With 21 days left until the postseason or the second season as some say, the official 2018 baseball season is coming to an end.

JA Happ has always been a guy that you could lay your team on and depend on the veteran to start a game and finish strong and give the game to your bullpen. He was a great pitcher but he was on a team that had a mediocre offense with the Blue Jays but they somehow always picked him up with a very strong first season riding a 20-4 record. Then, the Jays faltered and Happ had a 10-11 record in 25 games. He picked it up himself with a 15-6 record so far this year, but with the Yanks, with a nuclear powered offense, he’s 5-0, clearly he could carry his own weight.

Eric Hosmer is a very good first baseman with power, some speed (at least more than most first basemen) and he is very good at flashing the leather around making stops that no one could make. He is very prone to putting the ball on the ground with 57% of the balls he put into play were grounders, thus producing 105 singles this year. His OPS is staggeringly low at .709 with his usual being .781. His Total Bases number is really big for only three weeks off the end of the season and he only played 138 games. Though he is a four-time Gold Glover he has four errors at first this year. If he hadn’t had a below mediocre season he would’ve had a spot at least 15 spots before this.

Robbie Ray is always such a dark horse; no one ever realizes his potential, he just flies under the radar. Robbie Ray set down 218 hitters in 162 innings. Hitters made contact 68% of the time only past Cy Young winners who have gotten less contact rates. Don’t forget that he had a 15-5 record last year and that was his emerging year. Now that the Diamondbacks are most likely going to the playoffs, Robbie is going to be a big piece in their winning games against tough opponents. He has a great defense behind him, so any ground ball or tough fly is 65% of the time caught. He has developed a wicked curveball that could easily fool even the toughest hitters. He should be a couple of spots higher because he’s not really Cy Young caliber goods.

Odubel “Torito” Herrera is a five-tool player no matter what kind of stats you give me. He has a heck of a lot of power, and he’s right up there behind Charlie Blackmon as one of the best centerfielders in the game. He’s one of the fastest in the NL East with Amed Rosario and Trea Turner. The only weak spot that he has is average hitting as he’s batting .264 but that’s still better than most centerfielders. But, he’s kind of lazy, like he doesn’t run out grounders and he watches strikes go by and swings at balls and he’s kind of annoying and irritating to his teammates and to opponents. He’s going to have a high WAR this year because earlier in the year he was the only good player there, but then came all sorts of sluggers from all sorts of teams. His arm is an item that I rather not talk about, it’s kind of a painful subject. He should be placed a lot higher up because he’s very good.

Todd Frazier has such a good resume that no one really sees how unreliable he is, yeah, he could hit dingers, and his glove is okay, but outside of that, he’s bad. He can’t hit for average, he can’t run. His arm is horrible when he trying to make a tough throw. His hits have always been low. His SLG is down as is his OBP. He won’t make it to any other team because no team wants him. But power is a big point in today’s game and he’s already slugged 17 dingers, even if he was out for about a little more for a month. He hasn’t been getting his doubles but I think he’s about to get on a hot streak. His WAR is 2.3 so obviously the Mets put him as a starter but nothing more. He should, I think, stay where he is.

The rookie pitcher that the Royals acquired in a trade is Mike Moustakas. So, he made his major league debut with no apparent high hopes. He then took a perfecto into the eighth, he walked a guy and then Robbie Grossman singled. Best wishes to him.

J.D. Martinez is one of the best all round-players in the game though he can’t run, can’t field and has a horrible arm. But, his hitting is amazing, in baseball, he has the second highest average, he’s second in dingers and he drives in runners like there’s no tomorrow. There was a rally squirrel, yes, a rally squirrel in the Cardinals-Tigers game, the squirrel came onto the field and the Cardinals scored some runs. A similar thing happened last year when a cat came onto the field and Yadier Molina then hit a grand slam.

We all know that Ender Inciarte is not a home run hitter, he is a Gold Glover that steals a heck of a lot of bases. So, in a recent game he hit a three-run homer that won the game in the end. Maybe this is the beginning of a new Ender.

Congratulations to Jose Ramirez on reaching the 30-30 club. He stole his 30^th bag against the Toronto Blue Jays but sadly they lost. Jose is a sparkplug for the Indians and so solid everywhere, with their pitching and their amazing hitting, that’s the kind of stuff you need to get into the postseason. Ronald Acuna Jr. has turned heads once again, now being only the sixth player in baseball history to have 25+ homers before turning 21.

The Mets are finally watchable again. They’ve been on winning streaks snapped by only one loss at a time. Jay Bruce is back, Noah Syndergaard pitched his first complete game against the Giants, Jacob DeGrom has made his Cy Young case even stronger. Probably the best news is David Wright he has joined the team and is now playing in simulated games and will hope to join the team as a player later this week. And to top it off, this bat flip is amazing, Park Suk-Min is in the Korean league and he did a no-look behind the back bat flip, but, it wasn’t a home run, it was a RBI single.