general 2021 MLB discussion thread

it's like please, please, don't watch baseball. especially if you paid for it

people in iowa, you must go the field of dreams to watch baseball. it is the only place where mlb will let you watch baseball

If you build it, they will begrudgingly come and complain about the beer prices

chris sale is set to return from the dead soon

yeah Hulu dropped the Brewers games and it basically took me from being able to rattle off all the players' stats to not even knowing who's all on the team anymore. MLB should do something about that!!

Manfred feels quite demonstrably the worst of a long line of bad baseball commissioners

And I feel he has not even come close to reaching his nadir

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— Lindsay Zoladz (@lindsayzoladz) August 14, 2021

The stars seem to have aligned for the Barves at just the right time. Their strength of schedule looks pretty favorable for the rest of the season too.

this afternoon I took a nap and had a dream about a bar poker game that I did not go to (it was last Friday and I really wanted to play but backroom bar games are kind of a dicey proposition right now). in this dream a guy is telling me about the cash game and who was all there and he mentions that the big winner in the cash game was Barry Zito. I have not thought about Barry Zito in years, never really paid much attention to him, and now he's like the one guy named in this random dream of mine? was he in the news or something lately? how did this get caught in my subconscious?

it means barry zito was dreaming about you too

barry zito is a baseball legend in some quarters

wait - there's people who don't dream about Zito every night?!
i call it my "zito time"!

This is, like, best case scenario with a Cameo. https://t.co/EKjtxaDELT

— Brian Heater (@bheater) August 17, 2021

22 days ago the red sox were up 9 1/2 games on the yankees; now they are even

Barry Zito, one of the first MLB players to understand the power of Twitter, is a legend in this quarter.

Barry Zito taught me how to drive

Milwaukee is 73-47

Rowdy Tellez slashing .333/.414/.613/1.027

Jack Morris, still a dipshit.

The fact that this type of lazy racism keeps popping up around Shohei Ohtani speaks to so much of the media being apathetic and lacking any empathy towards the AAPI experience https://t.co/t1MCKhanCc

— Joon 이준엽 (@joonlee) August 18, 2021

A reminder: Jack Morris told my friend, the immensely talented late Washington Post sports columnist Jennifer Frey, “I only talk to women when I’m naked when they’re on top of me or I’m on top of them.” She was an intern at the time, in the clubhouse, doing her job. https://t.co/XPkk8kI7iN

— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) August 18, 2021

surprised he didn't try the whole "I was doing Elmer Fudd" defense

Freddie Freeman's having a night (got the cycle in the 6th).

so many teams deserve to be lads-ed

max fried with a 90-pitch maddux against god's chosen team

K. Akin (L, 0-8) 7.92

reds and padres now even for the second NL wild card with the latter in free-fall

padres' schedule is brutal, too -- *half* their remaining 38 games are against the dodgers or giants

yikes

Wow

Happy 51st birthday to ⁦@Brewers⁩ manager Craig Counsell. Craig is now the same age that Harvey Kuenn was when he led the team to the 1982 World Series.

Anyone else a little messed up by this? pic.twitter.com/rs5VKlayKX

— Doug Russell (@DougRussell) August 22, 2021

harvey's fault for not having that insane batting stance

Yelich's swing is just so sweet. That homer to center was a bomb.

No sweeter sound than the loud thwack and immediate roar from the crowd

only one that i know of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbFaltAkKmY

Reds just pulled Antone with a 3-2 count after he injured himself...I knew you could do this, but I've never actually seen it done. Does he get charged the run if the batter scores or does it go to the new pitcher?

I’ve seen it where the batter is injured mid-at bat and the new pinch hitter inherits the same count. The pinch hitter then struck out but the K was charged to the injured hitter.

this suggests that, given a 3-2 count, if the batter walks and later scores, it would be charged to antone. any other method of him scoring would be charged to the reliever

Rule 10.16 (h) The procedure when more than one pitcher is involved in giving a base on balls.

A relief pitcher shall not be held accountable when the first batter to whom he pitches reaches first base on four called balls, if such batter has a decided advantage in the ball and strike count when pitchers are changed.

(1) If, when pitchers are changed, the count is:

2 balls, no strikes

2 balls, 1 strike

3 balls, no strikes

3 balls, 1 strike

3 balls, 2 strikes,

and the batter gets a base on balls, the official scorer shall charge that batter and the base on balls to the preceding pitcher, not to the relief pitcher.

(2) Any other action by such batter, such as reaching base on a hit, an error, a fielder's choice, a force out, or being touched by a pitched ball, shall cause such a batter to be charged to the relief pitcher.

(3) If, when pitchers are changed, the count is:

2 balls, 2 strikes

1 ball, 2 strikes

1 ball, 1 strike

1 ball, no strikes

no ball, 2 strikes

no ball, 1 strike,

the official scorer shall charge that batter and the actions of that batter to the relief pitcher.

So sayeth the Lord.

Tommy Edman is tied for the NL lead in doubles (32), and has a .379 SLG and .121 ISO

Braves with 2 nights off in a row, weird

dbacks have scored 2 runs every second inning so far. if they score in the ninth i'm gonna be mad

dumb bastards allowed a run to the phillies in the ninth, ruining the beautiful symmetry...

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that really is a shame!

disgusting... fuck this sport i'm done

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it was like a bird in flight

i know right! now it's got some shit on its wing

fucking phillies

This is the last frame of the top of the 7th inning, followed by the first frame of the bottom of the 7th.
So, yeah ... as great as Williams' moment was, this is another Trevor Bauer story. pic.twitter.com/wz1n5ha3xn

— Bradford William Davis (@BWDBWDBWD) August 27, 2021

Vladimir Guerrero's son drives home Dante Bichette's son, then challenges Mike Cameron's son in RF for a double. 1-0 Blue Jays lead against former NBA player Rich Manning's son.

— Jason Beck (@beckjason) August 27, 2021

that’s wild.

you know what else is wild? yanks winning 13 straight and STILL 4 behind tampa bay.

adam wainwright is having a pretty incredible season for a guy who turns 40 on monday

of course it helps that four of his starts have been against the pirates (10 H and 1 ER in 30 IP ffs)

Rays are 17-1 against the o’s