2019 Series #26 | Indians vs. Royals | June 24th, 25th, and 26th

[Stark]

If Kipnis and Jose rebound to 85% of their previous all-star caliber forms, this team is going to be dangerous.

 

[chuck0609]

If Kipnis and Jose rebound to 85% of their previous all-star caliber forms, this team is going to be dangerous.

Kipnis hasn’t played this well in years. Never thought he could go on a tear like this.

 

[Urban]

His .248 batting average is the highest it's been since 2016, ignoring the first 1-2 weeks of a season sample size

Multi hit games in 6 of his last 9

 

[Ohio]

Yeah, I’m in disbelief regarding what Kipnis is doing right now

His & Jose’s resurgence is making a huge difference right now

Lot of fun to watch

 

[Real Deal]

Kipnis had a .525 OPS and a -1.0 WAR last month, he's now at .692 OPS and a -0.1 WAR. Whatever change he made in his swing, it was a damn good one.

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

Kipnis has notoriously been a hitter who can get hot for a month at a time. Let's see if he can carry an elevated level of success throughout the rest of the season.

Jose's playing better--but he's gone from possibly the worst everyday player in baseball to just a generic replacement level player. He's definitely not back to form yet.

 

[Urban]

It is pretty remarkable that Jose is hitting .228 this month while only striking out in 6% of his plate appearances

 

[Cavsfan1985]

It is pretty remarkable that Jose is hitting .228 this month while only striking out in 6% of his plate appearances

What % of his outs are on fly balls vs grounders and line drives. He seems to be making better contact. Hope he starts to find his swing. This little stretch has kept us in the wild card race, and The Twins cooling off a chance we could go on a run when healthy and make the division a race come Aug. it sort of sucks this the first year all trades need to be make by July 31st.

 

[Arketebel]

What % of his outs are on fly balls vs grounders and line drives. He seems to be making better contact. Hope he starts to find his swing. This little stretch has kept us in the wild card race, and The Twins cooling off a chance we could go on a run when healthy and make the division a race come Aug. it sort of sucks this the first year all trades need to be make by July 31st.

2019:
31.4% Ground outs
50.3% Fly outs
18.3% Line outs

2018:
38.4% Ground outs
47.0% Fly outs
14.6% Line outs

2017:
45.8% Ground outs
38.7% Fly outs
15.5% Line outs

 

[bigfoot5415]

Kipnis has notoriously been a hitter who can get hot for a month at a time. Let's see if he can carry an elevated level of success throughout the rest of the season.

Jose's playing better--but he's gone from possibly the worst everyday player in baseball to just a generic replacement level player. He's definitely not back to form yet.

Shit. I would just take September & October. Worry about everyone else getting us there.

 

[Cavsfan1985]

2019:
31.4% Ground outs
50.3% Fly outs
18.3% Line outs

2018:
38.4% Ground outs
47.0% Fly outs
14.6% Line outs

2017:
45.8% Ground outs
38.7% Fly outs
15.5% Line outs

This is the bad part. I am hoping this trend is getting better. It is almost like he started to try and swing for the fences / power more.

 

[Real Deal]

7.5 back, for what it's worth i think we are the best wild card team if the offense keeps up, Tampa Bay still has to prove they can keep up the consistency, they are #1 in team ERA, maybe a dropoff is coming. Boston needs pitching, Texas is going to go away, they're 22nd in team ERA.

It's also pretty realistic to Austin Carr us to 5 games back before the ASB. Then we open up with a huge home series vs Twins to get it down to 2 games.

Y'all assholes still calling me AC?

 

[cliffdawg]

It seen like Lindor has been pressing the last couple weeks, I wonder if he trying to hard to impress the decision makers for the allstar team, You know he wants to make it for the home town......

 

[BMAN]

7.5 back, for what it's worth i think we are the best wild card team if the offense keeps up, Tampa Bay still has to prove they can keep up the consistency, they are #1 in team ERA, maybe a dropoff is coming. Boston needs pitching, Texas is going to go away, they're 22nd in team ERA.

It's also pretty realistic to Austin Carr us to 5 games back before the ASB. Then we open up with a huge home series vs Twins to get it down to 2 games.

Y'all assholes still calling me AC?

Yeah.

 

[DJTJ]

Oscar Mercado is really good.