This one will go down to the wire, both guys are really hitting the ball. The fact he has 20 more HR's than the next guy is amazing. Hasn't been done since 1928.
I still can't believe you aren't in the Whiffle Ball Hall of Fame. My induction into the stick ball hall of fame is still the greatest moment of my life. Probably shouldn't have drank so much before the speech/ "I want to thank my mother for making me possible" was not how I wrote it out
We used to play handball for $5 each (Doubles so $10 per team) per game. My handball partner (Died at 40 RIP) Donald and I were almost unbeatable. Not great in singles but for some reason when we played doubles guys that were both better than us couldn't beat us. It wasn't so much the money (Which in the late 80's and early 90's was worth a bit more than now) we'd be concerned with, it was that once you lost there were usually so many teams waiting to play on the main court you were done for the day. We'd usually win 3 or 4 games before getting exhausted and getting beat. Probably shouldn't have smoked weed between games. Whatever we won went to weed and beer. Good times.
I threw strikes but I couldn't throw hard. Had a buddy who could really bring it and he messed his arm up pretty bad playing everyday with us one summer. He was the ace on his high school team. He never actually got hurt but he went into his Jr year and lost a ton of velocity. Serves him right for throwing all those fastballs
159 strikeouts is way too many. Plus he has zero sacrifice bunts. Also, get off my lawn!
, but throwing stickball all summer long didn’t do me any favors when I got to college and eventually my arm fell off…..I'm in the same boat, but the new veteran's committee seems to be a little more tolerant. And much like Baseball Reference has now included ***** League stats, I'm hoping the committee will consider the walk off shot I hit in Gym class.
Actually we were outside for that. It was a legit shot though. Cleared one of those high fences that surround a tennis court.
| 1. | Judge • NYY | 9.9 |
| 2. | Ohtani • LAA | 8.9 |
| 3. | Gimenez • CLE | 6.5 |
| 4. | Alvarez • HOU | 6.3 |
| 5. | Cease • CHW | 6.1 |
| 6. | Bogaerts • BOS | 5.9 |
| 7. | Rodriguez • SEA | 5.6 |
| 8. | Semien • TEX | 5.5 |
| 9. | Ramirez • CLE | 5.5 |
| 10. | Trout • LAA | 5.2 |
| Tucker • HOU | 5.2 |
| # | Name | Team | PA | IP | Bat WAR | Pit WAR | Total WAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aaron Judge | NYY | 641 | 10.7 | 10.7 | ||
| 2 | Shohei Ohtani | LAA | 612 | 148.0 | 3.8 | 5.0 | 8.7 |
| 3 | Paul Goldschmidt | STL | 614 | 7.0 | 7.0 | ||
| 4 | Nolan Arenado | STL | 586 | 6.9 | 6.9 | ||
| 5 | Freddie Freeman | LAD | 661 | 6.7 | 6.7 | ||
| 6 | Francisco Lindor | NYM | 659 | 6.7 | 6.7 | ||
| 7 | Manny Machado | SDP | 592 | 6.5 | 6.5 | ||
| 8 | Mookie Betts | LAD | 592 | 6.3 | 6.3 | ||
| 9 | Yordan Alvarez | HOU | 519 | 6.3 | 6.3 | ||
| 10 | J.T. Realmuto | PHI | 516 | 6.2 | 6.2 |
I knew Giminez was good but I didn't know he was that good.
This confirms all the rumors I had heard. That Trout guy is washed up.
