general 2021 MLB discussion thread

Amazing. I’ve got the Rays / Yankees on the 2nd monitor now

(Top of the best, that is.)

Lowe up with two on!

Of the 10,000 dumb ideas MLB ever had, the synchronized last-day finish--which I assume was inspired by the wild finish that one year--has to rank near the top.

― clemenza, Sunday, October 3, 2021 5:07 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

i remember it was well received at the time but right now mlb.tv is melting my laptop

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is this a relative or a future republican senator

Those 45 Marcus Semien homers would've looked nice on the A's tally :/

(Top of the best, that is.)

i was gonna say!

Cruz and Meadows left a runner at third with one out.

carlos correa has been hugging people for the past 20 minutes

I was wondering if randy was going to try stealing home, because it definitely looked like the bats weren’t going to get him there.

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5-3 Nationals, Boston poised for more. I've got a bad feeling.

Alex Verdugo all is forgiven!!

5-5. Relying on other teams is the worst.

love too get the extra-inning ghost runner in a season-deciding situation

Fuck--2nd and 3rd, Yankees, one out.

love too get the extra-inning ghost runner in a season-deciding situation

:(

they're not doing that for the playoffs are they?

NYY looks like they're about to buss it down

yankees win, sox are tied... this is the opposite of 2011

well i am disappoint

only two scenarios now right? BOS-NYY in the wildcard or BOS-TOR in a play-in game tomorrow and NYY cools their heels?

yup, barring a wild m's comeback

and no, there's no extra-inning runner on second in the playoffs (although i suppose there would be in a game 163)

0-0 into the 9th. I'm resigned to the worst, but at least Soto will come up.

that’s fucked up though. it’s literally the post-season. it’s literally a playoff.

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Nationals error, of course.

Fuck

top of the order for the nats

and the job of closing the game goes to… nick pivetta who starts with three straight balls

About all you can do now is hope for a runner + Soto.

The Jays did great to get back in this, and great to sweep the Orioles. They're young, it's baseball, etc. I will think back to two lost chances: heading into the Twins series, where they should have won 3, and heading into that last Yankees series, where--improbable though it would have been--they still could have controlled the outcome 100% by winning their last 6.

It's the Twins series that hurt.

cannot believe he held onto that this game is cursed

The least exciting wild card outcome has happened

absolutely awful, sorry jays friends

the TV gods chuckle darkly

I'm a Cardinals fan now. I don't think I could root for any one of the five AL teams, even though I like a number of individual players.

hmm, well, I would have preferred the opposite outcome of every game but you can’t have everything.

Dodgers won 106 games including their last 7 in a row and still could not catch SF

Ohtani: #43 in pitcher WAR, #20 in batter WAR, #1 in our hearts

I guess white Sox for me in the AL. Or rays. Fuck all the other franchises tho.

i'm a red sox fan and that's basically how i feel too tbh

white sox all the way... fun team, not their fault they ended up with tony la duissa

I just. I really don’t want to hear the breathless praise of him if they win it all. Like that lump on the bench had anything to do with what a great team they have.

Haven't really internalized that the White Sox and the Braves are in the playoffs, somehow I haven't really thought about either of those teams all season.

One absolutely bonkers thing I noticed today - this season could very well end with no hitters over 7 fWAR. Going all the way back to 1884 when the NL expanded beyond 112 games, I can only find 2 seasons where that happened, 1900 and 1918. Didn't even happen in the strike seasons. Most seasons it doesn't come remotely close to happening.

― ✖, Wednesday, September 29, 2021 2:42 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

no one even made it to 6.9. honestly wild. even if trout/acuna/tatis had all been healthy enough to make it to 7, that still would've been a really light year. in 1999 no one had more than 8, which is rare in itself, but 6 players had 7+.

correa led position players with 7.2 bWAR. by my quick research the last times no hitter had at least 8 was 1981, 1971, and 1940, and 7.2 is the lowest leader I can see since george sisler led with 6.6 in 1918

sorry Blue Jays fans, i was rooting for them to make it in. such a fun team

don't really care about either of the wild card games, four teams that i dislike (to varying degrees)

White Sox all the way, no one really thinks La Russa is doing anything that matters

speaking of stats/records like this: the triple

Pour one out for … the triple? For the first time in the history of baseball (not counting last season’s 60-game mess), nobody reached double digits in baseball’s most exciting play. No one got all that close, either; the year ended with David Peralta, Bryan Reynolds and Shohei Ohtani all tied with eight. We came awfully close to the same happening in 2019, when four batters tied for the MLB lead with ten, but it’s been only 14 years since each league had a hitter with 20-plus in Jimmy Rollins and Curtis Granderson.

(i love that a pitcher is tied for MLB league in triples, though)