Miggy 500, Postseason Restructure, Ohtani First to 40, and NL Cy Young Race Tightens
Miguel Cabrera knocked his 500th home run over the fence, which puts his career into an even more legendary stature. Also this week, Shohei Ohtani won the race to 40 homers, a few NL pitchers stumbled off the Cy Young mountaintop, and a tight race to the
2 Tools Baseball Podcast · Alex Jonietz and Travis Miller
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Show Notes
Alex and Travis open by covering two big milestones that were reached this week: Shohei Ohtani hitting 40 homers before anyone else on baseball and Miguel Cabrera joining the elusive 500 career home run club. They dive into what this means for Ohtani's season and for Miggy's career, plus they see who are next in line to reach the 500 homer and 3000 hit clubs. In the wake of the Reds surpassing the Padres in the Wild Card race, Alex and Travis bring up some ideas they have to make sure that the best teams and players in MLB get their shot to play in October. They finish up by analyzing the slimming NL Cy Young race and the Yankees lineup dilemma as prepare to enter the last month of the baseball season.