2019 Rolling "Hey Chatter Chatter" chatterthread

*checks the history books*
yes, that is the most runs ever scored in an inning, as it turns out

By the Cardinals you mean? Many teams have scored 11+.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_runs2.shtml

Oh, I was joking. My jokes are not even jokes these days, it’s awful. Gotta shake up my style!

Reds ended up almost winning with 2 outs in the 9th, runners on, down 12-11, and Joey Votto batting against Carlos Martinez. Quite a game!

In his five week career as a starting pitcher for the Florida Marlins, Jordan Yamamoto is facing his first loss against the Dodgers. Quite a run!

Barring any late inning heroics from the fish, he should be 4-1 with ~2.00 ERA/1.00 WHIP + 9K/9.

I had to get an order with one of my distributors over a minimum to make free shipping so I got myself a box of "Topps Archives Buyback Signature" - which turns out to be one signed card from past years, slabbed. Not even some packs of regular to open with it.

My card was a 2015 Ian Kinsler. For $30 wholesale.

How big was the box?

Could've gotten a blaster of Allen and Ginter!

(For ten bucks less...)

Wastefully large, 9x6ish and a couple of inches tall.

Tyler Saladino, who was hitting .100 on the season, has now hit grand slams in 2 straight games

That’s a computer generated name if I’ve ever seen one.

Here's a thing: Through 64 games at age 20, Fernando Tatis Jr. has already accrued more fWAR than all Padres shortstops in the last 12 years combined.

— AJ Cassavell (@AJCassavell) July 23, 2019

Miami is the only NL team with a winning pct under .460.

Atlanta and the Dodgers are the only two over .535.

Have the giants won enough that we will see Be Ok posting here again?

They’re certainly in an interesting situation regarding bumgarner and the fresh prince, trade-wise

tampa is doing the old put-the-reliever-in-the-field-for-one-batter-then-bring-him-back thing

and now boston has lodged a protest, saying that the replacements were not properly placed in the lineup when tampa lost the DH

i must admit i don't really understand the rules of what happens when you lose the DH

i think that only happens when the DH comes in to play the field. like if your usual catcher is DH'ing and the backup guy catching that day gets injured – your DH can come in to catch, but then the pitcher has to hit for himself (or use a pinch hitter). moving a P to 1B, then back should affect the Dh unless there are more rules I'm unaware of.

Have the giants won enough that we will see Be Ok posting here again?

lol

i still want them to sell as they are not that good and this can't last. this streak has been fun however.

i figured ILB was pretty sick of me so i stop posting here this year...

You do your thing, Bee! I miss seeing the giants bumped regularly

you and i will forever be linked because of The B-52's. you did such a good job.

i will probably come back full time when Zaidi gets this thing turned around. i probably won't be able to help myself when the Giants are good again.

That's how I understand the rule, Thermo. I think Boston is claiming that the Rays never properly declared who the pitcher was replacing (and where he'd be in the batting order), therefore they assume he subbed for the DH. Since the DH can't play the field, then they lost the DH. I find it hard to believe that Rays management doesn't know the rule here. I guess that Boston was caught by surprise and decided they had to complain.

I just saw the news about Jonah Keri becoming a psycho -- wtf?

yesterday Counsell put Hader (by far his best reliever) in for the 7th, up 5-4, to face the meat of the Reds' batting order. I've also seen him bring him in with narrow leads w/ men on a few times. is this a common thing now? you had to figure managers would eventually start using their closers in smarter ways but I don't know if this is a league-wide trend.

definitely becoming more common. baseball is changing, to the chagrin of dozens of really out of touch, cranky broadcasters who are unsure of which side to choose in the "analytics" "debate"

back in the old days, when the manager was expected to keep in the obviously out of gas SP for another 3 outs so that he could secure the opportunity to obtain another pitcher Win, things were better

don't tell dave martinez about this

but yeah. counsell is one of the smarter managers and i think hader is somewhat used to being used that way after last year's playoffs

is this a common thing now?

We've been talking about "high leverage" use of pitchers for 15 years on this board, based on my search of the term.

curtis granderson is now 99th all-time in homers with 341

one more would tie him with ron santo for 98th

Nelson Cruz just hit his 3 HR on the day so far (still has one more AB possible), giving him 7 in his last 6 games.

Great day for my namesake pitch as O's center fielder Stevie Wilkerson gets the save, the first in MLB history for a position player, without topping 60mph!

Welp, I'm a Sling customer so there go the barves games on FSN.

Nelson Cruz just hit his 3 HR on the day so far (still has one more AB possible), giving him 7 in his last 6 games.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, July 25, 2019 7:25 PM (yesterday)

8 in his last 7 now...

i don’t hate it or anything, but fenway is an absurd place to play baseball

also wmc how do you watch sling

Cruz has now hit 309 HR in his 30s, with 26 days short of a year before he turns 40--wonder how high that puts him on the all-time list? (Not sure how to use play index for checking such things.)

he would appear to be 12th -- tied with reggie jackson, one behind willie stargell

Thanks. The way he's going right now, looks like he'll finish up 8th or 9th.

also wmc how do you watch sling

― mookieproof, Saturday, July 27, 2019 4:35 PM

Sling TV app through a 4th-gen Apple TV...not sure I understand the question.

didn't know if you watched on a laptop or through a roku or whatever. i was gonna suggest a vpn so you could use mlb.tv and cheat the location blackout -- it's easy enough to do on a computer but i don't know anything about apple tv

Oh it's not a regional blackout sitch -- Sling/Dish and Fox are having a pissing contest.

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2019/07/sling-tv-fox-regional-sports-blackout.html

oic!

do the phillies and braves and nationals ever play anyone but each other

They sometimes play the Marlins

But they told the Mets to take a fuckin' hike, they don't play them anymore.

either way it's better than 51 reds-pirates games each season

Never would I have thought I'd read an interview in which Randy Newman talks about Byron Buxton, WAR and range factor, but here we are. https://t.co/xHJDys8UPH

— Jason Foster (@ByJasonFoster) July 31, 2019

it's pretty wild how Mike Minor has a bWAR of 5.9, which ranks him as the #1 pitcher (and #3 player overall) on Baseball Reference, with a decent lead over Scherzer and Ryu and Verlander and Greinke, but meanwhile on Fangraphs his fWAR is 2.7 which ranks him something like 28th among pitchers. seems like a huge discrepancy (i trust FG much more in this case...)

i think fangraphs relies more on peripherals and "true talent," while bref leans more towards results.