Harper and Trout are the the biggest stars in the game - of course major events involving them will get tons of attention. And apparently ESPN doesn't cover Judge enough, if you don't know that he is, in fact, leading the majors in home runs. Maybe they need to mention it more. And Sportscenter spent a ton of time on the Astros game last night, showing every hit/run in the 8th inning, putting up a counter, showing the 0-659 or whatever historical stat, and then talking about it after. That's more attention than any other non-injury, non-brawl baseball game got. Beyond that, like it or not, a rookie leading the league in HRs and having possibly the best rookie season in MLB History so far is media attention worthy. With Trout's injury, the guy is arguably the leading offensive player in all of baseball.
I don't mind the Aaron Judge hype because it will lead casual/non-baseball fans to go check how the Yankees are doing, then force them to look up and see the Astros teabagging them in the standings.
I was hoping the media conspiracy crap didn't make it's way over to this section of the forum.....oh well.
Sir, you owe Jake Marisnick an apology for either overlooking or disrespecting him with the above-referenced statement.
from reddit: "Astros scored more runs in the 8th and 9th innings of this game than the Texans did the entire game vs the Vikings."
Right. Jake is the best all-around player in baseball. Marwin is the best hitter. It's pretty simple, really.
The lawyer in me wants to point out that this is due to the fact that the Texans don't score runs in any game. But that would be really dorky. So I won't bother posting to say that.
That's an ESPN-centric world view. MLB.com managed to put the Astros as the front page story, because it was the biggest baseball story. If they put Trout 1st because of his injury, I'd understand, but the Astros would have been 2nd. Harper getting in a fight being front page news was an embarrassment to sports journalism.
Berrios deserves a lot of credit for bouncing back where most of the young studs have faltered miserably in their sophmore seasons. Berrios 2017: 3-0 (1.66 era) 2016: 3-7 (8.02 era) Glasnow: 2017: 2-4 (6.95 era) 2016: 0-2 (4.24 era) Urias 2017: 0-2 (5.40 era) 2016: 5-2 (3.39 era) Giolito 2017: 2-5 ( 5.44 minors ) 2016: 0-1 (6.75 era)
Kind of far too ahead of them to be truly "teabagging" them, although I guess they do have giant balls.
I don't know what thread it was in, but before the season, when we picked up Reddick, Beltran, and McCann, FanGraphs did a study on our wins going up and more importantly our BA going up and strikeouts being less. I don't think they planned on it being this drastic, but it's pretty cool.
DPs (the higher, the better). DPs are the residue of lots of base runners and fewer Ks. 2017 - 3rd (they have done a lot better lately) 2016 - 11 2015 - 28 2014 - 13 2013 - 24 2012 - 15
Josh Innes went on an epic tear recently about the Rangers and how bad they are. It was actually enjoyable.
