2019 Rolling "Hey Chatter Chatter" chatterthread

plz my HACKING MASS team is doomed as is

68 runs from 5 teams tonight.

On Baseball Reference, Bellinger's WAR (4.4) has surpassed his first two years (4.2 each season) in 43 games.

The MVP this year will be Yellinger.

rare lefty knuckler sighting today

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/05/blue-jays-expect-to-select-contract-of-ryan-feierabend.html

Can he hit?

fun fact: his name in German means "quitting time"!

My favourite neo-grunge song.

6th inning. Twins have scored 17 runs.

fifth 5-HR game of their year

If the Barves' bullpen can get their shit right, I see them winning the East again. Big if though.

Is this the fourth week in a row the Cubs have been on the Sunday night game or am i misremembering?

(good canadian kid) mike soroka for RoY

this is an interesting development

RHP Carter Stewart, who attended Eastern Florida State College after failing to sign with the #Braves as the No. 8 overall pick in last year’s draft, is in agreement on a contract with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of the Japanese Pacific League, sources tell The Athletic.

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) May 21, 2019

Todd Frazier is still upset with Adam Eaton about the Adam LaRoche('s son in the 2016 White Sox clubhouse) thing?!

Christ, who knows and who cares

need to get brett lawrie's take on this

Look. Let's be clear. At the end of the day, it is what it is.

O's have allowed 100 HR in 48 games

afaict the MLB record for a full season is 258 by the 2016 Reds, so they’re on pace to just ever so slightly beat that

They can do it, piece o' cake. I'm rooting for them.

nationals bullpen now has a 6.56 ERA

that nationals pen looked like a garbage fire the other night against the cubs.

fun with stats

OK! Here's a new thing at Baseball Savant.

We get lots of ? about pitch movement, so now there are leaderboards. Here, for example, are 4-seams, most rise added: https://t.co/4hrqH28sym

Pitch movement #s have been around forever at BB/FG/etc. What make these different are.. pic.twitter.com/Jf7K6Fj5RN

— Mike Petriello (@mike_petriello) May 21, 2019

Rich Hill is not a fan of the shift. pic.twitter.com/0SKcXdMkTX

— Jomboy (@Jomboy_) May 23, 2019

so good

honestly I think I enjoy shift-beating bunts more than anything in the game right now

dan straily: 34.2 IP, 18 K, 17 BB, 14 HR

i mean what do you even say to the guy except 'we're the orioles, so we're gonna run you out there again in five days'

honestly I think I enjoy shift-beating bunts more than anything in the game right now

― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, May 22, 2019 9:23 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm. home runs are over, shift-beating bunts are where it's at.

dan straily: 34.2 IP, 18 K, 17 BB, 14 HR

i mean what do you even say to the guy except 'we're the orioles, so we're gonna run you out there again in five days'

― mookieproof, Wednesday, May 22, 2019 10:53 PM (yesterday) Bookmark

it's crazy how both this and the cobb signing were deeply shitty in the exact same way.... minus the giant contract in straily's case

tbf alex cobb was pretty good before the TJ surgery. dan straily . . . had a nice season in the minors in 2012

if you can bunt for a single AND cause the opposing pitcher to stroke out then yeah, its almost better than a home run

"Polanco with a big lead at 3rd"

File this under ‘things you can only see in baseball in 2019.' pic.twitter.com/1BDHk81yyw

— Fabian Ardaya (@FabianArdaya) May 22, 2019

Nats should experiment with 0-man bullpen

Matt Harvey is having a pretty bad day.

Worse now.

yay, one of my 2 HACKING MASS pitchers

i hope bad enough to stay high on the board when they cut him

feel like there's a chance that was his last major league start ever

If my math is right, the Twins have hit 98 HR in 49 games.

WHATEVER IT TAKES 😱 pic.twitter.com/mlKxPwqfQM

— LSU Baseball (@LSUbaseball) May 23, 2019

ouch

seems like they kind of panicked there, just a bit

lefty knuckleballer dfa'd ;_;

xp: that 1B with the sliding throw was totally unnecessary, dude had already scored.

Subjective observation that may or may not be true: I don't ever remember so many teams, day in and day out, scoring 10+ runs a game. It feels like three or four teams do it every day. Are runs historically high this year, or am I just fixating on a few games?

Up a fifth of a run from last year, identical to 2017, half a run lower than PED peak. So no. Maybe it's a distribution thing.

i am willing to believe that because, especially in the AL, we have some really good teams and some disastrously awful ones, that there are more blowouts than usual. but i have no data for it

Here are run totals of 10+ the last couple of weeks, both leagues:

May 11: 13, 11, 12, 17
May 12: 11, 15, 10, 10
May 13: none
May 14: 11, 14, 11
May 15: 11
May 16: 11, 17, 16, 14, 10, 11
May 17: 14, 12, 10
May 18: 18
May 19: 13, 10
May 20: 12, 10, 10
May 21: 11, 10
May 22: 11, 10 (and four teams score 9)
May 23: 14, 16
May 24: 12, 10, 10, 11, 18
May 25: 19 (so far--thanks, Jays)

That can't possibly be normal.

there probably aren't that many pitchers who have given up a grand slam in their first big league inning, so congrats to mitch keller for joining an elite group

remarkable throw by bellinger

mallex smith walks, proceeds to steal second, third, and home

Khris Davis is hitting .248 going into today.