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

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

i attributed maldonado's presence a few weeks ago to small sample size, but he has REALLY lost a step. last year he was running 23.5 ft/s, which is still very slow for a baseball player, but muuuuuch faster than he's running now. is he injured?

aaron judge hitting two homers and then bitching about camden yards’ new wall because he didn’t get a third is lame af

Johnny Cueto owns an ambulance that transforms into a portable sound wall with 54 speakers. It's just another reason he is The Most Interesting Man In Baseball. Story at ESPN, free and unlocked, on the legend of leisure -- and, it turns out, work ethic: https://t.co/goh3wgnmGp pic.twitter.com/r3TAMiWFPl

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) May 21, 2022

Yes let’s glorify the rich and their extravagant lifestyles its totally healthy

It could be this crap.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/yankees-white-sox-benches-clear-after-josh-donaldson-calls-tim-anderson-jackie-robinson-223254927.html

Fuck baseball.

https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/04/30/chicago-white-sox-tim-anderson-jackie-robinson

What sucks even more is Donaldson saying he did it to him starting last year, and didn’t understand why it was a big deal now. After Anderson had even let it slide the first time he did it in the game yesterday. Everyone know someone like a Josh Donaldson. Fuck him is right. How many Jackie Robinson tributes has he seen in his life?

I realize Donaldson can be an asshole - but if Anderson was comparing himself to Robinson, it kind of opens himself up to some ribbing.

there's a lot to say on that, but in short, i completely disagree. and regardless, there is no way that the pattern of behavior going back to last year, with Anderson alone (who knows how many other players he is doing this to) is "some ribbing"