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Originally Posted by pauwoo
And, potentially, a career year? Hopefully some of your youngsters will fall in line and right the ship with the quickness.
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True that. Although Val does have some history of great first halves of seasons with some regression in the second half and that wouldn't surprise me especially at his age.
He did put up 7.2 WAR in 1979 when he finished 3rd in the MGL MVP voting but he is on pace to have a similar season this year, and with even more power.
The real weakness, and surprisingly so, with this team right now is the starting rotation. Our offense is now 1st in the league in runs scored and in several other categories. Granted, our defense isn't very good so that partially explains the starting pitching woes, but the bullpen has the 2nd best ERA in the league so porous defense alone doesn't seem to explain it.
And the San Francisco Velocity have the best record in baseball while the Los Angeles Spinners are resurgent, leaving us sitting 10 games back in 3rd place in the MGL West right now. So even though there is plenty more season left (it is June 23rd as I type this) we can't afford to fall much further behind and need to start gaining ground again.