"He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." -- 2 Cor. 5:21
Each and every one of us was born in a state of enmity with God. But He made a way of reconciliation:
That's a wrap for Kris Bryant in 2022.
As we all thought would be the case, he did not hit a home run at Coors Field in his first season with the Rockies.
A mildly ridiculous exercise, but why not:
Bryce Harper bWAR from 2016-18:
7.5 ($330MM contract)
Mike Trout bWAR from 2016-18:
27.3
If Trout's next contract were to be valued at just the equivalent in dollars/WAR over the last 3 years, his contract would be
$1.2 billion.
While with the Giants, Burks once asked Barry Bonds how he thought John Smoltz would pitch to him. Bonds told him the pitch-by-pitch sequence and then said he'd homer off the future HOFer.
The pitch sequence was what Bonds said. Bonds homered.
Burks said that as Bonds crossed
#WhiteSox
prospect Luis Robert, No. 5 overall per
@MLBPipeline
, just got down the line on the groundout to second at 31.3 feet/second sprint speed.
30.0 is considered elite.
Mercy.
#Statcast
#FuturesGame
The Houston television broadcast just pointed out:
The Colorado club has played 38 straight games vs. teams with a .500 or better record.
Record: 25-13
Rockies CF Brenton Doyle threw a baseball to home plate in the 9th inning tonight that Statcast tracked at 105.7 mph.
That is the fastest OF throw Statcast has ever recorded.
Congratulations to Larry Walker. It was a decade late, but you are a Hall of Famer.
Congratulations to the
@Rockies
, as well -- he's the first player who ever appeared in a game for the franchise to be elected to the HOF.
Thanks to the
@officialBBWAA
for getting it right.
The Rockies signed Nolan Arenado to a $260 million contract extension in 2019.
From 2015-19, the Rockies spent $256 million on 8 free agents who signed multiyear deals -- those 8 produced a combined -8 WAR.
h/t
@FoolishBB
Saw Clayton Kershaw in the hallway. Mentioned to him that Will Clark's number is being retired Saturday by the Giants.
(Kershaw wears No. 22 because Clark wore it, and Clark was his favorite player on the Rangers.)
"I saw that," Kershaw said. "Wrong team."
Tremendous.
Something else to keep an eye on:
COL is 1 game behind ATL for the No. 2 seed in the NL at the moment.
Should the Rockies win the NL West and finish with the same or better record than the Braves, Rockies would have home-field advantage vs. Atlanta in the NLDS.
From 1989-2005, the years that
@Cdnmooselips33
played in the Majors, there were only FOUR players with a higher WAR.
FOUR.
1. Barry Bonds
2. Ken Griffey Jr.
3. Alex Rodriguez
4. Jeff Bagwell
That's it.
#WalkerHOF
@Rockies
Imagine telling the 1996 Braves -- the defending world champions -- up 2-0 in the World Series against the Yankees, that they wouldn't win another World Series game for 9,137 days.
Dear HOF voter:
When you get that ballot and come to Larry Walker's name, don't forget that you'll be deciding on a guy who was more valuable (WAR) than 8 of the last 13 position players elected.
Not checking that box means that to you, that's not good enough.
#WalkerHOF
It's 1982.
High school star Barry Bonds wants $75,000 from the team that has just drafted him, the San Francisco Giants.
The Giants won't go more than $70K.
Bonds goes to Arizona State.
The Giants lost Bonds over $5,000. That's about $13K today.
"So what's the problem?
"As Walker put it, “'I guess I have a fault, and my fault is I played at Coors Field.'”
.865 career road OPS (higher than Griffey, Reggie, etc.).
1997:
1.169 OPS at Coors.
1.172 OPS on the road.
From
@harding_at_mlb
Bellinger got down the line in 4.02 seconds with a sprint speed of 30.5 feet/second to beat out the would-be inning-ending double play. That enabled Puig to get to the plate, and the rest is history.
#Statcast
Miguel Cabrera:
511 HR, 140 OPS+
Gary Sheffield:
509 HR, 140 OPS+
One of these men will be a first-ballot HOFer. The other is about to fall off the ballot.
He played without an ACL for 7 years.
He hit .478 vs. Clemens, .381 vs Hoffman, .327 vs Glavine, and .319 vs Maddux.
Hit .588 in the '95 NLDS vs ATL.
Learn more about
@Rockies
OF Dante Bichette, including what he called his signature bat-drop, here:
Derek Jeter: 72.4 WAR over 2,747 games, first year on the HOF ballot. Will be elected easily.
Larry Walker: 72.7 WAR over 1,988 games, 10th and final year on the ballot. Hasn't gotten more than 54.6% of votes.
What are we doing here?
#WalkerHOF
This man is a Hall of Famer.
5.3 bWAR/162 over 17 seasons. 10th-best CF of all time per JAWS.
Best defensive CF in the game not named Ken Griffey Jr. in the 1990s.
One of the worst omissions from Cooperstown right now.
12/10/1991: the Houston Astros trade Kenny Lofton to the Cleveland Indians. Lofton would finish his career as the only player in MLB history with at least 100 triples, 100 home runs, 100 fielding runs, and 600 stolen bases.
NL West update
Dodgers: JUST ADDED MOOKIE BETTS
D-backs: Added Madison Bumgarner/Starling Marte
Padres: a year closer with tremendous young core
#Rockies
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Bob Costas, on the Network last night, floated the idea of noting PED use on the HOF plaque for someone who used steroids.
THANK YOU. This is what we ought to do. Get the best hitter and pitcher of a generation into the museum about baseball, plz.
The Colorado Rockies are the only Major League franchise without anyone who has worn its uniform inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Larry Walker is the first HOF-worthy player in
#Rockies
history. Come next summer, he should be making a speech in Cooperstown.
#WalkerHOF
"I think you’ve gotta enjoy every minute of it."
Take Mike Trout's advice. We will never see the likes of Shohei Ohtani again.
And somehow, he's getting even better. Here's how:
"The Blake Street Bombers"
A biography of each slugger combined in one book, based on exclusive interviews, spanning their entire careers.
11.18.19
#Rockies
Christian Yelich just hit the longest home run by a left-handed hitter in Coors Field history.
499 feet.
The previous record was 496, also set this year, by the Marlins' Jesus Sanchez.
A good year to hit against the Rockies. I mean every year is but ... you know what I mean
Carlos Correa slides to knock down a sharp Michael Chavis ground ball in the hole at short, gets up, and off his back foot unleashes an 88.5 mph throw to get him. Mercy.
#Statcast
rWAR from 1989-2005
1. Barry Bonds
2. Ken Griffey Jr.
3. Alex Rodriguez
4. Jeff Bagwell
5. Larry Walker
Unless my math is off ... this is in the top 10
There were a lot of tears shed last night by
#Rockies
fans. I'm an outsider, only got here 5 years ago. Seeing how much this means to people here -- having a Rockie in the HOF, is pretty amazing. This is what it's about. This is why baseball. I feel privileged to be part of that.
You think
#Rockies
Twitter is mad tonight, wait until you see Baseball Twitter at this time tomorrow if Larry Walker doesn't get in.
It's not gonna be pretty.
Larry Walker hit 11 home runs in 44 games down the stretch after being traded to the
#STLCards
in 2004.
Then he hit 6 more in the postseason that year. He was 37 years old at the time.
#WalkerHOF
The stat that got the biggest reaction last night at the
#WalkerHOF
event:
Larry Walker career WAR: 72.7
Derek Jeter career WAR: 72.4
It took Jeter 759 more games.
He'll be elected on his first ballot. Walker is 21% short going into his final year on the ballot.
Ranger Suarez just missed a 110 mph liner that came straight at his head by ... maybe an inch. It came off the bat of Elehuris Montero and landed in the glove of a diving Bryson Stott up the middle.
That Ottavino fastball to strike out Heyward was 97.0 mph.
Ottavino has thrown 530 fastballs this year. None harder than that one right there.
#Statcast
By bWAR, Larry Walker (72.7) was a more valuable player than 8 of the last 13 position players elected to the Hall of Fame.
Not voting for him is simply unjustifiable.
#WalkerHOF
#Rockies
#STLCards
False narratives debunked by simply checking Baseball Ref, used against Larry Walker. He might miss by less than 1 %
Coors:
.865 road OPS
"Ducked" tough LHP:
P faced most, Glavine (92 PA, .301, 5 HR)
Randy Johnson (33 PA, .393, 2 2B, HR)
This is an indictment of the system.
Nolan Arenado wants to win.
The
#Rockies
feel they're fine as-is.
Nolan Arenado feels disrespected, and it's reportedly about more than the trade talk.
Educated guess... Nolan Arenado doesn't feel the
#Rockies
are fine as-is.
About a year ago I was showing Larry Walker his stats. I was getting far more worked up than he was that he wasn't in the HOF.
I asked him about what it would mean to be elected.
[He was totally joking but this is true imo]
"It'd be cool to go in with Jeter...for him, not me."
There's no question. Larry Walker is a Hall of Famer. It's unconscionable that he hasn't gotten more than 34% of the vote. He's got two years left, including this year.
“He’s definitely a Hall of Famer in my eyes, in my heart. And in everybody’s eyes, pretty soon, they’re going to realize Larry Walker is a Hall of Famer. He belongs in the Hall of Fame and I believe with time passing by…he’s eventually going to go in." -
@45PedroMartinez
Aaron Judge takes BP on the field for the second consecutive day with new Yankees hitting coach Sean Casey looking on. He said yesterday that he "didn't feel limited at all" by the torn ligament in his right big toe.
But since it still isn't healed, still no return timetable.
Aaron Judge took batting practice on the field earlier today and said he "didn't feel limited at all" by his sprained toe. That being said, still no timetable for a return to the Yankees lineup.
"Getting better every day," he said.
Nolan Jones' 472-foot home run to end Sunday's wild and rain-soaked Rockies win over the Padres is the longest walk-off home run Statcast has ever recorded.
And it may have been the moment the Rockies began a new chapter in their history:
Bryce Harper and Nick Castellanos each bash two homers tonight after wearing Deion Sanders shirts to the ballpark.
#OTD
30 years ago, Deion was 0-for-1 as a pinch-hitter as the Phillies beat the Braves, 4-3, in 10 innings in Game 5 of the 1993 NLCS.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau (h/t to
@SlangsOnSports
), today marked the FIRST TIME IN
#YANKEES
HISTORY they lost a game in which they had multiple leads of 2-plus runs in the 8th inning or later.