HPU completely changed the 9th inning...he ****ed Meyers and Altuve over proper-style He was terrible all game, but geeeeeezus
I keep saying "they're working on the tech, they're testing it out, it'll happen soon..." "Soon" cannot come soon the **** enough. I want to see it in ST and AAA next year.
I was surprised that it was a double. I just assumed it was going to be a 1st and 3rd situation. He was hustling.
At age 34, 2 years before he acknowledged he was sick and retired 8 games into the season, Gehrig led the AL in OPS/OPS+ and finished 4th in the MVP voting (the year before that he won the MVP). The year before he retired, he played every game and put up an OPS+ of 137 From age 31 to 37 (when he finally took a break and the 2nd year he moved to 3B), Cal Jr was below average as a hitter (OPS+ 96). Cal was a very good SS right up until he hit age 34, then dropped off. Peruse at your leisure: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ripkeca01.shtml https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gehrilo01.shtml I'm not talking **** about Ripken at all, he was amazing and one of my favorite players as a kid, but just putting some things in context. I'm also not the first person who's said that Ripken taking some days off would have benefited his career and the team. Astros fans have said the same about Biggio and Bagwell during their prime ("gotta play every day") years.
yeah this is all common knowledge and doesn’t dispute what I said. Gehrig wasn’t really hampered by the disease until he was. I think the 2nd half of his last full season he really began to struggle. Then he couldn’t hit at all in spring training. Then he began the season the way he did and retired. Cal was an amazing shortstop for several reasons and almost every shortstop will experience a decline defensively by the time Cal did, in his mid 30’s. He was a good third baseman after that. Cal was never going to be the hitter Gehrig was, streak or not. Cal was a good hitter, especially for his position, and had several really good offensive seasons along with several rather average ones to balance it out. Im not sure that taking a day off would’ve really helped his bat if it never hurt his defense. He had a very poor 1992 season when he inexplicably changed his batting stance after his huge 1991 season and was incredibly stubborn about changing it back. He went like a 60 or 70 game stretch that year with a sub .200 average and zero home runs. Everyone was screaming that it was the streak then and he was able to right the ship again by the next season. It may have been mentally taxing for a lot of players but Cal was different. He was the ultimate bad ass.
Can't read blocko-text at this hour, but what I posted does in fact directly contradict what you initially said, which was:
what I said is true. Gehrig was way worse than Ripken ever was when the ALS actually took over. Also, Ripken never “hurt” his team by playing through the streak. He was the only guy on the team that played short lol.
