Hmmmn--maybe more of a recent phenomenon than I thought.
Jose Reyes: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/870173-nl-batting-title-jose-reyes-takes-easy-way-out-to-take-the-batting-crown
Justin Morneau: https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/9/28/6860091/justin-morneau-national-league-batting-title-rockies
Terry Pendelton: https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1991/10/07/pendleton-sits-out-finale-but-wins-batting-title/
― clemenza, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 03:55 (one year ago) link
I assume that the idea that Shohei is the MVP, rather than Judge, is a minority opinion, but curious to see whether the minority is 5% or 40%. So who is the best player in the AL? People who respond by arguing that there is a difference between MVP and best player are morons.— Bill James Online (@billjamesonline) October 6, 2022
A minority of almost 60%...Surprised--maybe the MVP will be a lot closer than I thought.
― clemenza, Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:13 (one year ago) link
silliness
― k3vin k., Friday, 7 October 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
Hey, where were you four days ago when it me vs. Tracer Hand and the world?
― clemenza, Friday, 7 October 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
I wasn’t really interested in the AL record discussion, but the question of who should win MVP seems pretty settled to me. I wouldn’t take bill james’s selected twitter following of confused dads to portend much when it comes to actual voting
― k3vin k., Friday, 7 October 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
I meant more the question of whether they were legitimately pitching to Judge during that 20-game stretch, and whether--intentional or not--the strategy was working. Anyway, it's all moot now.
― clemenza, Friday, 7 October 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
The interesting thing about the James tweet to me was just that he started out assuming one result and got the other...I wouldn't characterize James's Twitter following that way; honestly, to me the result suggests the opposite. I think old-fashioned baseball people--and I'll include myself here to a degree--see Judge running away with it; more analytical-leaning fans foresee a close vote.
― clemenza, Friday, 7 October 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
I always find it, sincerely, incredibly confusing when people with analytical backgrounds like Bill James and Elon Musk do a Twitter poll and appear to take the results seriously. With Musk, there’s an explanation - he knows it’s completely unreliable but he is always trolling the world. What is James’ excuse?
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 October 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
I mean, I run a Twitter poll every once in a while because it’s funny but it absolutely absurd to take the results seriously. It breaks all 194228 rules of statistical methodology
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 October 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
James should never, ever have gone on Twitter. I don't keep up with anyone there, but from what he posts on his own site--where he constantly complains about Twitter--he just seems completely ill-suited. He's always talking about blocking people for rudeness, which I suspect amounts to them disagreeing with him. James is an old-fashioned, voice-of-God writer; I say it, you agree. He didn't start out that way; three decades of deification will do that. Even in the "Ask Bill" section of his own site, there is a sort of deference built into most questions.
― clemenza, Friday, 7 October 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link
Yeah I think he’s overstayed his welcome, tbh. I guess if anyone’s earned a right to be crabby and frequently and self-righteously wrong, it’s him
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 October 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
nobody's earned that right!
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Friday, 7 October 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
“If”!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 7 October 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
Death to Bill James!
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 October 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
Seven strikeouts and counting in two games--looks lost right now.
― clemenza, Friday, 14 October 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
I was lost, and now I'm found.
― clemenza, Sunday, 16 October 2022 00:43 (one year ago) link
From a Jayson Stark column today:
Check this out. It’s the Yankees’ mountainous masher through 47 games in 2023 versus that same mountainous masher through 47 games in 2022. It’s mind-blowing.
HOME RUNS
2023 — 182022 — 18
MULTI-HR GAMES
2023 — 42022 — 4
MULTI-HIT GAMES
2023 — 132022 — 13
RUNS SCORED
2023 — 412022 — 39
RBIs
2023 — 392022 — 38
EXTRA-BASE HITS
2023 — 282022 — 27
PA/HR
2023 — 11.22022 — 11.3
SLASH LINE
2023 — .298/.410/.679/1.0882022 — .303/.371/.657/1.029
― clemenza, Friday, 2 June 2023 21:50 (nine months ago) link
Aaron Boone said he expects Aaron Judge to return this season but stopped short of guaranteeing it. “That’s an absolute. I can’t say that about anyone.”— Bryan Hoch ⚾️ (@BryanHoch) June 24, 2023
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 June 2023 17:44 (nine months ago) link
Yeah the second I read about the second toe injection, it was a bad vibe. Does Aaron Judge even have a toe anymore?
― half the population ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (gyac), Saturday, 24 June 2023 17:55 (nine months ago) link
Torn ligament in his toe. Can’t walk without pain. Fucking hell.
― half the population ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (gyac), Saturday, 24 June 2023 18:51 (nine months ago) link
Genuinely surprised that last night was his first 3-HR game.
― clemenza, Thursday, 24 August 2023 11:27 (seven months ago) link
As measured by games, fastest ever to 250 HR.
https://sports.yahoo.com/aaron-judge-becomes-mlbs-fastest-player-to-250-career-homers-034419437.html
― clemenza, Saturday, 2 September 2023 18:20 (six months ago) link