Bunt Singles Sept 20: Out with a whimper
posted in 2007 season, bunt singles |The schedule makers last fall let the computers do the heavy lifting, but all eyes turned to the final series of the year. Chicago vs. Detroit. Two 90-plus win teams in 2006 duking it out for the division title. And now, we’re a week from the start of that series, and what do we see? The White Sox will not finish north of the .500 line. The Tigers will be grasping for the 90-win mark but most likely fall short. The result of the games have no meanings except to the history books.
Individual players still have reasons to keep going. Magglio Ordonez can bring home the batting title to Detroit for the first time in forever. (Although Ichiro caught him). Curtis Granderson has nothing in particular to shoot for, including hope at leading baseball in extra-base hits, but he can keep adding to his already historical 20-20-20-20 season. Every game Placido Polanco plays without an error adds to his major league second baseman’s record errorless streak. It all rings hollow, but at least it’s something.
- Different eulogies are up around the Tigers blogosphere. Bilfer. Samara. Ian (and so uniquely Ian!)
- Curtis Granderson was in Sports Illustrated this week. I read about half of the article to start. It’s a good read. It’s the issue with USC on the cover. Definitely pick it up. He’s also up for vote in SI’s Best Dressed poll. (That don’t look like Walmart to me!)
- Oh, and he’ll be on Jim Rome’s ESPN show at 4:30 p.m. eastern today.
- There’s some hubbub about whether Carlos Guillen will play first or short next year. Jon Paul Morosi and Danny Knobler didn’t exactly draw similar inferences from Guillen’s quotes. I’m not sure myself what to make of them. I’ll opine on the future at the position during the offseason, however.
- Speaking of schedules, the Freep has a glance at 08.
- Off the top of my head, I’ll say CC Sabathia should be Cy Young this year, although I still like Johan Santana’s numbers better.
