The way we are playing a rainout would be fantastic...!!! Delay the game till we get our **** together!
This is a plain silly hot take. He's not a free agent this year. He's certainly not losing tens of millions of dollars out out of his arbitration years because he got injured in single one season. How is it incredible that his ROY year was better than this injury-riddled season? That's wholly unsurprising. I know people keep expecting him to jump into Trout territory but he's already amazing. In terms of disappointing I'd rank Springer higher actually. He seemed to breakthrough last year from above-average to star and he's taken a huge step back. Correa has so much more time in his 20's to be amazing.
Correas play was merely slightly above average prior to his back injury. Especially given the wealth of talent in the MLB at shortstop this season.
117 WRC+ is a solidly above average production. ~2.1 WAR in 82 games is quote good for (his) below-average season.
Ah, classic bases loaded 0 outs and the Astros glorious offense manages to get a single run. Great success.
Random baseball question: Let's say that bases-loaded sac-fly by Correa was the the 9th inning of a tie game in the World Series (or some other highly consequential play). If, instead of catching the ball, the outfielder basically bobbled the ball a bit, when is it considered "caught" such that the baserunner can leave 3rd base? Is it possible to intentionally bobble the ball all the way back to the infield as long as you never actually have possession, in order to prevent the runner from scoring?
No, it has to be secure for the out to be recorded. And if he's bobbling it, the base runner will have to tag once he secures it, but the bobbling ruins the motion and body control to make the throw.
