2018 regular-season game chatter

I don't think they ever had a lead in that series

mega bummer about seager

braves are calling up 20yo RHP (and calgary native) mike soroka to start tonight. don't see too many high school pitchers arrive that quickly

pretty nice debut

I'm glad the bullpen and D held it for him -- they looked like they were trying to give it up late.

Trout sent one 524 feet.

Wait. What? really?! Whoa

Sure doesn't look to be that far on replay (and the game report doesn't say anything to that effect).

yeah he broke the tracker. it WAS a bomb tho

i know it's been said a million times but jesus the commentary on these facebook streaming games is so bad

Donaldson's first game back off the DL looks promising.

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i only had to watch one (a cardinals game. and maybe the first one?) and it was excruciating and i will never do it again

it makes me yearn for an actual commercial break

damn, ex-Cub making good in KC this year.

Jorge Soler homered (472 ft.) to deep left center

just tuned in, but do mariners fans typically boo ohtani every time he bats? i guess because he picked LA over SEA? man, that's fucking dumb. #notthebestfansinbaseball

leading NL position players in fWAR over the last 365 days

Tommy Pham 7.7
Charlie Blackmon 6.9
Joey Votto 6.6

AL

Judge 8.2
Altuve 7.7
Ramirez 7.5

Rhys Hoskins after half a season worth of games: .268/.409/.570, 22 hr and 16 doubles and 158 wrc+.

i would be interested in an exploration of rhys hoskins’ WAR while being compelled to play left field vs his WAR if he were allowed to play his natural 1B

i mean it’s not his fault his NL team went out and signed a designated hitter

15 of the 19 outs made while Scherzer was on the mound were Ks.

Indians bullpen a disaster

(xpost) Came to post the same thing--15 K in 6.1 innings! Obviously couldn't have gone any farther--he'd thrown 111 pitches--but might've threatened 21 otherwise.

8 of the top 10 hitters by fWAR are in the AL. and one of the two NL players is nick markakis. (the other is aj pollock)

Some arguments for Molina to be a first ballot hall of famer on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball, even comparisons to Ozzie Smith.

it's getting kind of weird, already. i understand locals doing it because he's a goddamn legend around here, but i don't get the national press/visiting announcers mentioning it all the time as well

I’ll be clear here: I’m on the big hall side of things and more catchers could get in, it wouldn’t hurt and if Molina has his plaque I’ll be happy, he seems cool and it also means it will be deserved, I am just thinking they are setting a lof people with expectations there.

yeah, they're making it a self-fulfilling prophecy pretty much, because now every year he doesn't get in everyone will be like "but back in his playing days everyone said he was a first ballot hall of famer!"

but i'll be happy to see him in the hall, too, if he makes it, even if his numbers don't exactly back it up. and i look forward him to coming back to busch stadium wearing really tacky bright red suit jackets with ozzie, gibson, and the rest of the guys for a long time.

He’ll be the Cardinals coach for 17 years, also.

JFC at the graphic showing that there was 7000 pitches at 98 mph+ in 2014 and that we are on pace to break 20 000 this season.

a-rod: "he's 28 but he probably has the knowledge of a 38-year-old" (talking about Francisco Peña, son of Tony)

fuck you, Yadi

I dout he reads this message board Morbs.

idk, he seems pretty sensitive to disrespect

The Chicago White Sox released the following update today on the condition of White Sox pitcher Danny Farquhar: pic.twitter.com/FFrhsiaI4Z

— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) May 7, 2018

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(xposts) From a Posnanski column on Markakis:

J. Damon through age 33: 1,845 games, .288/.353/.433, 2,102 hits, 166 homers, 3,162 total bases.
Markakis through age 33: 1,839 games, .288/.358/.422, 2,052 hits, 165 homers, 3,014 total bases.

http://www.mlb.com/news/nick-markakis-has-a-real-chance-at-3000-hits/c-275175746

they call him The Compiler

both good players! but there's a pretty big gap in WAR, presumably because damon's lack of power played better in center than markakis' in right + baserunning

the latter is off to a hell of a start this year

it's getting kind of weird, already. i understand locals doing it because he's a goddamn legend around here, but i don't get the national press/visiting announcers mentioning it all the time as well

― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Sunday, May 6, 2018 11:04 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bending over backwards to grade catchers on a curve is the new on base percentage I guess

if Yadi makes the HOF Jim Sundberg should activate his dormant Veteran's Committee campaign.

off-topic but i thought this was interesting. i never think of the blue jays as a powerhouse 80s team but they were just consistently good

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(sorry the STL line is highlighted; i grabbed from a cardinals blog)

what? pic.twitter.com/Kt2YEfQCij

— Parker Hageman (@ParkerHageman) May 8, 2018

glad i'm not watching the MIN broadcast, i guess

im sure that makes sense in his head

is that torii or latroy?

torii

Maybe giving him too much credit here, but I think he's talking about launching the ball by "cutting the ball in half" and generating backspin? Not sure about how that applies to Donaldson though, who seems the poster boy for this uppercut/fly-ball revolution

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The Reds are nearing a trade for Matt Harvey. Very close, according to source.

yikes