Who Owned Baseball – Updated for April 23, 2022

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Who Owned Baseball on April 23, 2022?

FULL WOB

Jazz Chisholm Jr. collected 4 hits, including a massive homer, drove in 3 and stole a pair of bases as the Marlins took a wild 9-7 slugfest from Atlanta.

Nestor Cortes pitched into the 7th, allowing 1 hit over 6 1/3 innings while striking out 8 Cleveland batters. He did not get the decision but the Yankees walked off 5-4 winners.

Yu Darvish struck out 7 Dodgers in 6 innings of 1 hit shutout ball to set up the Padres 3-2 win.

Ty France had a 5 hit night, homering, driving in 5 and scoring 3, to lead the Mariners past Kansas City, 13-7.

1/2 WOB

Daniel Hudson threw a scoreless 9th to take the tense game into extra innings. The Padres would walk off in the 10th, 3-2.

Frankie Montas held the Rangers to 3 hits and 2 runs over 7 1/3 innings but the A’s were blanked, 2-0.

Dansby Swanson went 2 for 4, including a homer, but the Braves fell, 9-7.

Mike Trout was in vintage form, homering twice and adding another hit, but the Angels came up short to Baltimore, 5-4.

Who Owned Baseball Scores

National League Hitters

C. J. Cron – 2

Francisco Lindor – 2

Manny Machado – 2

Jazz Chisholm Jr. – 1 1/2

American League Hitters

Ty France – 3 1/2

Salvador Perez – 1 1/2

National League Pitchers

Yu Darvish – 1 1/2

Sean Manaea – 1 1/2

Carlos Rodon – 1 1/2

American League Pitchers

Frankie Montas – 2 1/2

Robbie Ray – 2

Nestor Cortes – 1 1/2

Chris Flexen – 1 1/2

Daulton Jefferies – 1 1/2

Brad Keller – 1 1/2

Shohei Ohtani – 1 1/2

Combined Pitcher and Hitter WOB

Shohei Ohtani – 2 1/2

1 WOB

Yordan Alvarez, Elvis Andrus, Nolan Arenado, Seth Beer, Mookie Betts, Shane Bieber, Alex Bregman, Johan Camargo, Carlos Carrasco, Michael Chavis, Zack Collins, Willson Contreras, Thairo Estrada, Maikel Franco, Adam Frazier, Max Fried, Kyle Gibson, Marco Gonzales, Hunter Greene, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Ke’Bryan Hayes, Andrew Heaney, Jonah Heim, Aaron Judge, Chad Kuhl, Steven Kwan, Pablo Lopez, Alek Manoah, Jeff McNeil, Tylor Megill, Sean Murphy, Joe Musgrove, Shohei Ohtani (AS HITTER), Marcell Ozuna, Jose Ramirez, Anthony Rizzo, Josh Rogers, Joe Ryan, Luis Severino, Kyle Tucker, Julio Urias, Framber Valdez, Justin Verlander, Michael Wacha, Adam Wainwright, Kyle Wright, Brandon Woodruff,

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Sandy Alcantara, Andrew Benintendi, Michael Brantley, Matt Brash, Miguel Cabrera, Gerrit Cole, Patrick Corbin, Rafael Devers, Wander Franco, Zac Gallen, Mitch Garver, Kevin Gausman, Lucas Giolito, Tyler Gilbert, MacKenzie Gore, Mitch Haniger, Bryce Harper, Daniel Hudson, Merrill Kelly, Yusei Kikuchi, Michael Kopech, Brandon Lowe, Jesus Luzardo, Shane McClanahan, Ryan McMahon, Jordan Montgomery, Tyler Naquin, Aaron Nola, Matt Olson, David Peralta, David Peterson, Tommy Pham, Zach Plesac, J. T. Realmuto, Austin Riley, Jesus Sanchez, Reiver Sanmartin, Kyle Schwarber, Juan Soto, Myles Straw, Jose Suarez, Dansby Swanson, Jameson Taillon, Spencer Torkelson, Mike Trout, Daulton Varsho, Christian Vazquez, Alex Verdugo, Austin Voth, Mike Yastrzemski

Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – September 4, 2014

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Does ANY team want to win the second NL Wild Card spot?

The Brewers, Pirates and Braves aren’t acting like teams that want to.

Plus Daniel Hudson and Erik Cordier give us the feel good moments of the week.

It is a glass half full and glass half empty episode of The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.

 

Danny Salazar, Brian McCann, Josh Collmenter, Adam LaRoche, Jon Lester, Dayan Viciedo, Tom Koehler and Carl Crawford all added to their totals for Who Owns Baseball?

The Diamondbacks have a very unique rotation

No trade chip has more value than a young talented starting pitcher.
Pitching wins games, most teams could use at least one talented starter.

Have that pitcher be young and under financial control and you have yourself a great pick up.

Well, maybe it is because they play in the desert, but not a lot of people are giving the Diamondbacks credit for some quality trades that have given them a very good rotation… the likes of which I have never seen before.

Turn the clocks to the end of the 2009 season.
Ian Kennedy was a talented if enigmatic pitcher for the Yankees and supposedly one of the pitchers of their future.
Joe Saunders was coming off 17 and 16 win seasons and was a young All Star for the Angels.
Daniel Hudson had just gone 14-5 in the minors at age 22 and was one of the White Sox’s best pitching prospects.
Trevor Cahill was one of the top 15 prospects in all of baseball and at age 21 had spent an entire season in Oakland.

Fast forward to 2011, and all 4 are members of the Diamondbacks who are the defending NL West Champs and have a manageable payroll and a young rotation poached from other teams.

Yeah they traded some talented players to get these pitchers (Danny Haren, Edwin Jackson, Max Scherzer) but look at all the times people have traded good players and got Gotch in return. (I’m looking at YOU Minnesota after dealing Johan Santana. I’m looking at YOU Oakland after dealing Tim Hudson!)

The trades have settled and they have a terrific rotation to take on the Giants and defend their title.

I can’t remember a playoff caliber rotation that is almost exclusively the result of shrewd trades to bring in young talent. Usually there are a few free agents or home grown players thrown in. Sure the Red Sox in 2004 had 5 starters in the rotation brought in from other teams. But Pedro and Schilling were established stars when they arrived in Boston.

I can’t think of one off hand. Hats off to the Diamondbacks front office.

So Diamondback fans… SHOW UP! You have a great and unique product.

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