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Jake is doing a halfway decent Freddie Freeman impression. It's Freeman at age 36 but not bad. Edit: Ha! All I had to do was scroll up, this must have been where I got the idea to compare him to Freeman in the first place.

I can't believe there are people that would have this as a serious take. The at bat is meaningless, the Cardinals knew it and so did the Brewers. It's already a clown show. What if the Brewers sent their guys up to the plate and just told them not to swing at all? You don't have to swing the bat in baseball. The guy that tweeted this was either fishing for engagement (and he won the jackpot on that) or he is a gambler that overinflates every single opportunity for a chance to have a dopamine rush for one one-millionth of a second. And when a gambler loses it's never their fault, it's the player's fault.

Chourio should have just turned his helmet around like Larry Walker did in the ASG vs Randy Johnson. Edit: it was John Kruk, dunno what my old brain was thinking. Edit #2: I was right the first time. I quit.

Chourio batting left handed was cool.

Cardinals figured out where to line up on defense, booo

Take shelter, baseball sized hail has been sighted!

A Brewers inning alert is in effect!

Big bad Gary lol!

Gary has a chance to win over some fans here.

Beautiful to watch LL run!

2,261-2,261-1 record since joining the NL. Of course there's a tie in there. Every bit of great historical data has to have some minutia baked in. Tie game due to a rainout in Cincinnati on opening day, April 3, 2000.

ESPN published an article recently by Bradford Doolittle that, among other things, touched on the differences between both bWAR and fWAR and I thought it really clarified for me why the two exist and why they both matter. It's worth a read. But this snippet is part of what made me think of it. TLDR: FanGraphs is trying more to evaluate a player's projectable skill level while BRef is more results based or what already happened. Both have their perspectives and by contrasting them you can kind of come up with a number in the middle that is fairly accurate (if that's what you're interested in doing).

After the first at bat of the game he becomes the 9 hitter. Feel better?

It sure didn't stop them though, they've entered full temper tantrum.

Go away Nolan.