general 2021 MLB discussion thread

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.

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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)

he hit three in the last week

nice, 37.5% of his mlb-tying season lead in triples in the last week! kinda bonkers

need some, uh, help with my stream with playoffs being blacked out on mlb.tv and r/mlbstreams being down

sport surge dot net

Yup. All you need.

thanking u'all

for a while i was using dudestream dot net but their videos haven't been playing lately. every time i had to go to a game that was blacked out i would think to myself.... "time to enter the dude stream 😎" and then i would hack my way into the dude stream

life is different in the dude stream

did they have chat in dude stream?

seeing the chat on the side of sport surge or whatever is unbelievable. it's like, this is humanity. holy shit, it's terrible

everybody's like 'WHY DON'T THEY FUCKING BENCH BADER? HE CAN'T FUCKEN HIT FOR HSIT"

this is the dude stream

https://jegged.com/img/Games/Final-Fantasy-VII/Walkthrough/FFVII-01163-Mideel-Lifestream-Cinematic-Tifa-Cloud.png

of course it has a chat! you can't watch sports without racial slurs

it's true, it creates the ballpark experience of the incredibly drunk racist old white guy, all around you, in 4 or 6 different formations within 5 rows of you in every seat in the ballpark. and you have to figure out whether you need to confront them all and whether or not it's worth dying for tonight

M1keHawk69: ready for the salt mine

Tue Oct 5, 7:07:09pm

gir4ff3: tonight i am a red sox fan

Tue Oct 5, 7:07:09pm

scoopydu: I surrender myself to the random outcome 1-game gods

Tue Oct 5, 7:07:09pm

baseballfan17: @TrashtrosCheated just seeing who gets their asses kicked by the rays

Tue Oct 5, 7:07:10pm

NHL: LOL

Tue Oct 5, 7:07:10pm

ATLallthings: Yankees winning 7-5 IMO

Tue Oct 5, 7:07:10pm

bdodger1: @Mackie5Million but our boy kike is

Tue Oct 5, 7:07:11pm

ChoiBois: SCOOPS AND WYATT COWARDS

Tue Oct 5, 7:07:11pm

Mr6ixSide: LFG DODGERS

Tue Oct 5, 7:07:11pm

EastDelmar: the only sox making the world series arent playing tonight

Mackie5Million: @gir4ff3 yeah honestly where are the boys?

EXCITABLE VASGERSIAN

WRONG THREAD

I almost hope Gallo singles before BOS gets out of the inning.

The Jays and the Rays would both be way more exciting AL pennant winners than what we're looking at and I wish they respectively had been in / had stayed in the playoffs.

ILB needs a big all-time poll of favourite players.

It’s Kyle Farnsworth and it’s not even close.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uplOrx-nVIo

Willie McGee would win with two votes

Orel and benito santiago

How many people have played Major League Baseball? Are we seriously going to have to poll all 127 people to ever play?! (Or whatever the number is)

I believe the number is something pleasingly round. Like 10,000 or so?

Edit:

[MLB Statistics] 18,918 players have played Major League Baseball. Mike Trout, who is 25 years old, has been worth more WAR than 18,589 of them, or 98.2%.

Mike Trout is 30! Point stands though

Oh shit, once again the little section that google highlights is way out of date!

As of today, the number is 19,969, at least according to https://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/ballplayer.shtml

Might have been a good poll to have in 2011--the World Series thread had 1,081 posts (240 this year).

this world series sucked though

whereas in 2011 america's team was playing, as well as the cardinals

That baseball-almanac figure is also old as the 20,000th player debuted this year

i should know better than to try to google than on my phone, hahaha.

i suppose the "real" answer depends on other factors too:

https://www.ocregister.com/2021/05/26/hoornstra-finding-mlbs-real-20000th-player-with-apologies-to-jose-godoy/

Reminiscent of the league trying to figure out who scored their millionth run in 1975.

b-ref is up to 22,563 with the addition of negro league players

wander franco is the next vladimir guerrero jr. he can't miss

Honestly just the most horrible updates on that case everyday. Just despicable