2019 Rolling "Hey Chatter Chatter" chatterthread

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?

Yes

lol

Ned Yost announces his retirement and Mike Matheny is expected to become next #Royals manager

— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) September 23, 2019

YES

that is exactly the amount of mike matheny i want in my life - an occasional interleague I-70 "rivalry" game. can't wait to see his dumb, blank expressions

he is a legendary clubhouse man, you see. you can't see any evidence of him being a good leader on the field, but you are told that he commands immense respect in the clubhouse. but mysteriously, after he leaves there are numerous anecdotes about how the clubhouse is much more relaxed this year, and how the players enjoy being able to take their kids to spring training again

it's giving rany jazayerli an existential crisis

Keep applying pressure, everyone! Call your congressman! Together we can rally enough votes to defeat this bill! https://t.co/07CLvLyQDU

— Rany Jazayerli (@jazayerli) September 23, 2019

question for royals fans and players: have you accepted jesus christ as your personal lord and savior?

The scoreless-inning bunt sacrifices and "old school" clubhouse harassment will continue until morale improves: 2020 Royals

Try telling some average white dude that it was “always understood” that the next job would go to a minority with no interview process, no job posting, no chance to compete. They’d be up at dawn making two calls: first one to their lawyer and the second to Fox News... https://t.co/2GNp07E3rw

— Full Dissident (@hbryant42) September 23, 2019

Ryan Thurman

@ryanpthurman
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They could of chose anyone for that role. Matheny became available last year so they decided to hire him. He average 90 wins a year in STL. If he did that with the Royals they would rename the stadium after him.

Full Dissident

@hbryant42
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Then it should be named Whitey Herzog Park

wet bases

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27687754/boras-rips-mlb-wet-bases-bryant-injury

I assume that aside from the resident Cleveland fans, we are rooting for an AL Stathead Wild Card Game btwn TB and OAK.

i'd be happy with any two of the three, but i'd rather the game were not played at the trop

Cards lose in 19 innings; another 24-pitcher game!

division lead down to 2.5

regular season games should probably end in a tie after 12 innings

No! This isn't hockey.

would be better for pitchers (and rosters) and no one needs a 17 inning game in july imo

The Indians went 18-1 against the Tigers this year (a record).

The Astros tied that record with yesterday's win (18-1 vs the Mariners).

top 5 in bWAR, all players

Bellinger 8.6
Trout 8.3
Bregman 8.2
Semien 8.0
deGrom 7.9

Ask me if I care Pete

— Mike Minor (@MikeMinor36) September 26, 2019

Jaffe on the remaining chances for ties

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/team-entropy-2019-hey-theres-still-meat-on-this-bone/

lmao that Mike Minor game was incredible, much respect to the Red Sox for repeatedly popping up on the first pitch to try to stop him from getting it

Congrats to the Rays making the playoffs despite having the lowest payroll in the league, and the second lowest attendance. They deserve more.

i know essentially nothing about tampa bay-area geography, but some local columnist recently called out the fans and the response was like 'it takes multiple hours to get there unless you live in st. petersburg'

between that and the money and the catwalks, might as well watch it on tv