Lol bring them down to an 81 wRC+? Gross. His best months were June and August. I guess you’re talking about August, when Andujar led the qualifiers in wRC+ and rbi (29), and Luke Voit bashed into relevance in 15 games, 168 wRC+, Gregorius (147 wRC+). None of that quite fits the “Stanton carried them for Judge!” narrat…

I don’t buy into that 4 WAR for Stanton because it doesn’t account for situational hitting. Dude had a freakin 81 wRC+ with RISP in almost 200 PA last season... just horrific stuff. His BWARP of 2.6 seems much closer to the truth. Gun to my head, fine, you got me, I would take Stanton, but if Andujar improved his…

True about the defense ofc, but I think he was poised to at least improve. To call a 3B who posted a 128 wRC+ (better than 2018 Stanton) in his rookie year a product of Yankee hype just sounds too haterish for me. More importantly tho, Stanton literally cannot hit with men on base, he is more terrified than Tyler Wade

No doubt. They need a big year from Sanchez too. The part of me that hates Hal Steinbrenner tho hopes that Tampa somehow pulls off some G-Man Choi magic

I agree that the only truly indispensable offensive player on the team is Judge, but Andujar’s contact skills in the middle of that lineup are going to be sorely missed imo. I would argue he’s more important than Stanton

In fairness, Machado aka “Johnny Hustle,” could have just as easily gotten hurt diving back to 3B on a pickoff attempt, were he an entirely different person, I mean.

He was the first batter to face Oakland’s all-star closer Blake Treinen

“Remarkably consistent” “slugger” is pretty generous given he had a 96 wRC+ last season and 1 season over 110 in his last 4... I don’t see how anyone can reasonably find fault in trading him given the state of the ALE. Rays should be rebuilding.

You wouldn’t happen to have a completely unrelated disdain for the Yankees that would cause you to try to overstate your case ad nauseam, right? Because that would be really delicious. Never mind that it’s mostly based on simply wrong information (i.e. CC’s performance is close to his prime - nope, CC’s season came…

From your original comment, it’s blatantly obvious that your underlining point is not about Severino specifically, but just in general to take away credit... to focus on the “improbability” of the Yankees even being in this series... implying that it would be fluky to beat Verlander 6 days after getting owned by…

Time to just accept that the Yankees are what their run differential says they are - an excellent team. They got healthy at the right time... Bird, Castro, Judge (shoulder), Hicks. Tanaka pitched to a 3.5 ERA since mid June and has a history as an ace. Severino was never “destined” to be a short reliever, clearly,…

That’s what makes this such a gloriously stupid and perfect baseball scandal—the actual act of stealing signs isn’t illegal (though it is frowned upon), but using technology is.

Except he didn’t have a “good” half season, and you pretty much out yourself as a hater when you call it that... he had a .329/.448/.691 half season. And the article is about a long home run he hit... and mentions his slump/regression and his strikeouts.

Heard the Night King did not even start on his high school javelin team- late bloomer I guess.

Another freak athlete from PG county. If anyone can be the hero that puts us western forehanders on the map, it’s a freak athlete from PG county... please be that hero.

Not an A’s fan but... in what world is

The Cubs will probably win... but do people really think they are so good that they can’t be outperformed for 60 games?... it’s been like... 5 minutes since they were outperformed for 100 games. Fluky things can happen in baseball- like that year 88 MPH fastball throwing Kyle Hendricks led the league in ERA, a crabby…

You might be right, these are uncharted waters... But Floyd hasn’t had a legit TKO or KO since 2007... has had 10 fights since then

Went oppo too! 80 grade moral compass