SURPRISINGLY SANGUINE SEAFARING SEATTLES
CF Austin Jackson (R)
LF Dustin Ackley (L)
2B Robinson Cano (L)
DH Kendrys Morales (S)
3B Kyle Seager (L)
1B Justin Smoak (S)
RF Endy Chavez (L)
C Mike Zunino (R)
SS Brad Miller (L)
Chris Young (RHP)
BLOODIED BUT UNBOWED SCRAPHEAP SAVIORS
CF Sam Fuld (L)
RF Josh Reddick (L)
3B Josh Donaldson (R)
DH Adam Dunn (L)
LF Brandon Moss (L)
SS Jed Lowrie (S)
1B Stephen Vogt (L)
C Geovany Soto (R)
2B Eric Sogard (L)
Jason Hammel (RHP)
Make this month count, or face a winter of our GM and franchise getting humiliated in sports media like none before ever has in the history of Earth.
Never suck on a Blow Pop with the microphone open.
you may ask yourself
Well, how did I get here?
“There is water at the bottom of the dugout.”
“Uh, that’s not water.”
They’re really riding the Kendrys Morales train, eh?
Slusser has all kinds of tidbits. Crisp took batting practice (right-handed only) today. Jaso is supposedly going to do so in the next day or two (we’ll see how that pans out). Lowrie’s finger still isn’t fine. Doolittle is throwing socks, and Melvin isn’t ruling out activivating him when he’s eligible to return.
It all still sounds desperate. But Hammel is starting, so I guess it’s not that desperate.
Lowrie’s just going to have to suck it up.
and that’s the way our ballgame begins
Nice catch! Did he stay inbounds?
Nice catch!
Is it bad that I was relieved to see CB Bucknor? At least he is terrible for everyone.
Nice to have an ump who doesn’t have it in for us, but instead just has it in for the game of baseball as a whole.
Tagline!
that was The Fuld Monty
wow, actual Major League caliber defensive play! Twice! In one inning even!
Please be a sign of things to come. Please be a sign of things to come. Please be a sign of things to come. Please be a sign of things to come. Please be a sign of things to come. Please be a sign of things to come. Please be a sign of things to come. Please be a sign of things to come. Please be a sign of things to come. Please be a sign of things to come. Please be a sign of things to come. Please be a sign of things to come.
wrong drink to order
suspicion grows
strong situation
and no one knows where you’ve gone to in the Pagan night
Schlong!
That seems auspicious.
So much better than Callaspo!
DUNN DUNN DUUUUUNNNNNNN!!!!!
Du Dun Dunn!!!
Way to go, Adam!
who DUNNit??????
And Moss gets on base. FK YOU AUGUST!!!
It was a Day Game Homer, barely out. But you go to your new team that’s in dire straits and your first at-bat is a home run?
Wow, that’s a huge boost.
He may have hit that high enough to end the drought.
The A’s offensive drought, or the one that is making it hard for folks to get enough water to drink?
Yes.
that would have went out at any time. it was very, very, very high.
Dunn vs. flyball righty is a nice matchup.
I like Hawk and I love his hr call for Dunn: “He Dunn did it!”
That cannot possibly be his actual home run call for Dunn.
DO YOU SEE? DO YOU FUCKING SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE SHORTSTOP ISN’T REPLACEMENT LEVEL?
Thanks, and go As.
So much better than Parrino!
Tennessee JED
@GM, very low K flyball rhp…
gp
Dammit, I Dunn missed the new guy’s first AB.
Dunn just looks right in this uniform, doesn’t he? Like, what took so long?
daric barton’s number
Fosse’s killing Jackson for not getting to Reddick’s double, but they haven’t shown a replay suggesting he had a chance at it.
he did not. although off the bat i was scared
nice AB by Vogt here
Mmmmmm Francesco’s
New guy(s)
This is so much more fun.
Thanks, and go As.
God damn I’ve missed these types of innings from the A’s.
Man, did I miss this shit.
DUNN GEOVANY
That’s as many runs as we scored in the whole last 4 games, folks. BIG PROPS to the 30,000 lunatics going ballistic in the concrete cathedral, letting our boys know we are with them <3
Yes. Our fans rule.
Props to the folks that met them at the airport.
Heh
muahahahahah.
We Dunn just batted around.
The power of Melvin’s disappointment is breathtaking.
I really think I need to have him come and chew me out about work or something.
seriously, Melvin has a 7-figure career as a motivational speaker when he’s done in MLB
I’m new to opening innings of a homestand after a disastrous series. Is this any good?
I nearly forgot that it was Hammel pitching.
Da hell is this?
Someone needs tell Sogard not to make the fair catch at the goal line – let that sucker go into the end zone!
GREAT hilarious football call by KenKo, I LOL’d:
Sogard is to the ten, to the five, to the two where he hauls it in for the first down!
I would love to see one of our guys make a catch in the end zone, spike the ball and do a touchdown dance.
Maybe a Lambeau leap into the field level seats.
Fosse’s as skittish about Hammel as we are.
Add on, please.
Holy stirrups!
Well, Hammel got out of it. But the A’s need more runs.
Hahahaha Anderson’s hair OMG.
Okay, you’re ridiculous.
I think Ken Korach’s voice just cracked while calling the Dunn base hit. Adam Dunn is bringing tears of joy to KenKo.
To be fair, that must be his first single in about 5 years.
I like this new guy, as long as we don’t ever have to see him in the field.
If he ends up in the field it means something has gone terribly wrong.
Or we’re in the World Series.
Though actually, if he ends up playing in the field at an NL park, I’ll be ok with it.
National League baseball is, it should be noted, something that has gone terribly wrong.
Can you become 2014 team MVP in 1 game? Asking for a friend…
The power of Scott Hatteberg compels you.
DUNN to the death!!!!
That was a nasty pitch to K Moss.
I gotta say, Hammel’s stuff looks terrific today.
And I love Soto catching.
It really does.
His ball-to-strike ratio does not.
Dudes, what about Josh Reddick though? .284/.323/.526 since coming back, with an .849 OPS, .367 wOBA, 139 WRC+. Today not included. And it’s not even BABIP-fueled, since his BABIP during that time is almost exactly in line with his career figure.
He is liquid nails. Liquid. Nails. Wait, what were we talking about?
I still don’t totally trust him. But the numbers don’t lie.
And on Saturday, when Reddick was removed from the game in favor of Gomes even with a bunch of right-handers waiting to pitch, I had a sinking feeling. Reddick has been the A’s best-hitting outfielder for a while now. Removing him was Melvin’s only bad mistake of the Lost Weekend. (The rest of it can be explained by no runs.)
I like him.
Thanks, and go As.
I like the look of this team. Diamond-cut jibs of granite.
You make me laugh.
Tigers leading Cleveland 5-1.
I think the real problem with Vince Cotroneo is that he does want to be on the radio talking about baseball, but he is profoundly uninterested in calling the play by play.
You can hear it in his voice. He’s invested and excited when talking baseball. But he doesn’t really like play-by-play, and doesn’t work at his craft. Perhaps Bob Melvin should give him a stern talking-to.
He barely even bothered to mention Eric Sogard striking out to end an inning.
he cares about the narrative of the game, and he isn’t thoughtful. if he cared about the action and was not thoughtful, that’d be better, or if he was thoughtful and didnt’ care about the action, but he chose the worst two attributes to combine
He’s not smart or interesting enough to do color, though.
I wonder if Johnny Doskow is under contract next year in Sacramento. I’d love to see him replace Vince for Ken’s innings off.
DALLAS BRADEN
*clap clap clapclapclap*
DALLAS BRADEN
*clap clap clapclapclap*
Thanks, and go As.
he would be the best choice
only if he cut that mop on his head though.
Yes, even for radio. It looks awful.
Thanks, and go As.
Braden would suck for play-by-play, tho.
He’d be much better for TV as Ray’s replacement.
its settled. Vince and Dallas on TV, Ken and roxy on the radio
I’d be fine having Ray in the radio booth as well.
Agreed.
Hammel is…dominating? Do I have that right? That looks wrong.
No. Just not sucking ass. Not tossing the salad. Not smoking the glory hole.
Not emulating Adam Rosales.
He’s apparently pretty good with a comfortable lead. Or he’s – dare I think it – starting to recapture his early-season form.
I think Soto suits him well.
He’s keeping the ball down, which is a big difference from how he started out here. Who know why he started out so bad after the trade, but he kept saying it was just a mechanical issue and it seems like it’s been figured out. Let’s hope so.
Being a play-in team creates perverse rooting interests. The Tigers are a flawed team, but the worst possible opponent in an elimination game (and not just because of the A’s recent history). I would rather Detroit win the division and deal with them in a short or long series than face them in a single game, when they can use all their best pitchers and would have every incentive to do so.
I don’t know, will asmus have the stones to have price relive verlander or scherzer?
KC has a great bullpen, I don’t like that. their offense sucks. who knows if cabrera will be available
Maybe make Scherzer the emergency reliever. He’s OK at that as I recall.
that was leland
Soto has a cannon. That can be helpful.
Lowrie has accomplished the impossible: making me excited about hearing Rush.
GMTA
Really need to score some more. As nice as the 1st was we have seen a couple of these 1 inning ejaculations of runs before. I want to see multiple crooked numbers plz.
Yes. Partly because I still don’t really trust Hammel. And partly because I would like our hitters to get back in the habit of being successful. (Confidence!)
That Seattle home run is a reminder of the first reason.
But yes, the hitters need a little more success so the first inning doesn’t seem like a fluke.
Nothing more fascinating for Fosse than an official scorer’s decision.
Especially if it goes against a catcher.
That’s fine. One solo shot. Hammel continues to sail along.
Reddick gets a line drive hit off a tough pitcher’s pitch. Hitting really is contagious. JD’s turn now.
Oh yeah!
I’ve done the exact same thing with beach balls at a concert.
So far in his two starts since joining the A’s I really like this new #40 guy.
It helps to have a short memory.
Its like picking up another quality starter after the trade deadline.
Legitimately great outing
Go figure. Hammel is the stopper.
Beimel really looks like a homeless guy wandered in and put on a uniform.
He and Doolittle should barnstorm with House of David in the offseason.
“And what’s with all these…. BEARDS?!?! This isn’t the GOD DAMN House of David softball team, this is the BUDDY RICH BAND!!!!!! Young men!!!!! WITH FACES!!!!!!!!!”
What’s that thing that happens when your team scores more than the other team at the end of the game called again? I forget.
Victory! Sweet blessed victory!
Adam Dunn handling Ray Fosse’s questions like a pro. What does it mean? It means a lot, Ray.
Fun fact: All of the A’s runs today were scored with two outs.
not sure I could feel any better today, based on 24 hours ago’s near death experience
during the final batter of the top of the 8th the entire crowd was chanting HAM-MELL HAM-MELL!*
*except the bros behind me chanting HAM MELLS. they also said said “nice play JD” ona ground ball to short in the early innings, and in the ninth, “nice play gentry” on another 6-3.
Shows what they know. Dale Barton plays shortstop for the A’s.
It was a great crowd, and it was all the more great because the jersey giveaway was a complete clusterFK. People were hot and tired and pissed off before they even sat down, so it could have easily gone the other way, but instead it felt like everyone took all the negative energy and fought against it. You know it’s going to be a good crowd when people in Plaza Level start chanting “Let’s Go Oakland” before the National Anthem, without any kind of prompting from anyone.
The mariachi band was epic too. Anybody know their story?
It was some private party that moved from the lot into the stands, I think. Very odd to see people sitting in a baseball park playing violins.
The horns really came through on TV. I thought it was Soto’s walkup music at one point.
I love his walk up music. It sort of came out of nowhere for me. I was like wtf is that, that’s awesome.
How’d they fuck up the giveaway?
the give away item was fine, the coordination of the giveaway sucked from pillar to post
Rivercats lose their must-win finale to the Reno Aces, 2-1 in 10 innings. Sacto had two men on in the bottom of the 10th, but the rally died on a Barton GIDP.
Rumor has it, just before he stepped to the plate, someone told him Dunn took his number on the A’s.
to be fair, he did flip the bat stylishly after a 4th inning walk
If the A’s bring him up for September he should get #86.
LMAO
And Em wins the intertubes again.
that is just SO FITTING
I hope Barton took a handshaking victory lap around Raley Field after the game. You’d think that’s it for him and the A’s, though if they want an organizational swimming coach there wouldn’t be a better candidate.
I hope he’s getting a head start on learning Japanese.
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Relevant self-promotion
Good read. This part about Japanese being so open about it is really interesting. With so many RoboToilets also featuring music to (I imagine) hide the sounds of what you are doing, I would have guessed they were very conscious about it.
Also, for a different squatter experience, I reccomend China, where you can see a guy squatted over a pile that’s coming out of the squatter, reading his paper and calmly smoking.
or, as i’ve learned to say:
True, you taglined that, I remember now
i don’t merely remember. it’s fused into my memory like…
I’m hoping part of the deal for the River Cats is they have to keep him.
I’m hoping the same thing. If he somehow makes his way to Fresno next year I may have to rethink a season ticket package.
Fucking seriously
An awesome win, Dunn homers and says all the right things, and we still want to fucking talk shit about Daric Barton
get. the. fuck. over. it.
Thanks, and go As.
Dude, it was the last game of his season, and likely his A’s career, win or else elimination game, that ended in 10 innings in noteworthy fashion. And people here are talking about all kinds of things as well. Someone needs to get over it, you do have that part right.
I hope he gets called up for the rest of the year just so it pisses people off.
Thanks, and go As.
And I hope we win the WS wikthout picking up another MI. We all have hopes and dreams.
I wouldn’t mind that, would be a nice gesture towards a guy who has been a loyal Athletic for years and is most likely at the end of his career.
Yep.
Agreed. Save some pine for that butt.
By the way, that was the worst ball park experience I have had in a while.
First, arriving just under 2 hours before a game should get you the give away. Sure, I know it was limited to 15000 and there were few seats available (although the SELL OUT sign that is typically out for sell outs was not out today and I saw a robust line at the “DAY OF GAME” ticket line. but if there is a giveaway and you arrive in the parking lot 2 hours before gametime and try to enter, the powers that be should have made the order for enough freebies. Yes, I know the sponsor has a budget, but maybe you should figure that out before hand. I mean, the backpacks would be loved by my children, but there in no way I could pull an Aces off and sit for it. and now they are going for almost $100 on ebay. that is not good planning. 15000 Ryan Sweeney jerseys in 2009 are 8000 too many, 15000 coco jerseys in 2014 are 8000 too few.
Second, the end line tender should alert you that you are in the NON SHIRT line when you stop in, not let you figure it out 20 minutes in. (again, having seen the lines and being able to calculate time, I thought it was a slim chance, but still, I was not given the choice, really. )
third, the lines need to be tended in soft spots. I had to tell 4 different groups that they just cut in front of about 200 people. One of which argued (not hard) with me that she just got there before me. The lines made no sense and were cut through often
Forth, look, I get it, lots of people eat meat and I don’t. But please, if you are going to only offer one veggie dog place, please don’t ask me to wait for 35 minutes for them to cook. ALso, don’t after 20 minutes ask me if I want a coliseum dog instead. that doesn’t make sense.
Fifth, again with the lines, I wanted to spend time inside the building, my kids like to hit in the cages (which we pay for) they like to spin eh kids club wheel. when there are big crowds it takes a long time to walk around. when you make us stand outside for an hour and a half, we only get 30 minutes to accomplish these tasks making us tense and disappointed when we get to the seats. Find away to get us inside quickly. it makes no sense that all the lines aren’t open. You can get people through the unnecessary metal detectors first, have them in waiting area then let them into the turnstile lines.
Sixth, the lines, every line in the place from outside to the food lines needs bank lines to keep the flow. It is maddening to have to choose a line and hope that there is not someone in front of you with trouble ordering/paying/accepting money.
seventh, for the love of god, stop telling me to make noise with every damned scoreboard. Leave at least one with the count and batter and other info on it.
I am sure there is more, and some of these are not just for today, but today really made me mad enough to send a letter.
I’ve always wondered why they don’t just make enough of the stupid giveaways for everybody in the stadium to get one.
Thanks, and go As.
At this point, with giveaway days pretty much always being sellouts now, it would make sense.
they made enough for everyone in the stadium to get one on september 1, 2010.
extras for 2011
It’s all driven my the sponsor and what value they put on getting their name out there. If the sponsor is only willing to foot the bill for 15k then that’s all there is.
Well, the A’s get to set the terms of the marketing/giveaway deals, so they could if they wanted set a minimum giveaway item # at 20,000, or 36,067, or whatever. But some number of sponsors wouldn’t go for it, and the total number of giveaways would decline. Since the A’s ticket sales approach really does seem to prioritize giveaways and fireworks heavily, requiring more giveaway items would have some larger implications for their marketing plans. Not saying a higher minimum is a good or a bad idea, just that it’s not necessarily as easy as just saying it will be so.
As much as they get railed on, I’m confident they’ve done the math there and work within the most “optimized” numbers for that in terms of sponsor dollar for attendance number. They could force that higher number, but as you point out, there are consequences for doing so. I’m sure they do something similar in terms of where they price point their ticket prices as well.
I dunno, all these stupid giveaways are guaranteed sellouts, it only seems obvious to give everybody what they fucking came for
i’m not in marketing though
Thanks, and go As.
That’s not true though. I think I heard today was the 13th sellout of the year, which is fantastic. Subtract opening night and four fireworks so far, that leaves 8. There have been more than 8 giveaways.
Here’s my take: the A’s marketing plans usually trail attendance trends. For the last three years they’ve focused on maximizing promos, as a lower attendance team should, doing anything you can to move the turnstiles. And they’ve done OK with that. But now, with a team challenging for a third straight postseason, attendance is being driven by success, and by the excitement of actually being at the Coliseum. So they maybe don’t need as many cheap promos and could perhaps instead do fewer, better ones. But again, how many such games you host and the volume of objects you give away are interrelated decisions, made (one hopes) with more of a big picture view of attendance for the entire season, or longer.
ANd I want to emphasize, I am not particularly bitter about not gettting the give away, I made my bed, I wasn’t lined up in time.
I am bitter about the way the lines were administered. that was pathetic and anyone that has ever been to an event with more than 1,000 people in attendance should have been able to figure that out before today.
one would think there is a monetary value on keeping the casual fan happy. Is the family that happened to pick today to come going to get tickets again? two hours to get in? long concession lines. Gridlocked concourse? Sauna giftshops? No kids merch?
Great game though.
At the main gate on the south side, some idiot had decided that the best way to give people their choice of M or XL was to narrow the 8 or so lanes of traffic coming through the turnstiles down to 2 immediately after the turnstiles, where two volunteers were posted to ask “What size would you like?”. This would have been a bad idea even if the volunteers had been properly instructed to ask “M or XL?”, but with the open-ended question, it meant that crowds of people were trapped between the metal detectors and the turnstiles while the entering customers were having conversations with the volunteers about whether the jerseys would shrink, why there weren’t any Ls, etc. I said to the ticket taker at my turnstile “Wow, it’s like we never had a giveaway day before”, and he said bitterly “We’re trying a new system, because the one that’s been working for six years isn’t good enough any more.”
And I agree with your points above. The “Make some NOISE” was particularly irritating because they kept putting it up after the crowd was already making quite a bit of noise. The giveaways should be increased to capacity or a much larger number, but I think they should be distributed differently too. Such as, give the first 15K a coupon, or encode their ticket somehow, and have the physical giveaway taking place elsewhere – maybe in the East Side Club, maybe in the team stores themselves. This would have the bonus effect of discouraging the people who show up, grab the giveaway, and leave; or who go through the line twice — almost all of those are destined for eBay rather than fan use.
Having the most popular size, or more generally having the different sizes in numbers roughly proportionate to demand, seems like it might be another good idea.
Yep. It’s really too bad that they can’t figure this out, since an opportunity to make new fans ends up pissing off current ones.
I am currently wearing the smallest size Athleticos shirt. it fits me well. I cannot gain any weight and have it fit me well.
Also, I have I think 4 others in my closet the same size because they did not and do not fit my children
*ahem*
FK you, Ed.
Thanks, and go As.
Oh, I CAN gain weight. Just not if I want to wear this shirt
I need a magic shirt like that.
Sorry, unless you’re an M or an XL the A’s don’t make a magic weight loss shirt for you.
end of 2011 i was in a trial and realized (in front of the jury) that I couldn’t button one of my suits. (turns out all of them) I have to stay under the splayed button weight because I am too cheap to buy new suits.
Or when they play the bars to lets go oakland when the chant is already happening, or more recently during a stephan vogt at bat
All in all I don’t get too upset about the A’s trying to exhort the crowd to noise. It’s sometimes ill-timed and obtrusive, but a lot less so than many other places. I am concerned, though, about how this will look on next year’s new ribbon scoreboards.
I am not offended by them telling us to make noise. It happens everywhere. I get the need to do that stuff.
I want a scoreboard to look at when it happens. I am busy talking to my kids and sometimes I forget the click my ball strike counter so i don’t know if its 2-2, 1-2 or 0-2.
wait, no, I don’t have a clicker because there is a scorboard (3 or 4 depending) I can look at to see the count.
I found the noise signs particularly annoying today. They read and were served as if produced by a 14 year old. “That all you got?” was my (least) favorite. Don’t taunt your own home crowd, FFS.
you made it!
Yeah I remember that one, never seen it before, seemed off key
Yeah! My dad wanted to go with me, which is awesome. We got there in time to hear the Dunn HR and stayed thru the 5th.
hey but look at this asshole!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Coco-crisp-jersey-sga-oakland-as-athletics-XL/331307722317?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D23490%26meid%3D426cac3e0ad6475a9de1224c9dbc096c%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D10073%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D291234727725&rt=nc
Wow, that guy really does look exactly the way I picture heartless giveaway resellers, right down to the smirk of victory with his armload of jerseys.
From closed listings it looks like those are mostly going for around $35-40. And every one of the 20 or so I saw was either M or XL.
Also, on todays game. I was happy that they got to young so decisively. he has been really tough on this team. Of course, the 2 new guys were key.
Walker pitched as expected, which I did not enjoy. There needed to be a few more scores in there.
So, I just got back to see the end of the game today. Glad to see the A’s were able to shake off that tough protested loss on Thursday. Especially with the 3 straight days of Friday, Saturday, Sunday off.
It sure was bold for them to forfeit the rest of that series, huh? I mean I thought they might get pulled off the field, but that was a little much.
translation: We will continue to have zero accountability for umpires
Thanks, and go As.
seriously. If they don’t want the managers and players to scream and yell, they are changing 130 years of baseball tradition.
Umpires have never had that allowance.
he should be fired or at the very least suspended and never given an A’s Game
It’s really kind of disgusting.
I am already worried he is going to end up in a post season game this year and influence the outcome.
play in game, behind the plate
I’m just as worried about Kazmir’s inability to keep his shit together when the strike zone isn’t to his liking.
And with umps he has a history with. I almost think you have to factor that into the playoff rotation. As long as there is enough rest you make sure he goes with the best match even if that means a place that doesnt seem to make as much sense otherwise.
Did anyone post the brooksbaseball strike zone? How bad was it really?
Pretty bad against RHH
Thanks, and go As.
That’s totally consistent in a inconsistent way. Seriously. Is he blind?
I never remember what is what on these (is it ana pitching or hitting, etc) but can usually get an idea based on how it lays out and what we are talking about. Here I just look and say “yeah this is a hot mess…”.
My understanding is the green triangles in the zone are our pitchers getting fucked over. And there seems to be a lot of it. But yes, one ugly hot mess.
Kazmir: “And what I saw in the video were 10-plus pitches that I felt were right there.”
Norris: “It seemed like he made consecutive pitches over and over again that weren’t getting called,”
This one is just Kazmir:
There was ONE bad called that went against him. And granted it was a big one – should have been called strike three, to one of the batters he ended up walking. But there were not ten that were even close.
What does it look like when compared with the Angels’ guy though?
Is there video?
went yesterday. Going tonight with the golden tickets, but for those interested tomorrow seems to be a bargain
This game may not take longer than a couple of GOT episodes.
lots of plaza infield left for tonight. otherwise good crowd.
It looks like only 217 and 216 has more than 50 seats sold.
It’s not TV. It’s MLB.HBO
Of course, the flip side is that by Fangraphs WAR Cespedes’ August would be second best on the team (behind donaldson, ahead of Fuld)
my take from fangraphs is Cabrera and prado are half a win a piece.
Callaspo -.4
Parrino -.1
Sogard .6
At least we continued to avoid Stephen Drew, who has hit more or less like Parrino but gotten four times as much playing time.
But he would be the only one on the team who was playing his home games at Fenway.
Ahh… the advances in baseball…
Of course, the flip side is that by Fangraphs WAR Cespedes’ August would be second best on the team (behind donaldson, ahead of Lester)
Lester August 1.0 fWAR
Cespedes August 1.2 fWAR
Yep.
But we got most of the value on that list. So there’s that.
That Cespedes number is mostly defense, which makes it fishy for these sorts of comps, and hitter/pitcher war comps can be suspect anyway. Lester has pitched like an ace, Cespedes hit like he did for the a’s and possibly played like by far the best defensive lfer in baseball for a month.
Has UZR managed to figure out how to account for LF at Fenway? If not, then who the hell knows about Cespedes’ August defense.
A very short new-manager boost for the Astros wouldn’t be the worst thing.
Is Tom Lawless Gallego-ish in his shortness, or more Sogardian? Either way, so far so good!
Welker WTF??!!!
Supposedly for trippin on MDMA at the Kentucky Derby in May, at which he distinguished himself notably.
So tempting to click on that headline “Brother and Sister Arrested for Fucking in Church Parking Lot” in the sidebar. I’ll guess 1. Florida, 2. Arkansas, 3. Mississippi.
Georgia!
“Effingham County” no less.
They should give him the Hunter S. Thompson Medal of Americanness for that, not a suspension.