Who loves irony? Did you just answer your mom? I said irony, not ironing. As the British will tell you, irony is not a well-pressed shirt. Though, now that I think about it, if I had a well-pressed shirt, and I said, "This thing is real irony," I wouldn't be wrong because I was saying it. Any hoo! The irony I speak of is Alex Gordon hitting the major leagues' record 5,694th home run on the year, while there was less offense around the league last night than I could remember in some time. Granted, from around September 11th to 14th is a bit of a blur. A true highlight (building shizz up now!) was Kevin Gausman and his dismantling of the Sawx (really overselling) with the line 8 IP, 0 ER, 4 baserunners, 7 Ks, ERA at 4.61. This year, like a case of lice, Gausman is a real head scratcher. Looking at his perfs (kids say this; think it's short for perfumes), Gausman is having a garbage year. Velocity is there, so doubt it's a hidden injury. The walks are way up, Ks are down, and the culprit appears to be his fastball. Went from a near-10 in pitch value on his speed ball to a negative. FS shouldn't abbreviate fastball, it should be for "F**k's sake." The good news is this sounds like a mechanics problem, and might've been fixed already. Thanks, Pep Boys! His 1st half vs. 2nd half: 5.85 ERA vs. 3.44; 7.7 K/9 vs. 9.6 K/9; 4 BB/9 vs. 3.2. Yeah, sadly enough, it's going to be hard to avoid him in 2018 again. Now, that's real irony (no, it's not). Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
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