Anthony Castrovince
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@MLB senior writer, @MLBNetwork contributor, author of “A Fan’s Guide to Baseball Analytics.” I ain’t here on business, baby, I’m only here for pun.
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Reading to my kid’s kindergarten class today. Hope they’re ready to learn! 📕
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In the last 12 months, we’ve had 2 Tom Brady retirements and 4 Carlos Correa contract agreements.
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It's officially official: Should the All-Star Game be tied after nine innings, the game will be settled via a Home Run Derby. Each manager will select three batters to participate, and each batter will get three swings. The team with the highest total after the three rounds wins.
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Adrian Beltre’s stolen base total:
2011: 1
2012: 1
2013: 1
2014: 1
2015: 1
2016: 1
2017: 1
2018: 1
Consistency is a skill.
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Important note: 14% of all NL pitchers to win the Cy Young have been named Sandy or Randy.
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0.4% of American baby boys are named Logan
0.16% of Americans have the last name Allen
0.5% of American high school baseball players go pro
0.17% of pro players make the Majors
3.33% of MLB teams are in Cleveland
Yet somehow we ended up with 2 Logan Allens pitching for Cleveland
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I need an interpreter to help me understand why people care about Stephen A. Smith.
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Incredible note from Tom Verducci on
@MLBNetwork
: Judge is 282 pounds and will be signed through his age-39 season. He'll have a chance to become just the second player ever to hit a home run at 270 pounds or more and at age 37 or higher.
The other was Bartolo Colon.
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We play thousands of baseball games each year just to figure out who faces the Astros in the World Series.
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I love Mookie Betts. But let's be real: The best player in baseball is sitting at home because his team doesn't know how to build around the best player in baseball.
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The Mets went from 2nd-worst record in the NL to a tie for the 2nd Wild Card spot in 4 weeks.
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There should be an MLB team that forces its players to grow facial hair.
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Any cardboard cutout can go to Opening Day. The second game of the season is when the diehard cardboard cutouts show up.
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Francisco Lindor last night thanked Indians fans for their support, thanked Cubs fans for coming in, hugged stadium employees as he exited.
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ALCS Game 6 tonight will be the 48th postseason game played at Minute Maid Park, which opened in 2000.
There have been 47 postseason games at Wrigley Field, which opened in 1914.
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Now that the AL’s top seeds both advanced, is the playoff format still broken, or … did the top NL seeds pretty much just blow it?
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No trash cans. No Cole. No Verlander. No Springer. No McCullers in the ALCS. Yet the Astros are headed to the World Series yet again. Impressive.
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Jason Kipnis: "We took a very good ballclub to extra innings in Game 7 of the World Series, so I’m not going to hang my head too long."
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My daughter asked how Santa Claus gets back up the chimney, and I explained that he’s surprisingly nimble and athletic for his size, “just like Bartolo Colon.” So now she’s learning about two folk heroes.
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Gerrit Cole and Tyler Glasnow both going on short rest for Game 5 of the ALDS, but Pirates fans are the ones who are really sleepless.
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First Max Scherzer was going to the Padres, now he might be going to the Dodgers. What do you expect from a guy with one brown eye and one blue eye?
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Three great hitters from both sides of the plate -- Omar Vizquel (1967), Chipper Jones (1972) and Carlos Beltran (1977) -- were all born on this date, giving new meaning to the phrase "switched at birth."
@MLB
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Dusty Baker made his Major League debut with the Braves on September 7, 1968, in a game against the Astros. Now he’s going to be managing the Astros in the 2021 World Series against the Braves. Hang around long enough, and it all goes and comes around.
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On a certain sports channel, they rarely talk baseball. That’s generally considered bad for baseball. But then a big baseball thing happens and the people who don’t talk baseball start talking baseball. And you realize it’s probably best for everyone if they don’t talk baseball.
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Jason Vargas headed to America’s birthplace and suddenly this picture makes a lot more sense.
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Corey Kluber overcome with emotion as he wins his second Cy Young.
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Rick Manning accidentally saying “Indians” instead of “Guardians” about once per inning is all of us.
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Would appear the name change did not kill baseball in Cleveland.
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Josh Naylor has left the postseason, and yet his spirit remains.
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Willie Mays only played 135 games for the Mets, and yet retiring his number in Queens still made more sense than the Yankees retiring Paul O'Neill's number.
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The Lindor Era in Cleveland *potentially* ending w/ an A-ball OF, Francona too sick to manage, Lindor having his worst season & going mostly invisible at the end, and the Tribe getting swept by the Yankees in an empty ballpark (closed out by a member of the '16 Cubs) is BRUTAL.
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The Dodgers' starter had an extra day of rest and looks super sharp. Perhaps we can attribute that to Buehler's Day Off.
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There is a team (the
@Indians
) with two infielders (Jose Ramirez and Francisco Lindor) with 30 HRs and 20 SBs this season. The last time that happened was... never.
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Little known fact: The "A" in ALCS stands for "Astros."
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Lot of people mentioning tonight that Joe Musgrove is from San Diego. But let’s not forget that Todd Frazier is from New Jersey.
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This is a two-way elevator. It goes both up AND down!
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Gerrit Cole made $36 million this season.
Tonight's Guardians starting lineup + starter Cal Quantrill combined to make ~$37 million this season.
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It is June 17, and José Ramírez has 40 extra-base hits, 62 RBIs and 19 strikeouts. There is nobody like him.
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We can't change the playoff format every time the Braves disappoint in the Division Series. That would be too many formats.
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Ask her out.
Apply for your dream job.
Sign up for that marathon.
Hit on 17.
The Cleveland Browns just won a football game.
Anything is possible.
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I love Cleveland, but it needs a roof.
Not the ballpark, the whole city.
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You don't have to wait until midnight to watch the ball drop. Just watch the Browns.
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Lindor got robes for everybody. If they wear them for the game, that's some next-level Players Weekending.
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How committed was Jim Thome to nailing his Hall of Fame speech? A few weeks ago, he traveled to Cooperstown. The Hall set up a podium at the big, empty field that serves as the induction site, and Thome had a rehearsal. The great ones prepare! (And he nailed it.)
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Albert Pujols played so poorly for the Angels that he wound up starting playoff games for the Dodgers.
Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani:
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A subtle thing, but nice touch:
@MLB
has inverted the colors on the black-and-white version of its logo.
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Instantly my favorite
#WorldSeries
moment: Watching a local TV guy interview Cueto's brother thinking it was Cueto.
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Mike Clevinger (9-0, 1.98 ERA) owns the other part.
Super Bowl champion and NFL MVP
@PatrickMahomes
is now part-owner of the Kansas City Royals.
📽:
@Royals
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Juan Soto could make an out in his next 45 plate appearances and still have the best on-base percentage in
@MLB
.
@Nationals
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Cincinnati CEO Castellini completes Castellanos contract (concurrently carrying Cy candidate Castillo/catcher Casali), causing captivating Central chase.
It's a four-year deal for OF Nick Castellanos and the
#reds
, sources told me. It was
@TheAthleticMLB
with the first report. Another huge move for Cincinnati this offseason.
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Paul DeJong went undrafted in high school, walked on at Illinois State and nearly went to med school instead of playing pro ball. He just got a $26M contract extension from the Cardinals. The lesson, as always: Never become a doctor.
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Zack Greinke leaned back a few feet from the mic and said 43 words in his press conference. It was performance art, really.
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I checked the rule book, and it turns out you are allowed to swing at a 3-0 pitch. It's 4-0 that is not allowed. Hope this clears up any confusion.
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Fans flocking to Hopkins International Airport to greet the
@Indians
' charter flight as it arrives from Cincinnati tonight are advised to please keep a healthy distance and to perhaps wear sunglasses to protect your eyes from the magnificent glow of the Ohio Cup.
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High-risk rotation mate (and skipper), and Mike Clevinger and Zach Plesac took the gamble and violated team protocol anyway. A microcosm of our country’s response to this pandemic.
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On April 13, the Mets had the best record in baseball (11-1) and the Reds had the worst (2-11). Today, the Reds passed the Mets in winning percentage.
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Wow the guy who was handed by far the longest suspension ever under the Joint Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Policy is striking out ~1 batter per inning in Japan, and we missed it.
What
@BauerOutage
is doing in Japan is historic and it's a shame the American media is not covering it more.
He has a 1.82 ERA in his last 12 starts, pitching 89.2 innings total. He has pitched 6+ innings in all 12, including nine (twice) and 10 (once). He has struck out 92.
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Circumstances apparently prevented Jose Bautista (and several other prominent Blue Jays) from talking to the media after tonight's loss.
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This is cool.
@Indians
employees attend the sim game tonight to provide a little atmosphere for the players.
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If you still think Cleveland will be getting a high-caliber, Major League-ready bat straight up for 1 year of Francisco Lindor, take note that Yu Darvish was just dealt for a bunch of 12-year-olds.
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Boston people saying “Schwarber” is reason enough to make that trade.
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Josh Harrison had his cleats signed by various Little Leaguers in Williamsport. He's wearing them tonight.
@MLB
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Cecil Fielder: 319 career HRs
Prince Fielder: 319 career HRs
Weird, wild stuff.
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I wish Sister Jean could have celebrated one national title this year instead of nun.
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Cleveland will officially finish with a better 2021 record than Francisco Lindor’s Mets. 🤷🏻♂️
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Commissioner Rob Manfred: "Not having NL pitchers hit would deprive us of the entertainment Bartolo Colon has given us this year."
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George Springer now has as many postseason home runs as Barry Bonds (9), in 45 fewer at-bats. So that's good.
@Astros
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If these baseball negotiations don’t end soon, we’re gonna have to put a runner at second base.
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Carlos Santana’s most satisfying swing since he smashed that TV in the Phillies’ clubhouse.
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Imagine hitting your 60th home run… to take the league lead in batting average.
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The Oakland A’s have reached the postseason four times in the last seven years with an average Opening Day payroll of about $74M in that span. They’re so money and they don’t even have it. 💵 🐘
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A member of the E Street Band is calling for a Marriott boycott. Sportswriters have met their Sophie's choice.
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My only small quibble with the neutral site World Series idea is that it’s a terrible, awful, disgusting concept that should never be brought up again by any serious person ever.
Other than that, I’m totally fine with it.
Scott Boras wants a World Series moved to a neutral site and the amateur draft moved away from the All Star weekend
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When Carlos Carrasco’s 4-yo daughter wanted to donate her hair to cancer patients, he knew he could do more. And when Carrasco himself was diagnosed, he did a lot more.
The story behind
@Cookie_Carrasco
winning the Roberto Clemente Award:
@MLB
@Indians
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@YouTubeTV
$8 more per month with 100% less MLB Network. This is where we leave each other. It’s not you… no, actually, it is you.
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Man, the American League MVP picture has really changed...
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Alex Cora did not win AL Manager of the Year and will have to settle for 119 wins, a World Series trophy and god-like status in Boston and Puerto Rico. Condolences.
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Mike Trout was sitting on a career OPS of .999 before hitting the first pitch he saw for a homer tonight. That dude always knows how to fix his deficiencies.
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Some people are born with an automatic runner at second base and think they hit a leadoff double.
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I really hope Cleveland can win the Super Bowl someday. The great state of Arkansas has waited long enough.
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Wow, now Brian Snitker is pulling a pitcher with a 1-hitter.
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Why the Cleveland Indians should become the Cleveland Spiders (in 2,700 words or less):
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