the pitch clock is counting down to the MLB 2023 REGULAR SEASON THREAD

Was playing for the ducks

Was really holding out hope that Nevada would be smart enough to not give in to Fisher/MLB. A tiny park, every weekend home game a road game if fans show up at all, no RSN bubble to float them, they're going to be bad forever unless some billionaire paypig buys it for a toy.

Oakland showing signs of life.

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, June 9, 2023 5:46 PM (four days ago)

7 in a row...

As planned A's fans were standing and silent during the first batter of the fifth inning

They then broke into "sell the team" chants so loud that the pitcher thought his earpiece was broken pic.twitter.com/NI2sRLmPjV

— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) June 14, 2023

Entering the streak, the A's had a .194 winning percentage. Now, their seven-game winning streak is tied for the longest by a team to enter with a sub-.200 win percentage (minimum 25 games into a season), according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

The other two teams? The 1895 Louisville Colonels (.192 winning percentage) and the 1885 Detroit Wolverines (.190).

Would like to see the probability on that (especially with all seven wins against +.500 teams). Must be lottery territory.

“A’s make history by being the worst team ever with a winning streak” was too honest of a headline I guess

If I were to wager, Spencer Strider might be headed to the IL. Velocity seems down, missing his spots, looks like a different guy than we say in April/May.

you prob can wager on something like that nowadays...

but yeah giving up miguel cabrera's first homer of the year should have deafening alarms going off, to say nothing of the rest of it

Baseball pitcher Trevor Bauer has been accused by another woman of sexual assault and choking her unconscious, this time in Arizona in late 2020, when the woman said in court filings that he raped her, got her pregnant and also held a jagged steak knife to her throat.

Bauer, 32, has denied the allegations in court records and has countersued the woman, accusing her of fraud, extortion and fabricating her pregnancy. The woman filed her civil complaint against him in December and then amended it more recently with details of her alleged encounters with him, becoming the fourth publicly known woman to make similar allegations against the former Cy Young Award winner.

Loved that the A's fan did a reverse boycott and seem to be a great success.

Fans

Lol

Shouldn’t have corrected yourself hah.

Kershaw still being Kershaw. Fun battle between Cole/Verlander today.

Arizona's Corbin Carroll has just come onto my radar (22,leading the NL in slugging, possible MVP).

Seeing my first game next week in London, Cubs-Cardinals. Excited by how bad both teams can be!

Have fun!

Between the Mariners and the Red Sox and early Giants I’ve watched so much bad baseball this year, this is like oxygen to me now

And Nootbar’s out of action iirc

I know 😩

Have fun. I remember my first game fondly: Ducky Medwick went 5-5, and Dizzy Dean picked up the win in relief.

They run the bases in the opposite direction over there, right?

yeah, 9-out innings, it's wild

They run the bases in the opposite direction over there, right?

― clemenza,

LMAO

Have fun gyac

on rob manfred's latest assholery:

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/i-was-supposed-to-write-about-elly-de-la-cruz-today

https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/83442/between-the-lines-the-wrong-lessons-learned-mlb-pride-as-fans-money (this requires a login, but is on the free level)

not sure oliver marmol is gonna make it to london

wow. tremendous article in Fangraphs there.

clemenza i’m sure you already know but arraez went 5-5 last night and is back at .390

I did know. Unfortunately, he wiped out in Seattle before that. I don't think .400 is as unlikely as a 56-game hitting streak--you don't have to go 2-5 every game--but even a mini-slump requires a serious hot streak to get back to close to where you were, and even there you probably lost some ground.

he should simply trying avoiding the cold streaks imo, worth a shot

You need to tweet that out to him immediately.

96 hits, 20 walks, leading the NL in BA and OBP, and scored only 29 runs which I think puts him on pace for 67 or so?

That's really strange--I assumed general lineup strength was part of why Miami's doing so well. He's also got enough XBH that he should end with 50+ for the year, so he's almost slugging .500--he's not a Punch-and-Judy guy this year.

First thing I've discovered is that they've been very lucky--outscored by 29 runs, eight games over .500.

he should simply trying avoiding the cold streaks imo, worth a shot

(xposts) Jays have Miami next, so they're talking about them. Presently 18-5 in one-run games, 6-11 in blowouts.

Happy Father’s Day!

All's well that ends well. 😂 pic.twitter.com/fh5LhmTImA

— Cut4 (@Cut4) June 18, 2023

Gerrit Cole looks like he’s on trial for murder.

pic.twitter.com/IUwmVSZimF

— Mike Daddino (@mike_daddino) June 18, 2023

40 runs for ATL in a four game series vs. COL, humming along on almost all offensive cylinders, esp. Harris and Rosario. Harris received the first pitch from his dad and then went 5-5.

Yeah I saw they were down early 5-0, I should have trusted they’d come back 14-6!

The editor for this timeout should get an Oscar, best short film, you can feel Giolito’s rage. And then he got a pitch clock violation and Kubrick stared. It was incredible.

José Caballero has been allowed to weaponize the batter time out and it's ridiculous. ~84 seconds between pitches! pic.twitter.com/JKGziCXmHB

— Codify (@CodifyBaseball) June 17, 2023

Will be rooting for Arráez to go 15-15 against the Jays and to die at first every time. (I didn't monitor the HOF inductions here in St. Marys over the weekend, but I bet Olerud--who was elected in 2020 and was finally formally put in--fielded at least a couple of Arráez questions.)

Watch out, Carnac, here I come--Jays getting hammered, but Arráez 5-5 and--yes--hitting .400.

Arráez: 5 singles, 5 TB. Toronto: 5 singles, but also a double--7 TB!

This is fun to watch: center, center, left, right, left. How do you shift against that?

https://www.mlb.com/news/luis-arraez-gets-five-hits-as-marlins-win-fifth-straight

Absolute beauty of a swing on this low changeup outside the zone. A no-doubter in all 30.
https://i.postimg.cc/pT0R0byS/IMG-3695.jpg

TRISTON TO THE MOON. pic.twitter.com/sIB9iyEj4L

— Red Sox (@RedSox) June 20, 2023

Geez, gyac--I could, to paraphrase you from a few weeks ago, mention that there's literally a "Thread of future Red Sox superstar Triston Casas" thread (not to mention a 2023 Red Sox thread). But I won't. (Except I just did.)

I wonder who started that thread!

always fun to see pitchers get charged on bad pitches that never should've been swung on in the first place but instead were muscled out of the park in a display of superhuman strength

Exactly--I was aware, I was aware...Anyway, I really don't care, this isn't meant to be the Arráez thread either (I should start one). Just against the idea of hall-monitoring threads in general.

he is like the king of plate discipline (84th percentile chase rate) but they’ve been trying to get him to swing at stuff outside he can connect on as well for more xbhs and this is the second hr he’s had this month that was on outside of the zone (the first one had a 44 degree launch angle!)