Interesting little piece of trivia. At this same point (of service time on the calendar) through both their careers, Cal (Ripken Jr) had played in fewer games and had fewer plate appearances. Gunnar Henderson has a better wOBA and a better wRC+ through the same amount of plate appearances up to this point of Gunnar's career. (I'll make a topic about it tomorrow).
The story of the Guardians year has been the inability to put runs on the board, but they still lead MLB in fewest Strikeouts, and Fangraphs still pegs BAL the very worst team at defense YTD.
They won the rubber game today of their Cardinals series, so are coming in on a little bit of a good note. The Twins haven't played very well, leaving almost everyone a good week away from the division lead.
K-BB standing among Active Roster AL SP
(18) Wells v. (30) Allen
(54) Gibson v. (61) Quantrill
Voth/Irvin v. (49) Bieber
2 of 3 day games in a weekday series with the holiday, and a getaway day out to San Francisco and Alex Cobb for us. Cleanup hitter Josh Naylor sat out today after fouling a ball off his foot, but X-rays okay and chances are he'll be back for this series. With the 2.5 day break from WED afternoon to FRI night late, Hyde should have a lot of options for the finale if Wells/Gibson hold serve.
Red Sox promoting Marcelo Mayer to AA. Mayer is a year ahead as America's best 18 year old shortstop, and I guess we'll see tomorrow if he is maybe as little as a day ahead of getting to the high minors.
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