https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-nati...-is-wide-open/
Paints Freddie as the 1B to Tatis 1A right now, but FF is likely hotter (last two games notwithstanding) down the stretch.
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-nati...-is-wide-open/
Paints Freddie as the 1B to Tatis 1A right now, but FF is likely hotter (last two games notwithstanding) down the stretch.
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jpx7 (09-21-2020)
jpx7 (09-21-2020)
Watered down award like the entire season is. Having said that it would be awesome if Freddie won it.
He and EL are last writers at FG worth a damn. MLB teams have poached all the talent from that site unfortunately.
jpx7 (09-21-2020), UNCBlue012 (09-21-2020)
Even if the deep statistical measures would give Freeman the award, Tatis, Jr., is the hot pick and I see him getting the award unless he would go 0-for the rest of the season. A lot like Pendleton getting the award in 1991 when he was well down the performance-level chart.
Freeman's narrative as the "steady star of a division champ that had to weather countless pitching injuries as well as injuries to 2 of it's young stars", is pretty solid I think.
A 1.000+ OPS week should get the award for Freeman if Tatis continues to struggle.
Award or not, Freeman is an elite hitter, and it's not debatable.
jpx7 (09-21-2020)
The thing the Freeman supporters among the writers SHOULD be out there preaching is the fact that King Felix and deGrom won Cy Youngs when there were Pitchers with sexier W-L records.
The only categories where Tatis has outperformed Freeman are HRs and SBs. Wouldn't a vote for Tatis feel like giving one to somebody with more wins even though they were worse in multiple categories than Hernandez or deGrom when they won?
Has there EVER been a statement and question a certain someone should absolutely never have made and asked publicly more than...
Kinda pathetic to see yourself as a message board knight in shining armor. How impotent does someone have to be in real life to resort to playing hero on a message board?
jpx7 (09-21-2020)
drewdat (09-21-2020)
My only point is that writers being writers and with many not attuned (and some downright hostile) to the deeper aspects of statistical analysis, some may go with a romance pick over the statistical favorite as long as they are in the same general performance neighborhood. Padres are a cool story and Tatis is front-and-center in that story like Pendleton was in 1991. As Enscheff says, the hardware is nice and Freeman is deserving, but hardware or not, he's still a great hitter and everyone recognizes that.
Although there's truth to that, never ACTUALLY having something to put in the trophy case that SHOWS that has to feel like winning multiple Executive or Manager Of The Year awards with no flags to fly. Pretty hollow feeling I'd imagine. How many "almost MVPs" does anyone remember?
Lots of us that saw Murphy and Andruw play can SAY what great players they were, but when we're gone they'll both be "just another guy" outside of Atlanta unless they get voted into the HOF.
Has there EVER been a statement and question a certain someone should absolutely never have made and asked publicly more than...
Kinda pathetic to see yourself as a message board knight in shining armor. How impotent does someone have to be in real life to resort to playing hero on a message board?
jpx7 (09-22-2020)
Which team would be worse off with out them?
jpx7 (09-22-2020)