A full list of the big names traded today:
- Max Scherzer
- Trea Turner
- Anthony Rizzo
- Kyle Schwarber
- Brad Hand
- You
- Yes you
- You're on the Dodgers now
- Go grab your uniform, you're late
- I don't know where it is, why would I know that
- It's probably where you left it
Umpires checked Jacob deGrom for sticky substances and found nothing but a soft glowing light emanating from his arm, a warm and soothing hue that, in the words of one ump, left them "feeling in the presence of something greater, something stronger ... I cried a little."
Adam Wainwright: “FanGraphs had us at like a negative 400 percent chance to make the playoffs, and we just proved everyone wrong. We're going to try to and keep doing that.”
The last five ALCS matchups:
- 2017: Astros vs Yankees
- 2018: Astros vs Red Sox
- 2019: Astros vs Yankees
- 2020: Astros vs Rays
- 2021: Astros vs Red Sox
2017 ALCS: Astros vs Yankees
2018 ALCS: Astros vs Red Sox
2019 ALCS: Astros vs Yankees
2020 ALCS: Astros vs Rays
2021 ALCS: Astros vs Red Sox
2022 ALCS: Astros vs [TBD]
SCORE UPDATE:
- Congrats to Will Smith
- Condolences to Will Smith
- Will Smith homered off Will Smith with two outs in the sixth
- That three-run shot makes it 4–2 Dodgers
- Will Smith wins
- Will Smith loses
- Too many Wills Smith
Second sticky substance check only turned up a tiny Buddhist monk living on deGrom's head under his hat; when asked whether he's an illegal performance enhancer per MLB's rules, the monk simply replied, "Only with total release will maximum control be achieved."
Okay so:
- Brett Phillips singled
- Kevin Kiermaier scored from second
- Randy Arozarena tried to score
- He stumbled going around third
- The Dodgers had him dead to rights
- Until the throw to home got away from Will Smith
- Allowing Arozarena to score
- 8–6 Rays is the final
A 60-game season deserves the ability for you to search for a player's best or worst 60-game span. And lo and behold, look what new tool is on FanGraphs: a leaderboard of 60-game spans (12 games for pitchers), dating back to 1974. Neat, huh?
Retweet this if you absolutely could not hit a major league fastball, fav this if you absolutely could not hit a major league fastball and would also cry as it goes by you
sitting on my couch remarking upon how slow Ryu’s fastball is as if a baseball being thrown in my direction at 88 mph would not turn me into a cloud of dust
It’s hard to understand how professional hitters can be this unproductive.The best teams have a more disciplined approach.The slugging and OPS numbers don’t lie.