OleMissCub

Feel confident speculating that Rivas is our first bagger of the future.

No kidding. In the 1st inning of a tie game dude starts talking about how his dad abandoned his family and isht.

Rivas limping around out there

Now Rivas is possibly hurt. Good times, Cubs...good times.

Oh, and a fvcking umpire collided with Nico and took him out of the game.

Absolutely brutal.

Epic, epic fake rally which will ultimately culminate in a Tank K.

Shut up, Sutt, Jeter doesn’t even get a glove on that

100%

That’s my boy Rivas!

Catching some barrels against Kershaw. Jeez Niko

Happ’s days of playing 2B might be over. He said he did not care for it the last time he did it after having spent so much time in the OF.

Very sad. Especially so in light of the fact that I remember all these analysts saying how his mechanics were so flawless that it’s unlikely he’d have any issues.

Cubs are bad but also incredibly unlucky this year

14 pitch walk for my boy Rivas.

I'll be damned, you're right. Gehrig won in 1927 and didn't get votes again until 1931. Same with Walter Johnson after winning in 1924. Although that must have been an AL only thing. Look at Hornsby in the 20's; he got votes throughout the 20's despite winning in 1925. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hornsro01.shtml

Well, at least Mays got votes. He was top 6 in MVP voting 12 times. So it's not like he was being disrespected. Let's go through the seasons where he got MVP votes: 1954 - MVP - 1st in WAR (10.5) 1955 - 4th in voting - 1st in WAR (9.1) - Campy won it with a 5.2 WAR 1956 - 17th - tied for 1st in WAR with Snider (7.6) - Newcombe won it with 5.3 1957 - 4th - 1st in WAR (8.3) - Aaron with 8.0 1958 - 2nd - 1st in WAR (10.2) - Banks with 9.3 1959 - 6th - 4th in WAR (7.8) - Banks with 10.2 1960 - 3rd - 1st in WAR (9.5) - Groat with 6.1 - Mays was a full 1.5 higher than the next guy (Aaron with 8.0) 1961 - 2nd - 2nd in WAR (8.7) - Aaron with 9.4 1962 - 2nd - 1st in WAR (10.5) - Wills with 6.0 - Mays was 1.8 higher than next guy (Frank Robinson with 8.7) 1963 - 5th - 1st in WAR (10.6) - Koufax with 9.9 1964 - 6th - 1st in WAR (11.0) - Boyer with 6.1 - Mays 2.1 higher than next guy (Santo with 8.9) 1965 - MVP - 1st in WAR (11.2) 1966 - 3rd - 3rd in WARR (9.0) - Clemente with 8.2 1968 - 13th - 7th in WAR (6.3) - Gibson with 11.9 1971 - 19th - 8th in WAR (6.3) - Torre with 5.9 - Fergie Jenkins led MLB with 11.8 WAR So in addition to winning in 54 and 65, it looks like he should have won 55, 60, 62, and 64. Argument could be made for 56, but I've got that going to Snider. Dodgers won Pennant that year and Giants were 67-87, so with the WAR being the same it likely goes to Snider that year if that vote were held today. So ya, he should have 6 MVP's instead of 2.

fWAR has Baylor at 3.6 WAR and 24th in AL among hitters With Juan Gone it's 3.5 fWAR and 31st in AL among hitters. Going through the MVP stuff, I had to figure that baseball writers must have just hated Ruth. He led all of MLB in WAR 10 times yet only received MVP votes in 3 seasons. Compare that to Gehrig who got MVP votes 11 times.

Just when on a clicking expedition on BR to see who the most undeserving MVP of all time was. I looked at the winners WAR compared to the rest of the league that year. Your winner: Don Baylor - 1979 - 3.7 WAR, which ranked AL overall: 45th AL hitters: 31st True winner that year (according to WAR): Fred Lynn - 8.9 (very close) Runner up: Juan Gonzalez - 1996 - 3.8 WAR AL overall: 44th AL hitters: 31st True winner that year: Griffey - 9.7 Years where the WAR leaders actually won MVP:

Corral definitely intrigues me, but to be honest I kinda liked the Zappe guy from WKU that New England picked with the pick we traded up from better. With the caveat that I of course know nothing I’m obviously biased as hell having watched him for four years, but Corral is really, really good. Without Corral, Ole Miss wins maybe 4 games last year instead of finishing ranked 11th. If you need some encouragement, check out Chris Simms talking about him from last month. Says he is the best QB in the draft and it “isn’t even close”.

What do you mean? He’s a non entity that got his taste of th big leagues and will be gone soon. The cubs won’t take a morale hit by moving on. It’s not like they’d be unfairly screwing over a guy. Correct, and I’m pretty sure we already have his replacement with Rivas.

Raiders gonna Raider

Suspended two years without pay. Dodgers are thrilled.

I won't tell you you're wrong. I will tell you that you're using 16 PAs as your sample size. Fair, but I’m also using my eyes. He’s a better player than Frank.

Rivas needs to be our everyday 1st baseman. Tell me I'm wrong. Dude has put up a 0.4 WAR in just 16 PA's. For comparison, Frank the Tank is at -0.2 in 71 PA's