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Now this is a little 2 game series they should sweep.

I would have loved to see what he could have done in his athletic prime and with the improved training, coaching and diet that he found (and utilized) when he got over here. He probably would have had a few 320/380/600 seasons. He has lost a lot of bat speed and he cheats, but he's still a good enough hitter to where he makes it work. One year he'll fall off, but it hasn't happened yet. The first time I saw him at spring training he literally didn't even know how to hold runners on at 1B. If he'd have gotten US coaching earlier in his career who knows what sort of career he could have had. I do think he'd be at least a HOVG type. Not HOF perhaps but in that next tier, which is still a helluva career. He might get there anyways.

Bo was a great athlete, maybe one of the best of all time, but he wasn't a great baseball player.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHW/leaders_bat_season.shtml Not too shabby for Albert. Dick Allen with that monster season, mercy.

a 7 fWAR, 162 wRC+ season, gotta be top 10 all time for the Sox I'd imagine. But he only really had the one year.

I feel like frank hit the back of the runner a dozen times in his career as well.

I almost made a thread on it but TA has put up almost 6 fWAR in his last 160 games. He's not hitting as much this year but his defense has improved from mediocre to very good at SS.

The only thing Frank was good at over at 1B was stretching. As noted, horrible arm, no range, stone hands. Frank def made the right choice going with baseball because even for a huge guy, he was never very mobile, even in his 20s. He wouldn't have sniffed the NFL most likely given his lateral mobility and speed.

he's made a full recovery from his hip injury I don't see it hindering his speed at all. might make him think twice about going 100% on every ball out of the box, and that is a good thing.

He's a baseball savant, KW was right, an incredible scouting find and sell job to JR. And yes, I think he's the most talented in WS history. Might not be the best, he need about 60 WAR to pass Frank, but he's the most talented. He has a 10 WAR season in him if he can stay healthy.

Right. I wrote similar but deleted it as I didn't think I phrased it properly. The 2005 club was a once in a lifetime collection of guys, mostly vets and mostly journeymen, that came together at the right time in October. God bless them for winning it all, but as we saw it wasn't a model for sustained success -- the 2021 club is a sustained success model, regardless of any postseason magic this year.

I think he's this year's Dylan Cease. There are not a lot of similarities with the 2005 team IMO.

Good thing they moved that fence in a few years ago.

Dylan is sorta quietly having a helluva season.

Boom or bust offense continues.

Hey goodwin gets to face a RHP!

God damnit I’ve been paying dues all month!

Ok boomer.

Weird seeing ageist shit from someone clearly older themself. Every manager in the game would have had a vet come out for the 2nd, few would "wake up" and pull them as quickly as the "tired" TLR. Now get your nap in before the game gramps.

Gutsy decision last night pulling Dallas mid batter. Changed the complexion of the game. But it doesn't matter he will be tested in October: as I've said until then it's just pass or fail via winning the division (so pass) and final grade will come out in the postseason.

Ramos has a really high walk rate for a 19 year old in A ball. Don't know much about him but that's an interesting slash line he has. A lot of walks, maybe some bad BABIP luck, and decent power. How's his defense?

-1.1 fWAR, -2.1 runs with the glove a 29% K rate and according to Mariners fans has developed a bad hitch in his swing. I appreciate a historically bad rookie year. He's got a long off-season of improving to get up to just "bad". We've seem turnarounds with young players here so it can happen but yea, he's been a train wreck.

investing in kimbrel is like investing in some tired boomer stock.

i am not a fan of kimbrel.

and two extra points.