2018 regular-season game chatter

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?

there's been a few guys recently who have left games bcuz of the heat

you know, back in the day the boys used to wear wool uniforms and ride in single-berth trains without any air conditioning, all without any complaints at all. in fact they used to wear those wool uniforms on the train, because they loved the game so much. i remember some pranksters setting shoelaces on fire in the dugout, but you know when it was time to lay down a sacrifice bunt for the 5th time in a game, we were ready, and that's something the boys today with their launch angles and metrics can't seem to learn

i've been listening to too much tim mccarver recently

Trevor Bauer says he's never signing a long-term deal. Only one-year contracts.

Why? Turns out he made a bet with a friend: If he ever signs a multi-year deal, the friend gets to shoot him in the nuts with a paintball gun from 10 feet away.

Full podcast: https://t.co/hvN9x1gPKo pic.twitter.com/9l3z7PHLGz

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) July 6, 2018

:/

sure...

huh

Trevor "one of the most scientific baseball players in MLB" Bauer

Jordan Zimmermann outpitched Bartolo Colon in 2 hours, 5 minutes. Sun just set, so they'll have to wait for postgame fireworks.

— Jason Beck (@beckjason) July 7, 2018

Both starters were so good - game ended just minutes after sun set, played in a crisp 2:05. Zimmermann threw 96 pitches, 67 for strikes. Colon w/ 97P - 72 strikes. Combined - the two went to a 3-ball count just three times....

— Dan Dickerson (@Dan_Dickerson) July 7, 2018

Great four- or five-way Cy Young race shaping up in the A.L.: Severino, Sale, and Bauer, Kluber and Verlander still hanging in there.

Missed Snell from Tampa Bay (because I don't know who Snell from Tampa Bay is).

i saw a night game in Seattle (2006?) around the solstice that ended before the sun set. (Jamie Moyer for the M's)

The Angels have a pitcher named Deck McGuire! Obvious refugee from a WWII Navy movie.

I heard an inning of Joe Buck; he's still got "it."

dude was a first round pick for the Jays many moons ago!

o shit the nats had a players-only meeting and now they're unstoppable o shit

love to discuss things with my coworkers

o shit the nats had a players-only meeting and now they're unstoppable o shit

― mookieproof, Saturday, July 7, 2018 10:40 PM (yesterday)

They were down 0-9 to the Marlins at one point during the game in which their win streak started.

!

Giants' Alen Hanson just scored from 1st on a wild pickoff throw to tie the game vs. the Cubs 😮

(via @SFGiants) pic.twitter.com/pyc30NPRvK

— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) July 10, 2018

Astros win on wacky walkoff:
https://streamable.com/g5ic0

as if they weren't good enough

the astros have optioned ken giles to triple-a

was he closing most of this year?

Texas TV crew just put up a career-stats comp of Bartolo and Jack Morris and i want to smash my head against the punk rock.

17-0 at the end of 4 for our Indians.

Got to give it to the Tribe for coming back and laying an whooping on the Reds tonight after the black hole collapse yesterday in the 9th.

Cleveland's lineup when it's right, is pretty impressive.

the rockies are attempting to outdo cleveland, they've got 18 runs in the fourth inning

May want to x-post to Position Players Pitching

catch of the year candidate, billy hamilton going waaaay over the CF wall to rob matt carpenter tonight

that recent keon broxton catch is hard to beat i think but that billy hamilton catch was insane

Orioles, White Sox, and Royals on pace to lose 106-116 games.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/2018-misc.shtml

Year over Year attendance : Down 2.5 million to date

9 Teams in positive attendance year to year,
Rest of the league is in negative attendance including the Cubs, Red Sox, Angels, and Cardinals.

its realy sad, it was a sport

clearly the data show americans are choosing the yankees in these polarizing times

Well about that...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/opinion/new-york-yankees-evil.html

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/07/15/opinion/sunday/15hart/merlin_141223467_c71ae7d7-2023-4550-87e9-56e57221d9d3-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp

Hail Cashman

Orioles, White Sox, and Royals on pace to lose 106-116 games.

― Andy K, Sunday, July 15, 2018 9:03 PM

The Fangraphs projections have them all playing .400 or better the rest of the way.... and finishing with 105, 101, and 107 total losses, respectively.

“I would just say I don’t think the people that cover the Phillies will be laying on the beach Wednesday or Thursday” - @jaysonst on the Phillies

— 975TheFanatic (@975TheFanatic) July 16, 2018

Cards-Cubs are the only game tonight. Has to be a makeup?

I think it was scheduled that way, not 100% certain. ESPN is broadcasting it -- I hope it's not blocked on mlb.tv.