Red Mosquito

Jack Morris won the game he had to win, setting this all in motion.

numbers, want to just stick with the lineup we finished the season with?

Lament wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but #BRL went up 3-0, then started tinkering with the lineup he used for the previous 63 games, and lost his #DevilMagic, right?

Pretty much.

cutuphalfdead wrote:numbers, want to just stick with the lineup we finished the season with?

Absolutely.

@SkitchP wrote:Jack Morris won the game he had to win, setting this all in motion.

Another big playoff win to put on his HOF resume.

The Argonaut wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:I'll be back tonight to better explain why I chose others over Cash. I think it had something to do with that he only had 70 hits, no stolen bases, and unimpressive power numbers. walks do not an impressive player make. I'm honestly surprised anyone outside of skitchland did vote for him.

Unimpressive Power numbers? He had the same slugging percentage as Mantle. Higher than Ruth, Yaz and Hornsby.

I'll take another look at the spreadsheet tonight.

I don't want to say power is overrated because it obviously isn't but I think the MVP voters weigh too much into it. Justin Morneau won it in 2006 and it was kind of ridiculous. He was like the 3rd most valuable guy on his team behind Mauer and Johan. I think you could have made a better case for Mauer winning the batting title as a 23 year old catcher and his OPS was .936 and Morneau's was .938. It should have gone to Jeter or Mauer in 2006 but they did not have the sexy power stats. Just my 2 cents.

I need to look at an against LHP lineup i guess.

Probably

Cobb CF
Heilmann LF
Kaline RF
Cabrera 3B
Greenburg 1B
Martinez C
Gehringer 2B
Guillen SS

In fact, thats it!

Lament wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but #BRL went up 3-0, then started tinkering with the lineup he used for the previous 63 games, and lost his #DevilMagic, right?

Indeed. I started to micromanage. Bad ju ju.

BigRedLedbetter wrote:
I don't want to say power is overrated because it obviously isn't but I think the MVP voters weigh too much into it. Justin Morneau won it in 2006 and it was kind of ridiculous. He was like the 3rd most valuable guy on his team behind Mauer and Johan. I think you could have made a better case for Mauer winning the batting title as a 23 year old catcher and his OPS was .936 and Morneau's was .938. It should have gone to Jeter or Mauer in 2006 but they did not have the sexy power stats. Just my 2 cents.

Honestly, I think Asher was just looking too much at the counting stats, specifically HR. Cash only had 8 i think, in large part because I had him in a platoon for a good chunk of the season. Even with that though he had as many extra base hits as both Mantle AND ruth.

numbers wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:Jack Morris won the game he had to win, setting this all in motion.

Another big playoff win to put on his HOF resume.

Seriously. I don't get why he is not in the HOF.

BigRedLedbetter wrote:

numbers wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:Jack Morris won the game he had to win, setting this all in motion.

Another big playoff win to put on his HOF resume.

Seriously. I don't get why he is not in the HOF.

Because he shouldnt be?

I made all the right moves today. Very pleased with this win.

BigRedLedbetter wrote:I don't want to say power is overrated because it obviously isn't but I think the MVP voters weigh too much into it. Justin Morneau won it in 2006 and it was kind of ridiculous. He was like the 3rd most valuable guy on his team behind Mauer and Johan. I think you could have made a better case for Mauer winning the batting title as a 23 year old catcher and his OPS was .936 and Morneau's was .938. It should have gone to Jeter or Mauer in 2006 but they did not have the sexy power stats. Just my 2 cents.

Mauer, Jeter, and Morneau finished 7th, 9th, and 14th respectively in WAR in the AL that year, for what it's worth.

@SkitchP wrote:

BigRedLedbetter wrote:

numbers wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:Jack Morris won the game he had to win, setting this all in motion.

Another big playoff win to put on his HOF resume.

Seriously. I don't get why he is not in the HOF.

Because he shouldnt be?

pretty much

The Argonaut wrote:I made all the right moves today. Very pleased with this win.

You had a hunch Spud Chandler was going to hit a home run, didn't you?

@SkitchP wrote:

BigRedLedbetter wrote:

numbers wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:Jack Morris won the game he had to win, setting this all in motion.

Another big playoff win to put on his HOF resume.

Seriously. I don't get why he is not in the HOF.

Because he shouldnt be?

I disagree. But hey that's America.

@SkitchP wrote:I need to look at an against LHP lineup i guess.

Probably

Cobb CF
Heilmann LF
Kaline RF
Cabrera 3B
Greenburg 1B
Martinez C
Gehringer 2B
Guillen SS

In fact, thats it!

This has been noted.

cutuphalfdead wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:

BigRedLedbetter wrote:

numbers wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:Jack Morris won the game he had to win, setting this all in motion.

Another big playoff win to put on his HOF resume.

Seriously. I don't get why he is not in the HOF.

Because he shouldnt be?

pretty much

Where does everyone stand on Schilling for the HoF? Granted he'd better than Morris (IMHO) but I think Schill gets in.

BigRedLedbetter wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:

BigRedLedbetter wrote:

numbers wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:Jack Morris won the game he had to win, setting this all in motion.

Another big playoff win to put on his HOF resume.

Seriously. I don't get why he is not in the HOF.

Because he shouldnt be?

pretty much

Where does everyone stand on Schilling for the HoF? Granted he'd better than Morris (IMHO) but I think Schill gets in.

I'm all for Schilling being in it.

Its scary to think this only has 2 more weeks