The boys of summer! (Baseball Thread)

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Jiggafini19Deux said:
Bruce Sutter: 300 saves, 861 strikeouts, 879 hits allowed.

Billy Wagner: 422 saves, 1,196 strikeouts, 601 hits allowed.
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Wagner is a HOFer IMO. I think his son is playing pro ball now…another reminder that I’m old.

Sutter played on some horrible Cubs teams before being dealt to STL. I’m guessing he also didn’t just come in the 9th inning to save a game or he at least overlapped that era and the one inning save era.

Regardless both are HOFers.
 
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That was legit the most hyped I’ve been during a ball game in years,… felt like the 2000s post season Angels intensity. I jumped out my seat when Turner hit the home run
 
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ACamp1900 said:
That was legit the most hyped I’ve been during a ball game in years,… felt like the 2000s post season Angels intensity. I jumped out my seat when Turner hit the home run
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Yeah this post season energy in March has got me more hyped for the season than usual.
 
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I wanted Trout to be the best player ever but that’s not gonna happen. He just got owned by Ohtani. The angels are gonna regret his contract.
 
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Jiggafini19Deux said:
That doesn't look like a "meaningless game".

Seriously, this has been awesome.
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The thought that these are meaningless game is laughable to me. The injuries suck, of course, but for a sport that has struggled to grow the game the WBC produced entertaining/exciting games using the old rules.

The rule changes for 2023 should/will hopefully add some of that back to the regular MLB season.

Team USA pitching was pretty average considering what it could have been, but gotta tip the cap to them tonight. I thought they did enough. The USA bats just couldn't break though with RISP tonight.
 
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Exciting WBC start to finish . Impressed the USA was able to get that kind of lineup to join. Hopefully next time the pitchers come out as well!
 
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ACamp1900 said:
Did you see those pitches??? Ohtani was saving something special. Trout almost never strikes out on three swing and misses,…
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He struck out earlier in the game against a mid level pitcher that showed him up.

And for the record I am as big of a Trout Fan as anyone. I wish he played in the east coast so we could watch him more.
 
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ACamp1900 said:
Did you see those pitches??? Ohtani was saving something special. Trout almost never strikes out on three swing and misses,…
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This is pretty good I think.

The slider that ended up getting him? Mental. I'm sure a lot of people think that DiMaggio or Ted Williams would've railed that pitch 450 feet, though.
 
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Jiggafini19Deux said:


This is pretty good I think.

The slider that ended up getting him? Mental. I'm sure a lot of people think that DiMaggio or Ted Williams would've railed that pitch 450 feet, though.
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I heard on the drive into work today that the last pitch literally broke the pitch grading scale. A 'perfect pitch' is graded as an 80... Ohtani's slider that struck out Trout, apparently, graded at 81 plus.... but Trout is a fuckin loser for not hitting it.

Speaking of tired narratives I'm so tired of the 'Trout is being wasted' stuff..., especially from fans of teams like the Red Sox who wasted the entire career of Ted Williams by their own logic... no one says Bonds was wasted on the Giants, Jr. wasted on the M's... etc, etc... but social media makes meat headed group-think morons out of us.
 
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irishff1014 said:
He struck out earlier in the game against a mid level pitcher that showed him up.

And for the record I am as big of a Trout Fan as anyone. I wish he played in the east coast so we could watch him more.
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he was named to the All-Tournament team…one of only 2 US players…so to me it just reinforces that hitting a round ball w/ a round bat squarely is still the hardest thing to do in sports. Japan scattered 9 hits as the US only scored twice on solo shots. Trout just needs to stay healthy and he’ll be fine.
 
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ACamp1900 said:
I heard on the drive into work today that the last pitch literally broke the pitch grading scale. A 'perfect pitch' is graded as an 80... Ohtani's slider that struck out Trout, apparently, graded at 81 plus.... but Trout is a fuckin loser for not hitting it.

Speaking of tired narratives I'm so tired of the 'Trout is being wasted' stuff..., especially from fans of teams like the Red Sox who wasted the entire career of Ted Williams by their own logic... no one says Bonds was wasted on the Giants, Jr. wasted on the M's... etc, etc... but social media makes meat headed group-think morons out of us.
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Agreed. Watching that final at-bat, Trout was struggling to catch up to the fastball & by the look on his face…the pitches likely looked even faster than the 100 mph they were clocking. My guess is he wasn’t going to get beat on strike 3 so he locked in on dead red fastball. Slider was the perfect pitch & Trout never had a chance. Any casual fan who says Trout is a loser needs to watch baseball and recall that succeeding only 30% of the time can get a player inducted in the HOF as one of the greatest of all time. Trout will be fine.
 
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