Pretty good for a ‘rehab’ year.
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Some of them do. Albert Pujols and Miguel Cabrera come to mind. Aaron Judge is at .325 and threatening a triple crown.
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I’m really glad he didn’t stop at 50-50, because that’s slang for a marginal receiver or horrible FT shooter…
“Will he make it? Who knows… that’s why they call him 50-50”
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For some gallows humor I asked ChatGPT, “Just how awful are the 2024 White Sox?” It came back with this.
Wondering what to do with my Guillen and Baines replica jerseys now.
Edit to add: Today is the 104th anniversary of the indictment of the “Eight Men Out,” the players who threw the 1919 World Series in the Black Sox Scandal. That was nothing. Reinsdorf’s organization managed to throw the whole season.
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While thinking about the titanic 50/50 season of Shohei, it overshadowed what was very close to a 40/40 season for Jose Ramirez of Cleveland. Joe Posnanski again…
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José Ramirez BARELY misses 40-40 season! Leave it to José Ramirez to come within an eyelash of a 40-40 season the same year that Shohei Ohtani goes 54-54.
I don’t know that any great athlete in recent memory has been quite as good at going unnoticed as Ramirez. He does miraculous things each and every year, and outside of Cleveland, nobody has any idea. He’s likely to finish top-10 in the MVP voting this year for the seventh time in the last eight years, but, of course, he’s never won it. He’s one of only six players in baseball history to hit 34 home runs and steal 34 bases multiple times, but of course, nobody counts 34-34 as a thing. He’s averaged 6 WAR per full season since 2016, and 6 WAR is a perfectly José Ramirez number—it’s a great season but not quite enough to stop the presses.
He’s not even the only major league player named José Ramirez. From 2014 to 2018, there was a pitcher for the Yankees, Mariners and Braves named José Ramirez.
Ramirez going 40-40—even overshadowed by Shohei this year—might have garnered him just a little bit of glory, so instead he went 39-41. Along the way (thanks to Steve Sirk for some of the details), he had THREE home runs taken away from him.
On March 30, JJ Bleday took one away
(That would have been a homer in six of 30 parks.)
On April 15, Wilyer Abreu took one away
(That would have been a homer in 20 of 30 parks.)
On May 26, Jo Adell took one away
(That would have been a homer in 24 of 30 parks.)
It’s all so perfect. José Ramirez will be in Cooperstown someday, For now, though, he sort of remains Cleveland’s wonderful little secret.
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The wildcard series were great baseball. Aside from the Padres 4-0 win and the Mets 8-4 win in games 1, the other games were contested going into the 8th and 9th innings. The visitors won 3 of the 4 series.
NLDS: Padres vs Dodgers and Mets vs Phillies.
ALDS: Det vs Cleveland and KC vs NYY
I have a rooting interest in the Padres and although they won the series in the games played against the Dodgers this year (something that they rarely do) I expect the baseball gods to conspire against them in the NLDS. Hope I am wrong.
I will be rooting for Detroit and KC. Can both the Mets and Phillies lose?
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Yes, please.
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Do we need to do a welfare check on LAUte? Dodgers getting abused at home.
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Hard to win at this level without at least above-average pitching. 
The boys are doomed, I’m afraid.
What’s wrong with Yamamoto
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As any long-suffering Padres fan knows, the series is far from over.
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Sorry LA Ute, but what is with the Dodgers? They dominate the regular season almost without exception year after year then fizzle when it matters most.
Sunday night’s game was an embarrassment for them and for their fans. Disgraceful, pathetic and unbecoming.
While historically my Padres have given me nothing to brag about, this year feels different. I think they send the BILLION dollar Dodgers golfing and fishing after two more games.
Let’s go San Diego!
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I was in the left field seats for game 2 and I swear I threw nothing at anybody. In fact, that was when I left. Most bummed out game I’ve been to in years and I was at the Rose Bowl this year for Saban’s last game.
I agree with @LAUte pitching is a problem but who knows.
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Pitching doesn’t seem to be a problem for the fans. 
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Dodger pitching has been a patchwork all season. Just when a starter found his groove…then they went out with an injury. Middle relief has been an adventure too. Some had success from game to game, but none of them were consistent. You always had to be concerned if the appearance was going to be a good lockdown, or if they were headed out there with a couple of gas cans looking to burn the chance of a win to the ground.
The throwing trash on the field is a bush league move by the fans. It’s something those water-hoarding, battery-chucking NoCals by a Bay do when they lose a game. It’s never the right thing to go no-class.
Oh well, they better win Game 3 or the Padres will close them out in Game 4.
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Not gonna lie. The dude who threw the second ball has a canon. lol.
Micheladas were flowing in our section. The more bombs hit by Padres the more they got pounded. I told my wife and kid in the top of the 7th, “Let’s go now. We’ll be home to watch the 9th.” We were home bottom of the 7th due to all the delays. The 101 was empty.
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All day long the radio hosts on Dodgers radio am570 have been piling on Padres third baseman Manny Machado for “throwing” a ball at Dave Roberts in the dugout on Sunday.
Petros & Money FINALLY told the truth and blew off the whole thing.
Worth a listen.
Top of the 2:00pm segment.
This should and will be handled between the lines by the Padres in 4 games.
wow Padres having an inning!
followed by a Dodger grand slam.
This game is drunk
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