MLB the ninth: a reverence to Ichiro and where is Carlos Correa?
After the pause for the star game, we return with the reality of Carlos Correa, the exaltation of Ichiro, the home runs of Nick Kurtz and more.
1. Does anyone know where Carlos Correa is?
Does that viral question sound to you, articulated in English with a very strong Arab accent, which went around the world after the disastrous debut of Argentina In the 2022 World Cup against Saudi Arabia? Where is Messi?, Ironically released a Saudi fan before the camera of a Korean reporter after the Argentine stumbling 1-2. Well, now tries to extrapolate that questioning of Major Leagues Baseball Let’s see if we meet the Puerto Rican by chance Carlos Correaa player who in the recent past seemed to be one of the Sport faces on the island of charm and the very MLB, but that has gone out little by little. Of being the first player of that nationality in being No.1 of the 2012 draft, winning the prize Rookie of the year (2015)conquer the World Series with the Houston Astros (2017), go to three games of stars (2017, 2021 and 2024), seize a Platinum glove (2021) and be a phenomenon in postseason, became one of many. As a consequence, he stopped leading covers, being invited as a jury in television shows and being on everyone’s lips.
2. Not everything that happens
No one can question Correa his desire to get a mega contract during his free agency, but Houston’s departure was the beginning of his apparent fading. He won two great contracts, first with San Francisco Giants and then with the New York Mets, but both teams got the agreement arguing concerns for the player’s health. The Minnesota Twins gave him a consolation prize, three years for $ 105.3 million and the following year they extended for six seasons and $ 200 million. His first year with the team responded by playing his usual star level. Its offensive line showed: .291 AVE/ .366 OBP/ .467 SLU/ .834 PAHO, 22 home runs, 64 driven and a WAR of 5.3. From there, it all began to crumble. He lowered his standard in 2023 a .230/ .312/ .399/ .711, with 18 home runs, 65 trailers and 1.3 War. He resurfaced the next campaign, but plantar fasciitis prevented him from finishing a first part that led him to the game of stars. However, in 2025, he returned to the average player status with .266/ .319/ .392/ .711, with seven windows, 31 pushed and 0.1 War. The constant injuries, the stay in a small market team and a single participation in postseason, where they used to unleash the stars, have also influenced their loss of integers. If you want to see the glass half full, you can argue that there are many MLB players who look at Correa’s back. But if we see it half a vacuum, we noticed that there was a time when the 30 -year -old Boricua was one of the great stars of the game and not seeing it among that super elite generates concern.
3. Kurtz and a dream night
Nick Kurtz, the Athletics rookie, starred in the night of his career on Friday, July 25. He hit 6-6, with 4 homers, a double and 8 ranges. With just 22 years, reckless outlines such a statement, but the probabilities that overcome it are very low. What he did before the Houston Astros Enter an exclusive group of the best individual performances in the history of the game. The group of AM850 Research It facilitated some data that illustrate the magnitude of what was done by the spiky spiky of 6’4 “(1.93 meters). Only four windows have been connected in 20 games in the history of MLB, the second time this season (Eugenio Suárez on April 26 vs. Atlanta Braves). Kurtz is the first rookie and Athletics player to achieve it, he barely needed 66 games to do it, much less than 66. 425 required by Mark Whitenthe baseball player who had played fewer games before sustaining a 4 -hr match. With 22 years and 135 days, he is the youngest player with a 4 -hr game; The previous one was Pat Seerey in 1948 (25-123). Its 19 total bases tied those of Shawn Green (May 23, 2002) as the largest amount of total bases in a single game in the history of MLB. He also joined Green himself as the only player in the history of Major Leagues with 6 hits in a 4 homer game. “It’s hard to imagine that this day is real, you still feel like a dream,” Kurtz said in a television interview after the game. “So it’s quite extraordinary. I was speechless. I really don’t know what to say.” And to close, Kurtz left this clash with -2500 chances of winning the rookie prize of the year, the curious thing about this fact is that before that game, its possibilities, according to AM850 BET SPORTSBOOKThey were -325.
4. The Yankees also buy in Temu
Yankees fans are not happy. I clarify, I have not discovered warm water, it was seen to come after the arrival of the antelist Ryan McMahon in a exchange with the Colorado Rockies. Bronx Mulos’s fans wanted the triad Hal Steinbrenner (owner), Brian Cashman (General Manager) and Aaron Boone (Manager) It will land at the Bronx to the third base of the Arizona Diamondbacks, Eugenio Suárez, the most important name in the market, which closes on July 31 at 6 pm et. For something are the Yankees, the once ‘Empire of Evil’. For his misfortune it was not so. We do not know if the D-backs asked for a lot of talent of the farms or simply the Yankees did not want to bet on a rental player who at the end of the season will hit free agency. A rapid pass to the offensive lines of McMahon (.217 AVE/ .314 OBP/ .403/ .717 OPS, with 16 hr, 35 trailers and 1.3 War) and Suárez (.249/ .321/ .587/ .908, with 36 hr, 87 drive to the mall.
5. The bad news for the Yankees
The Toronto Blue Jays are packed towards the flag of the East Division of the American League. With 17-4 they have the best record in all the largest in July. After the stars game they have a balance of 8-1. In addition, they are leaders in collective batting (.262), victories (63) and unstoppable (926). To have a north, the Yankees play in July for 8-12 (3-5, after the pause for the ASG) and the 168 homers (leaders in MLB) have barely reached him to lead the porphyia for one of the three cupcase posts in the young circuit.
6. Ichiro, to Cooperstown’s Hall of Fame
This Sunday the Pueblito de Cooperstown in New York, famous for housing the most important sports hall of sports in the United States, will live something unpublished during the exaltation of class 2025: Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner, Dick Allen and Dave Parker. For the first time a Japanese player will have a space in the niche of the immortals and those who have shared journalistic coverage with Japanese colleagues, we know that they arrive in mass to cover their stars. This, without a doubt, will not be the exception. According to reports, more than 60 journalists from about 20 media of that nation will be at the ceremony where the player’s trajectory that could be the second in history to enter Cooperstown (393 of 394 votes) will be recognized, after Mariano Rivera In 2019, but as happened to Derek Jeter In 2019 (396 of 397), some voter was believed above God and the devil, leaving them with the bitterness of not achieving 100 %. About this Ichiro once said: “The figure that really matters is 75%. Once inside, you are inside.” Is the record of 82 thousand people in the exaltation ceremony of Tony Gwyn and Cal Ripken Jr. In the 2007 class? I do not know, but it is very likely that the countrymen of Ichiro and those who are going to see the other exalted are not far from the approximate 55 thousand, 53 thousand and 50 thousand people who attended the respective ceremonies of 2019, 2018 and 2016. We will know Monday.
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8. Philly and Phoebe Phanatic and Coldplay Kiss Cam
It has been a week, but I disclose me, I could not ignore the superb PHILY PHANATIC performance and his girlfriend Phoebe Phanatic. They say that Philly is the most popular pet of professional sports in the United States, I cannot assure it, but I am clear that his occurrences mark trends. If for those coincidences of life, you have any questions, check this performance, derived from a recent viral event, which now all imitate in the stages of the Union.
9. Dark baseball
With my visual problems, I doubt that I can compete, but there is no doubt that this dark baseball looks a lot of fun. Would you take a risk?
What league is that? That’s great 😂 I want to go to a game
– Quille Azul (@quilleazul) July 17, 2025
