From Bryan Hoch:
Some of Nestor Cortes’ fondest childhood memories involve trips to see the Marlins, a team he loved dearly. The Hialeah, Fla., product remembers cheering from the seats for players like Miguel Cabrera, Dontrelle Willis and Juan Pierre, imagining what it’d be like to play alongside them.
Cortes would have to settle for pitching against his once-favorite franchise, and as he faced the Marlins for the first time on Monday night, the lefty rose to the occasion. Backed by homers from Anthony Volpe and Juan Soto, Cortes spun eight scoreless innings in the Yankees’ 7-0 victory at Yankee Stadium.
“That was fun,” Cortes said. “When you’re out there giving guys zeros, you just keep them in the game long enough for them to explode like that. That’s what you hope for as a starting pitcher.”
I mean, I get that the 2003 World Series was over two decades ago, but it still feels weird talking about Miguel Cabrera and Juan Pierre being part of one’s childhood memories.
In any event, it seems like Hoch used “according to the plan” a few headlines too early, because a dominant pitching performance and seven runs scored is more like what the ideal plan would be for the Yankees and, well, ANY team, really.
9 and freaking 2. Ay-mazing.
How in the world did the 2020 team fall apart after also being 9-2? I’m assuming this team will do that, as well, and I can’t remember how it happened, exactly.
rodon day, woo!
also, is there a way to view other posters profiles / message them?
Oddly harder than you would think (or at least harder than I would think). Most plugins that allow private messages are paid ones, oddly enough.
gotcha
Brian, I’m sure at this point we’re just happy to have the site running, but if in the future you decide to add features/spruce it up, I think many of us would chip in if things cost money.
yea that’s a good idea.
Dolce sliding into people’s DMs
also, wtf, Paxton threw 6 acceptable innings. grumble…
The three faces of FGAS?
hmm, xwoba suggests Volpe sucks
He’s not hitting the ball particularly hard. And he has a lot of infield hits.
.315 is good? I thought it was pretty crappy…
I thought I saw it in the mid 330s which is fine from a middle infielder.
ah, i was using fangraphs which has his xwoba at .315 for 2024, up from his .305 in 2023. Either way, though, i’d take the over on his woba in relation to that xwoba
https://x.com/castrovince/status/1777735604924829901
berti in again. wells, too
Is this a permanent platoon thing?
I wonder why Waldo isn’t playing as much.
Because he’s been playing well. Can’t let that continue without at least some serious effort to interfere.
Soto OPS+ 194, Volpe 234, Tyler O’Neill townies 309
I hated that they got O’Neill, but I didn’t think he’d be hitting THIS well.