I know you are all really interested in my Fantasy Baseball team. While I had the 4th worst record of 14 teams, I actually finished higher, 9th, after the playoffs due to player other teams whose owners had checked out weeks ago. I do not enjoy Fantasy Baseball as much as I used to and so dropped out of the ESPN league and deleted my account.
The regular season is over, too. I miss the days of a 163rd game. We could have had one between the Blue Jays and the Yankees. Maybe we should have, since they finished with the same record. I suppose there could have been additional games between Detroit and Houston and the Mets and Reds since they both had identical records for the last Wild Card Spot. But maybe game 163 isn't a thing nowadays.
It was a meaningful Sunday in baseball with the AL East, AL Central, and NL Wild Card unsettled through Saturdays games. And with Houston being knocked out, followed by the Mets, it feels like it is a slightly more special time of year. Don't have to look at the Astros; don't have to look at those ugly Mets faces.
But with the close of the regular season, let's look at what will be undoubtedly the wrong choices for the awards season in November.
AL MVP: Cal Raleigh
AL ROY: Uh, crickets. Did anyone stand out?
AL MOY: Either John Schneider or Dan Wilson
AL Cy Young: Skubal, I guess? I can't think of any other AL pitcher by name who done good.
NL MVP: Kyle Schwarber (I realize Ohtani will win)
NL ROY: Ditto AL
NL MOY: Pat Murphy (I won't complain if it's Terry Francona)
NL Cy Young: Paul Skenes
In all seriousness about the AL and NL rookies of the year, I had to go to the Internet and see who the top candidates were to see if I recognized any of the names. Seems like Kurtz is the only real choice in the AL. As for the NL, I'll go with Drake Baldwin because I'm generally more impressed by position players than I am pitchers. There are likely too many awards as it is, but I do not think I would be opposed to a batter and a pitcher ROY awards. This feels akin to giving a participation trophy or medal to everyone, but batters and pitchers are so different it almost feels wrong to compare them for a single award. Hell, it seems to me it is why they invented the Cy Young Award in the first place.
Is there still a reliever of the year? I guess so. It won't be Clase this year! I'll go Estevez from KC in the AL; and in the NL, I'll choose Pagan of Cincinnati.
Enough of my terrible takes and opinions. And, speaking of Cincinnati... Let's see a card. I got this one recently in a TCDB trade. I was trying hard to get rid of some and found a trading partner with a card not on my want list (which is modestly small and focused on just a few players) that I wouldn't/didn't mind trying to get. It's 1978 Topps Joe Morgan! He'll go in my Vintage collection (pre-1980, though I do consider vintage to be a generation, so approximately twenty-five years, or 2000).
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