Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
While my Guitar gently walks
The Indians will be playing in an elimination game tomorrow and noted baseball columnist Mike Petriello has pegged Carlos Santana as a likely hero for the Indians. Cleveland’s best bet for hitting CC Sabathia… is probably Carlos Santana. https://t.co/K0h2S4sc8B — Mike Petriello (@mike_petriello) October 11, 2017 I’ve been writing about Carlos Santana since he first appeared …
NLDS thoughts and stats
If there was an NLDS MVP I would think that Justin Turner would get the vote, though I also think that Austin Barnes was almost as important. Turner also looked very nifty at 3rd this series. Last night the corner infielders were putting on a defensive clinic. For the most part, the Dodgers got on base …
Updated LAD NLDS Home Run list
With Cody Bellinger and Austin Barnes going deep last night and the NLDS over, today is as good as any to update the NLDS home run list. The TBS announcers last night kept calling Austin Barnes and Chris Taylor rookies even though I should have known better and for a minute I thought that Bellinger …
Puig and Mondesi, side by side
With Yasiel Puig fulfilling the destiny of his twenty-six-year-old season he now ranks side by side with Raul Mondesi in OPS+. Back in 2013 when Puig was going to start the year in AAA, I projected that he would come up and have a Raul Mondesi type of impact. He did, and now that he …
Redemption day for Greinke
Even though Zack Greinke doesn’t think he has to be redeemed today, Arizona fans might feel differently. It was, after all, the poor start by the $34,000,000 dollar pitcher that put the team in such a bind because they had to use Robbie Ray in the play-in game instead of having him ready to face the …
How unique is Justin Turner?
Much has been made about Justin Turner having double-digit home run power while walking more than striking out. Listening to Vin Scully for 50 years you heard Vinny marvel all the time about the power that Joe Dimaggio had while still maintaining minuscule strikeout totals. I decided to see just how unique this skill set was, …
Can Robbie Ray stop the carnage?
It has been a bad run for young pitchers making their first postseason start so far in 2017. Not just hit around a little, crushed. When Taijuan Walker gave up four runs last night before recording an out, he was just following the same path of his fellow first time pitchers. He wasn’t even the …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 