general 2021 MLB discussion thread

and it as nothing to do with him being a christian. definitely not

i haven't seen a player score from second base on a sac fly before, but harrison bader did it tonight. but what's crazy is it wasn't even close, and there wasn't even an error or anything. lorenzo cain caught a fly ball at the wall and fell to the ground doing it, true, but he quickly flipped the ball to the RF, who made a perfect throw to the cutoff man. but by then it was already too late to even merit a throw to home.

cool!

the other night somebody, i can't remember who - kike hernandez maybe? - tried to tag from FIRST to second on a deep fly to center and he would have made it if he'd stayed on the bag. respect the hustle.

gotta say I'm pretty unsettled by the St. Louis Cardinals once again getting hot right as the season ends

almost unfair how they loaded up at the deadline by acquiring . . . jon lester and j.a. happ

https://i.imgur.com/Uwk8usr.png

the other 3 cardinals were also in the infield at this point

Marcus Semien needs another double for 40 HR/40 doubles. That was a big deal when Willie Stargell did it in 1973--it had already been done ~ten times, but not for a while. Semien will be about the 40th guy to do it (or at least the 40th season; a few guys, like Pujols, have done it more than once). The great Chris Davis had 50 HR/40 doubles in 2013.

semien and bo have also, i believe, set the homer record for combined middle infielders

78 HR...I would have thought something more than that during the PED era.

Ohtani just tripled for the second time today

I am really weird. pic.twitter.com/FdBch0BDpy

— John Sterling Calls (@JSterlingCalls) September 25, 2021

think that'll aboot do it for the phillies

Cardinals may never lose again

they're gonna lose in the wildcard game and suddenly that will be that

lol that would be so insane.

though maybe not any more insane than the dodgers having a 100-win season and going one and done.

Honestly they’ll win the WC then lose the division series

One absolutely bonkers thing I noticed today - this season could very well end with no hitters over 7 fWAR. Going all the way back to 1884 when the NL expanded beyond 112 games, I can only find 2 seasons where that happened, 1900 and 1918. Didn't even happen in the strike seasons. Most seasons it doesn't come remotely close to happening.

Obviously there were a lot of injuries this year but this is extreme

er expanded to 112 games, not beyond

what the fuck Devin

Devin Williams is being placed on the 10-day IL with a fractured right hand. He told us he had too much to drink after Sunday’s celebration, got upset about something and punched a wall with his pitching hand. He will need surgery.

“If I could take it back, I would.”

— Adam McCalvy (@AdamMcCalvy) September 29, 2021

Didn’t this happen to a Braves pitcher this year too

happened to alex reyes in 2019

not sure "happened to" is right, but

You're thinking of Huascar Ynoa, who at least had the decency to punch something after a bad game

Brewers have weird luck with that sort of thing. Grienke missed his first month because of a pickup basketball game during Spring Training. Lucroy dropped a suitcase on his hand. Chris Narveson cut one of his fingers open trying to re-lace a glove. JJ Hardy hurt his hand in a walkoff celebration. If I recall correctly we also had a guy drop a bowling ball on his foot

That is excessively dumb

the cardinals will lose tonight

well yeah, they're all hungover

yeah, even the announcers were like "things are a little fuzzy today, haha!" and it's the b-team today for sure

i'm sure they'll still find a way to pull this off. cardinals devil magic never sleeps

keeping it real tonight in the AL WC <3

right?? i feel like It’s Happening

Sox/Nats was intense

Jays made last night way more interesting than it needed to be aswell.

strong work by the rays

if soto doesn't start burying the sox i'm rescinding my MVP vote

tingler out, if you know what i mean

they're gonna bring in buck

athletic article yesterday suggested that no veteran name manager will want to put up with preller’s micromanaging, but i imagine some combination of money + having good young players will do the trick

biggest AB of soto's career right here

sox are killing me here. renfro loses it in the… twilight? why’s he playing center in the 8th inning of a 1-0 game anyway??

That pitch the Boston reliever was so upset about: could have been called a strike, but not an obvious strike by any means.

(xpost) For you and me, but not for Soto, I don't think.

Soto's a bum

so the sox and yankees will take the wild cards with wins on sunday; with losses, they'll at least get a game 163

boston won the season series against each of the other three, so should play at home in case of ties

chris sale is slated to pitch for the sox tomorrow in what is not now a must-win game -- but if they lose they could face two straight must-win games instead of one. do you still start him?

also the yankees are facing michael wacha tomorrow, which would seem to bode well for them

Always bet against post-rookie Wacha

Even this Mariners game right now is nuts.

Still a chance for a four-way wild card tie going into the last day of the season

omg if there’s a four-way tie boston and toronto would be at home for game 163 and the yankees would choose which one they wanted to play

CURRENT POSSIBILITIES (YES, THIS ALL COULD HAPPEN)

Four-way tie: Boston, Toronto, New York, Seattle

Three-way tie 1: Boston, Seattle, Toronto

Three-way tie 2: Boston, New York, Seattle

Three-way tie 3: Boston, Toronto, New York

Three-way tie 4: Toronto, New York, Seattle

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) October 3, 2021

the yankees would choose which one they wanted to play

That's amazing. Win or lose, at least you wouldn't have to play whichever team you insult again.