Couldn't find any good photos besides a jersey or the back of a Topps baseball card... And that seemed a little sensitive
The ML season is a marathon, and not built for spurts and sprints. It’s tedious and grueling, but especially it requires mental vitality, because you can’t get down with the losses; as even the 100 win teams lose 62 games in the regular season. Teams that know how to keep chugging along despite the highs and/or lows are the ones that make it to the playoffs. And the teams that can manage their pitching rotation better are more likely to make it to the World Series.
Along those lines I really liked what Yordan said during Kansas series. Sounds pretty confident and menacing for the opponents if he has been saying this when results were not pretty. “I spoke about this in the past,” Alvarez said. “I said there was going to be a moment we would all click, and that’s what’s happening right now.”
One of the most remarkable things about this historic run has been how Houston has not had any consistent competition for the division. Angels with Trout and Ohtani, Rangers with Semien/Seager, Mariners with their SP and elite farm, A’s with Olson/Semien/Chapman…none of them were able to mount more than a 1-2 year challenge.
It may be time to stop watching the mariner scores and start paying attention to the guardian scores. At least until the mariners get back within 3 (if that ever happens). We are 4.5 behind Cleveland for the 1st round bye. That's the team we need to be watching. Unfortunately, they won last night...
Rangers and Mariners have opposite issues. Rangers blew their free agent wad on vets early, but it ended up paying off for them big. Mariners,,,,they just didn't have enough at the MLB level with the guys coming up from the farm, and then made trades using talent from farm to shorten their likely peak in talent. Granted Marte has not been good since he returned from suspension, but still only 22 and could have been a good player for the Mariners in a couple of years. It is just so weird to me that not one team in the AL West decided that the Astros were good enough that they should focus on a long term rebuild from 2017-2022 and stuck to it.
I texted a Guardian fan that the Astros offer them a "you're welcome" after sweeping the Royals. Let's just say he was not hoping for the Royals getting swept.
