Pete Rose is now eligible for the temple of fame after years of ineligibility
Bob Nighingale of the USA Today Sports discusses Pete Rose now eligible for the temple of fame and what it means for the players of the steroid era.
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Major League Baseball entered the “almost completely cooked” part of the season.
No, it’s not too early and the size of the sample is not too small. At the same time, almost 120 games remain, a lot of time for the first trends to go south or the upward trend – although time decreases for teams and individuals hoping for a turnaround.
With this, USA Today Sports glances at seven surprising numbers while the season browsing the second quarter:
68: the total of the coup Aaron Judge
Wait, why would someone use successes – a metric not in vogue since Ichiro Suzuki was always an All -Star – to illustrate the total domination of the judge? Why not its 1,279 OPS of the major league or 252 WRC +, or even Egad, its average in the stick of .412?
Well, the thing is that the judge did not drink his operations or even his average in the stick by hitting circuits and making his walks. No, his 68 strokes also lead the major leagues and put it on a rhythm – Gulp – 256 strokes, which would be third of all time and only six behind the record of Ichiro 262 Knocks established in 2004.
What we see here is something that looks like the perfect offensive season. In a sense, singles online judge are almost as impressive as its gargantuan circuits, in that it takes exactly what the launcher gives it in almost all the appearances of the plate.
Of course, it would be against all expectations that the judge continues this pace. But we are almost at the Memorial Day and it is always firmly north of .400. A little frightening.
.643: The percentage of victories of Padres
More than 162 games are 104 wins. And while the paadres were popular favorites to hang a joker point, they are in fact better constructed than the experts even imagined it.
The rotation wears an MPM of 3.38, second behind the dishes in the NL, because Nick Pivetta resembles the flight of the offseason and Randy Vasquez displayed three excellent consecutive outings, joining the Ace Free-agents, Dylan Cease and Michael King. In a non-Ohtani universe, Fernando Tatis Jr. and Jackson Merrill could be 1-2 in the MVP vote.
And although their praised agricultural system has decreased a little by years of win-win assault, the deadline for trade can represent one last moment before a planned time in 2026. Yes, dodgers should be concerned.
Four: number of AL central teams in the playoff position
Do you believe in miracles? It was as if the central already had a last year when the Guardians, the Royals and the Tigers reached the playoffs – and all won at least one series. For a division featuring clubs at Bas-revenu which had not sent a team to the World Series since 2016, it seemed very aberrational.
Well, don’t look at now, but it could be even more a party in mid-USA in October. Tigers are now the best team in AL. The Royals made a radiator of 15-2 to climb in the line. Cleveland is Clevelanding and has just hired Corey Kluber to fill his intelligentsia from pitch. And the twins are currently the third joker.
I never thought that we would say that, but the large east and west giants could be “leagues to a beer” in October.
14-4: Record of twins since the addition of Kody Clemens to the list
OK, the correlation does not imply causality, but good luck to find the tour in progress in Minneapolis, where the twins started 7-15, a dark addendum with their collapse 7-18 last year.
But now everything happens Rocco. Like a double head scan in which the receiver Christian Vazquez and Clemens each hit the three -point circuits (the first of the year of Vazquez, Clemens “second) to return the two games. A day later, Deshawn Keirssey Jr. – Stronging in the nine hole like Vazquez – hit a circuit of two points to open the score 4-0 which gave Minnesota six victories in 10 days against the Orioles.
When random players find themselves in large places and you have against all odds, you know you live well. It is the type of sequencing that no algorithm can compose. Beware of these guys.
19-30: Home record combined for A, Rays
It turns out that the sofa-surf is not a way to live this MLB life. Temporary excavations for athletics (a self-imposed exile) and the shelves (a real situation of the nature forces) in the minor leagues parks did not go particularly well.
Rank A of 28th In the era of the house, at 5.81, get ahead of 138-89 while the opposite sluggers go to Yolo county as if they were facing the AAA class; Their road era is a high level 3.88.
It is a less extreme split at Tampa Bay, where the Yankee Stadium-Repica park resulted in an advantage of 116-107 for visitors, although the shelves left 40-25.
It will be a long and hot summer – although at least the Rays will have the surroundings controlled by the climate of Tropicana Field while waiting for them in 2026.
23: Additional Tives for Pete-Crow Armstrong
Crow-Armstrong has entered this season with 29 strokes in an additional base in 439 career appearances; He almost equaled this total in 183 not this season and only follows Corbin Carroll, Ohtani and Pete Alonso in the NL.
There may not be any greater revelation this year that the ACP, always considered an elite defender with questions concerning the question of whether his bat has come. Well, he is tied with Seiya Suzuki for the advance of the cubs in the Home Runs with 11, and took a double team. It’s very early, but Crow-Armstrong is organizing a MVP caliber performance.
1.7: Earn above the replacement produced by Kyle Schwarber
Hey, unless you are Shohei Ohtani, it is not easy to accumulate war as a designated striker, simply because you have to go beyond the literal zero that you bring defensively. However, despite only four games in the left field, Schwarber leads Philadelphia to position the players at war.
And that only rotates what should be a fascinating free agency for the knock. He led the majors with 15 circuits, his OBP .393 is nearly 50 points more than his total career and his adjusted ops is a career record of 167.
Schwarber and the Phillies paid attention to a few popularization discussions this spring, but it is now more and more likely that it will arrive on the market. He is already halfway through his best career war campaigns (3.5 in 2021 and ’24). If he continues, the phillies will have to determine how much they appreciate his services.
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