Hello win column! Minor CG, 1 ER! Rangers season high 8 games over .500!

gigem1223 said:

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Minor now has the best ERA in the AL and leads all AL pitchers in WAR by a wide margin, just behind Trout for all AL players.

Helluva season he's having

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MLB network folks were talking about him as the CY Young winner if season ended today and this was last week.

Aggie_3 said:

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gigem1223 said:

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Minor now has the best ERA in the AL and leads all AL pitchers in WAR by a wide margin, just behind Trout for all AL players.

Helluva season he's having

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MLB network folks were talking about him as the CY Young winner if season ended today and this was last week.

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CY Young....feels good to finally have a pitcher that's legitimately in the convo

gigem1223 said:

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Aggie_3 said:

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gigem1223 said:

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Minor now has the best ERA in the AL and leads all AL pitchers in WAR by a wide margin, just behind Trout for all AL players.

Helluva season he's having

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MLB network folks were talking about him as the CY Young winner if season ended today and this was last week.

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CY Young....feels good to finally have a pitcher that's legitimately in the convo

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Now let's not **** this up and catch Houston

I'm over here in full on Angels in the outfield mode!!

Danny Santana has homered for the 5th time in 7 games.

Dallasag, how do you like your crow served?

Grapesoda2525 said:

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Pirates are beating the Astros pretty good, but sometimes it feels like even a 10 run lead isn't safe in that little juice box of a park.

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We'll have a juice box of our own next year

Huell Babineaux said:

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Grapesoda2525 said:

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Pirates are beating the Astros pretty good, but sometimes it feels like even a 10 run lead isn't safe in that little juice box of a park.

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We'll have a juice box of our own next year

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Are we really copying those guys on the design or is that just something Houston people say?

There's a whole lot of similarities. We're not copying them, I don't think, but plenty of similar design concepts and theories are coming through.

We decidedly didn't copy the real grass, though, so there's that.

TXAggie2011 said:

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There's a whole lot of similarities. We're not copying them, I don't think, but plenty of similar design concepts and theories are coming through.

We decidedly didn't copy the real grass, though, so there's that.

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I'll say it looks like we will gain on the Astros tonight.

Probably 4 games or less and the division is in striking distance.

Haha haha

Astros are using a position player to pitch and he's given up 6 runs so far. Ugly ass game down there in Houston. I'll have to watch the highlights of that one later.

TXAggie2011 said:

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There's a whole lot of similarities. We're not copying them, I don't think, but plenty of similar design concepts and theories are coming through.

We decidedly didn't copy the real grass, though, so there's that.

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There ain't that many similarities.

Greetings from Barcelona!

TXAggie2011 said:

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There's a whole lot of similarities. We're not copying them, I don't think, but plenty of similar design concepts and theories are coming through.

We decidedly didn't copy the real grass, though, so there's that.

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It just really isn't that similar. It's a baseball stadium, they all look kind of the same. If you pull up a pic of the juice box and a rendering of the new park, there are a million differences. The only similarity I see is the arches and the orientation of the roof (which there are only 2 options for that one). That's basically it.

Minor has two more starts before the ASG. If I am looking at the schedule right, he'll start the last game before the ASG. He probably won't be the AL starter but he should be.

Early start today... 12:10

Lineup looks awesome today.

Gallo is currently at 7th in the ASG voting for outfield. Springer and Brantey are 2nd and 3rd respectively. Go vote for Gallo if you haven't already.

Pence is in the lead for DH.

Mike Minor currently sits at 5.6 WAR at the halfway mark, putting him on pace for 11.2 WAR. In the history of baseball, there have been 109 10+ WAR seasons for pitchers. However, if we limit the discussion to the modern era, which I'll call after 1950, here's something interesting. Here's a list of the pitchers who have done it:

Dwight Gooden
Steve Carlton
Roger Clemens
Pedro Martinez
Wilbur Wood
Bob Gibson
Gaylord Perry
Randy Johnson
Sandy Kofax
Tom Seaver
Aaron Nola
Zach Greinke
Juan Marichal
Fergie Jenkins
Dick Ellsworth
Phil Niekro

All time single season pitcher WAR

Would be great to get a road series sweep

Fuzzy Dunlop said:

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Minor has two more starts before the ASG. If I am looking at the schedule right, he'll start the last game before the ASG. He probably won't be the AL starter but he should be.

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Sounds like their adjusting his schedule so he'll be able to pitch in the ASG. Like you said, probably not the stater, but he should be.

Gallo! Hasn't skipped a beat

Tough break for Rougie there. Finally works a count and then takes a clear ball for strike 3.

Second bomb for Gallo

Gallo again! 2-0 Rangers in the 4th

Gallo x 2

Pirates up 2-0 in the 1st so far on Houston! Let's get this win and hope the pirates pour it on so we move to 4.5 games back