2021-08-21: Nationals (Espino) at Brewers (Lauer) [Brewers win, 9-6 -- Yelich blasts two home runs including grand slam for a 6 RBI day]

[jason21nl]

Got the win. That’s all that matters! Up and down game but this might get the offense going!

[Nola Beery]

[Nola Beery]

Don't forget Kolten in this game. Totally excellent baseball play.

[PinaMadness]

What a day! Went to the Packers game and got to sit in my company's suite. Well, not my company but my employer's. Had the game on the tv and the bottom 8/ top 9th I listened to the entire ride home. Can't believe those two half innings took almost an hour. It was a good day indeed.

[sveumrules]

If is impossible to quantify how bad JBJ has been and that's before you find out he has made 12 million dollars for this trash season. Worst contract in the sport given the pay.

 

It's not impossible at all.

 

Entering the game he had 359 PAs with a 46 OPS+. That is worth -24 runs.

 

BRef valued his base running & double play avoidance at +3 runs, his fielding at +9 runs, gave him a +1 positional adjustment for playing mostly CF and 12 more runs for playing time equaling an even 0.0 WAR.

 

JBJ has been bad for sure, but his contract is far from the worst in the sport.

 

Strasburg is getting 35 million to be hurt, Verlander is getting 33 million to be hurt, Cabrera (30 million), Rendon (27.5 million), Corbin (24 million), Carpenter (18.5 million) & Bellinger (16 million) have been negative WAR. From what I can tell Bauer (28 million) & Ozuna (16 million) are still getting paid more than JBJ while their legal situations play out.

[KeithStone53151]

You didn't even count pujols get paid to eat donuts and get fat the last 5 years, while being bad

[KeithStone53151]

JBJ definitely has a place on the postseason roster. That ball that yelich should have caught but didn't today, that's routine for JBJ. He'll be a late game defensive replacement in games we are ahead. Probably for yelich. We'll go from a below average defender in LF to literally the best possible defender in LF with a lead in a key playoff game. Certainly value there