Finally a real home run derby again! @MLB
The timed format was the single worst change to any event in sporting history.
That wasn’t even a sport, that had nothing to do with baseball.
Admiring mammoth home runs was one of the most beautiful things in all of sports.
Ernie Clement is pretty comfortably an above-average starter and we have to stop just comparing his postseason OPS to his regular season OPS to do analysis on that
ROSTER MOVES:
🔹 RHP Max Scherzer placed on 15-day IL (back spasms, retroactive to June 14)
🔹 RHP Chad Dallas recalled from Triple-A and will be active tonight
I want Ernie Clement swinging the bat there
very unlikely he would hit into a double play even if he hits a ground ball so a runner on 3rd and less than two outs on almost any ground ball
This back ailment has been going on the entirety of Vladdy’s “slump”
He’s been wearing heat + vibration body wraps since mid-late April and DH a lot more than usual
This is what John Schneider meant by Springer and Vlad are “grinding” at the same time — they are banged up