the pitch clock is counting down to the MLB 2023 REGULAR SEASON THREAD

Oakland showing signs of life.

Braves are at five straight come from behind wins -- I wonder what the record is.

I was two or three years late on Kershaw, so I'm pleased to announce that I already know who Bobby Miller is.

https://www.mlb.com/news/bobby-miller-off-to-historic-career-start-with-dodgers

2000 career hits for Cutch

How is there an article about a young phenom pitcher having an insane start of the season for the Dodgers and it doesn't mention Valenzuela??

I guess the difference in the writer's eyes is that Valenzuela pitched 10 games in relief in 1980 before he was converted to a starter. But if you focus on '81 only, yeah, phenomenal:

first eight starts (all CG): 72 IP, 43 H, 68 K, 17 BB, 0.50 ERA, 8-0

I doubt we'll ever again see the like

ffs his third and fourth starts were on three days' rest. no data on pitch counts, but i'll bet it was obscene

On top of which, he was throwing a screwball, which I think is about the most unnatural pitch you can throw. He wasn't especially effective after age 25, yet he somehow managed to pitch almost 3,000 innings.

I’m on vacation with my family in St. Louis and we went to the Cardinals game today. within five minutes of sitting down my daughter and I were on the big screen flexing our muscles. also we got weird Adam Wainwright bobble heads where he’s dressed up as a Buckingham palace guard for some reason.

guys the a's have won five in a row (on the road! albeit against Central teams) and are about to overtake the royals

xp might need pics of you/daughter/muscles? or at least the wainohead

I really like the normal micd up videos with no interference but honestly, why do you agree to be micd up as a catcher

Jose Trevino mic’d up for the 4th inning…. #Yankees #YankeesTwitter #RepBX #NYYvsBOS #YankeesvsRedSox pic.twitter.com/W0tW8sX3od

— YankeesDugout99 ⚾ (@YDugout99) June 12, 2023

They get 10K to be miced up aiui

happened to be watching that and found it incredibly weird. hearing him go "oh no!" every time the pitch caught a lot of the plate was funny though

xp yeah they do but is it worth it as a catcher for the yankees? He makes more than that per game!

Would you not take 10K for 15 minutes?

For what it's worth: I was looking at the early voting for the ASG, and I realized I somehow didn't vote for DHs on the ballot I posted upthread. It wasn't a protest vote, just clicked "submit" too early or something. Would have gone with Ohtani, of course, and probably J.D. Martinez if I were voting today, although there's an argument there for Jorge Soler.

Tonight may be the first game in his long storied MLB career that Elly de la Cruz fails to get on base.

I take that back, he reached via a Fielder's Choice (and promptly stole a bag!)

Atlanta's bullpen is something else... woof.

Outfielder Raimel Tapia has signed with the Brewers, a source tells @TheAthletic. Released by the Red Sox on Sunday. Has joined team in Minnesota for tonight’s game.

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) June 13, 2023

apparently daniel murphy signed a minor league deal with the angels?

38 years old

Was playing for the ducks

Was really holding out hope that Nevada would be smart enough to not give in to Fisher/MLB. A tiny park, every weekend home game a road game if fans show up at all, no RSN bubble to float them, they're going to be bad forever unless some billionaire paypig buys it for a toy.

Oakland showing signs of life.

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, June 9, 2023 5:46 PM (four days ago)

7 in a row...

As planned A's fans were standing and silent during the first batter of the fifth inning

They then broke into "sell the team" chants so loud that the pitcher thought his earpiece was broken pic.twitter.com/NI2sRLmPjV

— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) June 14, 2023

Entering the streak, the A's had a .194 winning percentage. Now, their seven-game winning streak is tied for the longest by a team to enter with a sub-.200 win percentage (minimum 25 games into a season), according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

The other two teams? The 1895 Louisville Colonels (.192 winning percentage) and the 1885 Detroit Wolverines (.190).

Would like to see the probability on that (especially with all seven wins against +.500 teams). Must be lottery territory.

“A’s make history by being the worst team ever with a winning streak” was too honest of a headline I guess

If I were to wager, Spencer Strider might be headed to the IL. Velocity seems down, missing his spots, looks like a different guy than we say in April/May.

you prob can wager on something like that nowadays...

but yeah giving up miguel cabrera's first homer of the year should have deafening alarms going off, to say nothing of the rest of it

Baseball pitcher Trevor Bauer has been accused by another woman of sexual assault and choking her unconscious, this time in Arizona in late 2020, when the woman said in court filings that he raped her, got her pregnant and also held a jagged steak knife to her throat.

Bauer, 32, has denied the allegations in court records and has countersued the woman, accusing her of fraud, extortion and fabricating her pregnancy. The woman filed her civil complaint against him in December and then amended it more recently with details of her alleged encounters with him, becoming the fourth publicly known woman to make similar allegations against the former Cy Young Award winner.

Loved that the A's fan did a reverse boycott and seem to be a great success.

Fans

Lol

Shouldn’t have corrected yourself hah.

Kershaw still being Kershaw. Fun battle between Cole/Verlander today.

Arizona's Corbin Carroll has just come onto my radar (22,leading the NL in slugging, possible MVP).

Seeing my first game next week in London, Cubs-Cardinals. Excited by how bad both teams can be!

Have fun!

Between the Mariners and the Red Sox and early Giants I’ve watched so much bad baseball this year, this is like oxygen to me now

And Nootbar’s out of action iirc

I know 😩

Have fun. I remember my first game fondly: Ducky Medwick went 5-5, and Dizzy Dean picked up the win in relief.

They run the bases in the opposite direction over there, right?

yeah, 9-out innings, it's wild

They run the bases in the opposite direction over there, right?

― clemenza,

LMAO

Have fun gyac

on rob manfred's latest assholery:

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/i-was-supposed-to-write-about-elly-de-la-cruz-today

https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/83442/between-the-lines-the-wrong-lessons-learned-mlb-pride-as-fans-money (this requires a login, but is on the free level)

not sure oliver marmol is gonna make it to london

wow. tremendous article in Fangraphs there.