2016 regular-season game chatter

Got the Sale and Arrieta games on the splitscreen

A's lookin p pisspoor, couldn't even get Jimmy Rollins out

Wieters' authoritative gwerbie single up the middle like a dispatch from the alternate history in which he developed into the star he was meant to be

Greinke, 7 earned runs in 4 innings.

And now Alice Cooper is in the booth. RIP.

grienke got LIT UP. 3 HRs

here's chatter:

34 and 32 degrees F for Yankee, Cleveland openers
28 tonight in Pittsburgh

yankees playing under protest because of some presumed out of the line baserunning

on Carrea?

(i'm trying to divine what was going on from a yahoo boxscore that seemed to be altering itself)

grienke got LIT UP. 3 HRs

ditto shelby miller

am i the only one pulling for a collapse of the Angels so they can pull the plug on Scioscia once and for all?

going to the Angels game on Saturday night, my location.

but yeah, they look like little league's tonight.

3 hr in 3 games for Cano.

will the san diego padres score this year y/n

3 hr in 3 games for Cano.

poor man's trevor story

welp now cano has four as well

jose fernandez has nine strikeouts through four (63 pitches)

Four of his earned runs knocked in by Saltalamacchia, who is being paid almost eight million by the Marlins this year.

First home loss for Fernandez.

padres now being outscored 22-0 this season

@MikePodhorzer
Fun with small sample sizes: Trevor Story has 4 hits, 4 home runs, and a .000 BABIP. [insert clever Story pun here].

red sox rainout in clevo has robbed us of an all-knuckleball confrontation between r.a. dickey and steven wright on saturday

@Ken_Rosenthal
Source confirms Loney to #Padres on minor-league deal, as reported by @JonHeyman. Likely to spend couple of weeks in minors.

dude is a couple months away from an mlb pension. god speed.

should also note the guy who drafted him (logan whitew) is high up in the padres org.

just heard the first HE GONE of the year

can't wait to have him gone, they already chose his replacement, one season left.

http://dealbreaker.com/uploads/2012/11/drudge-siren.gif THE SAN DIEGO PADRES HAVE SCORED http://dealbreaker.com/uploads/2012/11/drudge-siren.gif

six times, even

chris archer getting pummeled

Story, again.

It doesn't matter what he does for the rest of the season - he is hands down the greatest last-round fantasy flier I have ever taken.

trade him!!

Felix pitches 7 shutout innings with 10 Ks, no-decision. Currently at 0-1 w/0.69 ERA, M's appear to be returning to form.

What's up with the way base runners are symbolized on ESPN's home page these days, it's weird

http://i.imgur.com/XQbTaoU.png

if they get enough upvotes they advance

could not find a A's thread, hope this works:
http://twitter.com/RealJoshReddick/status/719321634197217280/photo/1

damn
"Yes, the A’s flew from Seattle to Oakland on a plane the Giants are chartering this season.
No, the A’s players weren’t upset, embarrassed or complaining, according to right fielder Josh Reddick.
Reddick tweeted a picture of the plane, with a Giants logo, and heard back from not-too-thrilled A’s fans. It’s believed a few folks in the front office weren’t pleased, either."

This whole "Papa Slam" thing is pretty gross.

I wouldn't care except MLB is using the phrase very actively across its site and social media.

somehow i've missed it. what is a papa slam?

oh, papa john's

better ingredients. better pizza. papa slam!

you guys see the rockies hit 4 little caesars triples yesterday

That's real driving excitement

ian kennedy is good now?

ryan howard has tied joe dimaggio with 361 career homers

madbum/kershaw is the mlbtv free game tonight btw

giants defense falling apart in the 4th

madbum getting shelled too

Did Scully just say that Panik was trying to not break down and cry?!

dave roberts just referred to a first pitch lead off homerum as a "ricky rally" - never heard that before lol

congrats to the Barves and Twins

wasn't sure who to root for in this cubs-cards game, but the answer is never john lackey

ugh, glad i didn't catch any of it

keith law - cj nitkowski twitter fite

klaw is a pretty unchill tweeter, as much as i like the guy

what CJN did was sexist and law was right to call him out imo

i didn't read the twitter fight, fwiw, i'm sure cj nitwitkowski said something dumb

if you think klaw is unchill you don't want to follow neyer

weirdness in san diego as a run-scoring balk is called, then un-called, then re-called

ross ohlendorf has five decisions (and a 8.22 ERA)

@gregorMLB
For those still worried about R.A. Dickey's start to the season, he currently has a lower ERA than David Price. #BlueJays

SSS

what's his DRA?

With Coco Crisp going to left field, #Athletics have given up the DH for the fifth time in 16 games.

smoove

https://twitter.com/_DaveMelton/status/723697640085565440/video/1

Cubs' run differential : + 67
Every AL team with a positive run differential, combined : + 67

There are eight teams that make up the second number btw

cubs' run differential for all of last season was +81

insane catch by Mazara in the bottom of the 9th to rob a walk off hr from frazier. will post video as soon as mlb publishes it.

http://m.mlb.com/video/v617154083/

albert pujols has -0.6 fWAR on the year so far. he's under contract through 2021.

King Kenta the best nickname in baseball.

Sunday had quite a few games with insane scores/comebacks.

JAIME GARCIA PITCHING FOR ST. LOUIS
Castillo doubled to left. 5 2
Peralta tripled to deep center, Castillo scored. 5 3
Bowman relieved García. 5 3
Owings singled to center, Peralta scored. 5 4
Greinke singled to shallow left, Owings to second. 5 4
Ahmed struck out swinging. 5 4
Wong at second base. 5 4
Siegrist relieved Bowman. 5 4
Segura homered to left, Owings and Greinke scored. 5 7
Karl Malone chugs
Drury singled to left. 5 7
Goldschmidt walked, Drury to second. 5 7
Maness relieved Siegrist. 5 7
Tomás hit a ground rule double to deep right center, Drury scored, Goldschmidt to third. 5 8
Karl Malone chugs
Castillo singled to right, Goldschmidt and Tomás scored. 5 10
Peralta safe at first on error by second baseman Wong, Castillo to third. 5 10
Owings singled to left, Castillo scored, Peralta to second. 5 11
Karl Malone chugs
Greinke grounded into fielder’s choice to pitcher, Owings out at second, Peralta to third. 5 11
Ahmed lined out to right. 5 11

Wong at second base. 5 4

worth noting that 1) Gyorko has been on fire recently, and 2) it was discussed earlier in the game that Wong has the flu

he made 2 errors in the 3 hour long bottom of the 6th inning that followed. one is officially recorded, the other wasn't (the second to last play of the inning, an easy double play was interrupted by a throw to Wong that he held onto just long enough to record the out at second and then drop before throwing to first)

lots of interesting stuff here: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-our-2016-mlb-predictions-work/

the URL suggests that it only discusses 2016, but it also discusses some of the methdology behind the Complete History of MLB interactive tool thing.

there's a list of all-time pitcher peaks, and you'll never believe who #9 is! /buzzfeed but no seriously, it's very surprising. also:

The biggest mismatch of all time according to our pitcher scores was a 137-point Elo swing back in 1997, when Randy Johnson (+87) faced Ricky Bones (-50).

good to know

@based_ball
since the Braves' last home run, the Mets have hit 26

McCutchen on deck for attempt at a 4-HR game, never done in Bucs history

grounded out

Mark Trumbo striking out on a pitch that hit him (from Chris Sale):

http://es.pn/1W0TUOn

the braves have more hits than the yankees

(almost) inconceivable!

Barves had a record NL Scrabble battery last night

https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/4hkvk9/right_now_mike_foltynewicz_31_is_pitching_to_aj/

While MLB agreed to test players immediately upon their return, the prospect of a positive test and forgoing unprotected sex for up to six months does not rest well with many.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources--baseball-close-to-canceling-puerto-rico-trip-because-of-zika-concerns-175448117.html

Bryce Harper 2-24 in his last 7 games, including tonights

RIPeavy

this davies kid on the brewers looks like he belongs in little league

(brewers/angels the free game today)

he's one inning away from a quality start, which is kinda significant given how much Milwaukee pitching has been getting knocked around

triple and a dinger for trout today

https://twitter.com/whitesox/status/728326414513127425

live timmy showcase: http://www.csnbayarea.com/page/csnbayareacom-live

hit 91, seemed to have decent movement /lolscouting

https://twitter.com/_BenDiamond/status/729116264019406851

CJ Fogler ‏@cjzero 2h2 hours ago View translation
Bartolo Colon HR trot dot mpeg
Size: 1.4GB

the indians have traded anthony recker to the braves for cash considerations

Harper hasn't had an 'official' at bat in his last 11

The only Selig threads are on ILX.

Hey Bill: When everything is taken into account, how do you see Bud Selig's legacy as commissioner?
Asked by: mtrof87

Answered: 5/9/2016
I think he's the greatest commissioner any league has ever had.

Ouch.

wow bryce was tossed arguing a called third strike from the dugout and a nat just hit a walkoff rt after

which i think a fan reached out to grab lol

this was an entertaining game, that the espn booth just talked abt venezuela all throughout (which was actually fine + interesting tbh)

boof bonser will be inducted into the hagerstown suns hall of fame on saturday

Bonser, who will be joined by his family, said that he is “very pleased” with how the bobble head has turned out and is “excited to be back in Hagerstown”.

brendan ryan to the angels for (no-doubt miniscule) cash considerations

michael bourn to the diamondbacks on a minor-league deal (and assigned to double-a mobile, yikes)

@dschoenfield
We're through 12 innings in Houston and Terry Francona has already burned through all EIGHT of his relievers....

scherzer has 13ks thru 6 (only 77 pitches)

hadnt realized braun is hitting .380

scherz now w 17 thru 7.2

wow

my favorite non-Giants. go go go go

just gotta k cabrera and the martinezes for the record. easy peasy.

miggy down

still hitting 97

one more

daamn

woah

"We still see him as a reliever going forward." -- Diamondbacks front office

that arm will look mighty nice right next to wood's on dusty's mantle

i knew that comment was coming

didn't get there until the end of #19 but damn that's cool

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiOFq3gVEAAL-Ts.jpg

so happy for him. dude deserves it all and much more.

96 strikes, that's fucking nuts

Good thinking by Ausmus to leave Castellanos on the bench and have McCann (.108/.175/.108) hit with the tying run on base.

sort of creeped out by that pair of disembodied legs i thought was a pause sign at first

i wonder how much him being with the tigers until 2014 had to with it

@BNightengale
And to think the #Dbacks actually traded away Max Scherzer to #tigers, convinced that he would break down. Oops

Only three "Whoa!!!!"s from William Ladson this evening. He must be feeling under the weather.

@pedromoura
Max Scherzer had more strikeouts tonight than Jered Weaver has in 2016.

just a bunch of outs

fp

from the comments section on fangraphs:

Brad Ausmus has been involved in three of the five 20K games. He struck out twice against Kerry Wood in 1998, he struck out once (and got a hit) against Roger Clemens in 1996, and now he managed the Tigers against Max Scherzer.

thor wants some attention, decides to hit two homers against kenta maeda

No walks in all four 20-K games.

didn't realise that last year's no-hitter vs the mets was the game with the most strikeouts for two teams in a 9 innings game: 35.

that "k" pic looks like someone was leaning on the keyboard.

Giants, Angels and White Sox most interested in Freak

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/177718140/tim-lincecum-reportedly-has-3-teams-interested

the rangers have called up 2004 first overall draft pick and intermittent jailbird matt bush to make his major league debut

whoa

Major League Baseball has suspended Colorado Rockies shortstop Jose Reyes without pay through May 31 for violating its domestic violence policy, the league announced Friday.

Reyes will not appeal. The suspension is retroactive to Feb. 23, when Reyes was first put on paid leave by the league. Through Thursday, he had missed 34 games.

this rangers blue jays fight was great. Bautista got LIT UP

timmy to the angels!

Delabar relieved Simon. 0 8
Kipnis walked, Santana to second. 0 8
Lindor struck out swinging. 0 8
Napoli walked, Davis scored, Santana to third, Kipnis to second. 0 9
Ramírez walked, Santana scored, Kipnis to third, Napoli to second. 0 10
Gomes walked, Kipnis scored, Napoli to third, Ramírez to second. 0 11
Chisenhall walked, Napoli scored, Ramírez to third, Gomes to second. 0 12
Wood relieved Delabar.

interesting statistical thing i stumbled upon: jose altuve has stolen 15/16 bases in 41 games, but has rated a below average baserunner on FG and just 1 run above average on bbref

http://i.imgur.com/jeGCT9s.png

mmhmm

lol

hahaha

clicks i never hafta do

such a brave loss

ST. LOUIS -- They have determination, they have grit.

Martinez finally found a rhythm and managed to get through five innings.

Arrieta's game score, 40, was his lowest in more than a year. That, perhaps, is something to feel good about even if an eight-game deficit in the division standings isn't.

One fateful inning did in Martinez, much as it had Wacha the night before. Martinez worked a good inning before it and three good innings after it. In the second, the Cubs hit line drives all over the field.

Martinez puffed up with pride a bit when describing how he was able to regroup and stay in the game without a long reliever available.

They must avoid fateful innings and focus on making statements.

martinez was ace-like except for that inning where he gave up six runs. arrieta meanwhile is basically trash.

dan uggla had a 33 game hitting streak in 2011. just wanted to mention that.

and he ended up with a .233 average. how did that even happen?

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Longest_Hitting_Streaks

mlb.tv free game of the day is sox-royals, sale throwing

sale doesn't have it so far

insane: https://vine.co/v/iVgK2wmjKJu

Get your signals straight, guys.

wau

Unhittable and uncatchable

holy shit, that's beautiful

Lasergate!

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/los-angeles-dodgers-rangefinders-no-discipline-for-helping-outfielders-new-york-mets-060216

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/los-angeles-dodgers-outfielder-new-york-mets-complaint-defense-laser-markers-ken-rosenthal-052816

@MLBRosterMoves
.@whitesox acquire RHP James Shields, cash from @Padres for INF Fernando Tatis Jr., RHP Erik Johnson. #MLBOnTheMove

Fernando Tatis Jr.

Jason Coats, playing in his first MLB game, just had a terrible outfield collision with JB Shuck.

omg @ tatis junior

frenchie with one of the worst swings i've seen this year, lol

Houston @ texas 4 game series starting

each is 8-2 over their last 10 games

thus far this season texas is 6-0 vs houston

paging clemenza

fernandez struck out 12 lefty batters last night. i wonder if there's a list (there must be) of most strikeouts in a game of lefty hitters by a righty pitcher

Jason Grilli with an emphatic air jab as he keeps his new team within nine runs.

(xpost) Probably easy to figure out using Play Index, but I don't know how to use that. I'd start by checking Clemens' 20-K games, though.

both of his 20 K games had 9 lefty Ks

Gotta be a record. In other baseball-related news, did you know that "trouting" is a usable word in Scrabble?

looks like it's a fishing term

makes sense, i hear trout was a type of fish before mike trout happened

then he ate them all

Why would anybody be against Madison Bumgarner hitting in the Home Run Derby? Because he might not uphold the "prestige" of a contest that nobody cares about? I don't see the downside here. People might remember something about the Home Run Derby for a change.

damn carlos gomez is gonna injure himself swinging vs dyson

rangers 8-0 vs astros now

maybe this is old news but i just learned that MLB has hired Tom Tango to handle the deployment of Statcast data.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/a-qa-with-tom-tango-the-new-czar-of-statcast/

Max Scherzer pitching for Washington
Fowler struck out swinging.
Heyward struck out looking.
Bryant struck out looking.

Rizzo struck out swinging.
Zobrist grounded out to second.
Coghlan struck out swinging.

Montero struck out swinging.
Russell struck out looking.
Hendricks struck out looking.

Fowler struck out swinging.
Heyward grounded out to first.
Bryant popped out to shortstop.

@washingnats
That's it. The #Nats defeated the Cubs, 4-1. Have a great night, everybody!!!!!!!!!!!

WHOA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wish harper were an expo

could MLB find a bigger crook to partner with for prostate-cancer awareness than Michael Millken?

Ah, him -- he's been doing that with MLB for a while. He spent an inning in the Braves booth promoting it last year or year before.

w/out his enabler Lasorda, i hope

heh i had no idea Mets had no hits through 6

goddamn Tillman, my disaster Hacking Mass pick of the year

wait... Chris Tillman?!

yep! he was worth 60 HM points last year, with his 4.99 ERA. And obviously you want a pitcher who'll stay in the rotation all year, bcz it's hard to tell in advance what dumbfuck team like the Reds will let Simon pitch horribly for half a year.

ya, he's a reasonable pick for hacking... i had no idea he was doing so well this season. that's what surprised me!

i thought you fantasy guys were on top of everything! Another illusion shattered. :)

i have a kid now, fantasy game has dropped off considerably since.

worth it!

gettin' close to Weird Baseball time in Tampa Bay (13th inning)

and also in Atlanta! (bottom 11th)

imagine having nothing better to do than watch a Braves-Reds deathmatch after midnight.

34 strikeouts so far for TB-SEA

Lincecum vs A's today!

http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/watching-the-old-timers-day-game-with-jim-bouton-who-wasnt-invited

a maddux for...jered weaver?

Nice Bouton piece. I thought he had been invited to a couple of old-timers' games after he and Mantle patched things up (initiated by a call from Bouton to Mantle after Mantle's son died), but I guess not.

He was, and went, in 1998 and perhaps a few after.

http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/75723b1f

7 solo homers in col/mia game, so far accounting for all the games scoring

game ended 5-3, 8 solo homers; new record high amt for a game w no other scoring

and Mark Reynolds needs a 10-game suspension for calling runs "points"

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/185264468/rockies-marlins-set-solo-home-run-record

Kipnis with an inside the park "homerun" on a single with a three base error

ah, the trusty little league home run.

apparently there's an epidemic of those, as puig got a 2-run walkoff one last night

Cubs 47-23
Giants 47-27

it's 1908 all over again

who's 2015's merkle and what will be his boner

Timmuh vs A's again

cute, they interviewed travis and chases mom

she said travis was always funny/telling jokes as a kid and she thought hed be on snl

dear sports media,

God fuck US militarism now and forever.

thank u,

Travis is injured enough he probably has time to be on SNL too.

man, the T'hawk Chop is never not nauseating

get to the flo-rida concert already

KJ

notable al streaks

clevo 8-0
hou 7-0
tb 0-10

So why the power surge?

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2016/06/27/home-runs-being-hit-at-a-pace-not-seen-since-2000/

@MLBGIFs
In a jam? Frankie says relax. http://atmlb.com/293fpdx

http://imgur.com/LURvkR1

http://i.imgur.com/LURvkR1.png

lincecum with a very TTO first inning -- 3 Ks, 2 BBs, and a homer

settled in, since. some promising stuff here in there.

(i willl never stop believing in his comeback)

Joe Maddon doing the old switching pitchers (Wood and Patton) between the outfield and the mound thing in the 14th inning!

cuing up Weird Baseball in Washington (rain-induced) and Cincy

all the .600+ teams, pending SF-OAK result and giving BAL credit for their 11-1 lead

Cubs 50-26
Rangers 51-27
Giants 49-29
Indians 46-30
Orioles 46-30

Orioles almost blew it!

Travis Wood seems like a pretty good all-around athlete, he can definitely hit.
Cubs-Reds ended just before midnight last night and they're playing today at 11:30 a.m.

i def remember Davey Johnson putting Jesse Orosco in the OF once in extra innings.

kent tekulve tracked down a darrell evans fly to left to end this game: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN197909011.shtml

i missed that JM also used Strop in LF

http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2016/06/29/186835518

I never make it thru 10 minutes of Joe Buck w/out muting

omg angels

cj cron & carlos perez each go 5-5 u_u

& theyre each getting another ab

vs a position player
& cron goes 6-6

Cron had 2 HR in there

my mf'in Hacking Mass 1b

you know you can make changes to your fantasy baseball teams

lol fort bragg game.. karl ravech "if you don't have chills right now.."

as u hear miley cyrus party in the usa bleed over the loudspeaker in the park

*salutes flag*

I wonder if MLB picked up any of the cost of this stadium construction.

glad to see MLB striving to define the USA's virtue solely through its military, must be a new idea

I wonder if MLB picked up any of the cost of this stadium construction.

― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Sunday, July 3, 2016 8:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they just said it's all from players?

damn didnt realize rodney was still rocking crazy stats, props

chant of u-s-a, how much did beers cost @ this game

@MrChuckD
All @nba on social media as if @mlb doesnt exist. When its still the biggest USA sport

Boy I'm glad MLB can't have the entire season's suspense gone in one trade.

of FA signing whatever.

seems like every time a MLB team tries to assemble a squad in that manner it backfires, cf every 21st century Yankees team except that one that somehow won a World Series*. the SoCal teams always try to make those big splashes and faceplant too.

*(Though that one is probably the most forgettable yanks champ team in their history.)

here comes BROOKS POUNDERS

man lackey has sucked lately

Freak failed to go 5 again tonight, must be done

you know, i never really thought about how freaking huge jose fernandez is

Lincecum has been done for over two years now. so sad, was rooting for the guy.

xpost

That Josh Bell slam last night gave me a thrill up my leg.

same

Bumgarner, 1-hitter, 14 K, 1 BB, game score 104

Dave Righetti deserves a statue outside of AT&T.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/players-view-the-best-non-knuckleballer-knuckleballs/

I'm delighted by the idea of every player trying to throw knuckleballs during practice

goddamn all star break

pure misery

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/page/mlbrank100_greatestplayersalltime/all-mlbrank-greatest-players-ever

this is kind of fun

@MattEddyBA
#Giants signed Kyle Drabek to a minor league deal and are looking at him as a shortstop—though they haven't ruled out a return to mound.

weird

move ricky romero to 2B imo why not

‏@JeffPassan
Former Cardinals scouting director Chris Correa sentenced to 46 months in jail for hacking Houston Astros' computer system, per @dfbarron.

damn

Jeff Sullivan @based_ball
Chris Correa sentenced to 46 months of scouting the Angels farm system

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/17100858/roger-clemens-headline-superteam-former-mlb-players

huh

tx is now only 3.5 games up on Houston (3 weeks ago it was ~10 games)

hadn't really looked @ gurriels stats, sss (49 games) but it seems crazy he hit .500 w/ 38 walks (11 intentional) and only 3 strikeouts last yr in cuba. that's some bondsian shit no?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cn5NAsdWcAA7uzW.jpg:small

lackey then spit out a giant wad of tobacco-laden salt onto the reporter's shoe

semi-prime pitching matchup: urias-strasburg

wow justin turner just put a 3-0 shoulder-high heater from strasburg 404 ft over the fence in left center

couple of sick ABs at the plate from strasburg -- single up the middle and a walk, sees 14 pitches

watching Marcus Stroman bat last night was fantastic. put down one perfect bunt and once okay one – and turned out to be a pretty impressive baserunner!

been a while since i actively rooted for the yankees

approaching Weird Baseball in St Louis

tyler lyons came in during the 11th inning and has hit twice now

Altuve's OPS is over 1.000 this morning. Last 2B I can find with 1.000+ is Kent in 2000; Morgan in '76 before that.

Altuve might have a shot at leading AL

...in SLG if not for Ortiz

hes become a much more pronounced fly-ball hitter than in past yrs

Astros have him on a killer contract rn wow

2016 26 Houston Astros $3,500,000
2017 27 Houston Astros $4,500,000
2018 28 Houston Astros *$6,000,000 $6M Team Option
2019 29 Houston Astros *$6,500,000 $6.5M Team Option

Altuve's jump in walks is all sorts of amazing, because he is still very aggressive.

in top 5 current players for sure, i think?

position players, yeah, he's got the track record at this point

mvp frontrunner? assuming trout continues to be taken for granted

WAR rankings: trout, donaldson, altuve

boring, boring, FRESH AND SHORT

assuming each maintains their current rate of production my prediction for top five is:

altuve
trout
ortiz
donaldson
cano

rooting for Philthies feels weird

francisco liriano just hit a no-doubter to straightaway center off king felix

raul mondesi's kid (i think) is in the bigs for the royals now, and just as expected is an all-glove infielder??

nah he can also hit

and do drugs

nah he can also hit

― mookieproof, Wednesday, July 27, 2016 9:10 PM (Yesterday

i realize you have to take the age difference into account but other than for about 45 games this year he's been pretty miserable at the plate. most projections put him as a 45 at the plate

mlb.com gives him a 50, but yeah maybe you're right

he's certainly not a correa/seager/bregman, but he's also been basically four years younger than his competition all along, so it's tough to tell. (and a fair portion of his games have been in wilmington, which is an extreme pitchers' park.)

i'm a little curious why the royals have brought him up now when they don't seem to be going anywhere this year

he pinch-ran in the world series last year i think. first ever player to make his big league debut in the WS

albert pujols has nearly as many infield fly balls this season (14) as joey votto has in his career (15)

That's a productive two weeks for Andrelton Simmons.

Welcome to Cleveland, Andrew Miller. Please hold this seven-run deficit.

Woops.

Matt Kemp: "I've never really played in a baseball town before. So, I am excited about that."

you know you play for the braves, rite?

soon he'll play in a baseball county, i suppose

If the Yanks do cut A-Rod, how long till the Marlins sign him at league minimum?

the twins are abusing cleveland

max kepler, superstar

Buddy Boshers

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpNIlYSWIAIXVMw.jpg:small

TROUT

manny machado has 3 HRs today.

it's the 4th inning.

Machado is just the second player in Major League history to hit a home run in the first, second and third inning of the game. The other was Carl Reynolds of the White Sox on July 2, 1930, at the Yankees, according to Stats. Machado is the ninth player in MLB history to hit a homer in three consecutive innings at any point during the game.

Tuffy Gosewisch still mysteriously swinging a bat in the majors

approaching Weird Baseball in Seattle

a dozen pitchers thru 13 frames

my buddy's fantasy baseball team requires Tuffy to continue being in the league or "Gosewisch Engage" will lose its meaning

reposting here because u need to see it

https://twitter.com/DragonsBaseball/status/763898972557631488

anyone watching the Yankees in Prime Time? can't believe Fox bumped their programming for A-Rod.

sorry if there is another thread on this. sort of not watching baseball right now.

that double play is like seeing an animal up close in a national park

Most recent seasonal Rangers thread is 2013?

Cole Hamels' line for tonight is bizarre: 7 innings, 14 hits and 3 walks, only two runs...Tigers indeed left 13 men on base.

I'm gonna be bummed if the hr surge really is a result of juiced balls

Texas Rangers 69 50 .580

Rangers have a run differential of -1

o_o

Single A batter Francisco Mejia has a hit streak of 50 games currently going on.

just ended ;_;

nooo

goddamn it brownie

Dave Cameron was slamming Texas at the seminar today

"they might be an above avg team now"

really nothing can make me hate ballplayers more than coverage of their NFL fantasy drafts

thanks Olney

bartolo colon has drawn his first career walk at age 43

The rare home-run hitter who doesn't walk a lot.

toothy matchup in SF today:

Nova-Cain

nice

along those lines ive been waiting patiently for the interdivisional command matchup of yu-fister

cc has allowed 7 runs and fanned 12

@baseball_ref
It's happened 8 times since 1913:
Sabathia
Hamels
Schilling (2x)
Johnson
Ryan (2x)
Ruffing

Red Ruffing repping the real retro runyielders

HOU-BAL is a load of lulz so far, 11 runs scored in 1 1/2 innings. And Gattis just blew up Altuve's left shoulder.

what happened to altuve? he ok?

Yeah, it was slightly alarming at first. After McHugh's warmup throws in the 2nd, Gattis threw down to 2nd base and Altuve just completely missed the ball and it hit him on the front of the shoulder joint. It obviously hurt like hell but he's still in the game.

O's hit four homers in the 2nd inning before McHugh got anybody out.

dear god james shields

Weird Baseball in Denver, KC

sorry, wdn't be weird in Colorado for another half-hour, and the Cubs just took a lead

Graveman with the Maddux last night, 98 pitches vs the White Sox.

yr current major-league FIP leaders

1. Syndergaard (NYM) 2.24
2. Fernandez (MIA) 2.27
3. Strasburg (WSN) 2.98
4. deGrom (NYM) 3.05
5. Cueto (SFG) 3.06
6. Kluber (CLE) 3.08
7. Bumgarner (SFG) 3.20
8. Duffy (KCR) 3.21
9. Tanaka (NYY) 3.28
10. Arrieta (CHC) 3.33

there's probably a dozen articles about this already, but it's fun to do the crappy number crunching and worst-chart-making-ever-ing yourself:

http://i.imgur.com/1QkdJKt.png

http://i.imgur.com/7WMVeJE.png

highest ISO (0.163) since 2001 (also 0.163), and lowest PA/HR since at least 1998 (most recent new expansion era teams)

prompted by reading this relevant tidbit from fangraphs:

"Last season, 64 players hit at least 20 home runs. It was 57 the year before. This year, there are already 68 players with 20 home runs and, with six weeks of the season remaining, there are another 40 players with at least 15 home runs who have at least a shot."

I saw lots of charts and graphs at Saberseminar

perhaps i will look for the journal artcle where they blinded the batter for different segments of the flight of the pitch

first google result for "is the ball juiced 2016", but even as far back as May 1 this year there's this:

At the risk of sounding like someone who believes in chemtrails and listens to Infowars religiously, I have a confession to make: More and more I’m convinced that juiced balls are causing a home run spike throughout baseball.

I am far from the only one. It’s hitters and pitchers and coaches and executives and even rational, cogent analysts who cannot find a reasonable explanation for the spike in home runs dating back to last August. The HR/FB rate – the percentage of fly balls that end up over the fence – spiked over the season’s final two months, and it has continued this April.

With 11.8 percent of fly balls leaving the yard in the season’s first month, it marked the highest April rate since the league started tracking the data in 2002. The number mirrored those of August (12.2 percent) and September (12.3 percent), which Hardball Times analyst Jon Roegele noticed after not even a month. Roegele studied it and came to an impasse.

“I couldn't find anything to describe that amount of HR/offensive change, as far as weather, strike zone, where pitchers were pitching, etc.,” he wrote in an email this week. “I suspected that they changed something with the balls after the All-Star break last year as nothing else in the data could explain it.”

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/10-degrees--is-a-juiced-ball-causing-mlb-s-large-home-run-spike-025820397-mlb.html

538 has several articles where they're basically just openly assuming the ball's juiced

wouldn't be surprising, manfred came in and made a change

but you'd think it'd be easy to just like... open up a ball and look ?

the physics guy, Alan Nathan, did a juiced-ball prez at Saberseminar! He did cut open balls. answer: "we don't know"

wouldve gotten quite the side-eye from me in april if you told me both rick porcello and ja happ would have 17 wins while chris archer would have 17 losses @ this pt

& i know "wins" who cares, don't @ me

if you told me james shields would have an ERA of 17.36 and allow 4 more home runs than strikeouts in his first 4 starts of august i would've said "ok"

https://twitter.com/abaseballmind/status/768068609176440832

not sure where else to put this

^amazin'

@jay_jaffe

most HR thru first 21 career games:
10 (George Scott 1966, Trevor Story 2016)
9 (Mandy Brooks 1925, Alvin Davis 1984, Gary Sanchez '15-16)

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/watch-jarrod-dyson-becomes-the-first-player-to-rob-a-home-run-in-marlins-park/

@ESPNStatsInfo
The Giants are on pace to be the first team ever with the best record before the All-Star break and the worst record after it (@EliasSports)

lol wow

Gary Sanchez the fastest to 11 hrs in mlb history o_o

ah yes the famous 11-home-run mark by which players are always measured

its how i judge all athletes, even non baseball players

no way he gets to 22 this year

frickin jeff gyrko has had 15 hrs since all star break

west by god virginia ftw

ah yes the famous 11-home-run mark by which players are always measured

idk it's kinda cool to do something 18,000+ players over the course of a century have never done, however obscure

Mike Everitt is having fun tonight.

Dustin Pedroia has 11 hits in his last 11 at-bats. Twelve is the major league record. Pedroia will bat in the bottom of the eighth, if not sooner.

(something else for NA to be bored by)

i only think a hitter should get in the HOF if they have 45.45 11 homers or 272.72 11 hits

I'm mostly just being a dick admittedly but the choice of 11 as the mile marker seems like an arbitrary way to put him past what Trevor Story did just a few months ago.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrH_P2sUAAAm5M5.jpg:large

@JimBowden_ESPN
Early consensus from scouts evaluating Tebow's baseball tools at work out: 55 Run 40 Arm 40 FLD 35 Hit 55 Power

Rangers Rangers Rangers

@Buster_ESPN
The verbal jousting between Adrian Beltre and Felix Hernandez in between pitches is hilarious.

^would read a transcript

ricky fucking nolasco with a 94-pitch maddux

Isn't he, like, 94 in baseball years?

if memory serves, i actually think jered weaver, of all people, had a maddux this year too. angels staff might lead the league

i always used to draft ricky nolasco in fantasy and stick with him way too long because his FIP was so much better than his ERA and this was back when everyone thought that meant he absolutely had to be better than he was

him and kevin slowey just ruined me for years

i had Nolasco in HACKING MASS a year or two ago

anyone tried this?

https://theringer.com/mlb-tv-game-changer-redzone-4e5d5e81c99c#.xml16qygj

as a baseball fan but not a hardcore fan of any particular team i honestly don't care enough about the outcomes of games these days to use that -- i use my mlb.tv to watch my favorite players -- votto's at bats, fernandez's innings, etc. sounds cool though

Moncada getting called up

https://twitter.com/epchihuahuas/status/771553497548337152

O_O

jeter would have run that out

^ FP

That was some crazy English on that hit.

better view: https://twitter.com/epchihuahuas/status/771817131654549504

and the second-half leaders in HR are

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/here-are-the-two-unlikely-sluggers-pacing-baseball-in-second-half-home-runs/

could be a fun September in Queens if Jay Bruce has shed his Jason Bay impression

fred freeman currently 3rd in NL WAR. Think I've seen his face like two times this year?

I can't say I'm a Barves fan anymore, but I'm happy for the former huggy bear -- he's really having a great year.

this dozier fellow

Theodosia Brian Dozier hits me a homer every day

guy is nuts

why is he hitting leadoff

I thought you guys were going on about just one more home run. Insane.

grienke getting shelled

Yeah, sadly he is having his worst season by many measures. I am certain he'll bounce back.

rougned odor is the first ever 2B under 25 years old to hit 30 HR, and he's only 22.

also the sixth player 22 or younger to hit 30 homers since 2000 (Albert Pujols, Miguel Cabrera, Giancarlo Stanton, Mike Trout, Bryce Harper and Manny Machado are the others).

too bad he only walks 2.6% of the time

ok i lied this game changer thing seems like it's going to be pretty amazing -- didn't realize you could do it for players and not just teams. sort of confused how to set it up though...

i'm not apt to try such things, and the Mets' resurrection has taken it off the table for me.

before the weekend i think dozier was projected to finish with 38 HR

lol Dozier again

ridic

Ballin' Dozier Ballin'

God, the Rockies suck

this has been one of my best years for predictions other than missing on the rangers outplaying their pythag by 10 wins

year ain't over!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VtKxqbwpm0

on frenchy

Tebow to Mets

Wow

he'll never be on the Big Club, who wants to bet a million?

depends how many more players get injured

jim joyce flailing in cleveland

jon lester, career: 8-for-148 (.054)

jon lester vs. STL: 4-for-14 (.286)

Kershaw pitched the 5th after a rain delay, causing much Robertsguessing in Yankee TV booth.

Bill Murray was rocking quite a look in the Bronx, with camo jacket and knapsack. Left right after Kershaw, probly scouting for Cubs.

Seeing Arenado up there among the league leaders in WAR on Baseball Reference makes me again wonder if you can adjust enough for Colorado players. 2016: .318/.389/.661 at home, .276/.338/.495 on the road. Career: .309/.356/.583 at home, .260/.304/.456 on the road. Or to put it another way, Tulowitzki this year: .256/.331/.447 at home, .262/.320/.467 on the road. His road stats aren't that far off what he's done his whole career; he's the same player he's always been.

A year ago I didn't think I'd be saying "the matchup between Kevin Gausman and Rick Porcello was one for the ages."

a large part of Arenado's WAR is defense

and yes you can "adjust enough"

Arenado is not even in the top 10 in NL Offensive WAR on B-R

(DJ LeMahieu is)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsZkySvWgAA_zG6.jpg

@EvanDrellich
You can expect Padres to be punished I'm told. What form is to be seen.

One common point I'm hearing: Dombrowski is wrong guy to cross.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsZkySvWgAA_zG6.jpg

― mookieproof, Thursday, September 15, 2016 9:56 AM (six hours ago)

yeah this was straight fire

rooting Cards, who've tied it in the 9th; want that WC#1 for the Mets

jon gray was worth 0.8 fWAR today

SWARM OF BEES delay in the blue jays/angels game

btw pujols drew his first walk in a month. he sucks.

only 5 years left on his contract/career

look at all those RBI! He'a a regular Joe Carter

(lol)

most productive hitter, last 30 days

jose aut-on-the-basepaths

not my best nickname but man does this guy love making outs

i . . . can't tell who you're talking about

Jose Autusta?

time to find another easily replaceable backup catcher. what an asshole.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/steve-clevenger-mariners-suspended-keith-scott-tweets

lol i was talking about altuve

the gray road dback unis are an atrocity

have they ever had a decent jersey

jon gray with 6 Ks in 2 innings and a walk to ROSS STRIPLING

60 pitches wth dude

yo, kiermaier just threw a bullet strike to home from 355 feet away at the wall in left center. he didn't get mookie betts at the plate but holy shit

that was amazing

Now this makes me nostalgic: today's the first time the Yankees have been shut out three games in a row since 1975, which included Bill Lee beating Catfish Hunter 1-0 (both threw complete games).

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA197507271.shtml

(Bernie Carbo leading off?)

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/6479266/v1185416583/bostb-betts-scores-from-first-on-holts-double

Omg rip Jose Fernandez what a tragedy

cubs 100-56
twins 56-100

i hereby rename the cubs "evil twins"

players with at least 20 HR this year: 107

last year: 64

that's insane. i hate juiced balls.

lol, i guess you can take that a bunch of different ways.

TOR (+1): 5 (2 vs. BAL, 3 at BOS)
BAL (-): 5 (2 at TOR, 3 at NYY)

DET (1.0): 5 (2 vs. CLE, 3 at ATL)
SEA (2.0): 5 (1 at HOU, 4 at OAK)
HOU (3.5): 4 (1 vs. SEA, 3 at LAA)
NYY (4.0): 5 (2 vs. BOS, 3 vs. BAL)

Looks like Britton could have his perfect season.

@Ken_Rosenthal
On #MNTwins' pending hiring of Falvey - and what it says about baseball's front-office hiring practices. Column:

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/minnesota-twins-derek-falvey-baseball-hiring-practices-092816

@keithlaw
Spot on. If owners are simply hiring this archetype, minorities have no shot, and a lot of good baseball people are screwed.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtjZLpmWgAANvXw.jpg

30+ homers, < 0.5 WAR

i'm still amazed by that bichette season. i don't know if it's the worst on there, but he hit .298 w/34 HR and 133 RBI, scored 107 runs, slugged .541, and his WAR was still -2.3

pirates/cubs officially ends in a tie

Weird ending(?) in St. Louis.

"Oops, forgot to protest the ground rule double"

that was crazy

goddamn Brandon McCarthy

who are these refugees from Albuquerque in Dodger blue?

(oklahoma city)

i figured it was somewhere else by now

quoth the Ravin, nevermore

ok, LET'S GO UTLEY

they're all buying their minor league teams now, so expect less movement

that doesn't mean they can afford to pay the players, of course

xp gross

i don't understand rooting against SF when the alternative is STL, the only team that is worse

Mets fan wd rather face Carlos Martinez than Bumgarner

but if SF, at least in Queens

for Bee and others

http://www.espn.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/74274/how-to-spend-the-perfect-saturday-of-wild-card-baseball

really can't hear broadcasters use "great" to describe Ryan Howard enough

i have Detroit and Toronto games on in my two panels

edrod trade continuing to haunt the o's

http://www.espn.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/74336/how-to-spend-the-perfect-sunday-watching-playoff-baseball

i'm not sure there's been a team as good by record and as thoroughly boring to watch - barring wild bumgarner performances - as this decade's giants

i understand doing all the 162s at once but man it's difficult to keep up with

@dschoenfield
LeMahieu does follow in a long list of batters who didn't have the guts of Ted Williams. Bill Madlock was the king of sitting on a title.

#dogavi

Enberg overshadowed, eh

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/204598956/dick-enberg-says-farewell-after-last-broadcast/

i don't really do podcasts, but jonah keri hosting len kasper and jason benetti is pretty damn good: http://nerdist.com/the-jonah-keri-podcast-61-live-from-chicago-len-kasper-and-jason-benetti/