Mark Reynolds comes a "Strong 3rd" in Last-Man Race
by Jim McLennan on Jul 8, 2009 8:10 PM EDT
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Mark Reynolds and Chone Figgins
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Ok, I just discovered you can't update the date/time on a fanshot, so there's no way to keep it atop the front-page. Hence, we're going with this story instead. We have followed the lead of Sutton and Grace and are backing Chone Figgins of the Angels for the AL spot, so please check his spot off too - we have asked their fans over at Halos Heaven to reciprocate and vote for Reynolds on the other half of their ballot. However, in the interests of fairness and neutrality, here's a photo of Pablo Sandoval diving into base.
Really, folks: is that what you want representing the National League? Oh? You think I'm joking? Click here then. [2.6 Mb animated gif, opens in new window]. Those pesky grains of infield dirt - they'll get you every time...
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JEALOUS?
OPS:
Pablo .954
Reynolds .917
AVG:
Pablo .337
Reynolds .269
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
Jealous? Of this?
HR
Pablo:12
Mark: 24
SB:
Pablo: 3 (and caught twice!)
Reynolds: 13
Really, compared to Mark, the only power and speed Sandoval shows is when he’s making his way to the buffet table…
"Win, or die" -- Marquise de Merteuil
Well played
"Yeah I could have been king, but maybe I already am king. Hail to the king baby." Ash from Army of Darkness
at least he won't strike-out at that buffet table.....
" i'm sure you've been right on something at some point."
-by Larry on May 28, 2009 4:55 PM PST
oh look
what the cat coughed up!
"Without change something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
by unnamedDBacksfan on Jul 6, 2009 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh Snap!
OPS+:
Sandoval: 149
Reynolds: 134
wOBA:
Sandoval: 403
Reynolds: 394
Really, I’m only playing this game because of the bullsh!t beached whale. My point is, if you want to act like that, statistics tell a different story. BTW, Sandoval has several triples this year. Really, if you wanted to knock a Giant for speed, Molina’s right there, in all his glory.
BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE: I THINK MARK REYNOLDS IS A VALUABLE PLAYER.
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
Watch that animated gif again
and tell me a beached whale is not the first thing you think of. Really. And that was first posted on MCC, I might add.
Sure, after the ballot’s over, I’ll happily conceded Sandoval’s merits. Until then, however – a troubled cetacean he will remain.
"Win, or die" -- Marquise de Merteuil
I wonder
if the Angels broadcasters picked it up. I watched the final 4 innings of yesterday’s game, and they didn’t mention anything.
In play, out(s)
I'm voting a thousand times if I have to
because I’m not counting on any Angels fans to do us any favors.
As an Angel fan that lives in Arizona
Im watching the broadcast andim voting alot of times alot!!!!!!!1
Nick Adenhart.
by WillGoAngels27 on Jul 7, 2009 12:07 AM EDT up reply actions
Figgins actually seems like a cool little dude
Figgins said he would be happy to move around to multiple positions for Maddon if fans let him, and he added this about the All-Star Game: “That’s center stage. It doesn’t get any better. For that one time, to say I was an All-Star, it would be such an honor. I can’t even begin to tell you how much that would mean to me.”
For "fairness and neutrality", heeeeere's Mark
by Wailord on Jul 6, 2009 5:14 PM EDT reply actions 5 recs
No prob
I hid your version to save bandwidth, since I’d already linked to the clip. ;-)
"Win, or die" -- Marquise de Merteuil
According to the D-Backs facebook
Mark Reynolds currently sits in fourth place right now. Voting doesn’t end until July 9th so keep on voting!
Wear your own fur.
Time to ramp it up
Those of you who post elsewhere too, should think of Fanposting there as well on this topic…
"Win, or die" -- Marquise de Merteuil
not a bad idea, but
a lot of posters on say the Suns sight aren’t always a fan of the other Arizona teams. That is true on the Cards site as well
Maybe the two college sites?
"Without change something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
by unnamedDBacksfan on Jul 6, 2009 7:14 PM EDT up reply actions
No worries, I put up a FanShot on the ASU blog. We love Mark.
by Cory Williams on Jul 7, 2009 12:06 AM EDT up reply actions
Lame
No Mark in the Home Run Derby- apparently there was a vote for that, too? The vote gave us Pujols, Prince Fielder, and Ryan “9th most home runs in the majors” Howard. Apparently MLB, stuck with handing out one spot for the two guys tied for second in the majors in home runs, decided to just save some airfare and give the last slot to Adrian Gonzalez.
Laaaaaaaame. Which has apparently become my new over-used word. Sorry.
"Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face."
I could not
hold up our end of the bargain. I voted Reynolds-Kinsler because Kinsler played for my Missouri Tigers. Apologies for not following through on our agreement.
"it’s a great time to be a Tiger" - leghumpingjihadkiller
I voted
like 20 times, what more do you want!?
I was so lucky getting mono. That was like the best diet ever.
$100,000
will do for starts
"Without change something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
by unnamedDBacksfan on Jul 6, 2009 10:26 PM EDT up reply actions
How 'bout
you read my number correctly?
The Arizona Diamondbacks: Invincible in 18 innings since '01
How 'bout
you fall back in that hole and stay there?
I was so lucky getting mono. That was like the best diet ever.
Ha... nice
Things ’Skins has in common with foulpole for 400, please. -- soco
by snakecharmer on Jul 7, 2009 12:48 AM EDT up reply actions
BETRAYAL!!!!!
The first “alliance” of this year’s Final Vote was also revealed on Monday, when the Angels and Dodgers agreed to back each other’s Los Angeles-market candidate. So the Angels are asking fans not only to vote for Figgins, but also for Kemp. And vice-versa with the Dodgers.
In play, out(s)
Source
LIE!
We will never vote for a dodger… NEVER
Nick Adenhart.
by WillGoAngels27 on Jul 7, 2009 12:08 AM EDT up reply actions
I was gonna say....
Dodgers fans HATE the Angels, and vice versa.
The Arizona Diamondbacks: Invincible in 18 innings since '01
That's what I figured.
But it’s still kinda funny to imagine an Angels fan wearing a Diamondbacks shirt while they pretend to vote for Reynolds, then switching their vote to Kemp and tearing off their shirt to reveal an NWO L.A. jersey underneath.
Or to imagine that same fan hitting Manny with a steel chair.
Angel fan here addressing the Angels/brooklyn alliance
As a fan of the Halos, i’d rather give Terry Francona and Jim Rice a full body massage with a happy ending, than vote for a doyer in the ASG. Which is to say, it would never happen. Screw brooklyn!!
YOU DON'T KNOW THE POWER OF THE DARKSIDE.....
Cheers, mate!
"In the future, I want to be a fossil. Or, at least have my feces be fossilized"
-Pygalgia
Mark
has pulled into third. Ahead of Kemp! If he breaks out tonight and Buddha + Victorino flop, then he could pull into second or first.
Every time I go to that window
in my browser, I vote 10x! Come on guys…. KEEP IT UP!
Things ’Skins has in common with foulpole for 400, please. -- soco
Ballot stuffinggggg
Woo. I type numbers pretty quickly, it’s just that stupid checkbox for the emails that annoys me.
by emilylovesthedbacks on Jul 7, 2009 7:52 PM EDT reply actions
I've given up on the checkbox
Saves me a lot of clicking, and then after voting is over I can just unsubscribe.
True.
And I just realized I had my own defunct email, so I’ll just direct them there.
by emilylovesthedbacks on Jul 7, 2009 8:43 PM EDT up reply actions
If you'd like
Use gsrtheanthem@yahoo.com.
It’s my email address from about seven years ago. Completely defunct.
If you go "back" in the browser
instead of clicking “vote again”, it stays unchecked. It’s also more keyboard-user friendly. :)
Things ’Skins has in common with foulpole for 400, please. -- soco
damn, we're flying through this game
the last two lasted about a year and a half each.
"Tramps like us,baby we were born to run"
I was originally thinking that it was strange that my verification number on one of the ballots was my old zip code in California, but then I realized that with as many times as I’d voted by now, it’d be statistically weird if I hadn’t seen some sort of significant number by this point.
I got a number twice now!!
That was odd…
Things ’Skins has in common with foulpole for 400, please. -- soco
perhaps we should check with the Wizard, but it will be quite a journey
it certainly does not sound like simple irony to me ! ! !
Let us prepare for the journey !
" i'm sure you've been right on something at some point."
-by Larry on May 28, 2009 4:55 PM PST
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Have a pleasant afterlife. :-)
"Win, or die" -- Marquise de Merteuil
I might have voted for Reynolds
if not for the insufferable campaigning on tv. “We’re not asking you to vote for Reynolds because he plays for the Diamondbacks, he truly is the most deserving candidate.” What a crock.
11 stolen bases don’t make up for 63 points of batting average, 31 points of OBP, 7 points of SLG and 15 points of OPS+. Especially when Reynolds is stealing them at merely an ok clip. I’ve said it before, I’m a huge Sutton mark, but the disingenuousness of his “arguments” in favor of Reynolds have left me with a real sour taste in my mouth.
11 stolen bases
and 18 home runs.
Not to mention less "important’ stats like RBIs, runs scored, etc.
"In the future, I want to be a fossil. Or, at least have my feces be fossilized"
-Pygalgia
18 more home runs
and he still manages to have a lower slugging percentage than Sandoval while playing in a SIGNIFICANTLY better hitter’s park. That’s some feat he’s managed to accomplish.
If the t.v. guys had just campaigned for him like total homers it would be one thing. But to campaign for him like total homers and then go out of the way to say that you’re not being homers and matter of factly say he deserves to win on merit, well, that’s what took all of the irrational fun and exuberance out of it for me.
Also,
Reynolds has 11 more home runs. I don’t think this group quite understands the significance of a .64 point gap in batting average – especially when Pablo has the walk rate and slugging skills to back up the .326 average.
Yeah
I get the difference, the doesn’t mean I’m not going to vote for Reynolds.
I was so lucky getting mono. That was like the best diet ever.
Really
If the All Star Game was actually about sending the best player, things would be very different…
Reynolds
wouldn’t have been forced into the Last Man election. He’d already be a reserve.
"In the future, I want to be a fossil. Or, at least have my feces be fossilized"
-Pygalgia
True,
He would be the final third baseman off the bench behind reserve David Wright and starter Pablo Sandoval.
We could watch him ride the pine next to Ryan Howard as they get into a contest to see who has the bigger hole in their swing.
No argument here.
"In the future, I want to be a fossil. Or, at least have my feces be fossilized"
-Pygalgia
I'm sure...
they were completely unique in doing so. I’m sure no one in any of the other 9 cities did that. It’s all the fault of the announcers, I tell ya!
That said, I did vote for Reynolds and I thought he had numbers worthy of a berth. On the other hand, putting him in the game would amount to Arizona having 1/3 of a starting line-up in the ASG. Shouldn’t a team with that kind of AS power not be fighting it out for the bottom of their division? I have no problem with people not putting him in for precisely that reason.
by azshadowwalker on Jul 10, 2009 1:03 PM EDT up reply actions
If he wasn't a truly deserving candidate he wouldn't be in the final vote.
What you have said here sir is a crock. Reynolds deserves to there just as much as Sandoval deserves to be there. Saying “I didn’t vote for Reynolds because of the campaigning” is stupid and just takes all the fun out of the all-star game.
Maybe you haven't noticed
the campaigning everywhere. Each team, each player is doing it.
Zug be with you.
And also with you.
In fact...
several clubs are offering prizes for fans who vote for their player. Arizona’s commentators are being heavy-handed, though, so we shouldn’t have voted for Mark. What kind of sense does that make? Does the behavior of the commentators or the clubs offering prize packages have any effect on the numbers or whether a player deserves to go? If someone didn’t think Mark deserved to go because of his numbers, and so they didn’t vote for him, that’s perfectly sensible. To throw in the actions of the commentators as a justification, though, is not sensible at all. Why even throw that out there? Your human frailties and ability to get swayed by emotions are showing, dahlian. Better get on that, since I was under the impression that you were above all that.
by azshadowwalker on Jul 10, 2009 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Correct
all the teams failed to cover themselves in glory so in the end I decided to vote for the person that’s most deserving. In my opinion, Reynolds was getting enough votes for the wrong reasons from voters led long by people that were making intentionally disingenuous arguments. As a result I no longer wanted to vote for him or encourage other people to vote for him when I felt it was for the wrong reason.
I probably would have voted for him with glee had the broadcast team come out and said “hey, vote for Reynolds. He’s having a great season. He might not be having the best season of all the guys in the vote, but he has had an all-star caliber season. And most importantly, we feel he really deserves to make the Home Run Derby and the only way for him to do that is to make the All Star team.”
I guess some people found the intentional misuse of statistics part of the fun, but I didn’t. Whatevs. It’s not like Victorino is a bad all star and arguably better than Reynolds – second in the league in runs, only 7 points lower in OPS+ despite being a plus centerfielder compared to a poor corner infielder.
Intellectually,
I agree with you, but would just add MLB’s selection process is hardly designed to be fair – let alone intelligent. It’s designed to fabricate a frenzy amongst ostensible young adults, and to harvest their email addresses – not to honor the best players for the game. To prop this foolishness up as an “election” is silly, even by Iranian standards – they’re MLB marketing contrivances and Daron is simply a mid level facilitator doing his job.
I was at yesterday’s game, and thought the Reynolds signs were cute. Kids are into it.
Mark’s supplanting Byrnsie as their big fan favorite before our eyes. But on television, where one’s more detached from natural stadium excitement, I agree the sell feels unnatural and heavy handed.
If the FO is the focus of anything, something is seriously wrong with the picture ! - unnamedDBacksfan 2/20/09
Your cynicism is showing.
Of course it’s unnatural and heavy-handed. That’s part of the joke and the fun of it. We get to be ridiculously partisan and bigoted, in a completely harmless way. We form alliances [the Angels definitely moved up my list of favorite teams because of that], talk smack and get to poke fun at fat baseball players. Absolutely nothing wrong with it, as far as I can see. Their portrayal of it as an ‘election’ was a joke. I’m really surprised I have to explain that.
And if you’re concerned about MLB “harvesting” your email address, give ‘em a fake one. pablo.sandoval@allyoucaneat.com works every bit as well as your real one. Though if MLB don’t already have your email in their files, you probably haven’t been trying very hard!
Anyway, it’s all over now. What are Mark and Daron going to have to talk about tonight? ;-)
"Win, or die" -- Marquise de Merteuil
Clearly
you’ve been harvested
If the FO is the focus of anything, something is seriously wrong with the picture ! - unnamedDBacksfan 2/20/09
Maple bats
"In the future, I want to be a fossil. Or, at least have my feces be fossilized"
-Pygalgia
I voted
If the FO is the focus of anything, something is seriously wrong with the picture ! - unnamedDBacksfan 2/20/09
'Bran-Torino' wins final spot
Brandon Inge, Shane Victorino
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090709&content_id=5787776&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
“Mark Reynolds finished a strong third.”
At least it wasn’t Pablo…
Things ’Skins has in common with foulpole for 400, please. -- soco
Ditto...
INGE though?? I admit I voted for Kinsler…
Things ’Skins has in common with foulpole for 400, please. -- soco
I stuck to the agreement with the Angels by voting for Figgins.
I am just it wasn’t Kemp or Sandoval that beat out Mark.
Well I voted Figgins too
but my first bunch of votes went to Kinsler. :)
Things ’Skins has in common with foulpole for 400, please. -- soco
A lot of my early votes went to Inge
My sister’s a Mariners fan, so I avoided AL West players until we had the deal with Halos Heaven.
+1
I can live with Victorino, even if his credentials were barely ahead of Guzman. I
"Win, or die" -- Marquise de Merteuil
Go read the comments over on MCC
About Fatso not getting selected. I LOL’d. Repeatedly.
"Win, or die" -- Marquise de Merteuil
I imagine
it will be a lot like a Diamondbacks message board circa 2003 when the statistically superior Brandon Webb got screwed out of the ROY because Dontrelle Willis had all those shiny wins that the casual fans think are so meaningful.
The difference being
The RotY award is voted for by people who are supposed to know better. It’s not American Idol.
"Win, or die" -- Marquise de Merteuil
by Jim McLennan on Jul 10, 2009 2:28 AM EDT up reply actions
No,
he holds a “serious” award like ROTY, voted on by writers, higher than an obvious “popularity contest” award, voted on by fans.
"In the future, I want to be a fossil. Or, at least have my feces be fossilized"
-Pygalgia
Skins beat me to it
"Win, or die" -- Marquise de Merteuil
by Jim McLennan on Jul 11, 2009 6:50 PM EDT up reply actions
So what are the chances
that somebody gets injured or one of the NLers pulls out of the home-run derby?
Not that I am rooting for injury, mind you…that’s bad karma… but Mark deserves to go!
Things ’Skins has in common with foulpole for 400, please. -- soco
I heard Morneau is already out of the HR derby
but he’s AL, so that doesn’t help Mark. Anyway, don’t the HR contestants have to be players that were already picked/voted onto the All-Star team?
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