Votto gonna run down Ohtani by the end of the month at this rate.
that bomb put him alone at 2nd in the NL, lol
Lol the cubs are something special.
Down 5-4 in the 2nd inning against the Marlins they pull their starting pitcher.
The reliever proceeds to give up the following:
Single
Stolen base
Walk
2 rbi double
Hit by pitch
Hit by pitch
Wild pitch
Home run
Single
7 runs, 0 outs. It’s 12-4 in the 2nd
I mean, at this rate he’ll pass Barry Bonds…
https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo/status/1426337412331065349?s=20
I don’t want to see that little girl’s face when he gets slapped with the PED suspension.
hahah keep dreaming
I picked up Votto in my fantasy league on 7/21. He’s hit 14 HR since then.
Check the box if you had Votto as a big ONLINE CHESS player. (Announcers were speculating on what he might be doing with an ipad in the dugout.)
https://twitter.com/drivelinebases/status/1423759825867997185
If I watched baseball 25 years ago “fielder’s indifference” would have been my online nickname everywhere.
Hembree on in the 9th to blow the shutout.
Harold Reynolds vomiting dumb ideas all over this MLB Network Ohtani look-in. Ohtani can’t be the MVP because he’s not on a winning team (Angels are 58-58), and they are 7 games out of the wildcard. So the award goes to Vlad that is on a winning team that is also not making the playoffs aorn. Good talk.
Snakes walk it.
Wow crazy play at the plate in SEA.
I get that argument for NBA and NFL where a great player should always make the playoffs, but it’s crazy to apply it to MLB where at best a player is worth 10 wins. We’ve also had MVPs before non-playoff teams.
Reynolds is just a current version of Joe Morgan, his views were formed in the pre analytics times and he accepts the views of his time (the 80s) as unquestionable wisdom. So MVPs should come from playoff teams, starters should be judged by Wins, etc etc etc.
Andre Dawson won in the 80s on a team that finished last in the division.
Yes and it was “controversial”.
The problem with arguing an MVP case for a non-Ohtani player is that all of them are trailing by a very huge amount of WAR according to the main ones I’ve checked. Here are the two obvious ones (fWAR, bWAR):
The fact they can be so different on some players (see Wade Miley) tells you a lot about the state of the models / estimators in 2021. Not pictured here is ESPN who hasn’t figured out how to combine Ohtani’s WAR, but it’s 7.4 when you do it manually. The one thing they all agree on is that Ohtani is #1 in WAR by a lot, so anyone voting for not_Ohtani has to try to make a case for a clearly inferior player among tightly-clustered inferior players, namely Semien and Vlad. Also, given that a tiny difference like the one between Semien / Vlad is well within the confidence limits of any of these estimators, it would be peculiar to argue that precisely one of them is the MVP when they play on the same team.