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A friend with Yankee season tickets invited me a while back to join him for any one of this weekend’s games. I chose the finale, which turns out to be a pivotal contest in which there are three potential outcomes:
1. Yankees win, while Blue Jays lose, and the Stadium explodes in celebrating an improbable division win and a bye to the next round of the playoffs.
2. Yankees win, but so does Toronto, so we get to enjoy a victory while being disappointed that our struggles in the summer mean we have to go play a wildcard round in a few days.
3. Yankees lose, which means Toronto wins the division no matter what.
Hoping very much for option 1.
“As a year-long Dodgers fan should I be rooting for the Mets or the Reds tomorrow?”
The Mets have no juice and are starting three rookie pitchers who were just brought up a few weeks ago. Seems like a completely different team than last year, and not in a good way. But hey, you never know!
I don’t have a shred of skin in the AL MVP decision, but if I were to bet my money would be on Raleigh. I would guess that most non-Yankees fans would say the same. There’s just something very compelling about a catcher doing things that no catcher has ever done before.
I would agree with Yankees fans that Judge deserves it more based not only on the off-the-charts video game numbers and better than decent fielding, but on his impeccable larger-than-life personality. It really isn’t all that close.
But it’s partly an emotional award and Raleigh is the more compelling story.
What is the Berawang News that seems to be copying other’s content?
Cal has an MVP nickname and that might make the difference. The fact Judge has won already may also.
Apropos of nothing but the MLB leader for runs saved at SS is Mookie Betts, which may be the most improbable thing I have seen all season.
When Jokic lost out to Embiid for MVP a couple of years ago, part of the rationale was that a 3 in-a-row winner should have an NBA title to his name. So he duly won it. Hopefully the same silver lining happens if Judge comes in 2nd.
When you consider that Judge’s excellence almost single-handedly keeps Aaron Boone employed, the case for Raleigh is strong.
Taking my dad to the game today for his birthday. Bought tickets Thursday and was sweating all weekend that the game would end up not mattering. Thrilled we’re seeing some actual MLB baseball instead of the equivalent of 9 DaQuan Jeffries.
Anyone looking at the leaders in these categories who thinks anyone other than Judge is the MVP just isn’t paying attention. Just like Jokic.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/
Big Dumper is a nickname of the people. Judge, the elitist class. Cal will win MVP.
have fun at the game al and EB, the environment should be pretty electric…
so cool we get basketball games this week, nice…
one of the best parts of life now is the chance to start most days at a super slow pace, sundays sometimes included…
get the chance to do some thinking rather than doing early on…this morning’s mental exercise is trying to smooth out the alien timeline…events on screen cover almost 300 years, engineer and xenomorph references go back millennium…
trying to fit the show in to the timeline…
specifically wondering why weyland-yuhtani was out there looking for these creatures and how did they know where to find them…
thought it might have been David reporting back…there’s a scene that was cut/not used but included in a DVD collection which shows David calling home during the covenant events…however that happened in 2104…
alien earth takes place during 2120, and morrow was just returning from a 65 year mission, so the maginot left earth in 2055…prometheus didn’t even head out ’til 2089…
hmmmmmmmm…
Raleigh plays elite defense at a key position. I’d still give the award to the 10 WAR Judge over the 9 WAR Raleigh, but the gap in defense makes it close.
but he is a catcher, the most important player on the field at that time in the game – other than the pitcher…
no catcher in the history of baseball has ever hit 60 homeruns…it just has not happened…
good story, give the baseball world a little northwest love…
Forget Cal….Best catcher on an overachieving team making the playoffs who is posting MVP stats.? Thurman.
The first quarter was the most fun I’ve had watching the Giants in years, so naturally the game went straight to hell.
I did enjoy those Super Bowls when I was in middle school.
I think looking at stats relative to position played should probably be part of the conversation in baseball. Think of it in similar terms to what Berri used to do in basketball.
If you have an almost MVP caliber catcher, the gap between what you have and what everyone else has is probably worth some extra wins over an MVP caliber oufielder.
Of course you can ask why it is that so few catchers have been able to put up seasons like this to try to further make the case.
Is is tougher on your body to endure a season of squatting and potentially getting him with more foul balls?
Is it tougher to find good defensive catchers, that can also throw, also call a good game and also hit well?
I’m not a baseball guy. I’m not sure who the MVP should be, but I don’t think it’s crazy to compare players relative to position played instead against each other. It’s at least worth a conversation.
Judge may be the best player, but not contributing as many “excess wins at his position” as Raleigh is at his. Someone else is better suited to calculating that than me.
Some of you are seriously underestimating just how much better of a hitter Judge is not only to Raleigh but every single other player in MLB. Judge is on a level with Ruth and Bonds.
Al is spot on. That’s why there are no reasonable arguments for Raleigh, just dumb ones like “but he’s a catcher” and “he’s got a great nickname”.
Giving him the MVP won’t be as egregious as when they gave it to Morneau instead of Jeter, but it is ridiculous. Everyone knows Judge is the better player and had a better year.
Yeah, baseball reference and fan graphs both came up with a stat that calculates it. And both agree that Judge so much better at the plate than Raleigh that it more than makes up for the positional difference.
not sure how the giants game could be considered to have gone to hell when they just beat one of the best teams in the nfl leading almost (if not actually) from start to finish losing nabers is a bitch tho
Nice win for the Giants but if this is gonna be the game plan with Dart he’s gonna be injured for the season pretty soon.
Mendoza is managing the most bizarre, scared baseball game I have ever seen. This should be the last game of his career.
Giants used Abdul Carter effectively, he’s a beast as is Brian Burns. Mets torturing those of us foolish enough to watch. Bringing in Diaz in 5th is insanity.
One guy had 10 WAR and the other guy had 9. It would hardly be ridiculous to give the award to Raleigh. Raleigh is probably the best defensive catcher in baseball and one of the best defensive players in the game regardless of position. I think some of you guys aren’t factoring that in. Judge has him beat by 1 WAR— that’s not nothing. But it would be far, FAR from one of the worst MVP votes ever if Raleigh won.
Morneau was a bad MVP award, but that award should have gone to Grady Sizemore and not Jeter.
One full WAR is significant.
And it’s 9.8 to 7.3 according to the other WAR.
So he’s a head above Raleigh by fangraphs and a head & shoulder above by B-Ref.
Either way you have to twist logic into a pretzel to figure out a way to give it to the clear and obvious 2nd best player in the AL.
I said it wasn’t egregious, but it’s definitely wrong. Judge’s only company right now is Bonds and Ruth.
It does show you how good Judge is: he was somehow BETTER than a Johnny Bench-level defensive catcher who also hit 60 home runs. And it was the third best year of Judge’s career. He’s really something.
It can never be called ridiculous give the MVP to a guy who leads baseball in HRs and RBIs while being a fine defensive catcher…. just unfair. 18 catchers have been named MVP in my lifetime. Not many MVPs have hit .246.
I didn’t watch, and I only see one tackle in the box score. Can you elaborate?
only one player on the team sits/squats/kneels while another normally large human hurls a hard ball in their general direction from like 60 feet away, from an elevated position…by the time some pitchers let go of the ball they’re like 50 feet away…80 to 100 mph covers that distance pretty quickly…
who knows where the ball is heading like a good 15 to 20 percent of the time it’s thrown…
oh yeah, then you have these monsters (like aaron judge) standing over you while flailing away with baseball bats like they’re trying to kill some creature flying in the air – while you are trying to focus on catching the ball…
for the hour or so the other team is at the plate each game, judge could stay on the bench and hardly anyone would notice…
no respect for the backstop…the kids these days, I tell ya 😛
He was a force… 5 registered QB hits and he lost a sack when Herbert was called for intentional grounding when he flipped the ball away when Carter was taking him to the ground. I think the Giants had 12 QB hits overall.
Someone should check in on ras…
Yankees finish with 94 wins just like last year, end on an 8 game winning streak along with by far the best record in baseball over the final 2 months of the season. Arguably currently have their best roster of position players since 2009 yet I have very little confidence in them beating Boston in a 2 out of 3 series.
Funny thing is I do believe if they somehow beat Boston they’ll beat Toronto and whatever shitty team they’d play in the ALCS to reach the World Series again but the last thing I wanted was a Wild Card matchup vs Boston…
So…
The team with the best record and best run differential is the 4th seed.
And they play the 4th best team, who is the 5 seed.
The team with the worst record and a -7 RD is the 3 seed.
And the 3rd best team has a bye.
Baseball has autism.
Well, the Yankees did their part. TB was only a couple grand slams off… and then some.
In semi-basketball news, 6ers owner Josh Harris erhm fingered in new Epstein material. Maybe it’s time for a full 6ers reset…
Call me crazy but I’m starting to doubt Francisco Lindor is the most important baseball player in this fine city of ours.
I think sometime we lose sight of just how impactful gold glove level defenders are in baseball, and no position is harder to field than catcher. Great defensive catchers are pretty rare, and ones that can hit are incredibly valuable. Whereas great defensive right fielders who are lousy hitters are a dime a dozen. So the gap in offensive performance has to be pretty wide to account for the defensive importance of the position.
In Judge’s case, it is probably not wide enough, just like it wasn’t wide enough last year when Othani won it as a DH over Lindor, the gold-glove level shortstop.
But when you put up the greatest offensive performance in history for your position, given the importance and difficulty of that position and the physical toll it takes on your body, it’s reasonable to defer to that. It is long established that the award doesn’t go to the best player, or even the most valuable player….it goes to the top-3 player with the most compelling narrative per the voters. Should it be that way? Probably not, it is what it is. Raleigh’s story line this year is arguably more compelling.
Fun game, but atmosphere at stadium was definitely muted due to Toronto running away from Tampa.
What’s done is done. Playoff time. LFG, Yankees!
“Call me crazy but I’m starting to doubt Francisco Lindor is the most important baseball player in this fine city of ours.”
Did anyone actually argue otherwise?
Broke: being mad that Jeter was robbed of the 2006 MVP*
Woke: being mad that Jeter was robbed of the 1999 MVP
*he was exponentially better than Morneau, though
It’s heart warming that advanced stats nerds and OG batting average heads can unite in acknowledging Aaron Judge is the 2025 AL MVP.
Raleigh didn’t come close to having a season offensively as a Catcher close to Piazza who twice lead the league in OPS.
This season Raleigh didn’t even grade out defensively as good a pitch framer as Austin Wells who has somehow become an elite pitch framer despite all the reports when he was in the minors saying he wouldn’t be able to catch at the MLB level.
Then give him the Pulitzer Prize or the Oscar for “best story line.” The award is called MVP.
WAR, BA, OBP, OBS, BB, IBB,Rs, SLG, OPS+ and TB all argue otherwise.
Raleigh still graded out as top 5 in MLB in pitch framing, and was top 10 in MLB in defensive WAR. Still didn’t have as good a season as Judge, but he is an elite defensive player, that is not in question. He gives you a lot of value on that side of the ball.
It should end there.
That it doesn’t just means we all know the award is often given to the wrong player for dumb reasons.
I mean, you could just give MVP to the guy with the most WAR. I’d actually be in favor of that to be honest.
The Raiders are one of a kind.
I mean, Jokic should easily have 5 straight MVPs. But I was more than fine (as a fan of the NBA with no rooting interest in that debate) with SGA getting it as the more compelling story in 2024-25, and his play in the playoffs only made me feel more at peace with the decision.
Honestly, I don’t get why MVP awards in all sports don’t include the playoffs, since that is the most important part of any professional season. I personally don’t care all that much how teams do in the regular season compared to the playoffs. The regular season is only about playoff positioning.
You could still have awards for playoff performances, and there might be an occasional player who has a season so good that he gets the MVP even if his team doesn’t make the playoffs…but when I think about the great players in history, it is far more about playoff performance than regular season performance.
WAR is subjective enough that a difference of, say 0.5 is easily within the margin of error and it would hardly be outrageous to give an MVP to a guy with 9.5 WAR instead of a guy who had 10 if there were valid reasons to believe he may have been more deserving.
But, Judge increased his lead by an amount that I think is outside the margin of error, his bWAR lead has been comfortably outside of it all season, and the offensive components of WAR are more objective and reliable than the defensive components, which are both a great innovation and a work in progress.
It wouldn’t be a top-10 outrage because there have been so many god awful choices in the past, but it should be Judge.
Hubert, here you go:
the mlb mvp award isn’t just more of a moneyball mindset…data data data…
aaron judge doesn’t make the pitching staff better, every game, not directly anyways…
go big dump guy!
I wouldn’t go that far bc WAR isn’t perfect but when it’s decisive in WAR, OBP, SLG, OPS+, and about a dozen other categories and metrics, then it’s pretty overwhelming.
I could see a case for Raleigh if the Mariners won 110 games or something. That’s why SGA had a reasonable case over Jokic this year. Best player on an historically great team is a good reason. But he’s on a 90 win team in a shitty division.
Strat this is what WAR is
more positives than normal around for the new york football giants (sad face though about nabers, hope he’s well soon)…
the defense looks pretty okay, skatteboo is one of the more fun young runners to come around in a while, glad he’s a giant…
and finally, got a young guy behind center that can and will run…key for that offensive line, qb happy feet a must…
Thanks, Alan & Bob for the insight on Carter. That’s encouraging.
Hopefully this winning business ends quickly so we can get all these guys fired and get another top pick for the next regime.
457/688 is an insane line
I’d give it to Judge too
I know people have said differently but my understanding was that Raleigh’s defensive numbers were down quite a bit this year from last years elite levels. Still excellent but not otherworldly
Not to worry. As much as I liked Dart’s debut, if Dabol keeps using him as the illegitimate love child of Charley Tolar and Tom Rathman, he’ll have PTSD before the bye week. He took some beating today and not the fault of the pass rush.
And 457/688 is what stat for who?
Its actuality .458/.691! Judge’s OBP/SLG. Raleigh’s is .201 lower.
Raleigh won the Platinum Glove in 2024, which is the award given to the best defensive player in all of MLB. And he deserved it. Led MLB in defensive WAR that year.
He wasn’t quite as good this year, but was still 8th in MLB in defensive WAR. This is how he gets close to Judge in overall WAR despite the 45 point gap in wRC+.
Elite catcher defense is worth a lot of runs.
Malcolm Brogdon talking like he expects to make the roster and play a role. My thing is, if his body is right, he’s the best backup PG on the roster by a wide margin.
If Brogdon is healthy, and unless we get something unexpectedly good for Kolek (e.g. a decent future second round pick), I would keep Kolek and ditch Shamet and all the other vets’ minimum scrubs. Brogdon is a very good player. If he’s healthy.
Thanks BPL. I have noticed that Judge walks a lot (not surprisingly teams avoid pitching to him), and it’s definitely a good thing. I don’t know the numbers but I expect he scores a lot of runs too because he’s on base so much.
Judge lead the league in walks and runs scored. Also set the AL record for most IBB in a season.
I’m not sure how being 8th in a 30 team league qualifies as elite. You must be used to grading on a curve.
No, he ranked 8th out of all players at all positions in MLB. Not 8th out of all catchers. Top 10 defensive player in all of baseball. Had the 8th highest defensive WAR out of any baseball player. He ranked second among catchers behind Alejandro Kirk.
Kirk was a top 30 position player in baseball despite relatively pedestrian batting stats, that’s how impactful catcher defense is.
WAR didn’t exist (I don’t think) back when I last followed the sport. Does Ohtani’s WAR include his pitching production? Since nobody else does what he does is he even scored on the same scale, or does he get Simone Biles treatment?