AL East Thread

[chillerdab]

but still make playoffs with all the WCs
this is the biggest collapse lead wise
1995 angels

1. With an 11.5 games lead on August 9, the Angels were playing their best baseball in nearly a decade.
   But the team went 12-27 in their final 39 games—which included winning five straight to end the season— allowing the Seattle Mariners to catch them.
   The teams ended the season tied, forcing a one-game playoff in Seattle. Randy Johnson completely shut down the Angels in a 9-1 victory with 12 strikeouts.

then this this which is the biggest choke

1: 1964 Philadelphia Phillies​

1. The collapse by which all are measured.
   The Phillies led by 6.5 games with 12 to go, yet lost 10 in a row.
   Much of the blame—and rightly so—fell on the shoulders of manager Gene Mauch who started pitchers Jim Bunning and Chris Short in seven of the team's final 10 games, with six of those starts coming on two days rest. The Phillies lost all of them.
   This epic collapse is known as "The Phold."

Well it's close. The Yankees had a 10.5 game lead on Aug 9th. They might have had a bigger lead later in the week.

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[molsaniceman]

R U EXCITED

Yankees manager Aaron Boone said on Monday that Harrison Bader (heel) is scheduled to begin a minor league rehab assignment early next week.​

Boone noted that Bader will be doing a "full ramp up" on Monday and is on track to start a minor league rehab assignment next Tuesday. That date could potentially be moved up, but it seems likely that the will be ready to make his Yankees debut sometime later this month.

 

[bksballer89]

Gary is scary

 

[bksballer89]

Stanton hurt

 

[Pure Steel]

Stanton hurt

Shocking

 

[obxyankeefan]

Shocking

More twisting than electrifying.

 

[chappee11]

Is Trevor Bauer just suspended from MLB forever? As far as I know, he wasn’t even charged with a crime. There have been worse cases than his, too. Those players served suspensions and came back. Why isn’t he playing?

 

[molsaniceman]

Is Trevor Bauer just suspended from MLB forever? As far as I know, he wasn’t even charged with a crime. There have been worse cases than his, too. Those players served suspensions and came back. Why isn’t he playing?

2 years

MLB suspends Dodgers' Bauer for two seasons

Trevor Bauer is appealing the suspension, which would encompass the rest of 2022, all of 2023 and some of the 2024 season.

www.espn.com

The appeal of Bauer’s suspension started May 23 and now is expected to last until November, Holley told the court. The appeal is heard intermittently, but Holley said she is ‘working full-time’ on proceedings that she said involve ‘voluminous’ evidence and could include as many as 22 witnesses, only four of whom have completed testimony before an independent arbitrator.”

 

[nynasty]

Stanton hurt

Water is wet

 

[Pure Steel]

Water is wet

At least we got 90 games out of him this year so far.....sure beats the 18 and 23 game seasons he had a few years back........at the bargain price!

 

[nynasty]

At least we got 90 games out of him this year so far.....sure beats the 18 and 23 game seasons he had a few years back........at the bargain price!

Maybe he gets healthy for October and goes on another ungodly run.

At this point, that's the best return they can hope for.

 

[Pure Steel]

Maybe he gets healthy for October and goes on another ungodly run.

At this point, that's the best return they can hope for.

 

[bksballer89]

 

[navamind]

 

[bksballer89]

The Yanks offensive woes looks like it spread to Queens and hitting the mets hard lol

 

[navamind]

Rutschman up to a 136 wRC+ and 4.0 fWAR. Hitting .283/.403/.496 with a 159 wRC+ and more walks than strikeouts since the beginning of August. Only catchers with a higher WAR are Realmuto and Murphy.

 

[Cyder]

The Yankees line up today is scary. And not in a good way. If a Minn pitcher throws even one strike to Judge the pitching coach and manager should be fired. At least I don't have to look at Donaldson. He's on maternity leave. And yes I meant to put "maternity".

 

[Cyder]

This game is starting off swimmingly.

 

[nynasty]

A guy I honestly never heard of hitting cleanup.

Awesome!

 

[Pure Steel]

A guy I honestly never heard of hitting cleanup.

Awesome!

His brother was great in Boogie Nights & Carlito’s Way…..