New Baseball Season 2019

I’m back. It’s a new baseball season. Lots of moves and great players signing with mega deals or extensions and making a huge impact on their teams early in the season. Bryce Harper hit a homer in his third game; Machado is 3 for 11 and made an amazing catch down the third base foul line. Jacob DeGrom went 6 innings, 5 hits, 10 SOs and no runs. Robinson Cano hit a homer in his first at-bat in his Mets debut. Somehow, just somehow, the Mets might have a good season with a 2-0 start, which now means they’re the best team in baseball!! (In typical style, that didn’t last long.) Harper’s cleats show Philly pride even though he wants the trophy to go to the nation’s capital. This season I’ll be starting at 100^th place and go to the front of the class to make it more interesting.

100. Insane rookie slugger Vladimir Guerro Jr., Vladimir Sr.’s son, obviously has got some genes from his daddy, except junior can hit more bombs. His minors stats don’t really show it, but if you were around any baseball news or social media, you would know about this kid’s power.  But, in 2018, in the minors, through four teams and leagues he bopped 20 homers and 78 RBIs. He finished with a mind-blowing 37 BBs and 38 SOs. He finished with an average of .381 and an OBP of .437. His career is only going up and potentially he could be hitting 40-110. Just because he’s a rookie and hasn’t even made his Opening Day team, I think he’s good where he is.

99. Jose Abreu is up next, the 32-year-old first baseman is trying to offensively hold the team together with some rookie help after the team failed to sign Manny Machado. He didn’t get much time to evolve after making his MLB debut when he was 27, but he did win Rookie of the Year. The two-time Silver Slugger hit only 22 homers, 132 hits and drove in 78 in 128 games, all four were career lows. This early/late in his career I think his main focus should be to take quality ABs and making hard contact with the ball to later drive it. I think this man will pull it together and lead his team to a better season with the help of Yoan Moncada, Eloy Jiminez and Tim Anderson. I think he deserves to be a few places higher.

98. Next is Charlie Morton, he had a good year last year with the Astros but I know why they didn’t sign him back, this man’s control is all over the place, 16 HBP, most in AL and 64 walks. He earned an All-Star spot with a 10.8 strikeouts per 9 innings, which is pretty good. He gave up 130 hits and gave up 18 homers, eighteen, WOW. He had a career low ERA which was 3.13, heh-heh. He also had the most wins in his career. I think Charlie is going to have a worse season than last, he is getting older and his statistics are going run wise, like ERA, even though he is below the MLB ERA average, his ERA is going up. He will still be productive for his team with Chris Archer. I think he’s good where he is.

97. A couple of years back, Madison Bumgarner was Cy Young caliber but there was always Max Scherzer and Kershaw and Arrieta, but, he was always a thorn in the side when he was pitching. He had a 3.26 ERA when he was 28, not his best season, not one he’d want to remember. He’s always been the best pitcher in the Giants organization, even when Johnny Cueto was there. He hasn’t allowed many homers, he gave up 14 homers. He walked 43 players and hit only five. He had limited time on the mound, 21 games and about 130 innings. In his Opening Day debut he had 7 innings, 5 hits, 2 runs and 9 Ks. I think he might have a good year and bring his team up a smidge. I think he deserves to be in the high 80s.

96. Good ol’ traditional centerfielder Jackie Bradley Jr., you know one of those, some power, insane fielder and has speed. He knows how to get on and produce runs to help his World Series winning team to score. He’s not a big power guy but he got 111 hits last year and 33 of those were doubles, I got you on the calculations: about 30% of his hits were doubles, which is 0.1 percent less than Alex Bregman, 2018 doubles leader if the number was rounded – the same for both. As I said, he’s not a power guy, but 13 homers and 59 RBIs isn’t 1 homer and 7 RBIs. He scored 76 runs and stole 17 bases. Now, if I were to give some advice to pitchers, even though they probably already know that, pitch him high and in or very low and in. I think he should go to the mid-70’s.

Now, the news. New season, new hopes for the Mets. The Mets are up a great start, I know that’s what they did last year but they got Edwin Diaz, an insane closer and two new hitters in Jed Lowrie and Robinson Cano. A rookie insane slugger who can hit XBHs for days, Pete Alonso, so I just have a feeling. I learned that Yoenis Cespedes is the 7^th highest paid player in baseball and what is he doing, he’s on the IL (used to be called DL), crazy. Christian Yelich is insane with four homers in four games, Yelich is looking for a MVP repeat, the fourth time in the NL. The Mets were stabbed in the back and then the knife got twisted in its back. They tied it up in the top of the eighth at 5-5 and then bottom of the ninth, bad choice on Mickey Callaway to keep in Chris Wilson in a tight game, Trea Turner hits a line drive walk-off home run. I know the Cardinals don’t look like a good team, but they’ve put together a nice lineup. Marcel Ozuna, Yadier (who’s getting old) Molina, Matt Carpenter, Paul Goldschmidt, Paul DeJong, Jedd Gyrko, Jose Martinez, Dexter Fowler and Kolten Wong. I see leadership, power, clutch and rookies, prove me wrong or add something. In the Dodgers blowout of the D-Backs, John Ryan Murphy was pitching, which I could understand because, you know, getting blown out, pitchers are tired, but Russell Wilson pitching for the Dodgers, who are winning 16-5, whaaaaaaaaaat? Yeah, true. Former Met Jay Bruce hit his first home run as a Mariner, making a smaller impact than some of the players on Opening Day. After a risky move starting Chris Davis, who hit 47 homers four years ago and 53 homers six years ago, strikes out three times on Opening day and then gets benched the second day. Remember he signed a 7 year/161 mil, 23 mil per year contract, so they’re stuck with them for four more years.

I’m sorry, I can’t write anymore for today, my mom wants me to get ready for school in the morning. See ya soon.