2016 regular-season game chatter

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!

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/