2018 regular-season game chatter

the fuuuck

In tomorrow’s @sfchronicle: A’s to call up Edwin Jackson; he’ll join record 13th major-league team https://t.co/qqHwvmyzLv

— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) June 23, 2018

awesome

The Cubs got swept by the Reds in a 4 game series for the first time since April, 1983. They were outscored 31-12 over the course of the four games.

Turns out Hanley wasn't involved at all in the Fentanyl distribution case...

Looks like the Nats tried starting a one-inning pitcher against Tampa Bay tonight:

Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	WHIP	ERA
G. Gonzalez, P
	
1.0
	
3
	
6
	
6
	
5
	
2
	
1
	
-
	
3.68

whoops, my code must be cross-tabbed

Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	WHIP	ERA
G. Gonzalez	1.0	3	6	6	5	2	1	-	3.68

Dayton Moore first offered public support to Luke Heimlich a week ago in an FSKC interview that generated few headlines or controversy. How the Royals' GM became an unlikely advocate for the Oregon State pitcher and convicted child molester: https://t.co/m6F7MKVXMr

— Rustin Dodd (@rustindodd) June 26, 2018

Javy Baez is having a truly ill game tonight.

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-rays-played-a-pitcher-at-first-base/

ross otm, both that extra base by contreras and the throw by muncy were dangerous as hell

Highest OPS+ by a teenager*
Min. 100 PA, since 1901
1. 166 -- Juan Soto, 2018 Nationals
2. 146 -- Whitey Lockman, 1945 Giants
3. 139 -- Mel Ott, 1928 Giants**
4. 137 -- Tony Conigliaro, 1964 Red Sox
5. 132 -- Ty Cobb, 1906 Tigers**
6. 130 -- Jimmie Foxx, 1927 Athletics**
7. 122 -- Sherry Magee, 1904 Athletics
8. 119 -- Johnny Lush, 1904 Athletics
9. 118 -- Bryce Harper, 2012 Nationals
10. 117 -- Mickey Mantle, 1951 Yankees**
*Age-19 season or earlier
**Hall of Famer

https://www.mlb.com/news/juan-soto-working-on-best-teenage-mlb-season/c-283388364

damn

1904 a's were loaded

by my research on bbref, kluber's start this week was the worst of his career by game score (8)

His 18K game from a few years ago was another interleague game, also against the cardinals

Lush played for the Phillies!

so did Magee

Yes and they finished last that year!

Highest OPS+ by a teenager*
Min. 100 PA, since 1901
1. 166 -- Juan Soto, 2018 Nationals

run it again after tonight's game, dude had a career night.

182 now!

the "squat" Willians Astudillo is up

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-weirdest-player-in-the-minors-is-now-in-the-majors/

And an RBI single in his first AB.

Also, Cubs had 9 runs on 14 singles before Happ doubled just now.

today's Brewers-Reds game featured both a reliever (Michael Lorenzen) hitting a grand slam and a catcher (Erik Kratz) recording a strikeout on a 59 mph knuckleball (that was well outside the strike zone, but I guess the ump just wanted to get it over with)

Worst June in Mets' club history. Think about that history.

yeowch

Chris Sale is ridiculous.

yeah, he’s one of the best pitchers in his division

*air horn*

Third-worst month in Mets history, actually.

*air horn*

― Karl Malone, Saturday, June 30, 2018 11:00 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago)

(tony reali mutes, deducts 4 points)

god damn you tony reali, this is the last time

oh I was saying he was doing it to me!

Astudillo hit a triple today! 3-7 now with three RBI.

we love our willians, but the twins have him playing 2B today

he has not played middle infield since 2011, and that was for 18 games

!

imagine him & Bartolo as a battery

gerrit cole / justin verlander trivia

He already owns an unusual but interesting record -- at least since people started keeping track, he has the record for most consecutive games to start a season where the pitcher goes at least five innings and allows six or fewer hits. Cole has done that all 17 times this year.

The odd thing is that Justin Verlander did it in his first 16 starts this season. There must be something in that Houston water.

looks like colby rasmus is retiring (again)

Colby Rasmus steps off the 'roller coaster' again. Reports from Baltimore have former #stlcards torchbearer prospect walking away from the game -- for a second consecutive summer. Spoke to him about that this past spring: https://t.co/oC629kTL0c #Orioles #MLB

— Derrick Goold (@dgoold) July 4, 2018

if you can't make the orioles roster you'd better, in the words of the immortal chuck noll, get on with your life's work

https://deadspin.com/carlos-gomez-cant-hit-the-ball-but-he-can-hit-this-wate-1827345931

this looks like something out of Smash Bros.

in the last calendar year, aaron judge is slugging .568

francisco lindor is slugging .566

this is kinda random but AL first basemen are having a pretty terrible year, collectively

Wow at that Lindor number.

yeah, the most defensible AL 1b All-Star id the A's guy, Olson?

Also Oakland is looking like our only hope for an AL WC race. (other than btwn the East's two Evil Empires)

Biggest Changes in Attendance per Game
1 #Marlins ⬇️11,162⬇️
2 #BlueJays ⬇️11,147⬇️
3 #Tigers ⬇️7,319⬇️
4 #Orioles ⬇️7,063⬇️
5 #Royals ⬇️7,035⬇️
6 #Pirates ⬇️6,496⬇️
7 #Brewers ⬆️6,154⬆️
8 #Astros ⬆️6,000⬆️
9 #Rangers ⬇️4,929⬇️

— Baseball Reference (@baseball_ref) July 5, 2018

apparently the marlins this year have taken a policy of not lying about attendance so that when it theoretically rises once the team is theoretically better the new ownership group will have an accurate reflection of how much they’ve actually risen attendance \(o_O)/

hi J... I thought MLB-wide policy now was to record attendance as tickets sold for a game, not actual fannies in seats; i wonder if this has changed?

you might be right and i could just be parroting jetah propaganda

the high in anaheim today is to be 117° -- 109° by game time at 7 PDT. have we had heat-related postponements yet?