I don't know about you guys, but I think the uniforms that the Rays are wearing tonight are ugly... (powder blue).
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Looks like it might be a long night for the Red Sox bats.............Jeff Niemann is dealing!
Tooo soon to tell....
If he's still dealing like this in the 4th & 5th, then he's on to something.
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If the Nationals finish the season above .500, can the Manager of the Year award be shared by Riggleman and Johnson?
One of tonight's ESPN announcers just said he thinks that Johnny Damon will wind up in the Hall of Fame. I don't, but if you go to Damon's Baseball Reference page and see who they have calculated has had the Most Similar career stats, guess which retired player has the most comparable career stats.
One of tonight's ESPN announcers just said he thinks that Johnny Damon will wind up in the Hall of Fame. I don't, but if you go to Damon's Baseball Reference page and see who they have calculated has had the Most Similar career stats, guess which retired player has the most comparable career stats.
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Interesting point, but I do think the current manager (in this case, Davey Johnson) would get the nod.
I heard that too. Boog Shamby, the ESPN play-by-play guy stated that stated he is in good enough shape to possibly play another 3 or 4 years..I would say IF he gets 3000 hits...he is in.
Once upon a time, every player who retired with 400 homers made the Hall of Fame. Major League Baseball was finally forced to abandon that arbitrary standard of sufficiency when it was clear that Dave Kingman would finish his career with 400.
I remember when Jeff Reardon was closing in on the career saves record and some announcers were speculating that he was assured induction, but Reardon, while a consistently above average reliever, benefitted from being in the right place at the right time. He is, in my opinion, not Hall of Fame worthy.
There are a slew of players who retired in their early to mid 30s during baseball's first century because, while they were at or just beyond their physical peak, they could make more money cashing in on that popularity by becoming the name partner in a local business. Lots of players "retired" to have their names on restaurants and car dealerships. Today, anyone who can play until he turns 40 will do so, and so a lot of good but not great players are higher on the cumulaive stats list than their talent would otherwise warrant.
I remember when Jeff Reardon was closing in on the career saves record and some announcers were speculating that he was assured induction, but Reardon, while a consistently above average reliever, benefitted from being in the right place at the right time. He is, in my opinion, not Hall of Fame worthy.
There are a slew of players who retired in their early to mid 30s during baseball's first century because, while they were at or just beyond their physical peak, they could make more money cashing in on that popularity by becoming the name partner in a local business. Lots of players "retired" to have their names on restaurants and car dealerships. Today, anyone who can play until he turns 40 will do so, and so a lot of good but not great players are higher on the cumulaive stats list than their talent would otherwise warrant.
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Ohhh... I don't know :
Beckett 8-3 2.27
Lester 10-4 3.31
Verlander 12-4 2.15
Scherzer 10-4 4.69
Scherzer has pitched the same amount of innings that the RedSox pitchers have and J.V. has pitched a LOT more, by about 40 innings.
Tigers have more strike outs J.V. 147, M.S. 96, J.L.110 and J.B. 94.
The walks between the 4 pitchers are about the same.
So, .......
Doesn't exactly have the same ring to it, does it?
Doesn't it ?
Jimbo, I didn't mean the Tigers pitchers weren't comparable to the Sox, I think they are. I was making a bad joke about it not rhyming!
OK....but 3000 hits is alot of hits. Look at Jeter, NO OTHER Yankee has ever gotten 3000 hits. You have to have longevity to reach that goal. Using your post, IF Pete Rose would have retired in his mid 30s, he never gets break Ty Cobbs record...a record I am CONVINCED no one will ever break.
Marlins continue to be the hotest team in the National League, winning the series against the Cubs at Wrigley and 12 out of their last 16, 8 out of the last 9. WITHOUT one of the best pitchers in baseball in Josh Johnson. Rumors are, they may shelf him for the rest of the season....which would be a good move seeing they are so far out of the wildcard race.
If baseball gave partial credit for long fly balls, this game would be over. Tampa Bay has hit about half a dozen that would have been gone in Fenway.
In the bottom of the seventh, their three flyball outs traveled nearly 1,200 feet.
A far as Longoria's would-be game ending homer is concerned, it hit his bat an inch or two outside of the sweet spot.
How can those numbnuts announcers think that thirteen innings could possibly approach the longest scoreless beginning ever? Everyone knows that Juan Marichal and Warren Spahn carried matching, complete game shutouts into the sixteenth inning once.
In the bottom of the seventh, their three flyball outs traveled nearly 1,200 feet.
A far as Longoria's would-be game ending homer is concerned, it hit his bat an inch or two outside of the sweet spot.
How can those numbnuts announcers think that thirteen innings could possibly approach the longest scoreless beginning ever? Everyone knows that Juan Marichal and Warren Spahn carried matching, complete game shutouts into the sixteenth inning once.
Ohhh... I don't know :
Beckett 8-3 2.27
Lester 10-4 3.31
Verlander 12-4 2.15
Scherzer 10-4 4.69
Scherzer has pitched the same amount of innings that the RedSox pitchers have and J.V. has pitched a LOT more, by about 40 innings.
Tigers have more strike outs J.V. 147, M.S. 96, J.L.110 and J.B. 94.
The walks between the 4 pitchers are about the same.
So, .......
Doesn't exactly have the same ring to it, does it?
Doesn't it ?
No problem, I just decided when it was brought up to look and see how close they were, they were much closer than I thought they would be... that said, alot of it has to do with J.V.'s dominance of late.
:Wakefield just surprised everyone with a 71 MPH fastball. It even fooled the ump, who called it a strike even though the "K-zone" graphic showed otherwise.
Last night, one of the ESPN announcers mentioned during the extra inning Rays-Red Sox game that if Wakefeld had not already caught an early flight to Baltimore, he surely would have been used in extra innings and the Red Sox would have called up a Triple A pitcher to start today.
Last night, one of the ESPN announcers mentioned during the extra inning Rays-Red Sox game that if Wakefeld had not already caught an early flight to Baltimore, he surely would have been used in extra innings and the Red Sox would have called up a Triple A pitcher to start today.
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