2022 MLB General Season Chatter: Ghost Runners On The Half-Billion Dollar Infield

lol

The Pirates finally got their first win from a starter in their 28th game, a major league record to begin a season. The old mark was set by the Baltimore Orioles in 1988 when they started 0-21.

also snapped a 16-game losing streak vs the dodgers

Guardians score 6 in top of the ninth to tie game. End up winning.

^^8 RBI for Toronto's (Mississauga's, technically) Josh Naylor--if I read it right, all in the last two innings without a HR?

he hit two homers

I swear I looked at the boxscore and missed that...really didn't make sense, though. Anyway, his minor-league career kind of paralleled Darren Shred's, the guy I coach in middle school who was drafted by the Reds, so I follow him. Darren got hurt (Reds could probably use him now), Naylor kept going.

("coached"--many years ago)

God, the Dodgers starting pitching right now...Six different guys have started games; one has an ERA of around 2.75, the other five have dead-ball-era ERAs.

Stanton and Judge look like an excellent bet for 100+ HR (and 50+ each) if healthy--22 in 32 games. There must have been some 50+ teammates during the PED era.

None--surprised. Still only Maris/Mantle.

really? i'm surprised as well. but yeah, guess there haven't been any.

"if healthy" is the key. stanton has had a very strange career

Looks like the two closest are Ruth (60)/Gehrig (47) in 1927, and A-Rod (52)/Palmeiro (47) in 2001.

It’s wild he doesn’t hurt himself more tbh. His swing is bonkers

"Judge and Stanton join Babe Ruth (14) and Lou Gehrig (10) from 1930 and Mickey Mantle (16) and Yogi Berra (12) from 1956 as the only pair of teammates in franchise history to have 10-plus homers in 32 games."

https://www.mlb.com/news/giancarlo-stanton-aaron-judge-homer-yankees-vs-white-sox

players with 0 walks so far in 2022, sorted by PAs (all stats from before today's games)

68 PAs: Yadier Molina
63: Cole Tucker
38: Francisco Mejia
29: Edmundo Sosa
25: Royce Lewis
23: Jose Rojas
22: Dee don't make a joke about me being Strange-Gordon

i'll give yadi a pass; he's not-quite-a-hall-of-famer (but will obviously get in at some point)

cole tucker has an 11 wRC+ this year and a career -2.1 bWAR. happily he's been sent down

didn't we used to do polls to see who would go the longest without walking? i can't remember how "good"/bad 68 PAs without a walk is.

what's funny was that in yadi's last appearance today, with a full count, he chased an obvious ball four and struck out :P

"obvious" to me as a pro baseball watcher

these guys suck!

*trips over rug on way to kitchen, again*

we did, and iirc 68 PA is a great deal

i'm kind of proud of him. i hope he never walks again!

i don't think he deserves to be a first-ballot hall of famer but i think he will come close and will quite possibly get it anyway. i've enjoyed watching him sweat his ass off for the last 18 or so years

If he gets in and the VC hasn't yet put Munson in, I will complain.

pirates are three outs away from winning a game in which they’ve been no-hit

wow

did it. sixth time ever

So I did read the box score correctly, that's nuts.

Only 24 outs though

Per the Elias Sports Bureau, a no-hitter needs to be at least nine innings in order to be official.

Or what x said

That’s insane. I should probably watch more highlights or something because I would never have know if not for this thread

Of course it’s the reds.

Heard a funny radio call of the last out: "The Pirates have just been no-hit, and THEY'VE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER!"

Fuck Michele Tafoya.

Your eyes are not deceiving you. pic.twitter.com/cAv8yhHjr2

— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) May 16, 2022

the final pitch of the game was a 46.6 mph curveball

should have posted on that all on the He Reigneth thread

this is gonna be the thing that keeps him below 100 rWAR

my brain is fried today so sorry if this is a dumb question, but why didn't ke bryan hayes' RBI count as a hit (in the reds' no-hitter loss)?

Ruled as a fielders choice I believe.

Naturally I'm extremely pleased to see that Pujols throws the eephus

xxp hayes *almost* hit into a double play but beat the throw to first

right ... i don't really get the baseball scoring logic of that not counting as a hit - he hit the ball and ended up on first without an error. i guess the idea is he probably would have been out if he had been the only runner.

right

lol sorry for that last post where i make an argument and then immediately counter my own argument.

the answer was within you all along

The top 5 for household rating are:

St Louis Cardinals – 7.52
Milwaukee Brewers – 5.21
Kansas City Royals – 4.80
San Diego Padres – 4.59
Detroit Tigers – 4.23

it's confirmed: we've got jack shit to do in the midwest

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2022/05/16/mlbs-biggest-untold-story-is-its-mass-appeal-for-advertisers-on-regional-sports-networks/

that pujols pitching performance will go down with the great beltre/colon videos

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/05/chris-paddack-undergoes-tommy-john-surgery.html

The Padres dodged a bullet there, so much so, that that trade seems fishie.

https://i.imgur.com/cDxLCo1.png

*2 New Challengers Enter the Tournament*

oops, sorry - the number on the right is sprint speed (ft/s). they are the bottom 4 in MLB. the number in the column to the left is the number of "sprints" that are being measured