As much as the home run can be a thing of beauty, in all honesty, I think that baseball is at its most fun on the basepaths. Two changes that I think would make a big difference are bringing back the letter high strike (to encourage more contact and have fewer walks), and push back the outfield fences.
I posted a tweet in 2022 saying he'd become our superstar. Looking back, I now get to gloat that I was right. Too ten in BA, first in RBI in all of MLB....he's a beast. No flaw in his game. He's philly's best draft piece since Utley
What about 290 career average ?? 1518 rbis ???? Almost 2500 hits ??? It’s not just about his hrs !!! Compare his numbers to any other hof second baseman lmk if u still feel he doesn’t deserve to be a HOFer
Jeff Kent’s numbers dwarf almost every second baseman in baseball history, including the first ballot Hall of Famer Joe Morgan ! Give me a break he belongs in Hala thing nothing to talk about
Why aren't teams giving Zack Greinke a chance to pitch. Still better than half of the pitchers in baseball. Still out finesse hitters. Had a lot of bad luck last year. But what hurt him most was giving up hits with two outs which he never did before. Baseball exec's sign him. Still the best fielding pitcher in baseball by far. Best hitting pitcher by far. Give him a chance he goes five innings almost every outing. He is a total Hall of Famer.
He's a no doubt hall of famer, average career WAR for starting pitchers in the hall of fame is 73, Greinke's career WAR is 77.5. He has the 25th highest career WAR of starting pitchers that have ever played the game. There are 49 pitchers in the hall of fame who have a lower career WAR than he does. Scherzer, Verlander and Kershaw are also no doubt hall of famers. With advanced analytics there shouldn't even be debates about who gets in anymore, they need to get rid of the ballot also, if a player has more than the average hall of fame WAR or top 1 percent for their position the should automatically be inducted.
How to make baseball exciting again: ballparks must have more fair territory--a minimum of 115,000 square feet. If any fence is less than 350 feet from the plate, it must have a 20 foot wall. Place a maximum of 10 pitchers on the active roster and make it so that if a pitcher is removed from the active roster, he cannot return for 60 days. It would require pitchers pacing and not throwing 100%, as Christy Mathewson said he threw 100% anout 5 pitches a game. Larger fields would make the big but slow players obsolete and require fast, finesse players. Players like Willie Davis, Lou Brock, Curt Flood, Matty Alou, Bert Campaneris, and Maury Wills were exciting. Today's 185 K/35 HR, .240 batting average player is boring and makes MLB unwatchable.
My Dad did Johnny"s retirement party. Johnny brought in staff from the Weston Hotel to his house. Dad mentioned he was not the nicest man. I bet Johnny would remember.
Baseball is everything to Ohtani. That’s why, imagine being depressed because u can’t do what you love. He’s that way, pitching and hitting is what he loves what gives him enjoyment in life. He’s a well conditioned athlete and he dedicates all his time to baseball cuz at the end of the day most people want to drive a limbo and be on a yacht but for Shohei it’s hitting home runs and striking batters out. 6 hrs or batting 6 hrs of pitching, throw on the actual game and conditioning and thats a guy that loves baseball and is baseball.
No pitcher in the history of MLB, has thrown 5 or more innings but had 2 runs or less in run support and came away with a no decision than Zack Greinke. 91 of his 156 career losses are from his time with the Royals. His Royals teams had a combined record of 571-852 during his time with them. He's now only 23 strikeouts away from reaching 3,000. Darn Covid year ruined him from getting to 3,000 already.
What a bummer. If Bauer at least made himself available at the end of 2021.22. It would have been awesome to see what Dodgers could've done. Damn, what a daydream.
1911 and 1912 were unusual offensive years during the Deadball Era (1903-1919) The rest of the Deadball years were extremely low offense. 1908 was even less offense than 1968!!
I was thinking that too! My initial instinct was that it wasn't the best year for the example due to bring kind of an anomaly... but then again so is 2019, so I think they're actually well-matched in that way haha.
2:34 that Dave Steib Slider was the most impressive of all the footage. All you hear about is guys that pitched a no hitter or perfect game once or twice over there career (unless they are Nolan Ryan lol) and never about guys like Steib or Mussina that seemed to routinely have several shots per season late in games to throw one and just didn’t get that final out. Giving up a hit or two late and still dominating a complete game for the win is under appreciated. Especially now when no pitcher throws a complete game anymore unless it’s a perfect game or no hitter. Hell even then guys get yanked in favor of a reliever these days. Steib was one of the best to ever do it and I hate the Blue Jays
Yes,he's a Hall of Famer,got practically no run support early in his career,should have at least 10 more wins! No,he's not Greg Maddux,who is? A Hall of Famer for sure!!!
Kent belongs in the Hall, based on numbers. I agree. But if you're wondering why it's taking so long, the truth is, the guy treated sportswriters like dirt. He would get in their face and scream at them over silly things, just because he got off on it. Well....those guys he treated like dog crap are the same guys he now expects to vote him into the Hall. I'm not justifying the sportswriters locking him out. I'm not saying it's the right thing to do. But it doesn't surprise me. I've met two sportswriters who were verbally abused by this guy for really no reason at all, and according to both of them, this was standard procedure for Kent, who frankly, wasn't a very nice guy.
Funny how they claimed the shot to the third deck in LC at Citi Field was only 448 feet. If that was Alonso we would be talking about how it is 480+ and one of the longest HRs of the season. Even the Mets announcers after he hit it said that might be the farthest ball they have ever seen hit there during a game and that even though there have been balls to reach the third deck; they dont believe they have seen one hit that far towards CF. For perspective; the ball came off the bat at 115 mph.
