Fifth Avenue Forum

Posted: **Wed Jun 20, 2018 4:01 pm**

Mike Trout is the best baseball player since 1980.

Posted: **Wed Jun 20, 2018 4:09 pm**

mike trout could go 0 for his next 400 AB and still have a higher OPS than chris davis

Posted: **Wed Jun 20, 2018 4:19 pm**

mike trout could go 0 for his next 400 AB and still have a higher OPS than chris davis

is this a real stat

Posted: **Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:23 pm**

If true, a wonderful stat.

Posted: **Thu Jun 21, 2018 2:15 pm**

Trout is batting 355/469/689/1158 in 257 ABs. Chris Davis is batting a majestic 150/227/227/454 in 207 ABs. It would actually take 440 hitless at-bats for Trout's OPS to fall down to .4536

Conversely, it would take Chris Davis 43 consecutive homeruns, 53 consecutive triples, 86 consecutive doubles, or 205 consecutive singles for his OPS to rise above Trout's current mark.

Posted: **Thu Jun 21, 2018 2:23 pm**

Chris Davis is currently in the third year of a seven year contract. He's making the Ryan Howard contract look good.

Posted: **Fri Jun 22, 2018 3:44 pm**

Through 1,000 career games:

Mantle
.315/.426/.573
218 HR & 62 SB

Aaron
.319/.369/.560
211 HR & 32 SB

Mays
.317/.393/.590
231 HR & 169 SB

Bonds
.275/.380/.502
172 HR & 250 SB

Griffey Jr.
.303/.380/.548
221 HR & 104 SB

#Angels Mike Trout
.308/.414/.574
224 HR & 178 SB

https://mobile.twitter.com/theaceofspae ... 1392494598

Posted: **Fri Jun 22, 2018 7:09 pm**

Yeah, mantle and mays are good comps for now.

Posted: **Sat Jun 23, 2018 12:23 am**

Hanley Ramirez reportedly eyed in federal and state investigation for possible ties to 'substantial' drug ring

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/hanley-ram ... 28660.html

“There has been some reports about a FaceTime phone call that was made between a man during a car stop. After that car stop, police recovered a significant amount of drugs. And during that car stop, the suspect claimed that one of the items found in the vehicle belonged to Hanley Ramirez and then FaceTimed [Ramirez] in front of police. And that car stop coordinated with the timing of his release from the Red Sox.”

McPhee reported that the suspect who was pulled over — a person who was not Ramirez — was found with “435 grams of fentanyl as well as a large amount of crack cocaine.”

“There is a sweeping federal case involving a substantial ring that’s being operated out of Lawrence, Massachusetts,” McPhee said. “And I think the suspect had ties to that ring.”

Posted: **Sat Jun 23, 2018 12:53 am**

Not MLB-related but won’t start a new thread for it...Went to Omaha for 4 days of the College World Series and in doing so, had an all-time sports moment happen when I got to see my cousin hit a home run for North Carolina.

Back to regularly scheduled programming already in progress.

Posted: **Sat Jun 23, 2018 12:57 am**

Yeah, mantle and mays are good comps for now.

An effing absurd statement. But a justified statement

Posted: **Sat Jun 23, 2018 8:30 am**

Not MLB-related but won’t start a new thread for it...Went to Omaha for 4 days of the College World Series and in doing so, had an all-time sports moment happen when I got to see my cousin hit a home run for North Carolina.

Back to regularly scheduled programming already in progress.

That's awesome

Posted: **Sat Jun 23, 2018 8:34 am**

That's really cool.

Oregon State, Mississippi State, and Arkansas left in the tourney.

Posted: **Sat Jun 23, 2018 10:17 pm**

#Mets outfielder Tim Tebow boosts his June slash line to .320/.370/.480 for @RumblePoniesBB.

(link: https://atmilb.com/2lxFmbM) atmilb.com/2lxFmbM

Posted: **Wed Jun 27, 2018 6:07 pm**

That's really cool.

Oregon State, Mississippi State, and Arkansas left in the tourney.

For one more victory, I am ready to be perfectly OK if none of my schools (currently Pitt and Arkansas) ever win any national championship in my lifetime (not that there is a huge chance of that happening

) ! Ho Hogs!!

Posted: **Wed Jun 27, 2018 11:16 pm**

That's really cool.

Oregon State, Mississippi State, and Arkansas left in the tourney.
For one more victory, I am ready to be perfectly OK if none of my schools (currently Pitt and Arkansas) ever win any national championship in my lifetime (not that there is a huge chance of that happening ) ! Ho Hogs!!

They really blew it tonight. Man

Posted: **Wed Jun 27, 2018 11:16 pm**

Like, if Pitt ever made the CWS, that's what would happen

Posted: **Wed Jun 27, 2018 11:22 pm**

Going back to the Trout stats... amazing how much better Pujols’ numbers were at the same point:

https://twitter.com/robertmurrayfrs/sta ... 15808?s=21

Posted: **Wed Jun 27, 2018 11:37 pm**

Like, if Pitt ever made the CWS, that's what would happen

This was worse than Bill Buckner!

Posted: **Fri Jul 13, 2018 11:51 pm**

RBI single by Tim Tebow in the 10th inning gives the Binghamton Rumble Ponies a lead.

He's now 3-for-5 tonight with a homer and is hitting .276 for the season.

https://mobile.twitter.com/mikemayerMMO ... 9117416449

Posted: **Sat Jul 14, 2018 6:55 am**

I have to admit, I'm impressed with Tebow. This is definitely a legitimate pursuit.

Posted: **Sat Jul 14, 2018 9:37 pm**

Why not steal the NHL's All Star format for the MLB?

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2408 ... pside-down

I'd watch that...

Posted: **Sun Jul 15, 2018 12:22 am**

Because MLB has the best all star game of the major sports and messing with it is a dumb idea

Posted: **Sun Jul 15, 2018 8:01 am**

But I think it’s lost a lot of its luster with interleague play. I used to really like watching pitchers hit in the All Star Game (and World Series, of course), but now we see that all the time.

On a related note, the Home Run Derby is having trouble getting legit home run hitters to actually play in the derby. The new format is exhausting and it alters their swings for the second half. Aaron Judge peaced out of this year’s derby because he felt his second half slump was caused by the altered swing at the derby. Other players have said similar things. It will be interesting to see the Brewers’ Aguilar’s numbers post-HR derby.

Posted: **Sun Jul 15, 2018 9:36 am**

Once inter league play started, the novelty of the All-Star game was lost. Baseball is about one on one matchups, and it doesn’t really matter who you’re playing with on your team. Not really sure how you fix it to bring back an interest factor.