What Len says: @LenKasper Btw, acc to FanGraphs, Starlin Castro's $ value is $50.4M for career to date & $13.9M this yr. His actual salary is $5M. Perspective.
August 8. The Rays won the game 4-3 in 10 innings, and the runner ended up scoring the 3rd run of the game with 2 outs, preventing the Cubs from winning.
Soler's single was not one that I would consider a "seeing eye" grounder. A grounder between SS and 3rd that narrowly missed each is pretty much the definition of a seeing eye grounder.
The article is optimistic enough, but the comments are everything I hate about baseball. Possibly the most meatball set of comments in article history.
Seems weird to me to be pulled midgame with the cubs on an off day. Could be Ruggiano headed to the DL, and they needed him for tomorrow since the Cubs insist on carrying 13 pitchers.
Fun stat. Last year, Dave Toub went to the KC Chiefs to be their Special Teams coordinator, and their weighted DVOA for special teams went from 22nd to 1st overall.
Javier Baez has had 82 at bats this season. Matt Carpenter has had 490. They have had the same amount of home runs (7). Same trick works for Yadier Molina, Allen Craig, Bryce Harper, Brandon Phillpis, Russell Martin, Gerardo Parra and Yonder Alonso.
As much as I've enjoyed the pompous attitude and sheer ignorance of the Cubs team by the Oriole fans around the net, I have to give a shout out to the Orioles SB Nation site for titling their game thread today "Don't go chasin' Wada balls".