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Post by nowhereman on Sept 30, 2022 23:46:36 GMT -5
Mariners getting stung with exactly the one thing a team (hopefully) going into the playoffs wants to avoid -- late injuries to key players. HOLY SMOKES. the longest playoff drought is over. the mariners will go to the playoffs.
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 1, 2022 20:48:15 GMT -5
I went to the Mariners game today, and they must have had a big party last night or something, because we got the "we've already clinched" lineup of September callups and backup players. But they won anyway.
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Post by nowhereman on Oct 1, 2022 21:18:35 GMT -5
I went to the Mariners game today, and they must have had a big party last night or something, because we got the "we've already clinched" lineup of September callups and backup players. But they won anyway. have to admit i had a positive feeling after last night but cannot call it joy exactly, because for them NOT to qualify after the way MLB has watered down the playoff field would be a disgrace. is that the half empty take, sure it is, but when you consider that the longest mlb playoff absences now belong to the angels and tigers at eight years (2014) let's be real. after houston won in 2017 and washington (montreal) won in 2019 i thought the mariners making the world series in 2025 would be a reasonable prediction. they are right on schedule. they still need a few more pieces, er, batters.
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Post by bbg95 on Oct 4, 2022 22:27:59 GMT -5
It took a while, given how fast he got to 60, but Aaron Judge set the AL home run record today with his 62nd.
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Post by ironhammer on Oct 5, 2022 0:06:46 GMT -5
It took a while, given how fast he got to 60, but Aaron Judge set the AL home run record today with his 62nd. Well, I guess goodbye Roger Maris' record. I remember fans follow these records with great enthusiasm before the 'roids era ruined it. Hopefully, this time the renewed passion will be more sustainable.
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 5, 2022 2:19:03 GMT -5
Maris's record was reviled for a long time, because a) he dared to break Ruth's record, and b) he set it in the very first season where they played 162 games. A lot of people thought it was just an artifact of playing more games, but actually it held up longer than Ruth's 60 had held up.
It was finally busted in a 3-way battle between McGwire, Sosa, and Griffey in 1998. (Both McGwire and Sosa got into the 60s. Griffey ended up with 56, which he also had hit in 1997.) Of those three, Griffey is the only one who never was found to be using steroids, and is the only one of those three in the HOF.
(McGwire admitted to using steroids, Sosa denied it but reportedly had tested positive, and it's never been alleged that Griffey ever used them. Sosa also had an embarrassing incident in 2003 where his bat broke during a game, and that revealed that the bat had been illegally modified.)
By 1998, the feelings about Maris's record had mostly turned around, and at that point (almost 40 years after he set it) people looked at it as legitimate.
After Bonds blew it apart with 73 in 2001, people started coming full circle and claiming that Maris's record was the true legitimate record, and that Sosa, McGwire, and Bonds shouldn't count because of the steroid use.
Only Maris, Judge, McGwire, Sosa, and Bonds have hit more than 60 HRs in a season. Eight more players have hit between 55 and 60.
Interestingly, Hank Aaron never hit 50 HRs in a season, but he had a eight seasons in the 40s, and between 1957 and 1973 he only had two seasons where he hit fewer than 30.
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Post by nowhereman on Oct 5, 2022 12:54:18 GMT -5
Find that tidbit about Hammering Hank never having 50 HR in a season fascinating. i dont think Pujols ever hit 50 either. how bout Brady Anderson one year hitting 50 after never getting more than 20 in a season?
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Post by nowhereman on Oct 5, 2022 12:57:16 GMT -5
Find that tidbit about Hammering Hank never having 50 HR in a season fascinating. i dont think Pujols ever hit 50 either. how bout Brady Anderson one year hitting 50 after never getting more than 20 in a season? Anderson did have 21 HR in 1992 but then went 13-12-16-50.,..,
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 5, 2022 13:03:28 GMT -5
Find that tidbit about Hammering Hank never having 50 HR in a season fascinating. i dont think Pujols ever hit 50 either. how bout Brady Anderson one year hitting 50 after never getting more than 20 in a season? Anderson did have 21 HR in 1992 but then went 13-12-16-50.,.., That 50 year was really suspicious. On the other hand, Judge hit 52 in 2017 (his first full season), then 27, 27, 9, 39, and now 62. During that time he was injured a bunch and there was the COVID seasons. He's 30, which is about the peak year for most baseball players. Maris hit his 61 the year he was 29, and never hit more than 40 any other year.
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 5, 2022 13:10:42 GMT -5
Pujols was more like Aaron -- no big peak year, but lots and lots of years with 30-49 HRs. The only year in his 22-yr career that Pujols had fewer than 10 HR was the short 2020 season when he was already 40 years old. He averaged about 32 HRs per year.
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Post by Mocha on Oct 5, 2022 13:54:28 GMT -5
Judge will be sitting out the Yankees’ final regular season game today, must be a relief for the guy who caught homerun number 62 ball.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2022 14:25:10 GMT -5
Find that tidbit about Hammering Hank never having 50 HR in a season fascinating. i dont think Pujols ever hit 50 either. how bout Brady Anderson one year hitting 50 after never getting more than 20 in a season? Anderson did have 21 HR in 1992 but then went 13-12-16-50.,.., Anderson's 50 was a fluke and not necessarily steroids as he immediately went back to the teens the following year. I recall Anderson made a hitting adjustment and crowded the plate that year and pulled a ton more than he usually did. He also faded after a really hot first half of the season.
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Post by jayj79 on Oct 5, 2022 14:55:39 GMT -5
Judge will be sitting out the Yankees’ final regular season game today, must be a relief for the guy who caught homerun number 62 ball. I consider it to be an incredibly lame twist of fate that that ball ended up in the hands of a VP of an investment firm. Would have been a much cooler story if it had been some working class person for whom the money generated from selling off the ball could have been truly lifechanging.
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Post by jayj79 on Oct 5, 2022 15:04:05 GMT -5
Pujols was more like Aaron -- no big peak year, but lots and lots of years with 30-49 HRs. The only year in his 22-yr career that Pujols had fewer than 10 HR was the short 2020 season when he was already 40 years old. He averaged about 32 HRs per year. 7 years of 40+ homers (with the highest being 49 in 2006); 7 years of 30-37 HRs; 4 years of 23-28 HRs, 3 years of 17-19 HRs, and 2020 (6 HRs)
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Post by bluepenquin on Oct 5, 2022 15:36:34 GMT -5
Just glancing at Judge's career - and trying to think what was different. The first thing that stuck me was how similar this season was to his rookie season. In 2017, he hit 52 HRs. He had an outstanding 174 wRC+ (207 this year). He has always had a very high BABIP - .345 for his career. This year it was only .340, but he had his highest BA (.311). His xBA this year was .306 - so his higher than usual BA wasn't luck. The difference - he has reduced his K% over the years. It was 30.7% as a rookie - now it is down to 25.1%.
As for HR's and batted balls - Judge's season is really similar to that rookie year. His HR/FB% was 35.6% - the exact same as 2017. 35.6% is absolutely elite - and those two seasons are his best for HR/FB%. The other thing helping him those two years - he was hitting more FBs. 43.5% FB% is this year was the highest of his career. His 2nd highest was - 2017 at 43.2% (his career is 38.9%. These are the combinations that leads to so many HRs - and why it was this year and not a previous year. 2017 was the only time he hit like this - and he hit more HR's this year instead of 2017 because his K% and BB% were higher in 2017.
Anyway - what an overall great year for Judge.
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