MLB 2022: The Long and Winding Thread

We have an echo in here!

 

Now batting, Manny Mota! [/airplane]

 

Someone high up in the Red Sox front office does not like Don Orsillo.

 

Ted Williams has things to say about arbitrary milestones and league content.

 

What does 3,000 hits mean?
This guy was writing his name in the 3 hole back when you could smoke in the dugout

 

If it’s a double he will join Aaron and Albert Pujols as the only players with 3,000 hits, 500 homers and 600 doubles

 

Nobody would claim Cabrera was as good as Williams, or Babe Ruth (another guy who didn't get 3000 hits). But to share a career record with top of the top five or six players ever is an indication you've been pretty good yourself when swinging the bat.

 

Probably this guy's wife, apparently a Red Sox executive

 

While not as egregious as ESPN's 'Fifth player with 21 ppg, 5.5 assists, and 2.1 steals under 26', the use of these group milestones is useless. By referring to them, you are elevating the player to those in the group and implicitly ignoring all the all-time great who didn't reach those milestones for myriad reasons. It's meaningless in any evaluation of a player.

 

The highest compliment I can give Miggy Cabrera is when I sat in Progressive Field when the Tigers visited, I feared for my life and the life of everyone around me every time he hit a foul ball. The ball sizzled in a way I’d only ever heard off the bat of Albert Belle. Nobody even tried to catch them. It was straight duck and cover for everybody.

 

Keith Law said winning the Triple Crown didn’t mean anything either