10/2/20

ballnine - SHORT SEASON, LONGER LESSONS

 


5 comments:

Tom Brennan said...

I love this little nugget: My friend, Hall of Fame baseball writer Hal McCoy points out this little stolen fact: “Ty Cobb stole home 54 times. Babe Ruth stole home 10 times. But Rickey Henderson, Lou Brock and Maury Wills, the modern-day base burglars never stole home … not once, not any of them.’’

John From Albany said...

Spot on article in so many ways. Especially on the Mets - "The Mets, meanwhile, are first in average at .274, first in on-base percentage at .352 and sixth in slugging at .456 and third in OPS at .808. How come they didn’t win the NL East?
Simple. Because they do so many little things wrong."

bill metsiac said...

Interesting that so many writers, including Reese this morning, point to analytics as the key to success, while Kernan here discounts analytics as a big factor.

And all us "regular folks" have to just guess who's right.

BTW: Is Kernan writing for Mack's Mets now, or is this just a one-off?

John From Albany said...

Bill,

We are very blessed that Kevin has agreed to share his posts here. We have another coming tomorrow.

Tom Brennan said...

The Mets' overwhelming problem this year was dismal pitching. So many bad performances. Had Thor and Stro been pitching all year, we win 8 more games and sail into the playoffs.