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1 minute ago, Moose Milligan said:

Anyone missing pop culture references right now? Anyone missing that sardonic tone?  Anyone missing story time during late and close games? 
 

I'm far from the biggest KB hater but I have not missed him once in these last couple weeks.

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7 minutes ago, baltfan said:

Gunnar is going to have a hard time being the starter for the All Star game. Witt is having an objectively better season with a shiny .317 batting average.   Gonna be like the days of ARod, Jeter, and Nomar

And KC likes to vote their entire team to an All-Star Game.

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5 minutes ago, Morgan423 said:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wittbo02.shtml

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hendegu01.shtml

One of these IS objectively better than the other year to date.  But the opposite way of what you said. 

FWAR favors Witt.  Savant favors Witt. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/bobby-witt-jr-677951?stats=statcast-r-hitting-mlb   But I admit it’s close.  That batting average plus the steals though will be hard for Gunnar to get past.  Not that batting average is as important as other stats. 

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