As discussed in yesterday's game log, Dozier has a good chance at making MLB history. He has a great chance at joining Killebrew in the 40 home run plateau. It's a positive so I added a count-up to the sidebar so there would be something to celebrate about this season.
Dozier leads the Twins in plate appearances, runs, hits, doubles, triples, homers, RBI, hit-by-pitch, sacrifice flies, and he's second in steals and walks.
He not only leads all of baseball (by 5) in HR since the All-Star break (24) he is also one behind the leaders in doubles since then with 16.
meanwhile, David Ortiz leads the league in SLG, OPS, and doubles. His .318 BA would be a career high, and this would be his first time to lead in SLG or OPS or doubles.
moar David Ortiz references...
From my Game Log Intro [slightly edited] when they last faced Boston:
And he got the fangraphs treatment.
Not being able to get any option years on his contract may turn out very unfortunate. There are still two more years remaining on his contract so maybe his peak ends soon, but it looks like he's going to get paid very well in 2019.
To that point: ahem.
First day of school for Aquinas, at his new school. It's a small town we're in now, so everyone in his class already knows each other, except for him. He usually makes friends pretty well, but I can tell he is nervous, and I'm nervous for him. I can't wait until I go pick him up at the end of the day, and hopefully he had the time of his life.
It's gonna be like Footloose!
Except his dad will be in the picture.
Also, no playing chicken on stolen tractors.
After Ervin Santana, the Twins'second best starter by both ERA and FIP?
I feel like I recall some sort of off season initiative to improve pitching. At this point, the joke might as well be changed to "get er done, Terry Ryan!"
Alex Anthopoulous is "confirmed candidate" for Twins PBO.
We dare not hope.
And as my first move, I am trading Jose Berrios for Bartolo Colon!
This. I fear this. From what I recall seeing of him, I suspect his reputation is larger than the reality because of his relatively active style. You know his name because he pulls the trigger a lot.
and he fleeced Billy Beane on Josh Donaldson
How much of his breakout is from being in Toronto? Is he another Bautista? His two full years in Oakland he slashed .277/.363/.477 and his second year was worse than the year before. His fielding turned him into a great player. Toronto predicted he would do better while Oakland didn't.
Yeah I'm not staying that Alex > Billy. It's just he won the trade. Just like Terry won the Pierzynski trade, even though that could have been a great move for Sabean.
Where the Giants really failed that trade was not correctly judging that Pierzynski would be a terrible fit for their locker room and not having a manager that could deal with him. Yeah, he fell off from two career years in Minnesota, but 2004 with San Francisco was his lowest fWAR until 2014. In particular, his 2005 and 2006 years were totally useful, I'm sure a lot of teams could use a catcher with a 1.5-2.0 WAR season. So letting Pierzynski go for nothing in return was nearly as bad as giving up a bunch for him in the first place.
Donaldson was already a near-MVP caliber player in Oakland in 2013 & 2014. Moving to a park that rewards fly balls (and adjusting his approach to fit) is only part of the puzzle. He's hitting balls further – in 2014 his average true distance was 398.9 feet; in 2016 it's 410.9 feet. He's also taken advantage of pitchers affording him more respect.
While it will take some time for the dust to settle on all of Anthopoulos' moves, it seems that giving up Noah Syndergaard in the trade for R. A. Dickey might be his most significant demerit. Syndergaard's been worth 5.7 fWAR so far (through age 24). Anthopoulos also traded Anthony DeSclafani (5.7 fWAR) in the package for Buehrle & Jose Reyes, which could turn out any number of ways.
Meanwhile, he managed to turn Vernon Wells into Mike Napoli. (Granted, he traded Napoli to the Rangers four days later. Still.) He turned 34 year old Scott Rolen into 26 year old Edwin Encarnacion. Beau mentions the deal for Josh Donaldson, which has turned out like a dream for Blue Jays fans. The Tulowitzki deal is pretty good, too.
Not sure about the Tulo deal yet. He is an improvement on Reyes but there are four more years on Tulo's contract.
Hey, everyone. Don't forgot the B League Football draft is tonight at 8:45pm.
Couldn't figure out which yahoo account* I've used for all fantasy gaming in past years ... accepted the invite from a newish one.
*don't know how I did this while managing to remember about 9 multiple years inactive accounts
nevermind.
Is there an 'A' anymore? Or should I get in on this one?
gonna have to talk to spooky about that one.
That's awesome.
Ricky Nolasco took a perfecto into the 6th, then went walk, single, walk to start 8th and got pulled. All 3 runs scored and he took the loss in 3-2 game. Once again, that's just Ricky being Ricky.