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

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.

clemenza i’m sure you already know but arraez went 5-5 last night and is back at .390

I did know. Unfortunately, he wiped out in Seattle before that. I don't think .400 is as unlikely as a 56-game hitting streak--you don't have to go 2-5 every game--but even a mini-slump requires a serious hot streak to get back to close to where you were, and even there you probably lost some ground.

he should simply trying avoiding the cold streaks imo, worth a shot

You need to tweet that out to him immediately.

96 hits, 20 walks, leading the NL in BA and OBP, and scored only 29 runs which I think puts him on pace for 67 or so?

That's really strange--I assumed general lineup strength was part of why Miami's doing so well. He's also got enough XBH that he should end with 50+ for the year, so he's almost slugging .500--he's not a Punch-and-Judy guy this year.

First thing I've discovered is that they've been very lucky--outscored by 29 runs, eight games over .500.

he should simply trying avoiding the cold streaks imo, worth a shot

(xposts) Jays have Miami next, so they're talking about them. Presently 18-5 in one-run games, 6-11 in blowouts.

Happy Father’s Day!

All's well that ends well. 😂 pic.twitter.com/fh5LhmTImA

— Cut4 (@Cut4) June 18, 2023

Gerrit Cole looks like he’s on trial for murder.

pic.twitter.com/IUwmVSZimF

— Mike Daddino (@mike_daddino) June 18, 2023

40 runs for ATL in a four game series vs. COL, humming along on almost all offensive cylinders, esp. Harris and Rosario. Harris received the first pitch from his dad and then went 5-5.