This week in baseball blogs…
- Cleveland Indians Perspective compares the work the American League’s top two starters, the Tribe’s Corey Kluber and the Red Sox’s Chris Sale, have done against playoff-bound teams this season.
- The Sports Tank regards the Diamondbacks’ summer acquisition of ex-Tigers slugger J.D. Martinez as one of the greatest midseason moves in baseball history.
- Sports Talk Philly wants the Phillies to inquire about Blue Jays right-hander Marcus Stroman in the offseason.
- Big Three Sports delves into Indians righty Carlos Carrasco’s success.
- The Giants Cove sees the Padres as a powerhouse in the making.
- TheIntrepidSTL says Cardinals righty Michael Wacha is tipping his changeup.
- Stats Swipe believes the Twins could cause problems for the Yankees if they meet in the AL wild-card round.
- Jays From the Couch examines potential offseason scenarios involving Toronto third baseman Josh Donaldson.
- Notes From The Sally details what made the Red Sox’s Jay Groome and the Braves’ Joey Wentz the top pitchers in the South Atlantic League this year.
- Camden Depot opines that Mark Trumbo’s presence is problematic for the Orioles.
- Clubhouse Corner’s Bernie Pleskoff looks at the AL division leaders and the playoff snapshot.
- DiNardo’s Dugout (podcast) discusses the Indians’ winning streak and Shohei Otani, and makes postseason predictions.
- District On Deck explains how the Nationals won the National League East.
- Call to the Pen focuses on potential in-house answers for the Phillies’ rotation heading into 2018.
- Motor City Bengals expects the Tigers’ future success to be based on a potentially dynamic rotation.
- BP Toronto writes about struggling Blue Jays right fielder Jose Bautista and the unpredictability of baseball.
- Inside the ’Zona studies the changes Diamondbacks righty Jimmie Sherfy underwent before reaching the majors.
- Pirates Breakdown goes behind the scenes for Double-A Altoona’s Eastern League championship victory.
- The 3rd Man In talks with young righty Ian Bedell, one of the top pitching prospects set to enter next year’s draft.
- A’s Farm names its organizational all-star team for 2017.
- Outfield Fly Rule doles out 2017 awards to Braves minor leaguers.
- Jays Journal lists five positive takeaways from Toronto’s season.
- Pinstriped Prospects chats with Yankees farmhand Steven Sensley.
- Extra Innings interviews Europe’s top minor league prospect, the Royals’ Marten Gasparini.
- The Runner Sports (links here) wonders if Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge can break the rookie home run record (49, by Mark McGwire in 1987) and profiles Astros catcher prospect Chuckie Robinson.
- MetsMind looks ahead to the team’s 2018 bullpen.
- Everything Bluebirds is concerned the Blue Jays will be too loyal to aging veterans in the future.
- Elite Sports NY notes that the Yankees added to an already crowded group of middle infield prospects when they signed Dominican teenager Ronny Rojas last week.
- RSNStats goes back in time to the Red Sox’s 1918 World Series win, the only Fall Classic ever played in September.
- Mets Daddy recaps an odd day at Citi Field.
- Rotisserie Duck names the top 10 baseball card sets of all-time.
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26 starts for Kluber this season. A whopping 8 of them have been against teams over .500. Severino has faced 50% more teams over .500. He should be the front runner.
The article said it was 8 games against playoff teams and he’s clearly been the best AL pitcher all season so he’ll win.
BTW there are only 5 other teams in the AL that are over .500, so do you expect all 26 starts against teams with winning records?
Kluber should win he is head-and-shoulders above the league but he has not “CLEARLY” been the best AL pitcher all season. Chris Sale has been good and a challenge to kluber up until recently.
And Kluber just dominating again right now, but since it’s only KC I guess it doesn’t count either.
Lol. Sale has the edge over severino however I do agree severino has had a Cy young type year.
Severino should be in the back end of the conversation. Nowhere near the front runner
Why did this say padres on it? There is nothing padres related in here.
“The Giants Cove sees the Padres as a powerhouse in the making”
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What is the Rookie Homerun record for a Non-PED player?
Good question! I looked it up and it is 38 by Wally Berger (Boston, 1930) and Frank Robinson (Cincinnati, 1956), so Judge has already broken the record.
That’s pretty interesting to think about Judge already broke the record and Bellinger tied the record today. So Bellinger will own the NL record, most likely, and Judge will own the AL record. Judge of course will own the overall record.
This alone should prove that the balls are juiced
I honestly don’t see these records as much more valid than Bonds and Co.
It’s not the players fault, but it’s also not really fair comparing what Judge and Bellinger have done this year to rookies who hit a softer ball.
If the NHL started using soccer nets and someone scored 93 goals, would we say they were better than Gretzky?
If MLB never fixes the ball, you almost have to reset the records to this year and move forward as a new era. If they do fix the ball, this/these year(s) will just be outliers.
There’s no such a thing…oh and Bonds holds the single season HR record regardless.
I think you misread the “rookie” part. I don’t think people are trying to compare either to the MLB rookie hr record.
*MLB HR record.
It’s just over the last week or so people have been going on about these records. It is what it is. There’s no asterisks on Bonds or McGuires season totals so wondering won’t change it.
Only a real slimeball would defend cheaters and try to say that either of their records are real. They cheated and admitted they cheated Anything they did is moot. It doesn’t count. Of course, you were the person arguing that the Indians hold the win streak record when it’s clear the Giants hold the record.
Only a real FH mixes up their facts about arguments with others. I never said anything about the Indians win streak because I couldn’t care less. Oh and DA Bonds never admitted to squat. The records are in the books so gtfu..
Single-season HR record is 1. Maris (61) 2. Ruth (60). Anything done by Bonds, McGwire and Sosa are garbage.
Which totals are on MLB.com or listed at the HOF? Get over it already!
Yet those players who hold the records (Bonds, McGwire, etc.) will never make it to the Hall of Fame.
Integrity matters.
McGwire was such a one dimensional player and when that one dimension is aided by PEDs then he doesn’t belong IMO.
Phillies getting Stroman would cost Kingery, Sixto, Moniak and then some. Not worth it.
There main idea was to take on Tulo so they wouldn’t need to give up a big package. Not sure if I could see either team doing that though
Set down the booze, and go to bed. There’s no way 3 years of Stroman fetches 3 top 50 prospects in baseball plus more. You can say it would cost too much from your perspective, and you’d likely be right, but your prediction is far off.
I don’t think you realize how valuable stroman is. He’s going to cost a monster package, that will be very hard to give away
Whenever Angelos gets involved in baseball operations decisions, things get messed up. His fingerprints are all over the Trumbo signing. The only contract that is worse for the O’s is Davis and Angelos was the driving force behind that signing too. Can we fire the owner?