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On Pace for 90 Wins

Did you know we're on pace for 90 wins? We are! Even though, sadly, we won't have the NL West to kick around forever.

What else happens when you divide 162 by 65 and then apply it to the team's various stats?

* Kendry Morales hits 50 doubles and 25 home runs, easily setting a team record for extra-base hits by a first baseman. Didn't see that coming (and, alas, probably won't).
* Matt Palmer goes 15-0. Vegas will be taking your bets.
* Chone Figgins racks up 205 hits, and scores 122 runs.
* Jered Weaver and Joe Saunders each pitch 220+ innings. No one else on staff tops 142. This, thankfully, will probably change.
* Torii Hunter sets career highs in runs (117, beating previous high of 94), hits (177, over 172), homers (40/31), RBIs (127/107), walks (70/50), stolen bases (27/23), Batting Average (.321/.289), On-base Percentage (.399/.344), Slugging Percentage (.611/.524), OPS (1.010/.859) and OPS+ (158/124). He probably will nab some of those career highs, but there's no reason to expect a man to stay *this* hot.
* The team steals 170 bases, most since the literally insane season of 1975.
* Juan Rivera essentially reproduces his monster (and many say flukey) 2006, going .316/.355/.516 with 25 homers and 90 ribbies, as compared to his 2006 line of .310/.362/.525 with 23 HRs and 85 RBIs.
* The team commits the fewest errors (85) in franchise history, not counting the strike-shortened 1994 campaign. (TOTALLY did not see that one coming.)
* For the first time since the offensive spike year of 2000, and only the ninth time in franchise history, we have four players with 20+ home runs -- Hunter, Morales, Rivera and Napoli (22). Unfortunately, the rest of the team, unfortunately, combines to hit just 37.

That's my goofball list, anyway.

Poll
Which of these is most likely to happen?
Torii sets career highs in everything
21 votes
Figgy gets 200 hits
14 votes
Palmer wins 15 games
6 votes
Juancho parties like it's 2006
61 votes
Kendry sets franchise record for XBHs by a 1Bman
14 votes
Team sets mark for fewest errors
1 votes
mattwelch wastes another deadline Saturday morning goofing off on Baseball Reference
22 votes

139 votes | Poll has closed

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What I loved from Johnny Rivers yesterday tonight was this:

He fouled off several 0-2 pitches that were too close to take, but not great pitches to hit. He hit foul balls to right field a few times, then rolled an insde pitch to Ebel. The next pitch the ball went. Far.

RIP Nick Adenhart 4/9/09

by vlad IS my man on Jun 20, 2009 10:31 AM PDT reply actions  

I’m a big fan of him too… It was too bad he got the shaft from many who were not sure if signing him would be a great idea..The guy came off a broken leg, now looks to be fully healed,and has been helping Hunter carry the offense for many parts of the year.. The guy smokes the baseball and crushes mistakes..He might not steal many bases but when yer knocking the ball like he is what is there to complain about ?
Loving Hunter more every day ! What a hard nosed player…

by raven191 on Jun 21, 2009 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions  

I wanted to vote for Juancho AND MW goofing off...

…but I settled for Juancho. Again, I don’t know if it’s consistent playing time or the NL West, but Juan is looking like the best deal of the off-season.

Also, the team may have turned really turned a corner from the s**t-storm of the first 2 months. Rallying to beat Lincecum, and then rallying against Billingsley in their very next game gives me confidence in the offense for the first time this season.

Now, let’s go WTY, and let’s roll!!

by sothball on Jun 20, 2009 11:12 AM PDT reply actions  

woot!

Its a long way to the top, if you wanna rock n roll.

Sean The Baptist shall lead the way

by HaloDutch on Jun 20, 2009 11:14 AM PDT reply actions  

i now know

what song will be stuck in my head for the rest of the weekend.

by Rev Halofan on Jun 20, 2009 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions  

especially when the voice I hear singing it s Jack Black

This season just seems jinxed. If it can go wrong, it does

by Moondoggy on Jun 20, 2009 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions  

We're on a 7 game win streak

I see what you’re trying to do, but we’re on a seven game win streak, so its you’re basically cherry picking the date. What did the projections look like after the June 11th game?

by HungryHunter on Jun 20, 2009 6:38 PM PDT reply actions  

Oh dear god

Look, if Game 54 would have landed on a deadline Saturday morning, I would have done the same damned exercise, on account of It’s Fun. You, apparently, don’t see jack **** about what I’m “trying to do.”

by mattwelch on Jun 20, 2009 7:10 PM PDT up reply actions  

Well, I didn't realize

that you were trying to have “Fun” with a capital F. However, it is Meaningless with a capital M.

by HungryHunter on Jun 20, 2009 8:07 PM PDT up reply actions  

Everything we do on this site is meaningless.

If you haven’t figured that out yet, I don’t know what to say to you. Except maybe “not very fast on the uptake, huh?”

~Till the Halo burns out...

by Zu Long on Jun 20, 2009 8:18 PM PDT up reply actions  

A Matt Welch post here

is like a Peter Egan feature in Road and Track, or a P. J. O’Rourke feature in any magazine: when you see it listed, you immediately go to it before anything else, because you know that whatever the content it will be a fun read.

by rspencer on Jun 20, 2009 9:09 PM PDT up reply actions  

Let's count up the Tells with a capital T
  • “sadly, we won’t have the NL West to kick around forever.”
  • “Didn’t see that coming (and, alas, probably won’t).”
  • “Vegas will be taking your bets.”
  • “there’s no reason to expect a man to stay this hot.”
  • “That’s my goofball list, anyway.”

WTF do you want, a flashing siren?

by mattwelch on Jun 21, 2009 8:01 AM PDT up reply actions  

I'd say SB's...

but they’re not on the poll

34 - N.J.A - R.I.P

by Figgi4life on Jun 20, 2009 10:03 PM PDT reply actions  

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