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Bizarre call indeed. Angel Hernandez is known for such umpiring. After the game, he was honest about it. He said he couldn't see what happened, but it was his call so he had to do something. He called it wrong. Everyone else knew the fly ball was not caught, except for Benintendi who relied on Angel's call to head back toward second base where he was tagged out. Then, in review, he was called safe. Indians did it right, Royals did the best they could, Angel guessed wrong. "Frustrating," said Francona.
Grand slam to help himself last night.
Huascar Ynoa has more homers and RBIs this season than Francisco Lindor.
What a bizarre call by Angel Hernandez.
Turns out there was a "fair chance" the Rox would score *6* in the bottom of the 7th in the 2nd game ... FTW! :-)
Anyone rolling the dice here? if you paid PK/MF prices, maybe you are ... but his 4.13 ERA is now 6.21 (after an 8-spot in 2/3 IP) ...
What's your definition of "fair chance"? It's only a 7-inning game ... at Coors, I get it ...
A homer, five RBI in the first inning in Colorado. Giants up 10-0 now, but there's a fair chance this isn't over.
Easier to fire Chili than Lindor.
That should calm the talk radio masses for, oh, 24 hours or so.
Claimed him just in time for yesterday's start. May not own him by the time he starts again on Sunday.
If your wondering, the ADL is very much anti dynasty: two years over and out for any player bought in the auction or taken in the reserve draft.
In Wander's case, I have a feeling I would have been happy with both years.
BA is excited and so am I.
(No, I don't own Wander but he actually came close enough in the ADL reserve draft for me to start to dream.)
Wander Franco, SS, Rays -- What would Opening Day be without the No. 1 prospect in the game, the next wunderkind in a seemingly endless line. Franco starts the year with Triple-A Durham, which gets a pretty interesting draw out of the gate when it faces Memphis on the road. The Redbirds, who were one of the two final teams to take the field (they played Sacramento in the Triple-A National Championship Game, lo these many months ago) have rotation with lefthander Matthew Liberatore, who was dealt to St. Louis in the package for Randy Arozarena. Franco and Liberatore have been teammates in the past, so it’ll be intriguing to see who gets the edge when they meet—will it be the switch-hitting contact machine or the lefty with the dastardly curveball?
Really, really fun if you own him. (I don't, but it's still fun.)
MLB HR Leaders
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Stathead Spotlight: Shohei Ohtani Most home runs by an Angels player through their first 26 games of the season
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Haniger seems to pull down. The replay shows he had it in his glove.
Yesterday's Biggest Play
Batter: Cedric Mullins (BAL)
Pitcher: Anthony Misiewicz (SEA)
Situation: Top 8th, 0 out, 1-2 count, Runner On 1st
Score: SEA 1, BAL 0
Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep CF-RF)
2 runs scored on the play, and BAL's win probability increased 40% points, to 74%
BAL went on to win the game, 5-3
Looked mighty good last night. Raise your hand if you got his stats.'
Yesterday's Top Performers Pitchers: Kenta Maeda* (MIN): 5.1 IP, 0 ER, 2 H, 2 BB, 8 K, 70 GmSc Dean Kremer* (BAL): 6.0 IP, 1 ER, 2 H, 2 BB, 4 K, 66 GmSc Tyler Anderson (PIT): 6.2 IP, 2 ER, 2 H, 3 BB, 5 K, 64 GmSc Vince Velasquez (PHI): 6.0 IP, 1 ER, 4 H, 2 BB, 6 K, 64 GmSc Erik Swanson (SEA): 2.0 IP, 0 ER, 0 H, 0 BB, 3 K, 59 GmSc View All of Yesterday's Pitchers at Baseball-Reference.com * - pictured above |
And with that, Hunter is hitting .162!
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Yesterday's Top Performers
Batters:
Hunter Dozier* (KCR): 2-5, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 2 R
Cedric Mullins* (BAL): 3-5, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 R
Josh Naylor* (CLE): 2-4, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1 R
Stephen Piscotty (OAK): 2-3, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 R
Jorge Polanco (MIN): 2-3, 2 RBI, 1 R
Franmil Reyes (CLE): 3-4, 2 RBI, 1 R
Willy Adames (TBR): 2-4, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 2 R
Pete Alonso (NYM): 3-4, 2 R
Eddie Rosario (CLE): 1-2, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1 R
Manuel Margot (TBR): 2-5, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1 R
View All of Yesterday's Batters at Baseball-Reference.com
Will he get another shot in the Statcast age? Probably not.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/04/chili-davis-had-weird-feeling-before-being-fired-by-mets/
Joc Pederson - .498
Ian Happ - .557
Jason Heyward - .582
To be fair ... Jake Marisnick has now started 5 of their last 10 games, and has a .877 OPS. OTOH, Marisnick has struck out on fully 33% of his plate appearances ... so you might expect him to join his counterparts in the sub-.600 club soon.
Collectively ... the 4 have struck out 94 times in 269 ABs.
I took two hot-shot lefties in the reserve draft in the ADL: one was Lynch, here is the other. What I forgot to consider (tired after a long zoom day) was that prospects count toward our seven-player reserve list limit and when an active player, like Rudy Tellez, got sent down, I had to make a choice: keep a hot-shot prospect or keep Tellez.
I kept Tellez. I kept Lynch. I didn't keep Hall.
We shall see. But isn't it great that we finally, finally have some minor league games?
In lieu of a traditional daily prospect report, Josh Norris is celebrating Minor League Opening Day by highlighting several players he can't wait to see this year. Full stats from prospects playing in the majors are still below.
D.L. Hall, LHP, Orioles -- One of the Orioles’ top pitching prospects, he’ll take the Opening Day start with batterymate Adley Rutschman for the Baysox. Combined, that’s the No. 2 overall prospect (Rutschman) and the No. 52 prospect (Hall) setting up shop 60 feet, 6 inches from one another. Hall’s command and control have long been issues, but his stuff is undeniable. His mid-to-upper 90s fastball is particularly intriguing because of the life it shows even to the naked eye. When he’s right, he has strikeout stuff and is one of the nastiest pitchers in the minors.
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And a day later, after 2-3 with two doubles, Hunter is up to .181. On fire. Yes, I own him.