Did Seattle win the World Series two years ago and set a franchise record for wins last year?Ag_07 said:ClickClack said:Rustys-Beef-o-Reeno said:
****ing Seattle wins another 1 run game
Seattle was down 6-3 in the 8th too. ****ers.
Isn't that exactly what we did a couple times this homestand?
spadilly said:
From his Instagram, it looks like Blummer is at The Masters this weekend. Does this mean Stanton is in the booth this road trip?
ClickClack said:
Giles blew it and gave up 2 in the bottom of the 9th tonight to earn himself a blown save and get the Red Sox their 4th win. He almost gave it to them last time too.
spadilly said:
From his Instagram, it looks like Blummer is at The Masters this weekend. Does this mean Stanton is in the booth this road trip?
https://instagr.am/p/BwIkigHAZ7T
Obligatory screw you Jesse Orosco. Also, if we had Thon playing instead of Craig Reynolds maybe he doesn't hit into a double play and give Brocklander the chance to screw us by calling a CLEARLY safe Reynolds out and costing us the winning run.Harry Dunne said:
Going down an internet wormhole this morning, I came across something interesting and nostalgic.
For those of you without any gray hair, Dickie Thon was an Astros SS in the 80s who was compared to Cal Ripken and Robin Yount after a 1983 season at age 25 in which he was an All-star & came in 7th in MVP voting. He also led the league in WAR (7.4) that season after coming in 7th (6.1) the previous year, before that was a thing. On April 8, 1984 he was hit in the face by a fastball, missed the rest of the season and never fully regained his vision. He was able to play another decade in the majors and was a solid ballplayer, but was never again close to his '82-'83 form.
Anyway, I came across the ZiPS projection of the rest of his career if he hadn't been hit by that pitch...
Pretty disappointing offensive numbers for those of us who thought he was on his way to a HOF or at least to a HOVG type of career, but I guess if you factor in the fact that he was a very good defensive SS as well as the SB, you're still looking at a guy who was a 5+ WAR SS through his 20s.
I doubt that even a fully able Thon would have stuck with the club through the early 90s rebuild, but it is interesting thinking about whether the better him vs the diminished him would have made a difference on that '86 team that was so close to winning it all.
He didn't. Those were projections based on his first few years in the majors. I made the same mistake too. I thought too myself: "Why don't I remember Thon playing with the Astros on those late 90s playoff teams?"ChAg1799 said:
I forgot Thon played into the late 90's.... He was one of my favorites. Those '85,'86,'88 teams had some of the best underrated guys, I loved those teams!
Pretty sure it was Marcus Buckley.fatdad84ag said:
Thought he got beaned by Mike Torres???
fatdad84ag said:
Thought he got beaned by Mike Torres???