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Post by kaybli on Sept 20, 2024 19:07:56 GMT -5
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Post by azbob643 on Sept 20, 2024 19:11:50 GMT -5
Reminiscent of Judge hitting the concrete curb in Dodger Stadium...just a different body part. Hopefully the result is not the same. |
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Post by desousa on Sept 20, 2024 19:15:21 GMT -5
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Post by azbob643 on Sept 20, 2024 19:16:24 GMT -5
I'd rather he rest than aggravate the injury. |
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Post by desousa on Sept 20, 2024 19:23:06 GMT -5
I'd rather he rest than aggravate the injury. I hadn't heard he was hurt. I definitely want him to sit. |
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Post by azbob643 on Sept 20, 2024 19:27:06 GMT -5
I'd rather he rest than aggravate the injury. I hadn't heard he was hurt. I definitely want him to sit. Yeah...he slid into the RF wall attempting to make a catch. As I said in an earlier post, his knee slammed into the concrete curb just as Judge hit the curb with his foot in Dodger Stadium. |
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Post by chiyankee on Sept 20, 2024 19:29:31 GMT -5
THe revised lineup.
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Post by chiyankee on Sept 20, 2024 19:42:05 GMT -5
Putting Grisham in the lineup instead of Dominquez doesn't make any sense.
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Post by anthonyd46 on Sept 20, 2024 19:48:20 GMT -5
Orioles up 7-0.
No help there tonight.
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Post by donniebaseball23 on Sept 20, 2024 19:49:52 GMT -5
O's are whooping on the Tigers. Gonna need this one.
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Post by chiyankee on Sept 20, 2024 19:49:58 GMT -5
Poteet has been activated and in a slightly surprising move, Ronnie was DFA'd.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 20, 2024 19:51:04 GMT -5
The Yanks relocate south along the West Coast for their last road series of the season, and their last series ever at the Oakland Coliseum. Relocation is the overarching theme of the A’s franchise. Next year, the Athletics franchise makes its third location shift. The A’s started in Philadelphia as one of the founding teams of the American League in its inaugural season of 1901, and stayed there until the end of the 1954 season, when they moved to Kansas City. The A’s were the third team to re-located since the AL and NL were established in their modern form in 1903. The Braves had moved from Boston to Milwaukee after the 1952 season, and 13 years later, they moved to their current home in Atlanta. A year after the Braves went to Milwaukee, the St. Louis Browns moved to Baltimore and became the Orioles. The next season, the A’s moved to KC, and three years later came the traumatic move: the Giants and Dodgers abandoning New York City for San Francisco and Los Angeles, as MLB tried to catch up with enormous population shifts westward withing the Unites States, especially after World War II. There have been several other team re-locations, most of them small moves within a greater Metropolitan area. One such example is the Yankees themselves: moving from Hilltop Park in Washington Heights in Manhattan to the Polo Grounds in Coogan’s Hollow in Manhatton to Yankee Stadium I in the Concourse Area of the Bronx, to Shea Stadium in Flushing, Queens, and back to Yankee Stadium II & III back in the Concourse area of the Bronx. A more extreme example from the NFL: the Giants moving from the Polo Grounds in Manhattan to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx (I became a Giants fan as a kid because they played in Yankee Stadium, and in my mind, that associated the Giants with the Yankees…) to the New Haven Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut to Shea Stadium in Queens to Giants and Met Life Stadiums in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The last major MLB relocation was 19 years ago, when the Montreal Expos crossed the Canadian border and landed in Washington, D.C. to become the Nationals.
No MLB team has moved more times than the A’s will by next season, this is their third relocation, and in 3 years, they’ll make a fourth relocation. They became the Kansas City A’s in 1957, moved to Oakland before the 1968 season, they’ll play their home games in Sacramento from next season through the 2027 season. In doing so, they will tie the Rochester Royals/Cincinnati Royals/KC-Omaha Kings/Kansas City Kings/Sacramento Kings, and the Oakland/San Diego/Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders for the most relocations of any franchise in the four North American Professional Sports leagues. When they settle in their new “final” home in Las Vegas for the 2028 season, they’ll become the most relocated franchise in North American professional sports history.
The current A’s season has seen significant movement with respect to the team’s performance as well; the latest tear down of an A’s team is almost over, the re-building is clearly well underway. Several relatively inexperienced A’s hitters and pitchers have come forward and presented bona fide major league credentials. Defensive whiz catcher Shea Langeliers’ bat is finally beginning to catch up with his glove, 28 HR, 74 RBI and an OPS+ over 100. Outfielder J.J. Bleday is finally starting to fulfill his potential as a high first-round draft pick; 2nd in the AL in doubles, 20 HR, batting average up 50 points from last year’s painful .197, with an excellent walk rate to boot. Lawrence Butler is coming through on the potential left-handed power he showed in the series against the Yanks in April; he’s batting .319 with an OPS over 1.000 in his last 61 games, and is now batting in the .260s with a slugging percentage over .500 for the season. Last year, Brent Rooker was a .250 hitting 30 HR guy with a very high K rate. This year, he still K’s a lot, but is hitting as well as any player in the league not named, Judge, Soto or Witt. In fact, in the last 64 games, he’s outhit everyone except maybe Judge: .350/.416/.659/1.075 with 50 runs, 22 HR and 62 RBI, and he’s doing it playing half his games in maybe the best pitcher’s park in all of MLB.
On the pitching side, things are coming more slowly, but they’re coming. J.P. Sears is a legit full-time back of the rotation starter now, Joey Estes and Mitch Spence have had a lot of poor games, but some very good ones mixed in. If those two can stay healthy, they should move up in class in the next year or two. The A’s have established flamethrowing Mason Miller as one of the most dominant closers in MLB; 96 K’s in 60 innings to go with his 27 saves. The A’s pen goes 4-5 deep in solid performers behind Miller. All in all, the A’s were 30-56 through the end of June; since then, they’re 37-30, the 3rd best record in the AL, 2 games better than the Yanks, who are 35-32 since then. Through June 30th, the A’s were scoring 3.6 runs per game and allowing 4.8. Since then, they’re scoring 4.7 runs per game and allowing 4.5.
For the season as a whole, the A’s are 12th in the AL in runs, 3rd in HR, behind just the Yanks and Orioles, 8th in steals, 5th in walks, 3rd most batting K’s, 10th in BAVG, 11th in OBA, 7th in Slugging and 8th in OPS. In the league pitching stats, they’re 11th in ERA, have allowed the 3rd fewest HRs, the 6th most BB, are next to last in pitching K’s and 13th in staff K/BB ratio. The A’s bullpen is 8th in ERA in the AL, 6th in K’s, 4th most BB allowed, 3rd fewest HR allowed, 10th in K/BB ratio, league average in allowing inherited runners to score. Their bullpen does have one huge advantage over the Yanks’ pen: their closer doesn’t blow games; Miller has blown just 2 of 29 save chances. One legit weakness on the A’s is the team defense: their best defensive credential is that they’re 2nd in GIDP turned, but they have a ton of runners on base to work with. They’re 14th in the AL in team Defensive Efficiency rating, 14th in BIS’ team Defensive Runs Saved at -61, and 14th in Statcast Fielding Run Value at -47 runs. For all their improvement in hitting and smaller improvement in pitching, the A’s are still lacking on defense.
This series catches the Yanks at an odd moment: twilight of the season, having just clinched a playoff spot, looking ahead to the big Orioles series starting Tuesday at the Stadium. There’s no objective reason to think they won’t win this series; they have the better starter in each matchup, their defense is much better (amazing, ain’t it?) they have much more to play for than the A’s. And yet...this has many of the earmarks of a classic ‘trap’ series. The Yanks had best be wary, lest they arrive in the Bronx to play the O’s with the lead back down to 2 games or so, and with the O’s having a legit chance to beat them head-to-head and take the division title back in the last week. The A’s come into the series having won 2 in a row, but have gone 6-8 in their last 14 games.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 20, 2024 19:54:51 GMT -5
The A’s send raw rookie righty J.T. Ginn out in the opener of the 3-game series tonight in what is just his 5th career start. Drafted by the Mets in the 2nd round of the 2020 June Amateur Draft, he didn’t pitch professionally until 2021, because of the cancellation of the minor league season the year before due to the COVID epidemic. He spent the first two months of 2021 in developmental camp, then the Mets sent him to low-A ball to make 8 excellent starts. They promoted him to high-A in late July, and he made 10 more very good starts there to close the season. During training camp in 2022, trying to beef up their rotation for the season the Mets traded Ginn and another pitching prospect, Adam Oller to the A’s for veteran righty and repeated Yankee-killer Chris Bassitt. He opened at AA in 2022, but after 5 poor starts, the A’s shut him down with forearm tightness in mid-May. Ginn had already had Tommy John surgery and the A’s were being cautious. He didn’t pitch again for two months, and came back in mid-July with two rehab starts in rookie ball. The A’s promoted him back to AA in early August, but his season landed with a thud in 5 poor and brief starts, (5.79 ERA in 18 2/3 innings). I can’t track down the exact injury, but the 2022 story was repeated in 2023: 4 starts in AA, an injury that sent him to the IL for two months, then two rehab starts in rookie ball, a promotion back to AA for 2 very good but brief starts before whatever injury it was shut him down again after August 7th, and for the rest of the season. Finally healthy this season, the A’s had Ginn start in AA again, and he made 6 OK starts there, so they promoted him to AAA where he was hit pretty hard in 15 games, but he made three very good starts in his last 4 games in Las Vegas, so the A’s said, “Sure, why the heck not?” and called him to the majors in late August to make his debut with two games in mop-up relief. They started him for the first time in a game against the Reds in late August, and he did poorly. Then he pitched a very good game against the Mariners, a decent one against the Tigers, and another poor one against the White Sox last time out in one of the three straight Chicago won last week; just the 3rd time this season they’ve won as many as 3 in a row. Overall, Ginn is 0-1 with a 4.94 ERA. In 6 games and 4 starts, he’s pitched 23 2/3 innings, allowing 27 hits, 13 runs (earned), 4 HR and 6 BB, striking out 23. His WHIP is a sub-par 1.394. Obviously, this is his first game against the Yanks.
Repertoire: Ginn is a 4-pitch sinker/slider type righty. He also has a change, and a 4-seamer he uses very little, just 2-3 times a game. The sinker gets above average drop and tail into righties. The slider gets about average drop, and well below average break away from righties. The change gets slightly above average drop and tail away from lefties. He’s only thrown eight 4-seamers, and the numbers are unreliable, but suggest he gets below average “rise” and “run”. In run values, the Sinker is a big minus, the Slider and change are sizeable plusses, and the 4-seam is also a sizeable minus, at least per pitch. His FB velocity is below average, and the spin rate is one of the lowest in the majors, but that’s a good thing for a sinker-reliant pitcher. He gets above average extension. His average exit velocity is above average, and the barrel and hard-hit rates are well above average. The line drive rate and popup rates are above average, the grounder rate is average, and the flyball rate is below average. The swinging strike rate is average, the called strike and CSW are below average. “Luck” factors mean little in a sample size this small, but the BABIP is way above average, the strand rate is average and the HR/FB rate is above average, so his ERA estimators think his ERA should be about 4.34 and not 4.94, which is what it is. The pitch mix so far: sinker averaging 93 about 52% of the time; slider 86 about 31%, change 87 about 15%, and 4-seamer 91-2 about 2%
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 20, 2024 19:57:41 GMT -5
Playing the Name Game: Ginn is just the fourth “J.T.” in MLB history; none of them are pitchers except for Ginn, and the best of the quartet is clearly Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto, who has two Gold Gloves, three Silver Sluggers, 3 All-Star appearances and got down-ballot MVP votes in both 2019 and 2022 with the Phillies. Of somewhat more interest is ex-Yankee J.T. Snow, whose career seems humdrum, but managed to hang in there until he was 40, playing in 16 different major league seasons. He was one of the three Yankees traded to the Angels for one-armed pitcher Jim Abbott. Snow wasn’t a great hitter, but he did win six Gold Gloves at first base. He had 2 seasons of 20 HR, 2 seasons of 100 RBI, two seasons in which he slugged over .500, and even got a stray MVP vote in 1997, when he was 28-104-.281 with an OPS near .900. He lasted long enough to get over 1500 hits, 189 HR, 877 RBI and retired with a lifetime BAVG o .268. Not a great career, certainly, but a worthy one.
Amazingly enough, J.T. is not the only Ginn in MLB history. A “Moonlight Graham” type named Tinsley Ginn played 2 games for the 1914 Cleveland Naps, they were called in those years, so named in honor of their Hall of Fame second baseman Napoleon “Nap” Lajoie, who was by that season deep in the twilight of a brilliant career. Almost no one remembers Lajoie nowadays, but he’s an Inner Circle Hall of Famer, overqualified by every measuring stick, passing all 4 Bill James tests with plenty to spare, all 10 of his top 10 comps are in the Hall of Fame, and he’s 3rd all-time at 2nd base in the Jaffee JAWS system rankings, with only Rogers Hornsby and Eddie Collins ahead of him. Lajoie compiled 3253 hits, 1500 runs, 1598 RBI and is 24th all-time in batting average at .338. Oh, almost forgot…what about Tinsley Ginn? He compiled all of two major league games, one in centerfield, on in right, made 0 plays in the field in his five defensive innings and had one major league at-bat, which is one more than ol’ Moonlight hisself.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 20, 2024 19:58:45 GMT -5
Gerrit Cole opens the series for the Yanks. As he’s not facing the Mets or Red Sox, he should be OK. In 4 starts against those two teams this season: 0-3 with an ERA of 11.29. In 18 1/3 innings, he’s allowed 27 hits, 23 runs (earned), 8 HR, 11 BB and struck out 14, with a WHIP of 2.073. Against everyone else: 6-2 in 11 starts with an ERA of 1.77, 61 innings, 47 hits, 14 runs, 12 earned, 3 HR, and 16 BB with 73 K’s and a WHIP of 1.033. Putting it together, you get a mediocre total: 6-5 in 15 starts, ERA of 3.97. In 79 1/3 innings, he’s allowed 74 hits, 37 runs, 35 earned, 11 HR, 27 BB and 87 K’s and his WHIP is MLB average: 1.273. Until the Sox hammered him last time out, he had pitched very well recently: 3-2 in the seven starts before that one with an ERA of 1.58 and a WHIP of 1.050. This is his 11th career start against the A’s and he’s pitched very well against them: 6-1 with a 2.53 ERA. In 64 innings, he’s allowed 43 hits, 18 runs (earned) 8 HR, 19 BB and struck out 85. His WHIP against Oakland is an outstanding 0.969, and the A’s quadruple team slash line against him is .189/.254/.351/.605. His last start against Oakland was in August of 2022 at the Coliseum, and he pitched a beauty: 7 2/3 innings of 3-hit 1-run ball with 11 K’s for the W in a 3-2 Yankees win.
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