2019 Rolling "Hey Chatter Chatter" chatterthread

no idea

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27501703/royals-sold-kc-businessman-investors-group

Sleep well, John Mayberry: KC has a 40-HR guy.

pic.twitter.com/sc2KuASsKC

— Jessica Mount (@alongerlook) September 7, 2019

NL defense loserboard:

https://i.imgur.com/jpzXOFz.png

i see eric hosmer is having another gold glove-caliber season

the only NL team not in that list are the marlins

idk; i'm with jersey al here

i don't doubt that these guys are bad fielders (although i thought goldie was supposed to be good?) but i have a hard time accepting that being a bad first baseman -- who still presumably catches most of the balls thrown to him -- is as damaging as, say, being a bad outfielder

(pedro alvarez is the exception to this, of course)

lotta 1B in that list

Josh Bell is a special defensive player because he somehow makes being a bad first basemen seen just as bad, if not more damaging, than a bad outfielder. And I say this as someone who has watched Jose Martinez play a ton of right field.

bell was an outfielder in the minors, if you can imagine

bad first basemen are worse than bad outfielders!

1B is the easiest position iirc

Thanks mook, and that designated hitter's WAR is artificially inflated because there is no "penalty" for their lack of defensive ability is also pretty cringeworthy when sorting these lists (not Karl's of course).

DHs definitely get a "penalty" on defense - theirs is the largest of all!

(which is why i made that list NL only)

but yeah, it's hard to compare players from different positions in a "worst defense" kind of list, because of those automatically applied positional factors. (so i shouldn't have done it above - WHOOPS!) but they can still be useful when applied position-by-position. here's just 1B:

https://i.imgur.com/G1w4gVd.png

goldy near the top of the list, from that perspective

and in contrast, the catchers:

https://i.imgur.com/HhYJAx1.png

White Sox SS Tim Anderson has gotten some attention the last couple of days when he emerged with enough PAs to qualify for the AL batting title. He's in a concurrent chase: The record for fewest walks by a batting champion is 16, set by Zack Wheat in 1918. Anderson has 11.

postseason schedule btw

https://www.mlb.com/news/2019-mlb-postseason-schedule

I *just* learned that Adalberto Mondesi (who I drafted high in all my leagues) is the son of Raul Mondesi.

Cueto is back ^^

fav player for watching when he's on

Finishes needed for 5-way wild card tie at 87-75 (not that I am rooting for this, but I am definitely rooting for this): #Cubs 10-8, #Brewers 11-7, #Phillies 12-6, #Diamondbacks 12-5, #Mets 13-5. MLB would have to make it up because nothing on books on how to handle 5-way tie.

— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) September 11, 2019

can the damn Marlins beat the Brewers even once?

lucas giolito's eight straight Ks = new white sox record

homer bailey outdueling verlander in a matchup of legendary multiple-no-hitter-throwers

should've had a board meetup for this epic O's-Tigers series

Rodney hits Culberson in the face with a pitch while he was squared to bunt. Oh man, this looks bad. Damn. Wash is comforting him, while trainer holds towel to face.

— David O'Brien (@DOBrienATL) September 14, 2019

Heard it from another room.

And was called a strike rather than HBP. Snitker loses his mind, gets tossed. I'm only listening to the game, can't watch it, so I want to see the replay.

Culberson could probably find the plate easier than Rodney right now.

Markakis didn't need any rehab to get his swing back -- he's 6 for 9 last night and today. And he had 7 weeks off in the hottest part of the season.

mike fiers

https://i.imgur.com/BtIJxYR.png

consistently outperforming your FIP will do strange things to a person

wish i'd been at this game to punch out Mickey Mouse

uh

cmon Disney needs to know

needed to score off that hippie

Paddack caps off his season with 9Ks in 5IP.

Oh my god pic.twitter.com/B1YK8tNtbI

— Andrew Simon (@AndrewSimonMLB) September 18, 2019

just 24 pitchers, nothin to see

This Padre feller Dinelson Lamet struck out 14 Brewers in 6 innings tonight.

Jay Jaffe's 'Team Entropy' scenario for the NL WC entrants to all win 87 games

Cards 2-8
Nats 4-7
Brewers 5-5
Cubs 5-5
Phils 7-3
Mets 8-2

i woke up with the name "dinelson lamet" in my head this morning and couldn't remember who he was. just the name. dinelson lamet.

40th homer for acuña; third player to do so in age-21 season or younger

also has 37 SB

Kinda nuts that the player with the quasi 40-40 season only ranks 46th in wrc+.

he's got a ton of homers and a decent number of walks, but he also doesn't have nearly as many XBHs as i'd have thought, which gives him a slugging % barely past .500.

nuts that he's only 21

my GOD who is this Fox booth team doing Cards-Cubs?

gonna wait for the final stats but what the indians have done to the tigers this year is unholy

A fifth of the Indians wins came against the Tigers. A fifth!

Astros won season series with NYY 4-3... that's the best-record tiebreaker, right?