kris michael

@OleTimeHardball 95 M's.

What's your all-time favorite season for your MLB team? Mine is the 1998 Padres. Gwynn, Vaughn, Finley, Caminiti and Hoffman. Took down the Astros and Braves in the playoffs, before running into the Yanks buzzsaw

@OleTimeHardball Miggy played in pitcher's parks, Cleveland helped Thome's power but didn't seem to improve his batting average. A lot of people will go with Miggy because of the 4 batting titles but Thome was more productive. 600 HR guys are rare.

One slugger for the entirety of his career Miguel Cabrera or Jim Thome?

@oldstuff19 @OleTimeHardball Glanced over Joe Medwick's splits. Sportsman's Park seems to have helped him quite a bit. His triple crown year .388 18-80 vs .361-13-73, similar home advantage through career. Good hitters can find ways to take advantage of their home field in ways average hitters don't.

@k___michael @OleTimeHardball Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis where Hornsby played the majority of his games only favored left hand batters. It was a tough park for right hand batters.

Top 10 Right Handed Hitters (All-Time) 1. Rogers Hornsby 2. Jimmie Foxx 3. Henry Aaron 4. Willie Mays 5. Joe DiMaggio 6. Frank Thomas 7. Albert Pujols 8. Honus Wagner 9. Nap Lajoie 10. Frank Robinson

@oldstuff19 @OleTimeHardball Sportsman's Park before 1926 had weird dimensions. There was a weird gap in the bleachers from left-center to the foul line. The stats say it didn't help his batting average or doubles but he hit more homers there. I'd guess he had good power to right.

@ullery_sco85640 @OleTimeHardball Ha ha there's 'relief starters' now, guys that pitch the 1st inning. Try doing that to Bob Gibson, he'd murder his manager. Pitchers used to fight to get wins and complete games. Sabermetric geeks that don't care about wins are a big part of the decline of baseball.

@k___michael @OleTimeHardball No denying that pitching is a major contribution to team performance, but pitchers alone do not win games. Watch more games and maybe you’ll eventually understand.

Hall of Fame Re-Vote You hold the deciding vote in the Hall of Fame case for Jack Morris. Does he get in?

@OleTimeHardball Brooks is probably a little overrated because he wasn't a great hitter, .723 ops. His defense was amazing, absolutely smothering. I guess it depends on how many runs you figure he saved. I feel like Brett is a bit overrated too, only as a hitter, but who's better than those 2?

All-time Top 10 3B 1. Mike Schmidt 2. George Brett 3. Brooks Robinson 4. Eddie Mathews 5. Chipper Jones 6. Adrian Beltre 7. Wade Boggs 8. Home Run Baker 9. Ron Santo 10. Pie Traynor

@ullery_sco85640 @OleTimeHardball Forgot about Hoffman but he was a closer..

@k___michael @OleTimeHardball Run support, defense, and bullpens are big factors. And always a dose of luck, too.

@ullery_sco85640 @OleTimeHardball Seasons but not careers. You still haven't named a great pitcher with a losing career record. I can't seem to find a single hall of fame pitcher with a losing record. Steve Carlton won 1/4 of his teams games winning 27 in 1972. Because he was good not lucky.

Wins are heavily team dependent, which is not to deny the importance of pitching. There are enough examples of pitchers with poor season W-L records who pitched very well, but had poor run support, lousy bullpens, and poor defenses. There are even more examples of mediocre pitchers with good W-L records. Pitching is very important, but wins and losses are team dependent. If you want to follow sports which don’t depend on team performance, maybe try badminton or golf, etc.

@lilfloo Fisherman. Thinks the fish are gone because the dolphins ate them.

what kinda evil ass nigga shoots a dolphin

@Oceanbreeze473 I was a chubby wuss, I couldn't do it.

Did they really make grade school kids climb 30’ ropes off a tile floor in street clothes?

@OleTimeHardball Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, Hank Greenberg, and all the other players that lost seasons due to the war. You can add Pete Alexander who lost seasons to war, shell shock, and the resulting alcoholism that destroyed his life.

Who is the most “what if” player in MLB history? Drugs, injury, etc. 1. Eric Davis 2. Dwight Gooden 3. Mickey Mantle 4. Mike Trout 5. Don Mattingly 6. Herb Score 7. Sandy Koufax 8. Mark Prior 9. Josh Hamilton 10. Pete Reiser

@RickPetree It's the 'all politicians are corrupt these guys are doing what everybody else does' nonsense. They believe Hilary and Obama are massive criminals hiding massive corruption so they think it's fine 'their guy' is doing it.

I’ve said before that the most surprising thing to me about Americans’ reaction to the Trump era has been the relative indifference to flagrant corruption. I didn’t expect it and I don’t understand it. It’s the deadliest poison they’ve injected into the Republic’s bloodstream.

@ullery_sco85640 @OleTimeHardball If you don't understand that good pitchers win games for teams and bad pitchers lose games, baseball isn't your sport. Maybe try badminton. Or golf.

@k___michael @OleTimeHardball Complete game or not, pitcher hitting or not, Ws and Ls are team stats.

@ullery_sco85640 @OleTimeHardball Then why do all the hall of fame pitchers have winning records, high win % while bad pitchers have poor records with more losses than wins? What you are writing is easily proven false. Luck is a factor but it evens out much more over a career.

@nut_history I've hit fast pitching. I've hit good curves. Not well but I could hit it. The trick is guessing where the ball will be; my coordination isn't good enough to know for sure. But once you see some pitches, time it, get used to it, you can make some decent guesses.

Out of hundred of 95MPH fastballs how many do you think you could hit? Probably zero for me.

@ullery_sco85640 @OleTimeHardball Not if you throw a complete game. Especially if the pitcher hits.

@k___michael @OleTimeHardball Wins are a team stat. “Clutch” is a myth.

@RandySRobbins @OleTimeHardball Of course he was, I saw him play. Brain bubble or something. I'd say throwing right handed threw me off but he DH'd the time I saw him...

@k___michael @OleTimeHardball Yaz was a lefty.

@nut_history It's hard. Pitching is such a power trip. Toying with hitters is so fun, especially a good changeup. But hitting is the best. Smacking the pitcher in the lip with a line drive is the best; so is hitting a long HR. Can I be both?

If you could be an extremely skilled baseball player, would you be a pitcher or hitter?