MLB players and teams poised to make history, from Yordan Alvarez to the Brewers

Dust off those history books. Yordan Alvarez can see them from here. Then again, so can Vladimir Guerrero Jr., except that he wants no part of the history he looks like he’s about to make.We have less than six weeks to go in this MLB season — and counting. So what better time for that annual tradition we like to call … the August History Watch.Who is closing in on a rendezvous with baseball history? Let’s fill you in.Air Yordan and the Decuple Crown watchThe heck with the Triple Crown. If the most fearsome masher in Houston, Yordan Alvarez, keeps on squashing baseballs at this rate, he’s going to win the Decuple Crown.So what in the world is that? It might sound more complicated than xWOBA, but it’s actually not. It’s simple. When this week began, this dude was leading the American League in 10 major categories…Average

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