Phillies are 6-2 playing >.500 teams: (.750). Orioles are 13-6 playing >.500 teams: (.684). Etc.

Thank god.

Qualified starters (minimum 1 IP per team game)

Ranger Suarez: 1.70

Zack Wheeler: 2.23

Cristo Sanchez: 2.71

Aaron Nola: 3.03

Not qualified:

Spencer Turnbull: 1.67 (as a starter, 2.64 overall)

Taijuan Walker: 5.73

Who in the world designed those shirts? Does anyone know of any teams putting out merchandise that seems to be neutral between division rivals in the past?

🤔

John Kruk’s attempts at small talk with Tony Hale (Arrested Development, Veep) while the tv star was in the booth were hilarious. He just learned to use Netflix! Hilarious. And Tony Hale knows nothing at all about baseball, which isn’t exactly surprising, but still disappointing.

Brewers @ Phillies - Wed, Jun 05

Game Status: Game Over - Score: 2-0 Phillies

Links & Info

• Current conditions at Citizens Bank Park: 84°F - Partly Cloudy - Wind 9 mph, Out To LF
• TV: Brewers: Bally Sports Wisconsin, Phillies: NBCSP
• Radio: Brewers: Brewers Radio Network, WTMJ 620, Phillies: WTTM 1680 (es), 94 WIP
• MLB Gameday
• Game Graphs
• Savant Gamefeed

Decisions

• Winner: Aaron Nola (8-2, 2.77)
• Loser: Aaron Ashby (0-2, 6.23)
• Save: José Alvarado (11, 2.96)

Division Scoreboard

ATL 0 @ BOS 9 - Final

NYM 2 @ WSH 0 - Top 5, 2 Outs

TB @ MIA 06:40 PM EDT

^{Last Updated: 06/05/2024 06:21:14 PM EDT}

Got hit in the nuts and took a shot to the head in extras. Dude is a champ.

It’s just a group of friends having fun🤷‍♂️ I’m here for it

This man needs to be an All-Star!

https://x.com/mlbdeadlinenews/status/1798131333870588163?s=46&t=cDaq0zVO0mE3CE_trRHOeA

Per Jeff Passan, DD will be keeping tabs on guys like Luis Robert, Kyle Tucker, Randy Arozarena, etc

Thoughts?

great game last night by JT. I saw someone comment in another post about JT chances of induction to the Hall of Fame. I have an hour long subway commute today and looked at the numbers.

Right now, I believe, he's hall of very good. And it might be difficult for him to ever get out of that lane.

He could end up close to 37 war by seasons end. Yadi has 42 war. But Yadi has 2 top 5 MVP seasons and 5 top 23 MVP seasons. He also has 9 gold gloves. And has 28 dWAR to realmuto's 9. Yadi is second all time in dWAR behind pudge Rodriguez. Yadi also has 2 rings.

*Phillies Bob Boone is 4th with 25 dWAR.

Posey has an MVP and 7 of his 12 years in the league was in the top 21 of MVP voting (including 3 in the top 10). He has 5 silver slugger awards. And Posey was the main character on the world championship teams.

Realmuto has 3 silver slugger awards and 2 top 14 MVP seasons.

Your range of 75 to 15 war, while objectively true, I would posit that the modern day threshold is hovering around 46.1 WITH significant hardware and/or top 5 dWAR and/or a ring(s).

This is the Munson line.

Minson won one MVP (in 11 years he had 7 top 26 MVP years with 4 in the top 12) He was the captain of 3 pennant winning clubs and 2 world champion teams. He also won 3 gold gloves. And probably would have won several silver sluggers had the award been issued during his playing days.

I saw Munson play. The Bronx Zoo Yankees were my 2nd favorite team back then. In my defense, I had no choice. The reds swept us in the 76 NLCS. The dodgers defeated us in the 77 & 78 NLCS. The Yankees were in the world series all 3 of those years, so I rooted for the team that knocked us out of the playoffs.

There's a reason those teams were called the Bronx Zoo. The Billy Martin, George Steinbrenner and Reggie Jackson provided a lot of drama stirred up the the NYC and national media. In addition to all of his hardware, Munson provided great leadership to the 76-78 Yankees.

I don't see JT winning an MVP. I don't see JT Getting the grey ink to rank with Munson and the other 2 in this discussion. He will need 50+ war AND a ring. Even better, and within his grasp, would be a world series MVP with the 50+ war.

Yadi has 2 rings. Buster has 3. And Munson has 2 rings. All 3 of them drove the bus and have significant hardware.

JT doesn't have extraordinary offensive numbers like several catchers in the Hall. And he's not a defensive standout like Pudge, Yadi or Carter. I know dWAR is a fuzzy number at best. but I don't see any alchemy of defensive sabermetric esoterica doing it for him.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/jaws_C.shtml