For the Giants prospective I see them cutting two who are out of options
― Bee OK, Sunday, 1 May 2022 00:21 (two years ago) link
I dont LIKE the alt KC unis but i see what they’re tryna do
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 1 May 2022 20:33 (two years ago) link
i don't really like david bell but it is gonna be rough when the (3-19) reds fire him after fucking jettisoning anything moveable
hope they bring back jim riggleman
― mookieproof, Sunday, 1 May 2022 22:58 (two years ago) link
jim riggleman is like the long relief guy of managers
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Sunday, 1 May 2022 23:03 (two years ago) link
it's true, but i do sort of respect him for refusing to take the usual long-relief-guy-of-managers treatment from the nationals
― mookieproof, Sunday, 1 May 2022 23:07 (two years ago) link
i didn't mean that in a bad way at all, ha! some guys are born for the role, from what i've seen of him. what happened with him and the nats? can't remember? he told them to shove it?
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Sunday, 1 May 2022 23:20 (two years ago) link
yup! june 2011, nats had won 11 of 12 but they refused to pick up his option for the next season, so he quit
happy may day, jim riggleman
― mookieproof, Monday, 2 May 2022 00:03 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8tsz2TyERM
― Andy K, Monday, 2 May 2022 15:24 (two years ago) link
wow, robinson cano DFA'd
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Monday, 2 May 2022 15:33 (two years ago) link
That’s a lot of money for the Mets to eat, but I guess Cohen can cover it. Cano hasn’t done much to shake the notion that the good parts of his past 3-4 years were ay least partially PED-fueled.
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 2 May 2022 17:40 (two years ago) link
39 years old, too, and after taking all of 2021 off, would be hard for anyone.
maybe a comparison is a-rod, who was able to put together a good year after his own season-long ban, but then fell off hard the following year and was done.
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Monday, 2 May 2022 18:03 (two years ago) link
uhh the Reds are 3-20
― frogbs, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 02:54 (two years ago) link
i bet it is a very Major League (1989) clubhouse in there right now.
votto struggling mightily, as well :(
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 03:02 (two years ago) link
oh shit, and i didn't even know about the covid until just then. damn, what a shitty time!
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 03:03 (two years ago) link
yeah it's weird Votto really looked like he had things figured out last year but he just looks awful right now
― frogbs, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 03:04 (two years ago) link
also it's kind of a bummer that he switched to a new bat style (similar to goldschmidt's new bat as well, i think?) with an extra weight on the knob (...), only to switch back to his old bat recently after the early results with the new bat were so dismal
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 03:12 (two years ago) link
kind of a bummer because i was really rooting for this new bat to work well, would have been very joey votto-like to pull off
fangraphs still giving the reds 0.1% to win the division
i’d like to see the details of that scenario
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 12:02 (two years ago) link
The projections take into account the small but real possibility of global nuclear war
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 13:42 (two years ago) link
all teams except the reds end up in a horrible plane crash and are stranded on a desert island that has negative WAR
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 13:51 (two years ago) link
However, even in this very very unlikely scenario, the reds quickly exit the playoffs after getting swept in the the division series
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 13:57 (two years ago) link
uh Rowdy Tellez has 8 RBIs tonight
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 May 2022 03:19 (two years ago) link
Wow. 18-4!!Glad to see Tellez is hitting alright. I want him to play baseball for a long time.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 5 May 2022 04:06 (two years ago) link
Fangraphs also still has the Orioles finishing with a worse record than the Reds, that's just mean
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 5 May 2022 12:58 (two years ago) link
3-22 now, division starting to look out of reach
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 May 2022 21:11 (two years ago) link
*suddenly, hundreds of 400-foot worms appeared and began attacking major US cities*
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 5 May 2022 21:19 (two years ago) link
four at home against the pirates this weekend
this is where the greatest comeback in mlb history begins
― mookieproof, Thursday, 5 May 2022 22:00 (two years ago) link
The Jays announcers tonight said it's time to start the bring-Joey-home campaign. They're evidently under the impression he's playing well in the midst of all this.
― clemenza, Thursday, 5 May 2022 23:45 (two years ago) link
More Mets magic as they score 7 runs in the 9th inning to beat the Phillies 8-7! What a rush.
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 6 May 2022 02:13 (two years ago) link
That's crazy
― Bee OK, Friday, 6 May 2022 03:01 (two years ago) link
Win probability was at 99.8% for the Phillies at the end of eight innings, so there is hope for the Reds.
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 6 May 2022 03:42 (two years ago) link
speaking of which: https://www.baseball-reference.com/friv/comeback-wins.shtml
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 May 2022 04:12 (two years ago) link
Good lord, I had never heard about this game
https://tht.fangraphs.com/tht-live/60th-anniversary-all-time-great-ninth-inning-comeback/
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 6 May 2022 04:18 (two years ago) link
I'm surprised this game (which I was at) wasn't on the comeback list:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN200006300.shtml
First series at Shea after Rocker's 7 Train comments. They had to put netting over the Braves bullpen. Met's scored 10 in the 8th to come back from down 8-1. Place went bananas when Piazza hit the homer.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Friday, 6 May 2022 12:10 (two years ago) link
@Joelsherman1Pirate starters enter today 0-10, 5.55 ERA, yet will have the far superior rotation in this series to the Reds (99 ERs/100 IP = 8.91 ERA). Worst rotation ERA ever: 6.64 by the '96 Tigers managed by Buddy Bell, father of current Reds mgr David Bell.
― Andy K, Friday, 6 May 2022 21:12 (two years ago) link
erstwhile top-20 prospect mitch keller has not quite panned out
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 May 2022 21:17 (two years ago) link
boston’s starting rotation has a 1.81 era over the last 14 games. they have conspired to go 4-10 over that span
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 6 May 2022 21:39 (two years ago) link
What?
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Friday, 6 May 2022 22:10 (two years ago) link
Six games were rained out today, that is a lot and must be a huge storm out there
― Bee OK, Saturday, 7 May 2022 03:13 (two years ago) link
It’s mostly just pissing but it’s been pissing all day
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 7 May 2022 03:21 (two years ago) link
pirates had to use an emergency catcher in the eighth inning today -- josh vanmeter thinks he last caught when he was 14 -- gave up seven runs, and lost to the mighty reds in the first game of a doubleheader
starting catcher pulled a hammy on the bases and the backup had already been ejected for chirping from the dugout. just as well pirates-reds games don't matter because that is dumb as hell
― mookieproof, Sunday, 8 May 2022 00:15 (two years ago) link
Telling measure of how much offense is down this year: when I looked at Vladdy's line, his OPS+ this year (161) is almost equal to last year's (167), even though his basic slash stats are down quite a bit.
― clemenza, Monday, 9 May 2022 12:55 (two years ago) link
I don't know if i've ever seen anything quite like the futility evinced by this year's Red Sox offense. every game is lost 3-1, 3-2, 1-0. It's really something.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 9 May 2022 13:04 (two years ago) link
in the last 4 games they've scored 5 runs total
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 9 May 2022 13:06 (two years ago) link
yeah, this is a 101 wRC+ (almost exactly league average) line right now:
.239/.317/.348
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 May 2022 20:05 (two years ago) link
i imagine that might be like watching the brewers last year
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 May 2022 20:07 (two years ago) link
Lifetime OPS.682 - Deivi Cruz.679 - Dee Strange-Gordon.676 - MLB teams in 2022.675 - Miguel Cairo.673 - Yuniesky Betancourt.672 - Neifi Perez— Matthew Pouliot (@matthewpouliot) May 5, 2022
― mookieproof, Monday, 9 May 2022 20:08 (two years ago) link
heady stuff
look the yankees and dodgers are both in first place so all's right in manfred's world
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 9 May 2022 21:40 (two years ago) link
yikes, we have entered the deivi/neifi bermuda triangle
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 9 May 2022 21:42 (two years ago) link
“teams are going through juiced ball withdrawal, home runs are a hell of a drug, etc”
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 9 May 2022 21:44 (two years ago) link