2021 MLB Regular Season thread

Cabrera is third all-time in homers hit as a Detroit Tiger. Al Kaline finished with 399. Norm Cash is second, followed by Cabrera and Hank Greenberg. They are the only four with at least 300.

Six more hit at least 200: Willie Horton, Cecil Fielder, Lou Whitaker, Rudy York, Lance Parrish and Bill Freehan, who finished his career with exactly 200.

A stat I know I'd never expect: Fielder 245, Whitaker 244.

 

So it turns out Mike Trout actual tore his calf muscle, the very one and same the Angels thought was a sprain? They really do have the worst training staff in baseball.

 

I heard this a couple of days ago. Originally it was a twinge in his calf. And his movement that caused the injury certainly wasn't much. Same as it was a twinge in Rendon's hamstring that turned into a major hip impingement.

 

If only the Angels operated in a major metro area with access to top-level medical care.

 

And there is the O.C. doctor who gave Chargers QB Tyrod Taylor a pain-killing injection for sore ribs and punctured his lung just minutes before a game.
I guess I live in a medical hellhole (but my hip replacement has gone very well and it was done out of the same office as the Taylor screwup).

 

Is it a bad sign when a team puts a player on waivers Sunday but starts him in right field Monday?

Gregory Polanco hasn't been claimed on waivers, and there is little reason to believe anybody would claim him, so the Pirates can still trot a player they don't want out there in the starting lineup tonight.

 

I read that, in typical Pirates fashion, they waived Polanco hoping a contender would pick him up and get his salary off their books.

 

What contender could resist that .621 OPS?!

 

Dominos starting to fall in San Diego.

 

Their PR ain’t so hot, either.