How’s your week been? Mine’s been stressful and will only get worse next week. Let’s re-live the madness.
I’m going to start with my biggest omission. As readers–and Tweeters–pointed out, I left out Adrian Beltre in my discussion of A.L. MVP:
ADRIAN BELTRE:
.328/.373/.568, .399 wOBA, 150 wRC+, fWAR 7.1, bWAR 6.1
His case: He’s been the only light of consistency in Boston’s lineup, and without him, they’d be even worse off. Of course, it’s also worth noting that in terms of fWAR, he’s higher than both Cano (5.9) and Cabrera (6.2) and is ahead of Cano (6.0) in bWAR. Beltre’s hit incredibly well this year and has fielded at an outstanding level–as he usually does–so he’s obviously going to have a high WAR. He should probably get more consideration than he will, but since Boston likely won’t make the playoffs, I don’t see him getting much love (which is unjust).
the rest of the posts were about the crappiest week of Yankee baseball we’ve seen this season. There really isn’t a need to revisit this awful week, so let’s just say this: this week sucked. We haven’t seen them play this badly all season. Still, all the games have been close and the Yankees have just missed opportunities. Those things have a way of correcting themselves, so I think (hope) we’ll see that soon. There is literally no way this coming week could be worse than the last one.
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