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Post by noetsi on Jul 18, 2019 20:04:18 GMT -5
I guess this is the second game thread. With our win in the first game we are actually 9 ahead in the loss column than tampa (we played 4 fewer games).
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Post by utahyank on Jul 18, 2019 20:05:58 GMT -5
I guess this is the second game thread. With our win in the first game we are actually 9 ahead in the loss column than tampa (we played 4 fewer games). that's esoteric math, noetsi……. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 18, 2019 20:07:08 GMT -5
Charlie Morton is one of the latest bloomers you will ever see. Through his age 32 season, he had a record of 46-71 and never had an ERA+ as high as 110. In his last three years his record is 40-12 and his ERA+ has been above 110 each year. I think out of all positions in all sports the pitching position in baseball has more unusual characters and performance of all others combined. There have been young guys that flamed out early, so many one year wonders. Old rookies (like Wilhelm) who started late but had long careers, the Jamie Moyer / Charlie Morton type that pitched mediocre ball and then found a way to get folks out late in the year. Pitchers have posted both horrific and terrific batting slash lines, improbable no hitters by pitchers who seldom won games. We’ve had a pitcher that talked to the ball, pitchers with careers split between starting and relieving, and even one who decided to move to the outfield and set a homer in record that more than quintupled the previous MLB record. Oh. There’s more. Guys that came back from surgery to be better than they were before surgery, guys that openly broke the rules. So much more. That’s about it off the top of my head... but there’s surely more... Randy Johnson didn't really start hitting his stride until he was 29. Won his first of five Cy Young Awards at age 31. |
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Post by inger on Jul 18, 2019 20:10:40 GMT -5
The three inning shutout start by the then 59 (or so) year old Satchel Paige...Perhaps the greatest example of a publicity stunt gone right...
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Post by utahyank on Jul 18, 2019 20:12:22 GMT -5
Judge just reached up to catch that ball at the wall....Frazier would not have been able to jump high enough...
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Post by noetsi on Jul 18, 2019 20:14:05 GMT -5
meadows misses a home run by a foot or so.
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Post by desousa on Jul 18, 2019 20:15:31 GMT -5
Tough spot for Cessa.
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Post by inger on Jul 18, 2019 20:16:50 GMT -5
meadows misses a home run by a foot or so. Yes. The extra foot or so reach of Judge... |
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Post by utahyank on Jul 18, 2019 20:18:16 GMT -5
The three inning shutout start by the then 59 (or so) year old Satchel Paige...Perhaps the greatest example of a publicity stunt gone right... Ol' Satch helped the Indians in '48...really too bad most people were not able to see him in his prime....I have a feeling, if society had been different, Satchel would be a pitching gold standard... |
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Post by inger on Jul 18, 2019 20:19:23 GMT -5
Judge just reached up to catch that ball at the wall....Frazier would not have been able to jump high enough... He’d have probably hit the wall with a watermelon-like splatter of brain matter sticking to the wall and the ball propelled an extra four feet into the stands... |
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Post by greatfatness on Jul 18, 2019 20:20:12 GMT -5
Looooooooook!
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Post by kaybli on Jul 18, 2019 20:20:35 GMT -5
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Post by inger on Jul 18, 2019 20:20:57 GMT -5
Morton stays tough throughout his starts, but his home run ratio does rise in the mid to late stages of his 100-pitch typical outing. Boom, says Luke...
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Post by inger on Jul 18, 2019 20:21:20 GMT -5
I guess this is the second game thread. With our win in the first game we are actually 9 ahead in the loss column than tampa (we played 4 fewer games). Excellent guess... |
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Post by greatfatness on Jul 18, 2019 20:22:39 GMT -5
Can we just remind ourselves that Cashman got Voit for Chasen Shreve, who has since been DFAd by StL
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