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@MikeyBets424 @LinkofSunshine Kenny Lofton at Leadoff is obviously not the main problem here

@LinkofSunshine Lofton hit .310 with 54 stolen bases. Back then getting on base for power hitters was the goal. Not everyone to be a power hitter

The Indians used to bat their 3 worst hitters by wRC+ 1-2-3 in the order for the entire season lol The reason they batted Vizquel 2nd was that he was a good bunter This is how bad the state of baseball was until a few years ago

@RobbieNYG87 @WillPesek_ Which is perfectly fine if you're among the league leaders in BB%. Leadoff is the spot in the lineup where BA on its own matters the least.

@WillPesek_ .224 xBA

Do you remember when you said you didn’t want to see Trent Grisham hit leadoff for the #Yankees? I advise you to not check his savant page because there’s a lot of RED!

@Jolly_Olive What's more, 6 of these teams made the World Series, 3 won it. Everyone loses all the damn time. Baseball is amazing.

Recent teams who lost 20 of 30 games in a given stretch and still made the playoffs 2025 DET 2025 CLE 2024 NYY 2024 NYM 2024 HOU 2023 TEX 2023 ARI 2023 MIA 2023 TBR 2022 NYY 2022 SEA 2021 STL 2019 WSN 2017 LAD 2017 NYY 2016 SFG 2015 TEX 2014 OAK 2014 SFG 2014 DET 2014 PIT

@Sw0lleyMammoth @deeptocenter There is no 'actually watching'. No one is in the stadium in a seat with a good angle on every player for most games, and you simply can't judge certain aspects of defense on eye test when watching the game on TV. The broadcast just cannot provide the necessary information.

@deeptocenter I DESPISE advanced defensive statistics. Anyone who actually watches knows Torkelson is elite at scooping balls out of the dirt. He makes good throws to second to turn two, and feeds pitchers covering 1B well. Blows my mind

As someone who is usually in support of advanced statistics, I don’t understand the defensive ones very well. I watch Spencer Torkelson play every day and I’ve never once thought man he’s horrible over there. And yet defensive stats treat him like the worst defensive 1B ever.

@_24kin This happened with him in 2024. The metrics had Wells as the unluckiest hitter in MLB early on, entering June with a sub .600 OPS. He then proceeded to slash .299/.388/.542 for a .930 OPS over the summer until the artery damage in his index finger first popped up in September.

Austin Wells this season wOBA .280 —> xwOBA .376 BA .185 —> xBA .260 SLG .259 —> xSLG .426 He’s the 10th unluckiest hitter in baseball based on wOBA - xwOBA Dare I say, the results are coming?

@playoff_Bader @RyanGarciaESM

@RyanGarciaESM Lmaooo I remember that. Who said it?

A professional baseball player went on a podcast and said Jose Iglesias should have won NL MVP in 2024

@velebeliever @riv2rp4ge @YankeeWRLD Why? Between the two, Gunnar has 3 of their combined top 4 bWAR seasons, incl. the best. He's the way more predictable performer AND has shown more top end output. Gunnar > Acuña is pretty open-and-shut at this point.

My Top 50 Players for the 2026 MLB season

@TJenkinsTampa 'Francisco Franco' was right there...

No. 1 Prospects by Year: 2024: Jackson Holliday 2023: Gunnar Henderson 2022: Bobby Witt Jr. 2021: Joseph Stalin 2020: Benito Mussolini 2019: Vlad Guerrero Jr. 2018: Shohei Ohtani 2017: Andrew Benintendi 2016: Corey Seager That’s a pretty damn good hit rate.

@FoulTerritoryTV This is actually so stupid all around...

If 60 home runs, a division title, and elite defense aren't enough to win MVP, what is? For Cal Raleigh, the answer is simple: win a World Series.

@ochoburner_ @ChrisCoop_ Have you ever seen your team win a playoff series?

@ChrisCoop_ Lmfao you have never seen a Yankees World Series

My favorite rivalries in baseball aren’t Yankees-Red Sox, dodgers-giants, or cubs-brewers (sorry cardinals) It’s these random, poop vs pee rivalries where fans hurl the most vile insults at each other over their 78-82 win ball clubs over who gets to lose 2 games in the wildcard first. I spend every day arguing with Red Sox fans arguing about World Series wins, playoffs, who will be the best team, etc.. And then there’s an entire side of twitter I never see arguing which team will finish 3rd in the central and which acquisition was better, the 1 year deal to Suarez or the 1 year deal to Ryan O’Hearn😂

@028_tan @YankeesFiles DRS has been tracked by Fielding Bible since 2003

@TA_Enjoyer @YankeesFiles This list makes no sense. Jeter has 23,000 innings

These are the top-15 active players in strikeouts. Something around half of these guys will be in the HOF someday. Strikeouts do not matter on their own.

@Duhbreo__ @jayquintana_jr @RymeDefi @MLBONFOX Buddy, it's regular and postseason combined. Not that tough to figure out.

@jayquintana_jr @RymeDefi @MLBONFOX This is with Savant page being absolutely brainless and saying Ohtani had 63 HRs last year and 57 year prior

Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge headline the top-10 hitters that will play in the 2026 World Baseball Classic 🌎 Read the full breakdown of these rankings by FOX Sports Research here: foxsports.com/stories/world-…

@FoulTerritoryTV @ajpierzynski12 @ErikKratz31 I get that ex-players want to side with the players, but this ain't it...

"It's all manipulated to make somebody look worse than they really are." @AJPierzynski12 and @ErikKratz31 call out the double standard with analytics.

@BillOC714 @RyanGarciaESM @bbqbaseball62 It's also easy to say that Snell and Yamamoto would likely shut the Yankees down. They both got tagged in their last starts against the Yankees respectively btw. We're talking about singular games here. Shit can happen. The way something turned out wasn't always meant to be.

@RyanGarciaESM @bbqbaseball62 Sure, but he’d be facing Yamamoto or Snell both of whom are likely to shut this lineup down. And just as easy to say the Dodgers would feast on the Yankee bullpen I don’t see it. Maybe if absolutely everything went right but that was the Blue Jays run until the end of g7.

They got the second best LF and best CF available this winter with a good bench bat, so I’m really happy with the position player group. Pitching wise I’m underwhelmed. Lands closer to a B to me.

@RobbyBubble161 @_aufgegleist Ist die landschaftlich reizvollere Strecke

@_aufgegleist Wieso ist Leipzig mit nem großen HBF nicht angebunden, dafür Zwickau mit nem vergleichsweise kleinen?

"Die deutsche Bahn soll sich den TGV als Vorbild nehmen!!" TGV als Vorbild:

@AadhiR3211 @HoernerMVP @YankeeWRLD needed to do what exactly?

@HoernerMVP @YankeeWRLD Eugenio Suarez was exactly what this team needed lol

FanGraphs released their full 2026 Playoffs and World Series odds

@AadhiR3211 @YankeeWRLD They're in a division with a couple good teams and in the way more competitive league. And they're also not that good to begin with, sry.

@YankeeWRLD How are the fuck the Reds that low despite just signing Eugenio Suarez, along with having a World Series caliber pitching staff and a good young roster

@YankeeWRLD How the hell is the Pirates offseason an A- and the White Sox one a C?

We as a society need to be much more realistic about how good Brandon Lowe and Ryan O’Hearn are at baseball

@Manach_38 @MattEddyBA No, it wouldn't be the consensus opinion. A large portion of the Yankee fanbase will disregard any statistical argument if it isn't backed up by WS rings. You'll get looked at sideways for saying Aaron Judge is a better player than Jeter.

@MattEddyBA I firmly believe if Lindor was a Yankee it would already be the mainstream view to say he's better than Jeter. Unfortunately he doesn't get nearly the recognition he deserves, and part of that is on Mets fans for spending so long bashing him when he got here.

Everybody knows Francisco Lindor is great. What we don't fully appreciate is his historic status He enters the season with 279 career HR, including 271 while in the lineup at shortstop When he clears 300, he will be the third player EVER to accomplish that HR as SS 👇