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June 25, 2015Final weekend to catch the WRHS 1964 Browns exhibit
June 25, 2015Already named the AL Player of the Month for May, Jason Kipnis has kept up the torrid pace at the plate to accompany excellent defense in the field to garner more prestigious consideration than mere player of the month awards.
On Thursday, Sport Illustrated‘s Cliff Corcoran updated his AL MVP Award’s Watch to list Jason Kipnis ahead of all other American League stand-outs such as Miguel Cabrera, Mike Trout, Jason Donaldson, and Manny Machado. He gives Jason Kipnis his top ranking despite the Cleveland Indians’ current losing record of 33-38.
1. Jason Kipnis, 2B, Indians (3)
Season Stats: .354/.431/.521, 5 HR, 31 RBIs, 10 SB
Last Three Weeks: .424/.519/.545, 0 HR, 6 RBIs, 4 SBKipnis has avoided making an out in exactly half of his last 230 plate appearances (not counting the one time he reached on an error in that span) and has hit .415/.500/.627 since the calendar flipped to May. In June, he has failed to reach base just once in 20 games and will carry a 19-game hitting streak into Cleveland’s weekend series in Baltimore. Kipnis doesn’t have the best raw batting line in the league, but when you factor in the standard for offense at his position and his outstanding play in the field, he rises to the top.
In 29 games in May, Kipnis batted .429 with four home runs, 17 RBI, 15 doubles, three triples, and 30 runs scored. He led all MLB hitters in batting average, on-base percentage (.511), doubles, and runs during May, while leading the AL in slugging percentage (.706) and extra-base hits (22), and triples.
To follow that scorching month, in the 20 games thus far in June Jason Kipnis has maintained a slash line of .392/.483/.500 with eight doubles, six RBI, and 12 runs scored, while stealing five bases on six attempts.
As a result, Jason Kipnis now leads the American League for the 2015 season in WAR (4.8), batting average (.354), hits (99), doubles (24), and runs created (67) while trailing only the evil but occasionally generous Miguel Cabrera in on-base percentage (.431). Kipnis extended his hitting streak to 19 games in the Indians’ 8-2 victory on Wednesday afternoon.
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Quietly having an extra-ordinary bounce back season. To bad nobody else in the lineup is helping him.
Indians should really have some sort of voting campaign for him for the All-Star game. PR department fell asleep on this one.
Everyone knows you can only win the MVP if you helped your team make the playoffs
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD JUST DON’T PUT HIM ON THE COVER!
And don’t forget 1 game can count as the playoffs too!
you enjoy March Madness? the NFL playoffs? do the teams that lose in their first game not count as making it?
gotta play by the rules set in place by the league.
Wait until MLB adds a third wild card then nobody will be out of the race not even the Indians!
16/30 teams make NBA playoffs
12/32 teams make NFL playoffs
10/30 teams make MLB playoffs
Two wrongs don’t make a write NBA is just greedy. NFL is sudden death not a series so they are the exception IMO.
Wild Card round of MLB is “sudden death” too (single elimination).
Whole NFL playoffs are sudden death!
Yes. And, MLB has always had the possibility of a single elimination game before the series playoffs. They just formalized it to make it happen every year.
Embrace uniqueness and embrace change. It has been a fun addition.
To long a season these changes have only made it longer!
I do not comprehend how more baseball can be considered a bad thing.
BECAUSE U LIKE BASEBALL! It’s to long a season, to slow a game, period.
says the guy who follows 2 MLB teams 🙂
Just because I think the MLB season is to long means I can’t follow it? If it wasn’t for fantasy sports I wouldn’t pay as much attention to almost every sport.
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