Forrest Whitley just became available… again. who’d win a fight? Weems vs Whitley? and why does the addition of Short/Trammel feel like a mismatched tag-team of undercard jobbers?
This would mean over the last 76 games he would have 15 HR, 42 RBI and probably in the neighborhood of .315/ .400 / .715 Not an all star, but a very productive 4th or 5th best hitter on a team.
If the Astros go 37-38 the rest of the season: Seattle needs to go 44-31 Angels need to go 46-30 Rangers need to go 46-29 To tie them.
Why does Michael Brantley's Wikipedia page not list World Series Champion (2022) under his "Career Highlights and Awards" section? And can someone here who knows how to edit Wikipedia pages do so?
Hmmmm...I gotta think about that. BR doesn't list him as one either. Maybe they only credit players who were on a roster during one of the postseason series? He played for the Stros in 2022, I know he got a physical ring, whether the internet wants to acknowledge it or not.
Even in Pony league it was probably the easiest position. Doesn’t mean you can’t have a good right fielder.
IIRC I had 2 years of t-ball and then we went to pitching machine then to kids pitch. Pitching machine year (bigger IF, deeper fences, the first "real baseball field" I played on) I hit a bomb to dead CF. I'm so stoked and busy watching it that I can barely run, the worthless fat schlub (who I knew, his Coach Dad and my Coach Dad were friends) takes about 15 stumbling steps backwards and somehow catches it arm-extended over the fence. I cried when I got back to the dugout, would have been my first real in-game-over-the-fence HR. That kid and his dad were so happy after the game that I couldn't really be mad anymore. We went and got snocones together. But it still pisses me off.
We did tee ball, coach pitch, minors, majors, pony (13 and 14), then High school. My junior high did not have a team, you played Pony league at that age. I’ve actually never seen a machine pitch league. If you weren’t that good, you could stay in the minors till 12 instead of going to the majors. Most kids went to the Majors at 10 or 11.
Machine (the one with the single wheel) was instead of Coach pitch, for whatever reason at Memorial Ashford LL. The minors-majors-Jr High (Pony and then Kyle Chapman were in the offseason) track definitely tracks with me. I could have some of the later timeframe mixed up. I'll have to check my box o' hats...I have a game worn hat of every team I ever played on in a box somewhere in the barndomenium. I'll forever thank my mom and/or dad for doing that.
Man, I wish that we had machine pitch, we had coach pitch, and there is no more pressure than being a dad and losing it on the mound......like you can't throw it down the middle to save your life.....and the kids are like come on man....... LOL - good times. The worst feeling is plucking your own kid in the cage, I must have hit mine about 10 times......... DD
I'll never forget my freshman HS year...Bill Colley was a year above me, we'd played together since Jr High, was the best 3B you'd see....and we're in the BP cage, he goes first. I watched my coach nail him in the side of the knee with a 80+ish fastball. He crumpled, we walked in to help him, and I could see the imprints of the stitches on the side of his knee. He recovered an all was well for the season, but ****. I was always very nervous to take live BP with coach Bailey after that. Nolan Ryan style.
