The first half of this quote boils down to “good thing he’s bad at getting on base because he’s terrible on the bases”. I understand the Raleigh MVP supporters to an extent, but this reasoning is ludicrous. (Not a Yankees fan fwiw)
The first half of this quote boils down to “good thing he’s bad at getting on base because he’s terrible on the bases”. I understand the Raleigh MVP supporters to an extent, but this reasoning is ludicrous. (Not a Yankees fan fwiw)
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He’s viewing it as an “or” scenario. If he hits .290, then the power hitter is gone.
Yes its dumb. Cal can move on the bases too!
You are not understanding what he is saying.
Missing the forest for the trees here OP
Yo I swear I head this too and thought to myself how stupid this take is
Interesting take, dumb but interesting. I realize that the discussion about the MVP race is getting toxic and not really worth getting upset about.(the ONLY opinions that matter are the writers who do the voting) The unbelievable idiocy of this statement is mind blowing.
Average truly is not everything. It does have meaning tho. I’m more interested in the nearly 200 point OPS gap tho
So you’re saying Aaron Judge is a bum. Got it.
Lmao such a regard
Good ol fashioned cleanup hitter. Unfortunately the mlb has devolved into everyone trying to be that guy
Also judge has more XBH
This is every teams motto 1-9
If only there was a player out there this year that hit for power and average and got on base all the time and also drove in runs
If he’s saying that getting on base more would compromise his power that’s fine, poorly worded but I get it.
But then you are conceding that he is not an elite hitter in the way that guys like Judge, Ohtani and Soto are, and that as a hitter he doesn’t belong in that conversation. Because those guys can do both.
I’ve seen worse (hotler)
As a Mariners fan I agree with the above quote to a degree. Raleigh does have a .360 OBP, so he draws his walks, 17 are IBB but he has 96 total. I don’t think he’s suddenly a .400 OBP guy if he focused on slapping the ball the other way to increase his BA. Hitting singles doesn’t scare pitchers. His value is in hitting doubles and homers.
Funny enough, Aaron Judge is better at the extra base hit part too, check out the slugging percentage
That’s the worst quote you’ve ever seen? Stand by while I introduce you to our current administration.
Feel so old seeing hitting .290 as the measure of a good hitter. Don’t really feel one way or the other about it, but the game has really changed.
You haven’t seen many quotes.
Pretty clearly he’s saying a guy who does damage is more valuable than a singles hitter, which is absolutely correct.
I can’t believe we are still talking about batting average
You guys that would rather have Luis Arraez than Cal Raleigh are wild.
What’s wrong with .290?
Can’t believe we are still arguing about this topic, judges stat line is basically all in italics with an insane ops+ over 200
His dumper is clogged? This kind of analysis is just strange
People have cared less and less about average for years but now suddenly people want to try and use it against Cal. Weird how that works lol
He has 60 dingers 125 RBIs. He’s doing his job as a cleanup hitter.
So what you’re saying is that he is not a complete player?
Too bad he just missed the dusty baker years in Chicago
Home runs kill rallies! Everyone knows this! /s
“Clogging up the bases” is such an odd thing to say. Though seeing Cal NOT score on a sac fly last night because he was jogging makes me think maybe he does clog them
What if I told you there was someone who *could* hit for a high average and pop 50-60 dingers in a season? What about multiple seasons? But someone like that probably doesn’t exist. Imagine if they did.
Listen I’m bias, I love cal I think he’s the MVP, but this quote was crazy.