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When it comes to baseball, I measure my level of hate against my Don Denkinger hate. The Cubs are close up until the Cardinals are eliminated, then it drops off. I’d like to see the White Sox win it though, just because.
I predicted bad production from the DH slot. Can anyone figure out how to sort for DH WAR for the 30 teams? (Or some way to rank them by DH production)
Bernal’s throws to second base were excellent in last night’s game.
Except for the one off to the 1st base side which Church ended up fielding.
RF J. Walker R
DH Ivan Herrera R
1B Leo Bernal S
3B Nolan Gorman L
SS T. Saggese R
CF N. Church L
LF Jose Fermin R
2B Cesar Prieto L
C Pedro Pages RRotowire has journeyman fill in guy DL Hall as ‘primary’ pitcher. MLB.Com has Miz starting, so I think it will just be a cameo for Miz, if anything.
prospect Jesus Baez one of just 33 minor leaguers to hit 40 home runs in a season since 1963
Another encouraging point is that he was traded away by the Mets.
We have a lot of good players
We don’t have enough really good or great playersWe also had players who didn’t stay healthy. Whether that will be an ongoing issue with any of them we don’t know. But we can’t win playing too many UTs and backfills all the time.
In my estimation, the hole they’re digging keeps getting deeper.
the darkest hour is just before dawn
Well, we got pretty good pitching. D was shaky a few times but good other times.
Burly did have a great year, but I wish he could be better vs lefties. There seemed to be some flashes and he did drive in 40 vs LHP, so there is hope. Up next his ARB 2 year.
A good glove and a homer a week would have allowed Chaim to get something for Gorman this winter ahead of his ARB2 salary, I mean season. But as it is there is no real value. His power has been declining for a couple years I think.
2B J. Wetherholt L
DH Ivan Herrera R
1B A. Burleson L
RF J. Walker R
C Leo Bernal S
3B Nolan Gorman L
LF Bryan Torres L
SS Masyn Winn R
CF N. Church L2030. That would make him what, 12?
I have read to the effect that whole set up is very exploitive and neither the player nor his family ever see the great majority of the money. I’m sure the argument is its for their own good.
Thanks for the recap Gags. Its like March madness for also rans. I hope we play honorably but won’t cry if we lose.
Just hope nobody gets hurt these last two games. Then, in the old days, nothing would happen with teams not in post season until the WS is over, but I think that is no longer the case.
You can’t just hire relievers who were good last year and count on your pen being better. Relievers are notoriously unpredictable from year to year. They also seem to have a short shelf life. There are outliers but you don’t know who that is going to be.
“Unpredictable” also goes both ways. A pitcher who excelled in AAA may not break into the bigs looking like a rock star, but nothing says he won’t be next year. IMO, the killer is: A )when you don’t have anybody else to try. That is mostly where we were this year. or B) when the underperformer has a contract so you are stuck with him. We don’t want to be there.
What are we going to do with Raniel Rodriguez?
Rainiel has 400 PAs in AA. Walker had about 500 when he had a strong spring training and made the team.
