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Here's What 17 Pieces Of Baseball Memorabilia Worth $37M Look Like –

Front and center in a glass case was the industry’s Moby Dick: Babe Ruth’s Yankees 1920 road jersey. The flannel uniform top sold for $4.4 million in 2012, the record price for a piece of sports memorabilia by far, and was on loan from its private owner (EMV 10m).

Three other jerseys in the back also took my breath away: a 1927 Lou Gehrig New York Yankees road jersey (EMV $10m), a MLB rookie-year 1948 Satchel Paige Cleveland Indians home jersey (EMV $1m), and a rookie-year 1954 Hank Aaron Milwaukee Braves road jersey (EMV $1m).

There Is Definitely Something Wrong with Citi Field -

      

  The other day, I was reading something written by Tom Verducci over at Sports Illustrated. Verducci was ultimately making an argument about Jacob deGrom and his Cy Young candidacy, but on the way there, he talked about what’s apparently been dubbed the Mystery of Flushing. The mystery concerns why the Mets can’t hit at home. More specifically, it’s about why the Mets’ team BABIP consistently suffers at home. Citi Field has been modified multiple times, but it was modified most dramatically before the 2012 regular season. Since 2012, the Mets rank last in the majors in runs scored at home. They rank seventh in runs scored on the road. And, since 2012, the Mets rank last in the majors in BABIP at home. They rank third in BABIP on the road. There’s an existing BABIP gap of 30 points. This is spanning the better part of a decade. That’s big, and that’s weird. It’s worthy of some kind of investigation.

We were discussing how the Mets, under Sandy Alderson, has not developed ‘bats’. I disagreed and applaud the work of Tom Tanous and Chris Becerra (Int’l) over the past three years. Examples are:

CF Ross Adolf (Brooklyn: 12^th round, 2018) was 9^th in the league in home runs 3^rd in slugging, and 3^rd in OPS.

2B Luis Santana (K-Port: signed 2016) was 5^th in BA, 11^th in slugging, and 7^th in OPS

3B Mark Vientos (K-Port: 2^nd round, 2017) was tied for 4^th in home runs, 10^th in slugging, and 9^th in OPS.

SS Sheryven Newton (K-Port: signed July 2015) led the league in doubles, was 14^th in slugging, and 11^th in OPS

SS Ronny Mauricio (GCL: signed July 2017) was tied for 6^th in doubles.

C Andres Gimenez (DSL: signed July 2015) was tied for 9^th in doubles, tied for 5^th in home runs, 3^rd in slugging, and 4^th in OPS.