Baseball Miscellany

And this (the tag line way undersells this):

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Tatis working to catch Trout in most homers after team’s elimination

Next season, Mike Trout will be in his 12th season at age 31. He will have a total of 12 Postseason at bats, where he’s hitting .083.

I’d say he’s this generation’sTed Williams but rhe Splinter had a personality.

Maybe next year when they expand the Postseason to 14 teams…

Per league

That was impressive, although I could have done without that little whatever-it-was at 3rd base.

The Angels are such an embarrassment of an organization. The best player in the game, an owner willing to spend(say what you will about him but he will spend), and they can’t make the postseason in a decade. Inept.

Not to mention the fentanyl ring that killed a player.

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They won’t make a Moneyball movie about the Rays, but they must have the premier value front office/coaching staff in the league right now. Astros payroll is $192M vs. the Rays with $70M.

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It helps when you can take adavtage of teams like the Pirates

It always boggles my mind that the Rays get plaudits for fielding a quality team while refusing to adequately compensate labor. That’s not really a virtue in my book.

But, like MM says, the Pirates should get some enabling credit too.

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“Adequately compensate labor”

Hahahahahahaha!

I thought you’d enjoy that!

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What ever they’re doing, it’s working and they’re not the virtue business.

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Yankees down 12-2 to the Rays, Toronto up 6-1. Yankees trying hard to make the 4/way happen.

Man, I wanted Seattle to win out and knock the Yankees out. Now I have to hope for a wild card love triangle.

So Gleyber Torres just struck out, and the ball got buy Zunino, all the way to the screen. Torres trots down the line, looking back as Zunino runs it down and throws him out by a step. No effort whatsoever. Judge reams him out in the dugout. Wow.

Was that before or after he booted the easy ground ball?

After. I would have benched his ass. It was embarrassing.