Wednesday's WNBA Trends and Indexes - 7/14

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Trends and Indexes

Wednesday, July 14

Good Luck on day #195 of 2021!

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Armadillo: Wednesday's six-pack

Major league leaders in runs scored:
72— Ronald Acuna
71— Bo Bichette
68— Vladimir Guerrero
67— Marcus Semien, Fernando Tatis
65— Jose Altuve, Shohei Ohtani
63— Jake Cronenworth, Chris Taylor

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Armadillo: Wednesday's Den: Mid-week musings……..

13) Los Angeles Angels have a good lineup: Trout, Ohtani, Rendon, Walsh, Fletcher, but their pitching sucks. Looks like they finally figured that out themselves.

20 draft picks this week, 20 pitchers, 19 of them college pitchers. Help is on the way.

12) Sounds like 7-inning doubleheaders and starting extra innings with a guy on second base are out the window after this season- common sense may be gaining ground at MLB headquarters.

Commissioner Rob Manfred also seemed that he was in favor of banning shifts, which will create more base hits and less swinging for the fences. Hopefully that will happen.

11) MLB starts the “second half” of the season with one game, Boston @ New York on ESPN; those same teams are on ESPN Sunday night.

Someone needs to tell MLB that these are also big markets:
— Houston, 4th-biggest city. Astros are pretty good.
— Philadelphia, 6th-biggest city. Phillies are NL East contenders.
— San Diego, 8th-biggest city. Padres are a good team, a fun team.

Promote your sport MLB, the whole sport, not just New York/Boston.

10) Washington Nationals drafted Dusty Baker’s son Darren in the 10th round; would be less awkward if Washington hadn’t fired Baker four years ago, after he led the Nationals to 95-67/97-65 records in his two years as Washington’s manager.

Darren Baker is a 22-year old 2B who played four years in college at Cal.

9) Arizona Cardinals were 8-8 last year; they were favored in 12 of their 16 games. No bueno.

8) NFL teams scored touchdowns on 62% of red zone drives LY, the best %age in the last 20 years. Do you think not having fans in the stands helped offenses score more points?

7) Five sets of fathers/sons have both started an All-Star Game:
— Ray/Bob Boone
— Bob/Bret Boone
— Bobby/Barry Bonds
— Cecil/Prince Fielder
— Vladimir Guerrero Sr/Vladimir Guerrero Jr

6) For me, best part of the All-Star Game is the player introductions; you see guys getting introduced as All-Stars for the first time ever and they all look like really excited kids, even though they’re adults who will soon be really, really rich.

5) Imagine how cool it must’ve been for Trey Mancini to be whacking ball out of Coors Field Monday night? This time last year, he was getting chemo treatments, battling cancer, now he is back on the ballfields, and playing well too. Has to be a really great week for him and his family.

4) Three guys have won back/back Home Run Derbies:
— Pete Alonso 2019/2021
— Yoenis Cespedes 2013-14
— Ken Griffey Jr 1998-99

Alonso made more $$$ from winning the two Home Run Derbies than he did playing for the Mets in those two seasons.

3) Three guys have won the Home Run Derby on their home field:
1990— Ryne Sandberg, Cubs
2015— Todd Frazier, Reds
2018— Bryce Harper, Nationals

2) It is good to have a famous dad; two of the kids shagging balls at Home Run Derby Monday were Drew Brees’ sons.

1) This is from writer Rod Beard: Detroit Pistons coach Dwane Casey said in their interviews with draft prospects they ask guys whether they make their beds in the morning. He said it can indicate whether they set the tone for their day and how organized they are.

This also may help explain why Detroit has had one winning season since 2008.

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