on the other side of that, fWAR puts soto 8th for '83, behind:
Steve Carlton 7.4John Denny 5.8Rick Rhoden 5.0Steve Rogers 4.9Jerry Reuss 4.8Atlee Hammaker 4.6John Candelaria 4.5Mario Soto 4.5Larry McWilliams 4.3Fernando Valenzuela 4.2
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 September 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
poor steve carlton
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 September 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
Poor Atlee Hammaker! (Seven earned runs in 0.2 innings at that year's AS Game.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 26 September 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
truly, poor atlee hammaker. i have to admit that i didn't even recognize his name!
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 September 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
look at all those pirates
in the last 25 years, exactly two pirate pitchers have topped larry mcwilliams' 4.3 fWAR in a season -- gerrit cole in 2015 (5.1) and oliver perez in 2004 (4.5)
― mookieproof, Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
well, i think degrom is now out of the NL cy equation : /
― mookieproof, Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
Jake Peavy! I'm also guessing Gaylord Perry, which is probably a longshot because he played for so many teams.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 26 September 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link
Yup. Those are the easy ones.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 26 September 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link
I see now that I'm a day late on this trivia question and they everyone has looked up the answer by now ... carry on.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 26 September 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
I assume Brandon Lowe will be Top 5 in AL MVP?
― clemenza, Sunday, 27 September 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
Using the ILB fantasy league categories as guidelines:
NL MVP: FreemanAL MVP: JRamirezNL CY: DarvishAL CY: BieberNL ROY: Dustin May AL ROY: Kyle Lewis (barely edging Luis Robert & Cristian Javier)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 28 September 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
Name them after Frank Robinson, the only player to win in both leagues. https://t.co/Nwa9syw0wJ— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) October 2, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2020 22:55 (three years ago) link
The awards will be nameless in 2020.
honestly, this is the first time i learned they had a name!
― idkwtf (Karl Malone), Friday, 2 October 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
i didnt know til this year. Mike Schmidt got some ink for pushing for the change.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 October 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
Another well deserved award for @ncboomstick23! Nelson Cruz has been named the 2020 Marvin Miller Man of the Year, an award voted on by his peers as the player they "most respect based on his leadership on the field and in the community." Congrats Nellie! #MNTwins pic.twitter.com/WALetzuOyK— Minnesota Twins (@Twins) October 22, 2020
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 October 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
I don't think you can say for sure whether Cruz will be mostly remembered for the eight home runs or the play in game 6 until some time passes.― clemenza, Saturday, October 29, 2011 12:07 PM
Seeing as nobody's blaming him *now* for blowing the game, it's safe to say that he won't be remembered for it...Let's agree to revive the thread in five years and discuss it then.― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, October 29, 2011 2:48 PM (Two different posts joined together)
We have a date. Between two days of perspective and five years, I'll go for the five years.― clemenza, Saturday, October 29, 2011 5:12 PM
Nine years later: NoTime was right, I was wrong.
― clemenza, Friday, 23 October 2020 00:18 (three years ago) link
Funny how you revived this the day before a more memorable all-time defensive screw up in the WS.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 25 October 2020 06:45 (three years ago) link
I wonder if there was even one baseball fan, in 2011, who thought that Cruz (31 at the time) would go on to hit 300+ HR.
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 October 2020 08:19 (three years ago) link
When he hit free agency, the consensus was you'd be crazy to give him a multi-year deal and overpay for 25-30 HR/year (with a .300 OBP and bad defense, assuming that his skills didn't fall off a cliff in his mid-30's). And somehow he ended up on the shortlist of the greatest 40-year old hitters ever.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 25 October 2020 08:31 (three years ago) link
Holy shxx the Rays won game 4? I figured it was done and turned it off.
― earlnash, Sunday, 25 October 2020 15:07 (three years ago) link
How could you turn off a back and forth game like that?!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 25 October 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
Liam Hendricks wins Reliever of the Year
1.4 fWAR (2nd in MLB RPs to Devin Williams)1.1 bWAR (2nd in MLB RPs to his teammate Jake Diekman*)
*Diekman's fWAR is 0.5, earning him 49th place of all MLP RPs... which is why I'm always fascinated to compare these two sites.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 26 October 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
1.4 fWAR (2nd in MLB RPs to Devin Williams)
Williams takes NL ROY
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 01:05 (three years ago) link
Lewis unanimous in the AL.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 04:34 (three years ago) link
god bless devin williams but ffs he threw 27 innings
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 04:39 (three years ago) link
Did he ever.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 04:46 (three years ago) link
yeah it was the one bright spot of our season come on
― frogbs, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 04:48 (three years ago) link
he was the one bright spot of 5% of your season
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 04:55 (three years ago) link
yeah that's right
― frogbs, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 04:59 (three years ago) link
AL MVP: Abreu!
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 13 November 2020 00:09 (three years ago) link
Anyone predict that? Clemenza? Morbs?
Seems like a pretty good vote. Freeman surprised me--I thought it'd be Betts or Tatis.
― clemenza, Friday, 13 November 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
One man’s mistake is another man’s claim to an NL MVP vote. Thanks Rick! Honored by the vote. 😂 https://t.co/wsqJpbHpcN— Ryan Tepera (@RTepera) November 13, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 13 November 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
SK Wyverns 1B Jamie Romak wins the 2020 Tip O'Neill Award, given annually to a Canadian baseball player who is "judged to have excelled in individual achievement and team contribution while adhering to the highest ideals of the game of baseball."
first non-MLB player since 1991
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 December 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
a 35 year old dude playing in the KBO, who hit 32 home runs and a .946 OPS. kind of a neat choice!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 3 December 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link