Position Player Strikes Out Baseball Superstar
We don't seem to have a lot of sports fans here, but this is pretty cool. The White Sox have used 3rd baseman designated hitter Matt Davidson as a relief pitcher on three occasions this season. He has yet to give up a run
Position player pitchers this season:
51 appearances by 40 different players 10.06 ERA, 48.1 IP, 63 Hits, 28 Walks, 19 Strikeouts, 19 HR
Matt Davidson: 0.00 ERA in 3.0 IP, 1 Hit, 1 Walk, 2 K, 0 HR
Everyone else: 10.72 ERA in 45.1 IP, 62 Hits, 27 Walks, 17 K, 19 HR
In last night's game Davidson struck out Giancarlo Stanton of the Yankees, last year's National League Most Valuable Player.
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A teeny glimmer of fun in the unfortunate White Sox season.
John, pretty much all of the White Sox's seasons are unfortunate. They all do have something, however. I think that you told me last year when my daughter went to one of their games that they have the best food in the Major Leagues. Of course, actually winning baseball games is something else entirely.
What do you think about the Cubs' chances this year? My son thinks that it will come down to the Yankees and the Dodgers. I think that the Cubs aren't doing all that bad. If they can get that far in the post season, they stand a good chance of knocking LA out of it. They've done it before. I'm a Cubs fan by marriage (my wife came from Kenosha). Far as the Tigers go, like most people from Michigan, I just hope that they won't totally disgrace themselves.
I doubt if anyone cares, but here is a page with a listing of all the food they have available to the fans at White Sox home games. It's pretty impressive.
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The Cubs have a very good, if occasionally inconsistent offense. The key to the Cubs offense is that there is no weak link. Every position player on the roster can come through. The issue this year has been the starting pitching which is not doing as well as we want. The Cubs are not as dominant as they were two years ago, but are still one of the favorites to make it to the World Series.
The hot dogs look good but there's no way you can go wrong with these.
Also helps that they've given up the idea that everybody in the lineup has to go for a home run every time. A consistent single or double will do quite nicely if the next guy up does the same thing. You can build a pretty good lead that way while wearing out the opponent's starting pitchers.
Being able to pitch semi competently might keep him on a roster a few extra seasons longer than his bat. With the way managers insatiable use of relievers in baseball today, having another guy to eat innings in a blowout isn't the worst skill to have.
Although, being a Canadian, I grew up as a hockey fan, when MLB came to Toronto I was seduced by the game - got 4 seasons ticket seats behind home plate in the Skydome (shared them with my brother and two good friends) and learned to love the game as much as Terrence Mann (James Earl Jones) described in Field of Dreams in his "People will come" speech, went to Buffalo to be able to sit in a vintage baseball stadium, watched a game in Boston and saw a home run hit over the "Green Monster", even took my family on a pilgrimage to Cooperstown, and experienced ecstatic joy in back-to-back World Series wins, then it all fell apart when the players went on strike...
A little of the old feeling returned when the Cubs reached for and won it all a few years ago.
Sounds like you have some good memories of baseball.
I was there and watched it happen - I think that the most exciting moment of my life was when Joe Carter hit the HR that won the Blue Jays their back-to-back World Series title.
Wait! You used MLB (major league baseball) and Toronto as if they were the same thing. The Toronto Bluejays do not play MLB. They play American League baseball. There is a difference. Only the National League plays real major league baseball.
LOL. So in your "expert" opinion teams like the Yankees and the Red Sox aren't Major League.
Totals: American League - 65 wins; National League - 48 wins
Nope until they get rid of the DH they don't quite measure up. God what sacrilege is next? Aluminum and carbon fiber bats?
I have to agree with you that the rules must be identical for both leagues in order to determine which is the better league.
From Wikipedia:
So it's necessary to calculate the league wins only up until and including 1972. Here is the score doing that:
American League - 42 wins
National League - 25 wins
So what's your next caveat?
Which means the NL has to adopt the DH.
Go wash your mouth with soap immediately. I will not allow such heresy .It is the AL that needs to drop the DH.
How boring is it to see a NL pitcher come up to bat with runners in scoring position and 90% of the time the pitcher strikes out and looks really bad in the process;
hell the NL doesn't want it's pitchers running the bases or sliding and getting injured - ( they make too much $$$ to risk injury) they've made the pitcher's slot a joke.
At least the DH can swing a bat - most NL pitchers can't even do that anymore.
That's the heresy.
I like the DH because pitchers just can't hit, they have become too specialized
I prefer to see high quality pitching. Since pitching is such a unique position it makes sense to go for the defensive skills rather than look for pitchers who can also hit. The DH rule strikes me as an excellent way to keep the game interesting - especially since we clearly can see that baseball teams do NOT let crappy offensive skills dissuade them from pitching talent.