India should send $1 to whatever they have set up as an estate for Bill Veeck. He invented the "exploding" scoreboard.
Brady Singer’s aggregate numbers look pretty good so far. He is only 1-3 on the year but his ERA is 3.09. WHIP is slightly high at 1.20. 19H and 9BB in 23.1IP.
Alonso’s batting average is up to .287. He “only” has 5 HRs on the year but he has been better average wise. Went 1-2 with a BB in Game 1 of the doubleheader against the Cards today.
Angel Hernandez has long been one of the worst MLB umps, amazed he is still employed. Guess once you're there its like a life time deal.
2x— For sure it seems that they are there until their uh, expiration date rather than shown the door for being incompetent or just plain out bad.
It hasn’t been talked about but Disco is pitching very well for the Giants. 3-1 with a 2.14 ERA on the year. He is facing India and the Reds tonight. India got a single off of him in the bottom of the 2nd.
Zunino has his average "up" to .218, with 10 HR's and 20 RBI. He's only played in 27 games and has 34 K's. He's a great defensive catcher, but I thought he would be a much better MLB hitter than he's been.
10 HRs in 27 games is a 50+ HR season. But I agree. He isn’t a good MLB hitter and it is surprising to me as well.
He's a bit all or nothing, but when he runs into one it goes a LONG way. Rays are leading the league in K's as a team and running away with that honor. Whole team is a bit all or nothing.
For his MLB career, Mike Z's batting average is .201 with 465 hits, 118 HR's, 303 RBI, 883 strikeouts. He's in his 9th season, so he still has value; but the way he hit in college it seemed he was going to be an All-Star, Hall of Fame type major leaguer. Handles pitchers with the best of them, though.
Really good defensive catchers don't need to be great batsmen. Not everybody can be another Johnny Bench. It just means that you also can't have a defensive specialist at two of these other positions: SS, 2B, CF. Two holes in the line-up that can flash leather is fine. Three is hard to overcome. But as a catcher like that having home run power with a low batting average is more than enough to have real value to a team.
Agree completely Lurk. A great defensive catcher that for his defense can largely shut down the opponents running game, stays on the same page with his pitchers as to how he calls their pitches, and gives them the needed confidence to bury any selected pitch with two strikes is beyond important to the team beyond his BAA. And I also agree—Johnny Bench was as good as anybody.
His career WAR is quite low: 7.7 over now 9 seasons (0.8 already this year). Again, an ok career and obviously a pretty long one so all-in-all a good MLB player but it isn’t unreasonable to have expected more given his college career and draft location. Buster Posey for example is a couple years older but has a WAR of 42.9 and was drafter two positions behind Zunino (5th rather than 3rd). Posey will end up in the HOF.
Alonso is on the 10 day DL. Dates back to a HBP. Pete Alonso placed on injured list with a sprained hand as New York Mets injury woes worsen
