aw shit, he just got kozma'd
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
giants swept in philly and obliterated the franchise mark for strikeouts in a four-game series with 55 (previous record was 44 vs. d-backs with johnson and schilling in 2003)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 May 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
wow
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 10 May 2018 22:59 (six years ago) link
strikeouts are cool i mean if you strikeout whats the worse you just missed on hitting a double that's all, keep on striking out i say
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 11 May 2018 01:08 (six years ago) link
One player who is not striking out at all and showing the way is freaking Andrelton Simmons, who knew. He stands at a beautiful 6.2% K rate. To be fair, even when he was slashing .244/.286/.331 he wasn't a strikeout guy, but now on top of that his OPS is .921. While playing usual Simmons defense.
What a great trade for Eppler.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 11 May 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
Make baseball fun again, they said, it would be fun, they said..... pic.twitter.com/tfdzTjXfWm— 🦉Mike Clevinger 🌺 (@Mike_Anthony13) May 11, 2018
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 May 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
― Van Horn Street, Friday, May 11, 2018 12:57 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark
this one seems like a true win-win to me. swanson was playing well this year & shawn newcomb has been awesome too
― J0rdan S., Friday, 11 May 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link
Swanson was part of another deal iirc
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 11 May 2018 23:20 (six years ago) link
November 12, 2015: Simmons traded by the Atlanta Braves with Jose Briceno (minors) to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for Chris Ellis (minors), Erick Aybar, Sean Newcomb and cash.
December 9, 2015: Swanson traded by the Arizona Diamondbacks with Aaron Blair and Ender Inciarte to the Atlanta Braves for Gabe Speier (minors) and Shelby Miller.
Interesting coupla trades. Everyone wins except the dumbass Dbacks imo
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 11 May 2018 23:41 (six years ago) link
yeah but there'd have been no room for him otherwise
find it interesting that even with dansby hurt they're not moving albies to short -- guess they want to avoid a ~controversy~. i'm not aware of evidence that dansby is actually a better fielder
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 May 2018 23:44 (six years ago) link
speaking of the Wizard Ozhaino, here are your current ml home run leaders:
1. betts (13)2. harper, gallo, albies, trout (12)6. blackmon, machado, jramirez, pollock (11)
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 11 May 2018 23:59 (six years ago) link
a newsletter to keep up with the rooks
https://tinyletter.com/ThisWeekInBaseballDebuts
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 May 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link
Joey Gallo grounded out to the Houston Astros Right Side Monster. pic.twitter.com/x8u3heRUtj— Andrew Simon (@AndrewSimonMLB) May 12, 2018
i know i sound like a stodgy ol' broadcaster but...is there any possible way to hit it to the left side? i know hitting to the opposite field is harder than it looks (i have a hard time doing it even when i'm playing softball) but even a really weak swing or a strong bunt toward 3rd could be a double
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Saturday, 12 May 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
yeah I'd try a swinging bunt/baltimore chop but that just flies in the face of the anti-launch angle trend-metric zeitgeist we live in.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 12 May 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
anti-
baseball fans who boo pitchers who throw over to first drive me insane. if i were a professional pitcher i would quickly face a class action lawsuit because someone would boo a throw over to first and i'd lose my shit and throw the ball as fast as possible into the crowd and ask them if they could at least understand that, and knowing my luck i'd probably hit some children. it turns me into rob dibble. just stfu baseball fans, you goddamn idiots
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Sunday, 13 May 2018 04:16 (six years ago) link
imagine booing every field goal attempt of the opposing football team
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Sunday, 13 May 2018 04:24 (six years ago) link
imagine joey votto as a pitcher being booed for throwing to first
― mookieproof, Sunday, 13 May 2018 04:33 (six years ago) link
I keep thinking that it would motivate pitcher to throw to first again.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 13 May 2018 04:34 (six years ago) link
I always think the crowd is booing the pace of play slowdown, and I do agree with them there.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 13 May 2018 04:52 (six years ago) link
new pace of play initiative: no more throwing over to first, or any base. once you're on base, you just run around the bases carefree
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Sunday, 13 May 2018 04:55 (six years ago) link
It’s not a slowdown, its baseball.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 13 May 2018 04:56 (six years ago) link
baseball fans who boo pitchers who throw over to first drive me insane. if i were a professional pitcher i would quickly face a class action lawsuit because someone would boo a throw over to first and i'd lose my shit
Ha I agree it's stupid but this sounds like a sound argument for for doing it, if indeed there's even an infinitesimal chance it somehow rattles the pitcher
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 13 May 2018 12:35 (six years ago) link
reds' first four-game sweep in LA since 1976
― mookieproof, Monday, 14 May 2018 01:40 (six years ago) link
Freddy Peralta 5th pitcher all time to strikeout 13 in his major league debut (last one was Strasburg, of course)
probably the only one to do it in a spot start though
― frogbs, Monday, 14 May 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
I slightly complained about them last week (over Molina's legacy) but really I don't mind the sunday night baseball broadcast team, Mendoza is terrific of course and I like when Rodriguez discusses hitting.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 14 May 2018 03:07 (six years ago) link
pretty good braves / cubs game going right now
― na (NA), Monday, 14 May 2018 19:40 (six years ago) link
joey bats!
― mookieproof, Monday, 14 May 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
4th lead change of the game
― WilliamC, Monday, 14 May 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Jameson Taillon is open to trying anything that will heal a cut on his middle finger and keep him on the mound, including urinating on it.
Taillon told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that he's received that suggestion as a possible remedy.
"I said if it helps, I'll put a sign-up sheet and everyone can come and pee," he told the newspaper.
"I don't care. I just want (the cut) to go away."
― omar little, Monday, 14 May 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
kole calhoun is slashing 158/.187/.195he has 21 hits, 5 walks, 37 strikeoutshe hit a triple and homer on opening day & HASNT HAD AN XBH SINCE
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
More like Cold Calhoun.
bah-dum tssshh**
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
his wRC+ is......2
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 15 May 2018 19:34 (six years ago) link
NL is 36-18 in interleague play so far
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link
jays and cards poised to add one to each side
#Rays news: Sergio Romo to start Saturday, part of another new pitching idea to play matchups in first inning, get Yarbrough deeper. https://t.co/KfWIFOFJzz— Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) May 18, 2018
ts: canny managing move vs. attempt to fuck with 'starters' stats in arbitration
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 May 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
if i could be baseball god for a day, i'd change the entire arbitration process
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 18 May 2018 16:38 (six years ago) link
moron with the glove touched a live ball that was headed for the corner and cost the home team a run. his girlfriend/wife/a total stranger is absolutely unloading on him pic.twitter.com/PO9KiSbpiD— Productive Outs (@ProductiveOuts) May 19, 2018
― mookieproof, Saturday, 19 May 2018 04:12 (six years ago) link
gf/wife/total stranger otm
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 19 May 2018 05:49 (six years ago) link
The expression on the kids face with the hat and the guy in the blue shirt next to him makes the shot.
― earlnash, Saturday, 19 May 2018 10:49 (six years ago) link
when you bring a glove and sit in the first row, you have to approach every at-bat like a fielder -- given the opportunity, do i want to create a ground-rule double? or take away a flyout, or a home run?
has bartman taught us nothing
― mookieproof, Saturday, 19 May 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
braves released bautista, maybe the end of his career?
― na (NA), Sunday, 20 May 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
Wow, I'd hoped for that but wasn't sure they'd do it so quickly. He stunk it up pretty bad.
― WilliamC, Sunday, 20 May 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
where does jason heyward rank on the albatross contracts list? crazy that this guy is now an unquestionably bad player
― k3vin k., Sunday, 20 May 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
i'm not sure, but he's gotta be up there. baseball is really, really weird
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Sunday, 20 May 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
Jordan Hicks just hit 105 mph
somehow his K/9 is 3.48
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Sunday, 20 May 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
everyone thinks the Rays are blazing some new trail but the Orioles have been using one-inning starting pitchers for years— Jeff Sullivan (@based_ball) May 21, 2018
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 May 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
haha
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 01:05 (six years ago) link
poor qualx
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 22 May 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link
what trout and betts are doing right now is pretty insane. and then there's ohtani! very cool season so far
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 22 May 2018 03:46 (six years ago) link