Why didn't they call infield fly? I'm confused
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Saturday, 20 April 2019 21:26 (five years ago) link
infield fly is only with first-and-second or bases loaded
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 April 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link
no respect for ausmus not immediately benching bour
otoh he already had bourjos (.086/.108/.114) and cozart (.096/.143/.115) in the starting lineup so i guess there weren't too many options
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 April 2019 21:38 (five years ago) link
I also thought the infield fly rule only had to do with first base being occupied.
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 April 2019 21:48 (five years ago) link
right, makes sense, because if the player runs as they are supposed to, you still only get one out
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Saturday, 20 April 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
yelich nearly hit the perfect homer today
it went 421 feet off a 69 mph pitch
― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 April 2019 03:09 (five years ago) link
Fernando Rodney tied Cy Young's games total tonight--I know; that's like saying Ed Sheeran matched Chuck Berry's bowling score--prompting me to look at his career box for maybe the first time ever. He's really had some high-save/mediocre-or-worse-everything-else years, hasn't he? He might be the only 300-save guy with a true outlier season on his resume (2012, half his career WAR).
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 April 2019 05:38 (five years ago) link
I enjoy watching Yelich at bat, don't get me wrong, but Belli is on a whole other level
https://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2019/4/22/18510708/cody-bellinger-christian-yelich-los-angeles-dodgers-milwaukee-brewers-mvp
Folks, allow me to free your minds. Yelich, while exceptional, is NOT the best player this season. That honor belongs to Cody Bellinger. Here are some of his otherworldly numbers in bullet-point format, just as Provenzano dubiously presented those of Yelich:.424 batting average.500 on-base percentage.882 slugging percentage.552 wOBA255 wRC+2.3 fWARAll of these stats are not only better than Yelich’s, they’re better than everyone else’s in the National League. While the disgraced Provenzano wasn’t wrong when he described Yelich’s 222 wRC+ as Ruthian, Bellinger’s 255 wRC+ goes far beyond The Babe. The single season record for wRC+ is 244 set by Barry Bonds in 2002. This makes Bellinger’s start to the season, uh, super-Ruthian? Mega-Bondsish? Trout-in-rookie-ball-like? Whatever, it’s crazy good.
― John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Monday, 22 April 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
Bellinger's 2.7 bWAR in 23 games projects to 19 over 162
i might want to take a mulligan on the Judge vs Bellinger debate from a couple years ago.
― omar little, Monday, 22 April 2019 20:50 (five years ago) link
I've been waiting for the right moment to revisit the raised eyebrows I got when I suggested Bellinger was clearly the better bet. (In other words, I'm skeptical the leap he's taken is for real. The weird thing is, I said all that before I'd actually seen him play; I don't think I would have after watching him the last couple of World Series. In the abstract, though, the idea that a 21-year-old has significantly more growth potential than a 25-year-old is an absolutely fundamental tenet of the early Abstracts.)
― clemenza, Monday, 22 April 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link
"I'm skeptical the leap he's taken is for real"--just to clarify, that doesn't mean I'm skeptical that he'll hit .400 with 75 HR. I mean I'm skeptical that, by the end of the season, he's one of the, I don't know, five or six best hitters in the game? He just looked so unimpressive to me those two WS...I don't even mean his batting line, which was abysmal, but his swing and everything else.
― clemenza, Monday, 22 April 2019 22:24 (five years ago) link
i think going forward Bellinger is probably now the better bet. Judge's injuries are a little concerning for the long term and his stats the past couple of years are really outstanding but not McGwirean like his rookie year was. They were more....pre-MVP Stantonian.
Wouldn't be remotely shocked if his 2017 bests any season Bellinger has in the future, though this year could make me look foolish.
― omar little, Monday, 22 April 2019 22:33 (five years ago) link
Bellinger is completely overperforming his projections (STEAMR/ZIPS/PECOTA/etc.) so I can imagine he is due for a hard regression at some point. It is nice to ride his hot bat in one of my fantasy leagues though... speaking of, most drafts he went middle of the 5th Round or around 60th overall. Will most definitely trade him at some point, will look for the beginnings of a slump, then dump.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 22 April 2019 23:34 (five years ago) link
Coming into yesterday's game, Braves pitchers were- 1st in BB/9 by 0.54 (similar distance as 2nd to 11th)- 29th in K/BB- 1st in BB% by 1.3% (same distance as 2nd to 14th)- 27th in K-BB%And then they walked 9 more last night.
― The Mod Who Banned Liberty Valance (WmC), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 12:31 (five years ago) link
pretty impressive pitch framing here
This is so so so good. Francisco Cervelli frames a pitch that he doesn't catch, gets the strike call as the ball rolls to the backstop, and immediately asks the ump for a new one. pic.twitter.com/iZ3Z3CWEkK— Ben Porter (@Ben13Porter) April 18, 2019
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 13:54 (five years ago) link
ha the ad on the backstop is perfect
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
lol, that's fantastic all around (including the ad)
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
gio back to the brewers
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 16:23 (five years ago) link
wait, he was unsigned
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
he had a minor league deal with the yanks, made a couple triple-a starts, and opted out a couple days ago when they would not add him to the 25-man
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link
chris paddack for RoY
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 21:52 (five years ago) link
a bit irritated that ESPN went with the "Gio signs with pitching-thin Brewers". We are not low on pitchers, they just are all bad
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 22:07 (five years ago) link
Cory Kluber walking in a run with bases loaded:2010-2018: 0 times1st month of 2019: 4 times
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 27 April 2019 05:50 (five years ago) link
Bellinger has a decent shot to reach 100 TB by the end of the month (12 more in 4 games).
― clemenza, Saturday, 27 April 2019 06:52 (five years ago) link
check out these stats
.343/.378/.686wRC+ of 180
pretty good, right?
guess what
that's Chris Davis since 4/13
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
damn
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 15:20 (five years ago) link
yeah, i'm already regretting making him my reverse fantasy 1B pick
but almost everyone else did too
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
I don’t see it lasting.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
so happy for CC.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 02:21 (five years ago) link
lol watching him have to hug every one of these dozen teammates he's spent all of three weeks playing with
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 02:27 (five years ago) link
CC Sabathia career strikeouts#1 Mike Kinkade#1,000 Ichiro Suzuki#2,000 Torii Hunter#3,000 John Ryan Murphy— Christopher Kamka (@ckamka) May 1, 2019
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 03:21 (five years ago) link
Bellinger's April:
Most home runs ever (tied): 14Most RBI: 37Most hits: 44Most TB: 96
Cody Bellinger is batting .434 with 14 HRs and 37 RBIs over 30 games this year. No other @MLB player ever reached all three of those triple-crown levels through his first 30 games of a season.— Elias Sports Bureau (@EliasSports) April 30, 2019
Headed for a major slump, I'm sure, but he's probably done enough already to ensure a big season.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 12:17 (five years ago) link
I know that it's a Wednesday afternoon during the school year in a city that doesn't draw well against a team that doesn't attract a road crowd. But I've never seen so few people at a major league game as the one just starting now between Kansas City and Tampa Bay. pic.twitter.com/z3QUdfdWiT— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) May 1, 2019
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
https://expo.masslive.com/sports/g66l-2019/01/49a5d04a748757/boston-red-sox-white-house-trip-which-red-sox-will-attend-visit-with-president-donald-trump.html
spoiler alert, every white player is going and every black or hispanic player is not going or is undecided, with the exception of jd martinez
― na (NA), Thursday, 2 May 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link
xp jumbotron still gonna say the attendance was 20,000 or some shit
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 May 2019 20:55 (five years ago) link
re: that Passan twit's tweet, it was a makeup game that got moved an hour earlier with <24 hours notice.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 2 May 2019 21:04 (five years ago) link
that's a heckler's dream right there
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 2 May 2019 21:33 (five years ago) link
Stephen Strasburg just struck out the 1,500th batter of his career. He is the fastest pitcher in MLB history to do so by innings (1,272 1/3).— Jamal Collier (@JamalCollier) May 2, 2019
― Andy K, Friday, 3 May 2019 00:22 (five years ago) link
Chris Sale, LHPWILL ATTEND"Yes. I would be there. I think it would be cool going to the White House. Most popular house in the country." (Jan. 19)
― Andy K, Friday, 3 May 2019 00:31 (five years ago) link
After the latest UZR update, Cody Bellinger's March/April WAR is, for now, the highest on record in a calendar "month" at FanGraphs, back to 2002:Bellinger, Apr '19: 3.24Berkman, May '08: 3.12Winn, Sept '05: 3.02Bonds, Aug '02: 3.00Bonds, Apr '04: 2.83Trout, July '12: 2.83— Ben Lindbergh (@BenLindbergh) May 2, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 May 2019 15:28 (five years ago) link
Hell of a cherry pick, kudos:
Dodgers March/April 2019 # of games: 32Astros May 2008 # of games: 28Giants August 2002 # of games: 26Giants April 2004 # of games: 24Giants September/October* 2005 # of games: 30Angels July 2012 # of games: 26
*2 games in Oct: wow cool, another arbitrary "month" not disclosed in cherry-picked stat category
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 3 May 2019 16:23 (five years ago) link
Doing some maths 4U:
WAR/# available games to play per "month"
Bellinger '19: 3.24/32 = .10125Berkman '08: 3.12/28 = .11143Winn '05: 3.02/30 = .10067Bonds '02: 3.00/26 = .11538Bonds '04: 2.83/24 = .11792Trout '12: 2.83/26 = .10885
Bellinger probably falls out of the top 10/20?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 3 May 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
prob taking that tweet a leetle too seriously
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 May 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
....randy winn?
― J0rdan S., Friday, 3 May 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
yes, for the Giants
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 May 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link
I'm old enough to remember when you would roll your eyes at arbitrary time-bucketed stats! (and not including ones that were padded/fluffed up!)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 3 May 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
it's called a Fun Fact
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 May 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
we hate fun
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 May 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
well, in my case only if they're no-hitters or cycles
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 May 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
Gausman tossed in the 2nd for throwing behind Urias (opp. SP for FLA), despite Urias' pleas to the ump to leave him in.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 4 May 2019 01:23 (five years ago) link