2K24: Oakland Athletics

[Pauly]

Passan reporting that Laureano has been suspended 80 games for PEDs. See ya next year.

[Bene Futuis]

Hot take: If AJ Puk was ever healthy for five consecutive minutes, he'd be the most dominant left hander in the AL. His stuff is unbelievable and looks an awful lot like the Big Unit's.

[madducks]

Starling Marte has 24 stolen bases in his last 38 games.

[rhd]

Starling Marte has 24 stolen bases in his last 38 games.

He missed over a month and he still is tied w Merrifield for the MLB in SBs w 36. He's on pace for 47 SBs, which would tie his career high. Even w his HRs down a bit this year, I'm loving his roto production.

[madducks]

He missed over a month and he still is tied w Merrifield for the MLB in SBs w 36. He's on pace for 47 SBs, which would tie his career high. Even w his HRs down a bit this year, I'm loving his roto production.

And Marte has been batting second for most of the year. So, he has probably missed a lot of first inning opportunities when the leadoff batter was on base ahead of him.

[madducks]

Starling Marte has 24 stolen bases in his last 38 games.

Two more steals today plus one yesterday gives Marte 27 stolen bases in his last 40 games. He has almost as many with the A's (18 in 22 games) as he did in almost three times as many games with the Marlins (22 in 64 games)

[rhd]

Two more steals today plus one yesterday gives Marte 27 stolen bases in his last 40 games. He has almost as many with the A's (18 in 22 games) as he did in almost three times as many games with the Marlins (22 in 64 games)

He's almost single-handedly wrapping up 1st place in SBs for me. I have a pretty good SB team anyway w Tatis, Ohtani, Baez and Hamilton but he's removing all doubt. Plus, he's hitting well over .300!

[madducks]

Starling Marte on Saturday became the first player in MLB history to record 20 stolen bases in both the American and National Leagues in the same season.

[virgonomic]

Starling Marte on Saturday became the first player in MLB history to record 20 stolen bases in both the American and National Leagues in the same season.

That's amazing!

[revo]

That's amazing!

It's even more amazing when you consider Marte has played only 27 games for the A's!

[fuhrdog]

https://twitter.com/AlexFast8/status...161503243?s=20

Marte has more stolen bases since the all star break than 23 teams. Don't know how to embed tweets here.

[rhd]

Beyond the SBs, do you realize that Marte would be leading the AL in hitting at this moment (.318) if he qualified? And coming into tonite's game, he was w/i 5 PAs of qualifying.

[revo]

Beyond the SBs, do you realize that Marte would be leading the AL in hitting at this moment (.318) if he qualified? And coming into tonite's game, he was w/i 5 PAs of qualifying.

It seems kind of silly, what with interleague play, that a player no longer qualifies for a league statistical title because he was traded away. They should change the rule to qualifying based on which league the player has the most ABs.

[rhd]

Disastrous loss for the A's tonite. Leading 8-2 going to the bottom of the 8th, former closer Lou Trivino gives up 6 runs, including a game-tying GS by Lourdes Gurriel. A's then retake the lead 10-8 in the 9th only to have newly-anointed closer Sergio Romo give up a game-winning 3-run HR to Marcus Semien w/o retiring a batter. The loss coupled w the RedSox' win puts them 3 games out for the 2nd wild card.

[madducks]

Disastrous loss for the A's tonite. Leading 8-2 going to the bottom of the 8th, former closer Lou Trivino gives up 6 runs, including a game-tying GS by Lourdes Gurriel. A's then retake the lead 10-8 in the 9th only to have newly-anointed closer Sergio Romo give up a game-winning 3-run HR to Marcus Semien w/o retiring a batter. The loss coupled w the RedSox' win puts them 3 games out for the 2nd wild card.

And Starling Marte got hit in the head with a pitch. He ran the bases for himself, but was pulled for a defensive replacement the next inning. So, Marte could end up missing a few games.