MLB 2021 Baseball Season

[+ purplekow]

3 hours ago, BuffaloKyle said:

They just are a model organization. Incredible. They came out of nowhere. 

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[+ purplekow]

Just now, purplekow said:

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Here is a good reason to root for the Cards.  Up top is a picture of Tyler O'Neill's dad.  Tyler is an outfielder for the Card.  The link is Tyler shirtless after hitting a game winning home run

[samhexum]

2 hours ago, samhexum said:

is adorable.

I may have jinxed Mr. Arenado.  He left tonight's game with lower back tightness... though I'll bet he did it adorably.  The team got its 11th straight.  They scored 2 runs on one sacrifice fly.

[+ WilliamM]

22 hours ago, purplekow said:

Here is a good reason to root for the Cards.  Up top is a picture of Tyler O'Neill's dad.  Tyler is an outfielder for the Card.  The link is Tyler shirtless after hitting a game winning h

Note

The Cards come from behind on Thursday afternoon to win again Against the Brewers. Goldsmith's two home runs are the difference 12 the win in a row

Edited September 23, 2021 by WilliamM

[+ WilliamM]

The longest St Louis Cardinals winning streak was 14 in 1935 when Dizzy Dean was pitching for them

[+ WilliamM]

On 9/23/2021 at 6:17 PM, WilliamM said:

Note

The Cards come from behind on Thursday afternoon to win again Against the Brewers. Goldsmith's two home runs are the difference 12 the win in a row

Winning a double-header in Chicago  brings the St Louis Cardinals winning streak to 14 wins in a row 

Tying a franchise record

Edited September 25, 2021 by WilliamM

[samhexum]

On 9/22/2021 at 4:13 PM, WilliamM said:

The St Louis Cardinals...

 

On 9/22/2021 at 4:22 PM, BuffaloKyle said:

...are a model organization. Incredible. They came out of nowhere. 

They've been playing Lars Nootbaar in right field.  Wasn't he married to Phyllis on THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW?

[+ WilliamM]

41 minutes ago, samhexum said:

 

They've been playing Lars Nootbaar in right field.  Wasn't he married to Phyllis on THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW?

Right now he is quite happy the St Louis came from behind this afternoon to beat the Cubs

[samhexum]

Giancarlo Stanton can carry a team like almost nobody else when he's going well.

I was looking at his game log and noticed something weird...  the last 13 runs he has scored have been on his homers.  The last time he scored any other way was August 21st (my & Jeff Stryker's 59th birthday).

[+ WilliamM]

1 hour ago, samhexum said:

Giancarlo Stanton can carry a team like almost nobody else when he's going well.

I was looking at his game log and noticed something weird...  the last 13 runs he has scored have been on his homers.  The last time he scored any other way was August 21st (my & Jeff Stryker's 59th birthday).

Well, Perhaps he could be traded to St. Louis

[+ WilliamM]

On 9/22/2021 at 7:51 PM, purplekow said:

Here is a good reason to root for the Cards.  Up top is a picture of Tyler O'Neill's dad.  Tyler is an outfielder for the Card.  The link is Tyler shirtless after hitting a game winning home run

Tyler is Gold Glove outfielder.

And Nolan Arenado won several Gold Gloves at third base when he played for  Colorado. 

Yadi  Molina won several Gold Gloves behind the plate earlier in his career with the Cards

[samhexum]

On 9/22/2021 at 7:51 PM, purplekow said:

Here is a good reason to root for the Cards.  Up top is a picture of Tyler O'Neill's dad.  Tyler is an outfielder for the Card.  The link is Tyler shirtless after hitting a game winning home run

 

1 hour ago, WilliamM said:

Tyler is Gold Glove outfielder.

 

There was never a major league player with the first name TYLER before 1993.   Now there have been about 50, the cutest one being Tyler Wade of the Yankees

BTW,  the Yanks have a minor leaguer named Tyler HARDman.

 

Edited September 26, 2021 by samhexum

[+ WilliamM]

Cardinals come from behind in Chicago this afternoon for 16th consecutive win. The team has a home game in St Louis on Tuesday, I believe. The season is almost over.

If the season ended today it would be the Cardinals against the Dodgers in a wild card series.

The Phillies and Reds are still   alive  for a wild card slot

Edited September 26, 2021 by WilliamM

[samhexum]

On 9/25/2021 at 8:06 PM, samhexum said:

Giancarlo Stanton can carry a team like almost nobody else when he's going well.

I was looking at his game log and noticed something weird...  the last 13 runs he has scored have been on his homers.  The last time he scored any other way was August 21st (my & Jeff Stryker's 59th birthday).

the last 14 runs he has scored have been on his homers.  The last time he scored any other way was August 21st (my & Jeff Stryker's 59th birthday).  Yes, that's 14 homers in 5 weeks.

4 hours ago, WilliamM said:

Well, Perhaps he could be traded to St. Louis

He vetoed that possibility when the Marlins were looking to trade him.

[+ WilliamM]

20 minutes ago, samhexum said:

 

He vetoed that possibility when the Marlins were looking to trade him.

And we know how that turned out.

[BuffaloKyle]

17 hours ago, WilliamM said:

The Phillies and Reds are still   alive  for a wild card slot

The Reds are eliminated with one loss or one Cardinals win so they are done. The Phillies are done in the wild card as well their way in is to catch the Braves for the division who they start a 3 game set with tomorrow.

[+ WilliamM]

St Louis - the longest win streak in the National League since 1951

[+ purplekow]

11 hours ago, WilliamM said:

St Louis - the longest win streak in the National League since 1951

 

11 hours ago, WilliamM said:

Still think the Rockies run in 2007 was better when they won 21 of 22.  Of course they lost in the World Series but it was an improbably run from also ran out of the play offs to the National league pennant.  See if the Cards can get past the Dodgers.  

 

 

[BuffaloKyle]

Big blow for the Giants to lose Brandon Belt to a broken left thumb. HR & RBI leader for them!

[samhexum]

The secret behind the New York Yankees' playoff push is ... a new pet?

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BOSTON WAS BEAUTIFUL on Saturday. Warm. Breezy. A little after noon, a yellow luxury coach bus idled outside the front entrance of the Four Seasons Hotel. A small crowd gathered behind a metal fence.

It was all very standard. The autograph hunters with their bags of jerseys and cards. A couple of college-age fans who shouted out their love for the team. A pair of women with New York Yankees T-shirts.

The Yankees players trickled out slowly. Giancarlo Stanton. Aaron Judge. Gerrit Cole. Nestor Cortes was the only one to stop to sign anything, and he only did so after chiding one of the regulars for a posting a mean-spirited Instagram message.

As a man and a little girl walked by, the man pointed to the players climbing onto the bus. "Look at those Yankees," he said, and the little girl stopped. She stared for a moment at the big bus and the big players. And then, in the matter-of-fact tone only an adorable child can produce, she asked the same question that New York fans have been asking each other, over and over, for months.

"Daddy," she said, "Who are those Yankees?"

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THE ANSWER TO that little girl, as any exhausted Yankees fan will surely tell you, has ranged widely during this gloriously maddening, maddeningly glorious season. There have been separate stretches where the Yankees have lost 10 out of 15 games or 13 out of 18 or 13 out of 20, as well as other stretches where they have won 23 out of 32 or 13 in a row or 43 out of 63. These Yankees are everything: a juggernaut or a disgrace; world-beaters or a team that couldn't get a hit off a high schooler. Because of their violent fluctuations, all the labels have felt valid.

With only six games remaining in this season, however, here is a previously unknown story that might offer a new potential identity:

A little more than a week ago, the Yankees got a pet.

Was the secret to the Yankees' recent win streak ... Nestor Cortes adopting a turtle from a pet store?

Pandemic puppies are on trend, but Cortes, the Cuban lefthander who played for the Yankees in 2019 and rejoined them this season, led a group of players who were interested in becoming animal owners in a different way. Specifically, they wanted a turtle.

After some discussion, a small (and, it must be said, very cute) turtle was acquired from a neighborhood pet store. The players were elated. The turtle's name is Bronxie, an ode to its home borough, and it lives a comfortable life. It wiles away most of its hours in a tank with a piece of tape labeled "Bronxie the Turtle" on it. It is well-fed. At times, it even roams freely, crawling among the white, interlocking-NYs on the blue clubhouse carpet.

The Yankees famously do not have an organizational mascot, but Bronxie has been immediately embraced. Cortes is very much a proud papa, but others, including DJ LeMahieu -- who is said to just enjoy staring at Bronxie -- are involved and engaged caretakers, as well. This week, Bronxie made his first road trip, joining the team in Boston.

Bronxie, seen in the Yankees clubhouse, has been a "lucky charm" on the team's recent win streak, Brett Gardner says. 

"There is a lot of love," Yankees veteran outfielder Brett Gardner told me, adding, "Everyone is also very aware of what's happening lately." Gardner, of course, was referring to New York's performance since Bronxie's adoption: a three-game sweep of the Texas Rangers; a three-game sweep of the Red Sox, including a dramatic eighth-inning comeback on Sunday night; and a critical move from a place outside the American League's second wild-card spot to a position squarely in the mix for the first one, as the Yankees begin their final six games against the Toronto Blue Jays and the Tampa Bay Rays.

"Lucky charm, whatever you want to call it; I know a lot of guys believe there's a connection here," Gardner said before Sunday's game. "At the end of it, it would be great if we could go out and get him a little World Series ring."

He smiled and jogged out to join his teammates. Who are those Yankees? Maybe they are Bronxie's team.

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ALTHOUGH THIS SEASON has brought the topic into sharper focus than ever before, the question of identity is one that has lingered over the Yankees for some time. The last championship dynasty (Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and others) ended two decades ago, but for many, the larger philosophical sentiment underpinning those Yankees teams, and really all Yankees teams under George Steinbrenner, persists.

The Yankees are the best, that thinking goes. So, they buy the best players, use those players to put together the best teams and, because of all that, should win the World Series all the time.

Michael Kay, who does play-by-play of the Yankees games on television and also hosts a weekday radio show in which he often takes calls from fans, said he calls this phenomenon "the Steinbrenner-ization of a generation."

"That's what George sold them," Kay said. "And so, those fans who still want that to be the case have been miserable since 2009." (That year, the Yankees spent more than $400 million on CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett and Mark Teixeira in the offseason before winning the franchise's 27th title.)

In truth, Kay continued, the Yankees under Steinbrenner's son, Hal, are different.

"George fired Yogi Berra 16 games into the season, so this year, at 41-41, I don't think there's any chance George wouldn't have fired Aaron Boone," Kay said, adding that baseball, as a sport, has caught up anyway. The rise of analytics-based player evaluation has allowed a team like the Rays, currently in first place in the AL East and eight games ahead of the Yankees, to have an objectively deeper team than the Yankees despite having a payroll that is $130 million smaller.

For an ever-growing segment of Yankees fans, as well as a significant part of the Yankees organization, that model -- the Rays' bargain-hunting brilliance -- is aspirational as well as, it sure seems, quite a bit more fun. Who doesn't prefer diamonds found to diamonds bought? But there isn't anything close to unanimity on that kind of seismic shift, within or outside the team, and so a schism has developed that makes years like this one even more complicated.

When the Yankees thrive, is it because of their high-priced stars performing? Or because of canny decision-making from the manager or the front office? And when they swoon, is it because general manager Brian Cashman pushes the team to rely too much on analytics? Or not enough?

As the Yankees pull out of another swoon in a roller-coaster season, DJ LeMahieu described it as such: "The story of our season is getting punched in the face and coming back."

At the center of it is Boone, the former Yankee who had his own indelible moment at Fenway Park Yankee Stadium with that AL Championship Series-winning home run in 2003. Boone is as warm and thoughtful as he was in his playing days, and he remains the epitome of the old-school ballplayer. He comes from a baseball family. He essentially grew up around major league clubhouses before playing 13 big league seasons himself, and he largely presents in that classic mold. He defends his players and their ability to perform to the point of occasional absurdity. He is relentlessly positive. He does not have a problem relying on a series of well-worn clichés ("Every game is important," "I believe in my guys") in his daily interactions with the beat reporters.

Boone has tried to engage with the injection of analytics that Cashman has brought to the club through assistant GM Michael Fishman, but it is clearly not his natural inclination. His coaching staff is a mix of old-school and numbers-rooted coaches, and he is a frequent target for complaints about his inconsistency in the cacophonous multiverse that is Yankees fans on the internet. (Sunday's decision to remove reliever Clay Holmes after one inning, in which Holmes struck out the side, was just the latest example.)

Boone's steadfast commitment to remaining unruffled can give him an at-times pained look on the bench, but Kay said he sensed a visceral difference in Boone for a few weeks back in August. Yes, it was during one of the Yankees' best stretches this summer, but it wasn't simply because they were winning, either, Kay said. It had just as much to do with the fact that the Yankees, due to injuries and COVID-19 protocols, were forced to play lesser-known players such as Greg Allen and Andrew Velazquez and Kyle Higashioka. Not coincidentally, their style shifted, as well.

Suddenly, the Yankees' baserunning was more aggressive. There were more steals. There was more hitting-and-running and fewer double plays. The Yankees were more assertive; they didn't simply wait for analytics' lasting contributions to the recent game -- a walk, a strikeout or a home run.

That kind of play (and those kind of players), the numbers tell us, is not necessarily as reliably effective. But that does not mean it isn't engaging.

"I think if you injected him with truth serum, Boone would say that was the most fun he had this season," Kay said. "He was managing the team like it was a team from before analytics existed."

---

CASEY STENGEL ONCE said that "managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits," and while that is assuredly true (whether you're Boone, Tony La Russa or anyone else), it also undersells the personal component of what modern sports leadership requires.

Whatever one thinks of Boone's baseball acumen, there is no denying that a significant part of his responsibility lies in motivating his players. It is his job to create an environment in which the players believe -- regardless of whatever just happened -- that another success is attainable.

This task, which is inevitably heightened in the pressure cooker that is playing in New York, is something Boone made a significant part of his team talk on the first day of spring training. "I wanted them to be clear about it right away," he told me in Boston. "I said it straight: 'There is adversity coming for you.' Because there always is. It isn't about if; it's when. And I wanted them to know I would support them when it happened."

Boone, admittedly, didn't necessarily foresee a season with so many extremes -- the Yankees went from preseason title favorites to underwhelming and possibly out of contention to now back to a dangerous postseason pick -- but while one could look at the Yankees' season as a series of disappointing inconsistencies, another interpretation is to see it as one of perpetual redemptions.

Or as LeMahieu put it: "The story of our season is getting punched in the face and coming back."

What story will be told about the 2021 Yankees remains to be seen -- but a sweep against the Red Sox in the two teams' final meeting of the season doesn't hurt. 

The Yankees' ability to plow on is remarkable enough, but to go one layer deeper, it is their unshaking belief that they'll be able to plow on that feels like it could be special. On Saturday, trailing the Red Sox by a run with two outs in the eighth inning, Stanton stood in the on-deck circle at Fenway as Boston lefty Darwinzon Hernandez tried to retire Anthony Rizzo to end the inning.

As he watched, Stanton had one thought: "They better get Rizz." When Hernandez didn't (he hit Rizzo to load the bases), Stanton strode to the plate and obliterated the first pitch he saw, rocketing the ball into the night sky for a grand slam that pushed the Yankees to an unlikely victory and made the summer slogs feel that much farther away.

Will those moments continue? Will that energy always be there? Or to put it another way, who are those Yankees? As Gardner said when I asked him the question the next afternoon, "Well ... that's still to be determined, isn't it?" And it is.

 

On Sunday, Stanton homered again and the Yankees came back again. And that is, in the end, what will push the Yankees as far as they can go. They will need to mash. And pitch. And take the opportunities when they are right there in front of them. They will need Stanton. And Judge. And Cole, who pitched well in Friday's win. And Gardner. And the bullpen guys. And yes, maybe even Bronxie.

There are six games left in this serpentine season, and there was some serious discussion about what to do with Bronxie as the series in Boston neared its end. Travel is tricky for a turtle, so the question was asked: Should Bronxie go on to Toronto with the team? Or perhaps head back to New York and his more familiar surroundings?

There was talk. And debate. And then the Yankees completed their rally, and Bronxie's record moved to a perfect 6-0, and the answer, to everyone, was obvious. Bronxie is in Toronto. Neither he, nor the Yankees, are going anywhere.

Edited September 28, 2021 by samhexum

[samhexum]

Giancarlo Stanton has turned boos into blasts with the New York Yankeesplay

Giancarlo Stanton unloads on a 448-foot home run in the eighth inning vs. the Red Sox. (0:22)

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His feet settled in the right-handed batter's box at Fenway on Saturday night, Giancarlo Stanton dropped his chin slightly, as he does before each pitch, to narrow his field of vision. With his head tilted in this way, there is only a sliver of space between the bill of his lowered batting helmet and the curl of protective gear that covers his left cheekbone, and through this, Stanton focuses on the pitcher. Like staring at the moon through a telescope.

In that moment, Boston's Darwinzon Hernandez tried to sneak a fastball past him to escape with Strike 1, but Stanton did not miss. As he recoiled and dropped the bat, the baseball had easily cleared the Green Monster in left-center field, and a fragile Red Sox lead was wrecked. Stanton's grand slam was the pivot point of the Yankees' three-game sweep at Fenway Park over the weekend, and, Aaron Boone said, the preeminent regular-season moment of the manager's tenure in its importance and emotion.

Stanton also homered on Friday and on Sunday, three homers in three games, with 10 RBIs, hoisting the Yankees into the lead of the American League wild-card race. "It's go time," Stanton said right after the sweep. "This is what it's all about, this is the most important time, and I'm glad things are clicking."

In 48 games since Aug. 3, Stanton has 18 homers and 47 RBIs, with a .320 batting average and an OPS of 1.024. He is healthy, a state that has been elusive in a lot of his time with the Yankees, and his physical well-being has seemingly melded with the experience and knowledge and useful emotional scar tissue Stanton has gleaned during his years in New York.

Others in the organization have come to deeply appreciate his resilience, in the face of the negative feedback he has received from home fans throughout his time with the Yankees. He has been a lightning rod of ire for Yankee Stadium fans, a natural role for just about all of the superstars who come to New York from other teams. Reggie Jackson, Roger Clemens, Jason Giambi, Randy Johnson and Alex Rodriguez were all extraordinary players, and they and others like them were booed after moving to the Bronx, almost inevitably, when they had moments when they failed to meet the expectations of the moment. Before Sunday night's game, Rodriguez stood near the batting cage and recalled how stark those moments could be, when writers descended upon you after a lousy game to ask you how you felt about how lousy you played.

But Stanton seems to have processed this all in a productive way. In his first home game with the Yankees, he struck out five times, and the boos that emanated from the stands seemed to grow exponentially with each plate appearance. Jason Zillo, the longtime head of media relations with the Yankees, had spoken to Stanton about how to handle questions from the New York media, giving the same sort of advice he has given for years. Be available, be accountable, don't lie. It's better to not answer a question than to lie.

But Zillo knew from decades of experience that no matter how much counsel you offer, you never truly know how a player will respond to booing and criticism until the player actually goes through it. That first day at Yankee Stadium, Stanton answered the questions, accepted responsibility. In the last day of that very homestand, Stanton had another five-strikeout game. The boos were even more intense. The Yankees were about to depart on a long road trip, and Zillo had seen other players escape postgame media access by showering quickly and getting out of the clubhouse. Not Stanton. Again, he answered questions, and for Zillo, these were the first indications of how Stanton might respond to the pressure.

Stanton could hit two homers in a game on a Monday and if he takes a bad swing in his first at-bat the next day for a strikeout, he'll get booed. He could be great for a month and have a bad day, and he'll get booed. What Boone believes is that through this, Stanton has recognized the booing as essentially a superficial response without lasting meaning. Momentary unhappiness easily overturned.

That understanding has seemingly allowed Stanton to turn his attention to what truly matters: his preparation, his execution. "The more you watch him, the more impressed you are by him," said Brian Cashman, the Yankees general manager, recounting how Stanton has gone about his work diligently, how he carries himself around teammates -- including that day, in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, when Stanton stood up in front of teammates and spoke so thoughtfully and passionately. "Just a quality person, very strong," said Cashman.

Before the Yankees acquired Stanton from the Miami Marlins, he turned down a possible trade to the St. Louis Cardinals and fended off other possibilities through the use of his no-trade clause. He fostered the eventual deal to the Yankees, embraced it, and Cashman believes that part of the reason Stanton has responded so stoically to booing is his personal accountability -- he knows he helped to make the deal to the Yankees happen. He wanted it. "He's always been that way," said Cashman. "He could've stayed in Florida, but he wanted bigger and better. He wanted to run to New York. There's a tax consequence for him to play here, but he's going to take the bad with the good. He's not going to run and hide."

Stanton stopped to yell at Francisco Lindor during a home-run trot on Sept. 12, with the benches emptying, and other Yankees believe the foundational sentiment underneath Stanton's words was a response to Lindor's conduct in his first year in New York. The Mets shortstop signed a 10-year, $341 million contract in spring training and has struggled to meet expectations. Like Stanton, he has been booed regularly in his home ballpark. In one stretch of games, he and a small handful of teammates gave a thumbs-down gesture that was their way of protesting the booing.

Lindor had a great night against the Yankees two Sundays ago, with three homers, but he had screamed at the Yankees players about what he perceived as strategic whistling. To some of the Yankees, Lindor completely overreacted in the midst of his difficult season and took it out on them, and Stanton -- who knows all about booing and New York scar tissue -- delivered a message: Pipe down and handle it better. That Stanton home run against the Mets was the first of eight he has hit in the last 14 games, a burst of offense that has pulled the Yankees from the edge of extinction.

Boone said: "He's a unicorn. Every game, he does something and [hitting coach] Marcus Thames and I look at each like, 'Wow.'"

Like that home run he hit at Yankee Stadium against the Rangers last week, a 118.5 mph line drive that looked like a golf ball clipped cleanly with a 2-iron, the arc never exceeding 50 feet, according to the Statcast data. Nobody else in baseball has that club, Boone said.

Like the time he broke his bat and the barrel whirled with such force that it landed on the netting behind home plate.

Like the home run he smashed against Hernandez, the grand slam that might be remembered as the Yankees' launch pad into the 2021 playoffs.

 

Before that game, Stanton paused after finishing batting practice and explained why he tilts the bill of his helmet downward. It's not as if he trying to stare down the pitcher, to lock in on some part of the delivery. What he is trying to do is to block out everything around the pitcher. "Like COVID times," said Stanton referring to the time when the ballparks were empty. "Block out the crowd. It's just me and the pitcher."

On Sunday night, the pitcher was Adam Ottavino, a former teammate who had seen Stanton demolish Hernandez's fastball on Saturday. Ottavino spun a slider that drifted into the middle of the plate. Stanton blasted the pitch beyond the Green Monster, on a trajectory similar to his Saturday grand slam.

He stood at home plate for a moment, watching the ball disappear, before turning and flipping his bat toward the Yankees dugout, his weekend of destruction complete.

Edited September 28, 2021 by samhexum

[BuffaloKyle]

2 hours ago, samhexum said:

Giancarlo Stanton has turned boos into blasts with the New York Yankeesplay

 

I think it's all the time working on his home run swing in little league has helped this year! 🤣

 

[+ WilliamM]

2 hours ago, BuffaloKyle said:

I think it's all the time working on his home run swing in little league has helped this year! 🤣

 

Good luck Yankee fans

[BuffaloKyle]

7 minutes ago, WilliamM said:

Good luck Yankee fans

I like the Mets so I gotta wait for next year! 

[samhexum]

3 hours ago, BuffaloKyle said:

I think it's all the time working on his home run swing in little league has helped this year! 🤣

I love that ad, as I've previously posted: https://www.companyofmen.org/topic/89509-tv-ads-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/page/3/?tab=comments#comment-1890342