2019 Season Comes to an End

The World Series was a complete crazy turnaround, Cinderella, underdog, feel-good story.

The Nationals, a Wild Card team, forced seven games and eventually beat the Astros in the World Series. Fueled by Juan Soto and Anthony Rendon, and an absolute mastermind in Dave Martinez, this is the winning potion as the Nats won their first ever World Series. Game 7 was a nice one: Yuli Gurriel started off the scoring in the last game, with a deep shot to left over the railing of the huge wall. Then it was smooth sailing for both sides for about 2 ½ innings, when Carlos Correa hit a single that put Houston up, 2-0. In the 7th, Washington lit up, Anthony Rendon and Howie Kendrick let fly with solo shots and then the Nats swarmed and stung. Juan Soto gave them the lead in 8th off of Roberto Osuna with a single. Then Adam Eaton put the cherry on top, hitting yet another single off of youngster Jose Urquidy, with two runners scoring. The rest is history: Daniel Hudson (some people might’ve not even known who he is), shut down the electric Houston’s lineup 1-2-3, getting Michael Brantley swinging for the final out.

Baseball America names Pete Alonso Rookie of the Year. Above is the magazine's page 12 with the Polar Bear batting one out of the park.

I am very pleased to have read that Baseball America, the world-famous baseball magazine, has named Pete Alonso, the Rookie of the Year and named him to the All-Rookie Team and the Both-League All-Star Team. Numerous times, the editors said that he was a big part of developing the team chemistry. He also contributed a lot to the Mets’ season and engraved his name into the record books. I think that he should be named Rookie of the Year and a finalist for the MVP ballot, if not the actual MVP. 53 homers, 120 RBIs, 85 XBHs, 348 total bases and improving his glove work significantly is what absolutely no scout had on the horizon for Pete Alonso. Congratulations, Polar Bear!

Pete and his Mets teammates will be under the helm of Carlos Beltran, the newly appointed Amazins’ manager. Do not get me wrong, I love Beltran and I will tell you why, but, I would’ve much rather had Joe Girardi, who was snagged by the Phillies. Carlos Beltran has many plusses with the Mets: he had a great career with them, 149 homers, 559 RBIs and 551 runs isn’t a bad, 7-years. He knows most of the guys on the team, he is good friends with the front office, and I think he’s fine with working hand-in-hand with GM Brodie Van Wagenen for a playoff berth. I support the decision made by Brodie to get Carlos.

I am also announcing that I will be starting a whole new department of my blog, a football blog. I will write the news of the week’s games and give my predictions like I do in this blog. I also will be continuing my baseball blog as usual.