moonslav59

They have Rays forums?

Another factor to consider is how much Betts exceeds his contractual value in the first half of the contract. Maybe he underperforms by $50M at the end of the deal, but exceeded it by $60M over the first half. It seems like all the focus is placed on the end part. Now, that being said, many of the large and long contracts don't look all that great in the first half either.

I'm not really a superstitious person, but if I changed the mojo, and we lost, I'd have never heard the last of it.

And the changing of the ball.

Yes, generally.

Soxprospects.com has him as "post-prospect."

By more than good hitting beating bad hitting?

I think good pitching beats good hitting, too- most of the time. However, it’s not the reason for every win and loss.

Excellent comp.

Agreed. One major factor in Mookie’s success is his off the charts “twitch reflexes.” How many studies have been done on how well that ages?

If you look at all our ring years, they all had a lot of starts from the top 5 or 6 starters. That’s a good sign for 2021, but technically, Sale is a top 5 starter, so we’ve had a lot of starts from our #6 and 2 from our #7.

Very insightful.

There is a chance we have the best record in the AL after tonight! Again!

It’s not easy winning in KC, but I agree.

If you look at the ratios of big to small, the results look about even.

We may not be as good as we were before a couple weeks ago, but we can’t keep winning by pitching like this.

More than most: JUNE Team OPS: .931 HOU .839 LAA .818 OAK .805 TOR .776 MN .762 DET .762 NYY .755 BAL .732 CWS .727 CLE .723 KCR .721 BOS .713 SEA .686 TBR .623 TEX

Keep it rollin'

Who? .576 Marwin? .460 Santana? Call-up.501 Cordero & move .650 Kike to 1B? I guess .758 Chavis is an option, but Dalbec has a better OPS than that over his last 11 games. Ockimey? Casas?

Updated AL Standings 43-26 CWS 43-27 OAK 43-27 TBR 42-27 BOS (1/2 behind TBR and 1 GB best AL record) 40-28 HOU 38-28 CLE 36-32 NYY (SEA, LAA & TOR all 1 game under .500) Friday's games: A's (Kapreielian)@ NYY (Taillon) Rays (Wacha) @ SEA (Kikuchi) CWS (Rodon) @ HOU (Garcia)

Kyle Seager singles in winning run. Rays lose 3rd straight.

SEA just tied the Rays in the bottom of the 9th. Man on 2nd and 3rd, one out.

Arroyo is not a hole. We need pitching, pitching, pitching and maybe a 1Bman or OF'er before 2B.

I don't see a big roster crunch. Ward won't need rule 5 protection. We lose ERod, Barnes, Ottavino, Marwin & Santana and only need 3 replacements: SP, RP, RP. (Two slots gained, there.) The 4-6 Rule 5 players or added FAs can replace any 4 from: Yacksel Rios Brandon Workman Matt Andriese (trade or don't enter arb) Connor Wong (trade?) Michael Chavis (trade?) Huson Potts (trade?) Phillips Valdez (trade?) Now, if Bloom wants to sign 5 free agents instead or 3 bigger ones, we might have a squeeze. Rule 5, this winter: Jecorrah Arnold Brayan Bello Cole Brannen Gary Calvo Marco Cardoso Pedro Castellanos Felix Cepeda Kole Cottam Kutter Crawford Ricardo Cubillan Osvaldo De La Rosa Tyler Dearden Jonathan Diaz Danny Diaz Jeter Downs Jarren Duran Tyler Esplin Durbin Feltman Ryan Fernandez Ryan Fitzgerald Antoni Flores Frank German Rio Gomez Devlin Granberg Gilberto Jimenez Jose Larez Dominic LoBrutto Bryan Lucas Charlie Madden Alan Marrero Elih Marrero Joan Martinez Alexander Montero Robinson Montero Oddanier Mosqueda Brendan Nail Brett Netzer Tanner Nishioka Kaleb Ort Yusniel Padron-Artiles Aaron Perry Beiker Pineda Antonio Police AJ Politi Ceddanne Rafaela Oscar Rangel Tyreque Reed Jesus Rosillo Yasel Santana Zach Schellinger Alex Scherff John Schreiber Gregori Segovia Chase Shugart Miguel Suero Jake Thompson Wilker Vargas Thaddeus Ward Grant Williams Josh Winckowski

He's certainly been injured much moresince joining the Yanks, but after his 150 games played in his second season with MIA, he had these game totals: 123 116 145 74 119 159 (Career high in year before trade) With NYY 158 18 23 (COVID Season) 47, so far in 2021