MLB Daily Thread: Month of July.....

[bksballer89]

Happy Bobby Bonilla day

 

[RobToxin]

 

[redseat]

Matt Harvey

 

[navamind]

Here's Miguel Montero pitching to Jacob deGrom

I was at that game. Wilmer Flores went 6-6 with two home runs.

 

[tabascojet]

cubs eliminated yet??

 

[tabascojet]

NL loses home field again.....

 

[redseat]

I thought for sure this would have more than 6 posts on this thread

 

[tabascojet]

No chance Chapman finishes season as a Yankee......

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

No chance Chapman finishes season as a Yankee......

So, prison?

 

[HammerDown]

 

[Erie Warrior]

Yet they aren't "sellers". They still think they can make the playoffs.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Yet they aren't "sellers". They still think they can make the playoffs.

Blue Jays were .500 on this date last year. The Rangers were 5 games below .500 on this date last year. Mets were only 4 games above .500 on this date last year. Wanna guess what they all have in common?

Yanks could always swing a trade and get back in it. Nothing is settled yet.

 

[navamind]

Blue Jays were .500 on this date last year. The Rangers were 5 games below .500 on this date last year. Mets were only 4 games above .500 on this date last year. Wanna guess what they all have in common?

Yanks could always swing a trade and get back in it. Nothing is settled yet.

Jays were also a much, much better team than this year's Yankees. This was a team that finished with a run differential of +221, the highest by an MLB team since 2001 (when the A's were +239 and the Mariners were +300). This was a team that scored 891 runs with a team OPS+ of 118. They also had a pretty solid pitching staff as well (3.80 ERA (5th in AL), 104 ERA+). Jays underperformed their pythag by 9 wins and were 15-28 in one-run games. But I think most of those losses came early in the season, especially before Osuna took over the closer role. He's been a very good reliever.

This was a team that had three of the best hitters in the AL (including the AL MVP), one of the best catchers in the majors, and a guy that had a 142 OPS+ in 360 PA off the bench (Colabello). Even the guys that weren't hitting more than made up for that with their gloves (Goins, Pillar). I'd take the majority of those guys over the Yankees best position player right now (Gardner or Gregorius or whatever). Yankees have gotten 6.2 fWAR from their position players, 24th in MLB. Their 88 wRC+ is the third worst in the AL.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Jays were also a much, much better team than this year's Yankees. This was a team that finished with a run differential of +221, the highest by an MLB team since 2001 (when the A's were +239 and the Mariners were +300). This was a team that scored 891 runs with a team OPS+ of 118. They also had a pretty solid pitching staff as well (3.80 ERA (5th in AL), 104 ERA+). Jays underperformed their pythag by 9 wins and were 15-28 in one-run games. But I think most of those losses came early in the season, especially before Osuna took over the closer role. He's been a very good reliever.

This was a team that had three of the best hitters in the AL (including the AL MVP), one of the best catchers in the majors, and a guy that had a 142 OPS+ in 360 PA off the bench (Colabello). Even the guys that weren't hitting more than made up for that with their gloves (Goins, Pillar). I'd take the majority of those guys over the Yankees best position player right now (Gardner or Gregorius or whatever). Yankees have gotten 6.2 fWAR from their position players, 24th in MLB. Their 88 wRC+ is the third worst in the AL.

Not disagreeing with anything you're saying, only that it's still mid-July and we're talking about the Yankees in the 2 Wild Card era. Little is set in stone right now.

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

Yet they aren't "sellers". They still think they can make the playoffs.

Blue Jays were .500 on this date last year. The Rangers were 5 games below .500 on this date last year. Mets were only 4 games above .500 on this date last year. Wanna guess what they all have in common?

Yanks could always swing a trade and get back in it. Nothing is settled yet.

Curse you,
divisional play
wild card
expanded playoffs w/second wild card

 

[bksballer89]

Yanks are done

 

[bksballer89]

The 2 WC teams in the AL will be whoever finishes 2nd in the East (O's/Jays/Sox) & Rangers or Stros

 

[navamind]

The 2 WC teams in the AL will be whoever finishes 2nd in the East (O's/Jays/Sox) & Rangers or Stros

that's how I feel, but I also wouldn't be surprised if the Rangers starting pitching dooms them and three AL East teams (maybe Tigers) make the playoffs. Fangraphs projects the three AL East teams to finish around 89-91 wins. Rangers project to finish at 89-73 (going 34-35 the rest of the way) with the Astros finishing at 88-74.

 

[navamind]

Roger Clemens heads roster of MLB alums to play together in NBC World Series

This team would be fun to watch.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

So, I was just checking out MLB's payrolls.

The four highest priced teams (LAD, NYY, BOS & DET) combine for $910MM in payroll. That's over 20% of all major league baseball players' salaries. Not one of them leads their division.