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

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.

Yeah I saw they were down early 5-0, I should have trusted they’d come back 14-6!

The editor for this timeout should get an Oscar, best short film, you can feel Giolito’s rage. And then he got a pitch clock violation and Kubrick stared. It was incredible.

José Caballero has been allowed to weaponize the batter time out and it's ridiculous. ~84 seconds between pitches! pic.twitter.com/JKGziCXmHB

— Codify (@CodifyBaseball) June 17, 2023

Will be rooting for Arráez to go 15-15 against the Jays and to die at first every time. (I didn't monitor the HOF inductions here in St. Marys over the weekend, but I bet Olerud--who was elected in 2020 and was finally formally put in--fielded at least a couple of Arráez questions.)

Watch out, Carnac, here I come--Jays getting hammered, but Arráez 5-5 and--yes--hitting .400.

Arráez: 5 singles, 5 TB. Toronto: 5 singles, but also a double--7 TB!

This is fun to watch: center, center, left, right, left. How do you shift against that?

https://www.mlb.com/news/luis-arraez-gets-five-hits-as-marlins-win-fifth-straight

Absolute beauty of a swing on this low changeup outside the zone. A no-doubter in all 30.
https://i.postimg.cc/pT0R0byS/IMG-3695.jpg

TRISTON TO THE MOON. pic.twitter.com/sIB9iyEj4L

— Red Sox (@RedSox) June 20, 2023

Geez, gyac--I could, to paraphrase you from a few weeks ago, mention that there's literally a "Thread of future Red Sox superstar Triston Casas" thread (not to mention a 2023 Red Sox thread). But I won't. (Except I just did.)

I wonder who started that thread!

always fun to see pitchers get charged on bad pitches that never should've been swung on in the first place but instead were muscled out of the park in a display of superhuman strength

Exactly--I was aware, I was aware...Anyway, I really don't care, this isn't meant to be the Arráez thread either (I should start one). Just against the idea of hall-monitoring threads in general.

he is like the king of plate discipline (84th percentile chase rate) but they’ve been trying to get him to swing at stuff outside he can connect on as well for more xbhs and this is the second hr he’s had this month that was on outside of the zone (the first one had a 44 degree launch angle!)

xp it’s not hall monitoring to point out that when you were complaining about nobody posting about the 2023 Orioles that there was an existing thread? How are you still sore about this? I ask but I don’t actually care.

Because it was =a ridiculous post, considering the thread had neither "Baltimore" or "Orioles" in the title.

(And I do like the title, by the way, just not optimal when searching.)

Ok but how do you know there’s a Casas thread and not an Orioles thread when I see the Orioles one in sna all the time

Because the first gets posted on about twice as often as the second? Because I'm often at work when posting and my attention is divided? The bigger question to me is, why the fuck would you even care? I wasn't "complaining" about the lack of a new Orioles thread, just suggesting (before you pointed it out in that special way of yours) that someone start one.

been a while since I've seen anyone get this heated about the Baltimore Orioles

Clemenza, you need to stop with this unprovoked shit. I posted a hr I thought was great cos other people who aren’t regulars to the other threads might like seeing it.

If you didn’t like my post because not enough people are getting excited about Arráez, I don’t know what I should do with that, or indeed that it’s a problem. I’m not actually the only poster on ILB. Either way, cut it out, I’m sick of it. I’m here to post about the things I love about this game. I don’t care if they’re not the same things as you.

Anyway, here’s Brayan “baby Pedro” Bello carving through a lineup with his special changeup that Pedro taught him. 💛💛💛

Brayan Bello's 8 Strikeouts. pic.twitter.com/vczyqqo569

— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) June 19, 2023

You're sick of it? Join the club. Just to highlight your hypocrisy, I'm pointing out that you're doing *exactly* the same thing you--"unprovoked"--whined about me doing a few weeks ago.

If you didn’t like my post because not enough people are getting excited about Arráez

That's pretty funny. I've been posting away here for ~15 years about things that interest me, with no real concern about whether it's of interest to anyone else. Arráez is having an incredible year, and I will continue to post about him. (I will start a separate thread in the next few days.) I'll have to try hard to not get distracted by the future superstar with the .215/.315/.395 slash line, but try I will.

Imagine not understanding how one bad month impacts a batting average. 🫣

clemenza you’ve sure got a funny way of showing you do not like thread policing

To underscore how annoying it is by doing exactly the same thing? Seems like a normal thing to do.

Sorry, I just don't see a future superstar in Casas. He's a 23-year-old first baseman, good-not-great minor league numbers, doing what he's doing in June. I know he'll get better, but I'm not seeing Frank Thomas.

And don't forget, gyac--whereas you have to deal with me, I have to deal with you + your amen corner.

Not everyone just looks at the batting average to evaluate a player, sorry if this offends, but it’s 2023 and there are advanced stats now. I don’t care if you are upset by that thread being bumped that often, or the title. Nor do I require Bill James to sign off on something before I decide if I’m allowed to like it, but if I did…

Despite all the merde that happened to the Red Sox in Tampa, Tristan Casas' 15-pitch at bat was REALLY something to see. Honestly, it changed my view of him. I was skeptical about him before, but I'm a believer now.

— Bill James Online (@billjamesonline) April 14, 2023

Did I post just his BA? Think I added the two most important measures of a player, his OBA and SP. But thanks for the heads-up on advanced stats.

Date of James tweet (which I did see at the time): April 13.

Yeah, April was his first month of the season which has the low numbers dragging down all the others since.

Again, just bemused by the ever-moving goalposts. I was counselled a couple of weeks ago by one of your acolytes to not get too excited about Arráez; gushing every other day about Casas, though, perfectly okay.

You're right on Casas: looked at his numbers since May 1, and they are better -- .264/.367/.456.

If your BA thing is directed at Arráez, his OBP is also stellar, and he's almost slugging .500. And most of all--maybe the single most important thing a batter can do--he's not making outs.

Anyway, here is my heartfelt suggestion: from this point forward, neither of us ever comments on something the other person posts. I would be very happy with that arrangement.

And, if we can agree to that, let me say that I swear--on the souls of my grandchildren--that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made here today..

My “acolytes” are my friends, we talk about baseball on WhatsApp and irl, I have said repeatedly to them exactly how excited I’ve been to get into the game and have a new interest, and that I love them all for encouraging me in it and explaining things to me.

I have zero beef with Arráez but I am a lifelong “don’t jinx it!” person. If he finishes the season at or close to .400, then that’s an incredible achievement, but there’s a lot of season left and the Mariners dropped his avg by .20 when he ran into their pitchers. That’s all. You can be excited all you want. Just don’t get mad at me for posting about players and plays I like.

And the agreement? Can we can put that in full effect right now?

clemenza you policed gyac’s casas post out of nowhere, stop being a dickhead please

And can we extend it to two of your minions?

Tracer: explain to me how the Baltimore comment from three weeks ago was any less "out of nowhere" than mine today? Please, map that out for me.

it's okay to stop whenever you want

If you say silly things, I will point them out. Stop? I think I outlined a very clear arrangement above where we could stop forever. Thus far, no response.

to change the tone of this thread let me share this drawing my 8 year old was really proud to show me yesterday

https://i.imgur.com/HYVXtZT.jpg

I hope she likes Rowdy as much as I do!

how dare you, there's a thread for that - My Child is a Genius: a thread where we document our children's attempts at self-expression

That's great--with the row of zeros, I would have thought it was a Jays game.

his favorite player is Joey Weimer. he asks me a lot about the 1982 World Series in which the Brewers lost to the Cardinals in 7 and told me "they definitely would have won if they had Joey Weimer"

Out for lunch, but sure, come on in, join the fun.

Am again mystified how monitoring threads in now my burden, rather that the post that mine was a response to. Utterly mystified.

and if you want to know why, watch this video

https://www.mlb.com/video/austin-voth-in-play-run-s-to-joey-wiemer

we actually won a drawing for front row seats. so if you pause it at :03, right above the "Group Tickets" sign on the left, that's my son. to the left in the blue sweater is me. was pretty cool watching Sportscenter on the treadmill the next day and catching a brief glimpse of yourself on the TV

That’s incredible, what an ending for a game you attended.