2019 Rolling "Hey Chatter Chatter" chatterthread

curtis granderson is now 99th all-time in homers with 341

one more would tie him with ron santo for 98th

Nelson Cruz just hit his 3 HR on the day so far (still has one more AB possible), giving him 7 in his last 6 games.

Great day for my namesake pitch as O's center fielder Stevie Wilkerson gets the save, the first in MLB history for a position player, without topping 60mph!

Welp, I'm a Sling customer so there go the barves games on FSN.

Nelson Cruz just hit his 3 HR on the day so far (still has one more AB possible), giving him 7 in his last 6 games.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, July 25, 2019 7:25 PM (yesterday)

8 in his last 7 now...

i don’t hate it or anything, but fenway is an absurd place to play baseball

also wmc how do you watch sling

Cruz has now hit 309 HR in his 30s, with 26 days short of a year before he turns 40--wonder how high that puts him on the all-time list? (Not sure how to use play index for checking such things.)

he would appear to be 12th -- tied with reggie jackson, one behind willie stargell

Thanks. The way he's going right now, looks like he'll finish up 8th or 9th.

also wmc how do you watch sling

― mookieproof, Saturday, July 27, 2019 4:35 PM

Sling TV app through a 4th-gen Apple TV...not sure I understand the question.

didn't know if you watched on a laptop or through a roku or whatever. i was gonna suggest a vpn so you could use mlb.tv and cheat the location blackout -- it's easy enough to do on a computer but i don't know anything about apple tv

Oh it's not a regional blackout sitch -- Sling/Dish and Fox are having a pissing contest.

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2019/07/sling-tv-fox-regional-sports-blackout.html

oic!

do the phillies and braves and nationals ever play anyone but each other

They sometimes play the Marlins

But they told the Mets to take a fuckin' hike, they don't play them anymore.

either way it's better than 51 reds-pirates games each season

Never would I have thought I'd read an interview in which Randy Newman talks about Byron Buxton, WAR and range factor, but here we are. https://t.co/xHJDys8UPH

— Jason Foster (@ByJasonFoster) July 31, 2019

it's pretty wild how Mike Minor has a bWAR of 5.9, which ranks him as the #1 pitcher (and #3 player overall) on Baseball Reference, with a decent lead over Scherzer and Ryu and Verlander and Greinke, but meanwhile on Fangraphs his fWAR is 2.7 which ranks him something like 28th among pitchers. seems like a huge discrepancy (i trust FG much more in this case...)

i think fangraphs relies more on peripherals and "true talent," while bref leans more towards results.

yeah i suppose. weird though since Minor's results aren't exactly eye-popping.

Usually Baseball Reference works fine for me--the differences generally fall within range, and if you need to take things further, splitting the difference is useful. But Minor's high ranking baffles me too, even in terms of traditional results. His K/BB ratio is nothing special today--under 3.00. He's given up 20 HR in 140 innings; I know HR are historically very high right now, but wouldn't that be within range of league-average at best? H/9, good not great. Only one of his total runs is unearned, and that's very good, but there must be some huge park and quality-of-defense adjustment there, otherwise I'm stumped.

i think it's because ERA 3.21, FIP 4.27, xFIP 4.49

2.7 fWAR is still pretty good, tho! same as bauer

hey Trout has finally passed Bellinger and climbed to the top of bWAR's MLB rankings (he's well ahead of Cody in fWAR).

yeah, i meant that bref relies on ERA, fg relies more on FIP

Braves bullpen did not look very good this weekend.

awwwwwwwww

Isan Diaz's dad was being interviewed when his son took Jacob deGrom deep for his first career MLB hit

His reaction was amazing 😂

(via @Marlins)pic.twitter.com/nCPuERXFwK

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) August 5, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWKA9Zi5-_Y

giants dfa'd joe panik

😒

Isan Diaz has to have one of the all-time jacked baseball dads

sideshow bob is on the hill for the dodgers in your youtube game of the week

Nelson Cruz has been wild in the second half:

23 games (started 21), 16 HR, 30 RBI, 22 runs (.357/.449/.964)

Barves have got to figure out some other ways of winning besides scoring 11 runs -- they can't count on that and the bullpen's still shitting the bed even with their new hires.

Will Leitch had been doing decade lists for each position:

https://www.mlb.com/news/top-10-starting-pitchers-of-the-2010s

That's the starting-pitcher list; you can get links for everything else on that page. Putting Bumgarner 5th is quite generous, but most of those are inarguable.

have we discussed cole hamels' hof-ness? i don't think he's going to get there, but he's pitched pretty well for chicago. probably needs three or four more seasons as good as this one to get close, which is asking a lot

Here's a random comp with a guy who hasn't made it in:

Hamels: 162-117 WL, 3.39 ERA, 124 ERA+, 2660.2 IP, 2520 K, 4 ASG appearances, 1 ring, 1 World Series MVP
Schilling: 216-146 WL, 3.46 ERA, 127 ERA+, 3261.0 IP, 3116 K, 6 ASG appearances, 3 rings, 1 World Series MVP

schilling also finished second for the cy three times

plus the fuckin sock

i mean he's a ridiculous asshole but he belongs

Check it ⁦@StratOMatic⁩ This is The 2019 Tour Series of Baseball HallOfFamers at 50,000 feet I’m up 2 games to 1 but my home team is in the Polo Grounds ⁦@tmorello⁩ home team is Wrigley Field . SatchelPaige shut us down yesterday but RegJax Bench HR today for my win pic.twitter.com/77N507b9RW

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) August 10, 2019

he wants no piece of me and the 82 cardinals

My god this 2019 Orioles HR allowed record is gonna be absolutely untouchable

the 2020 championship season will begin with all 30 teams in action on march 26

rays start a series @ san diego tonight, tampa hasnt played in sd since 2004 when they were still the devil rays - https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SDN/SDN200406170.shtml

Braves better have their bullpen shit a little more together for the next six games (Mets & Dodgers). For a team that's 20 games over .500, they sure look un-legit.

Young hitters taking over; older pitchers doing okay.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/baseballs-20-something-sluggers-are-saving-the-sport/

Has there ever been an infield where all four guys slugged .550+? Houston's there right now--albeit right on the fence, and with significant injury time for Altuve and Correa.

final stats on your yankees-orioles 2019 season series

NYY wins, 17-2

NYY
.303/.386/.632
151 runs (7.9/game)
61 homers (3.2/game)
88 walks (4.6/game)
134 strikeouts (7.1/game)

BAL
.243/.306/.420
83 runs (4.4/game)
24 homers (1.3/game)
54 walks (2.8/game)
172 strikeouts (9.1/game)

four players this season have an OPS better than the yankee team's 1.018 against the orioles: trout, yelich, bellinger and cruz. five hall of famers had a better career OPS: ruth, williams, gehrig, fox and greenberg.

bonus gleyber line:
18 games/75 plate appearances
.394/.467/1.045
13 homers
4 doubles
9 singles
22 runs
20 rbi
9 walks
12 strikeouts

foxx. sorry jimmie

jimmie "actually not spelled like a" foxx