MLB 2022: The Long and Winding Thread

Looks like the move of the year was by Mets GM Bill Eppler getting rid of Lindor's blow buddy.

 

Well in 10 years you can tell me I told you so

 

Masturbate over numbers and cybercum? I hesitate to think what you do while you stare at the Yadier Molina poster on your wall.

 

Which Cardinal has been held out of the HOF because of hatred of their team or fan base?

 

Let's compare Molina's #s to another catcher, with Molina's #s first

Games: 2224-1988
Runs: 777-856
Hits: 2168-1782
HR: 176-324
RBI: 1022-1070
Ave.: .277-.252
Total bases: 3,118-3,113
Slugging: .399-.440
OPS: .726-.753
OPS+: 96-106
WAR: 42.3-39.6
Silver Slugger: 0-6
All-Star: 10-8 (Molina's last one was a courtesy selection).
Gold Glove: 9-3

If Molina is a sure-first first-round HOF, shouldn't a catcher who had more runs, homers, RBIs, a higher OPS, OPS+, the same # of total bases in about 240 fewer games and 6 more Silver Slugger awards merit more than nine votes in his only year on the HOF ballot? They are pretty close to the same player, no?

 

I mean the last one to go in who was unmistakably a Cardinal on a BBWAA ballot was Ozzy Smith in 2002.

But if we’re posting articles that is as much a critique of Cardinals fans as a genuine look at the merits of Molina’s credentials where the “evidence” of his dubious resume is “numbers” that are unspecified and fWAR that people who didn’t play as long matched. Can I just repeat that for a moment: the author took it as a bad thing that Molina play 1,000 more games than Posey, 400 more than Maur and 500 more than Russell Martin. As a catcher. It’s a knock that he—a catcher—played so long.

 

We have ears being checked, folks. Yadi goes on the backburner.

 

That’s some shit, right there. Mets are Metsing hard.

 

Buck Showalter's just living up to his initials.