Oso planning to go pro
You all make fair points, but not enough to sway me (sorry, I'm sure you're broken up about that).Especially the "games caught" argument. Again, two-thirds of Mauer's MLB starts came as a catcher. He wasn't a part-time player there. And all of his best seasons came when he playing cztcher nearly full time.Longevity isn't meaningless, but it's a poor measure for greatness.
Well, this is just factually incorrect. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mauerjo01.shtmlIn the games started category, Mauer started 885 games at catcher. He started 584 at 1st and 304 at DH. That is 888 starts at non-catcher, and 885 at catcher. That doesn't seem like 2/3 to me, but maybe I'm fuzzy on math.For the record, Molina started 1911 games at catcher. Longevity isn't everything, but Mauer started at catcher more than 1000 fewer games than Molina.
Dammit. You're correct. Not sure how I botched that. Apologies.Still, doesn't change that Mauer was the better player and he was predominantly a catcher in his best seasons.
Been 12 long years, but nice to see the Sox playing in October again.
Tip of the hat to Hahn.Sale, Eaton and Quintana brought Moncada, Kopech, Giolito, Dunning, R Lopez, Jimenez and Cease.All in to get Robert.Signing Grandal and Keuchal.Drafting Madrigal and Vaughn.
Hahn also signed Abreu and drafted Tim Anderson.Now if only he hadn't traded Tatis the Younger ... Unrelated, but just how dumb is Josh Donaldson:A. Regular dumbB. Very dumbC. Extraordinarily dumbD. Terry Bevington dumb
Hahn also signed Abreu and drafted Tim Anderson.Now if only he hadn't traded Tatis the Younger ...
The Donaldson tantrum was silly, but I kind of loved it. Battle lines had already been drawn, he proved a point, shrug. That was a REALLY quick trigger, he was tossed before he even went back. But otherwise it didn’t phase me. Baseball needs more entertaining stuff like that. FWIW, that was a TERRIBLE check swing strike call without even an appeal.
What point did he prove, while getting kicked out of a 1 run game, in the middle of September, in a game against the team his team is chasing in the standings? Seems like a stupid time to make that point, what ever that point was.
Yes. What Donaldson did was stupid, but let's not pretend like it is really going to matter in the big scheme of things.
Might be the difference between opening the playoffs against Toronto/Cleveland or opening the playoffs against the Yankees.That's not nothing.
If you can only lose twice before being eliminated (regardless of regular season winning percentage), I may actually rather face the Yankees than Shane Bieber and the Indians.
Admittedly, I forgot who keeps eliminating Minnesota. I’d still much rather face Cole than Bieber this year, but maybe the Twins want nothing to do w/ NYY.I also may be placing too much emphasis on facing an ace once; it’s just I’ve never seen a three-game playoff series and losing Game 1 seems huge. I thought there was talk of allowing higher seeds pick their opponents; it would have been interesting to see how that would’ve shook out.