Kimbrel blows his first save of the year vs Pittsburgh as pinch runner Michael Chavis scores the go ahead run. Mookie hit his 15th homerun too.
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Early-mid 2010's A's as well. Lowrie, Crisp, Moss, Lester, Reddick, and I'm sure I'm missing some others.
This guy is going to be good one day, mark my words. If the Dodgers are smart, they'll lock him up for a while.
He is getting on base only slightly more often than usual (298/373/601 so far this year versus 296/373/522 for his career), but the secret sauce is what happens after that.
For his career, Betts scores 40% of the time that he gets on base (excluding hitting home runs), versus the MLB average of 30% (per B-Ref). But so far this year, he's scoring at a 51% clip. Unreal.
His baserunning was always elite, I assume the increase is to due both that and the quality of the teammates behind him.
Was that fWAR? He’s now leading the majors at 3.5(!) I do miss that man.
Yeah man, I love Mookie and I love seeing him performing at the height of his game. I wish he was on the Red Sox but I'm happy to cheer for him from afar.
Do you ever wonder what happened to all of the marginal players from the 2015 Red Sox? Old friends Alejandro de Aza, Rusney Castillo, Deven Marrero, Sam Travis (farmhand in 2015 who later made the show) and Austin Rei (3rd-round draft pick in 2015 who never made the show) are all playing for the Long Island Ducks in the Atlantic League, which is independent but an official “MLB Partner League.” I saw them all today in the starting lineup, facing off against the Staten Island Ferry Hawks. They are looking well. Travis and de Aza are having good years and could probably at least help a AAA team. In the 8th inning, the Ferry Hawks brought in Kelsie Whitmore to pitch. She is the first woman to play in an MLB-affiliated league. She has mostly struggled so far in limited action, but today she retired Rei, Marrero, and de Aza around a couple of walks, recording her first scoreless inning.
Probably also an opportune time to mention Moncada's age 27, 2022 campaign sits at a tidy 11 OPS+. No, I did not mistype that.
He’s been such a weird player. Had that crazy year where he hit .315, but his other years are .231, .235, .225, and .263.
Indeed, the picture becomes a lot clearer when you look at the full view instead of narrowly focusing on only the parts that didn't go well.
Or the parts that do. We pretty much know what he is by now anyway, a 130-140 OPS+ hitter who will be worth 6-7 wins. At least for the foreseeable future.
"Tigers pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez’s appearance on the restricted list is related to a marital issue, according to sources, and there’s no timetable yet for his return.
Rodriguez appeared set to return to the mound from a rib injury when the marital issue arose, and the team granted his request to take time to attend to the private matter. The team has not said anything publicly about Rodriguez’s absence beyond it being related to a “personal matter.” It was learned that personal matter is marriage related."
https://nypost.com/2022/06/14/eduardo-rodriguez-away-from-tigers-due-to-marital-issue/
Rodriguez appeared set to return to the mound from a rib injury when the marital issue arose, and the team granted his request to take time to attend to the private matter. The team has not said anything publicly about Rodriguez’s absence beyond it being related to a “personal matter.” It was learned that personal matter is marriage related."
https://nypost.com/2022/06/14/eduardo-rodriguez-away-from-tigers-due-to-marital-issue/
Or he might be a guy who is better suited to playing in a place with no pressure and few expectations.
His platoon splits are amusing.
vs RHP - 104 PA - .227/.260/.361
vs LHP - 65 PA - .350/.385/.617
Or he might've been so ashamed to have been traded for Austin Davis straight up that he got re-focused.
Old friend Marty Perez having a nice outing tonight. He's currently 8th in the bigs in ERA somehow.
View: https://twitter.com/CodifyBaseball/status/1537597890431836161?t=TtwFdJxMarKnrNQaJ-qQpw&s=19
View: https://twitter.com/CodifyBaseball/status/1537597890431836161?t=TtwFdJxMarKnrNQaJ-qQpw&s=19
Schwarber is on one of his streaks right now, 2 homers tonight and now up to 212/335/496 with 18 homers. On pace for 46 homers, 102 bb, and 205 k.
True, of course a .636 ops is dead even with Verdugo’s ‘22, higher than Bradley and Hernandez, but 33 points lower than Franchy. Hasn’t been a banner year for Red Sox OF past or present, although Betts is pretty decent
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Kind of interesting to read that he cracked it on Wednesday night and that it had nothing to do with his recent slump. Usually you hear about an injury and it explains recent performance, but he wasn't playing through it.
While I don't equate Chris Sale and Mookie Betts for many reasons, it's interesting how many of these hot takes might apply: https://sonsofsamhorn.net/index.php?threads/chris-sale-aiming-to-return.36087/
But its also a shining example of how volatile closers are (on a season to season basis)
Kimbrel was really fun to watch when he was on in 2016-17. But he was terrifying through most of the second half/last third of 2018.
HIs BABIP is still .350, well over his best full season ever and his projections, pretty unlikely he's going to stick at .301
The Daniel Bard thing is still incredible to me.
1.98 ERA, .98 WHIP, has allowed 14 hits in 27 innings. Red Sox do have quite a need in the bullpen…
1.98 ERA, .98 WHIP, has allowed 14 hits in 27 innings. Red Sox do have quite a need in the bullpen…
Honestly I’d rather Bard continue to have success in Colorado. Boston is where things went to hell for him; Colorado is where he found his form again. Im incredibly happy for his success.