanks had the win, the series, and clinched at least a Wild Card. The win was also their third in a row and 9th in 12 games, getting them to 26 games over .500 at 89-63 with 10 games left on the schedule.
At Camden Yards, the Giants did it again to the struggling Orioles, rallying from 2-1 down to win, 5-3. They got 3 runs in the 4th to take a 4-2 lead on a RBI grounder and a 2-run single by Schmitt. A solo HR by Conforto gave them much needed insurance; in the bottom of the inning, O’Hearn doubled in a run to make it a 2-run game again, and though the O’s loaded the bases in the 7th, they never scored again. Hayden Birdsong (yes, that’s a real name as Otis Birdsong fans can tell you) went 5 2/3 for the win, improving to 4-5. Dean Kremer gave up the 5 runs in 6 innings, and took the loss, dropping to 7-10. Ryan Walker pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his 8th save of the season. The loss was the O’s 3rd in a row and 8th in 10 games.
At the DreadedDome™ in Tampa, the Sox and Rays also played a 2-1 game, with the Sox coming out on top. The Rays took a 1-0 lead in the 2nd on a Walls RBI single, but the Sox finally tied it in the 6th when Trevor Story led off with a HR, and took the lead for good in the 8th on a Duran RBI single. Justin Slaten gave up 2 hits but struck out 2 in a scoreless 7th, and was the pitcher of record when the Sox took the lead. He’s now 6-2 on the season. Drew Rasmussen gave up the Duran single, taking the loss to fall to 0-2 on the year. Kenley Jansen gave up a walk, a stolen base and another walk with two down in the 9th, but stuck out Driscoll, and finished with his 27th save of the season.
In Texas, Cody Bradford fired 7 shutout innings, outdueling Bowden Francis, who pitched another fine game, giving up just 2 runs in 6 innings, but coming away the hard-luck loser in a 2-0 Rangers’ win. Adolis Garcia’s 23rd HR, a 2-run shot in the 6th, scored the only runs of the game. Bradford climbed to 6-3, Francis dropped to 8-5. Kirby Yates pitched a 1-2-3 9th, striking out two, and nailed down his 31st save.
In Cleveland, the Twins thought they had arrested their slide by taking two of three from the Guardians when they got a two-run single from Correa in the 10th, but Cleveland answered in the bottom of the inning on RBI singles by Manzardo and Brennan, and a walk-off single from Rocchio to win 5-4. The starters Ober and Bibee both pitched well, but were long gone by the finish. Hunter Gaddis put the Guardians in the hole by giving up the 2 runs in the top of the inning, but was bailed out by the rally in the bottom, getting the W to get to 5-3 this year. Ex-Yankee Michael Tonkin gave up the winning single, but Ronny Enriquez gave up two hits and a walk to blow the lead, and took the loss when his runner, Gimenez, scored on the game-winning hit. Enriquez is now 1-1 on the year.
Going into today’s action, the Yanks led the O’s now by 5 full games, which is surprisingly their biggest lead this season (before, it was 4 ½ games on June 6th after they swept the Twins at home) the Red Sox by 13, the Rays by 15 and the Jays by 17. The win clinched at least the 3rd wild card for the Yanks, guaranteeing they make the playoffs after last year’s disaster season. The Yanks magic number for clinching the division is now down to 6. and if they hold the same 5-game lead coming into the series against the O’s starting at the Stadium on Tuesday, they’ll only need one win in the series to wrap up the AL East.
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