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2018 MLB Regular Season Thread! Current thread batting average: .420 (1 Viewer)
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rodg12
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My biggest problem with WAR is the defensive portion of it for hitters. Especially looking back historically. No good way to make the defensive portion accurate historically and I think even now defense is overrated in the formula. Especially for corner OFs like Heyward.
shadyridr
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Buster Olney ✔@Buster_ESPN
Bottom line: Mets had chance to kick in $ to offset Bruce salary and effectively buy prospects from NYY. They chose $-saving deal with CLE.
Doctor Detroit
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Brutal organization. You play in the biggest market in NA pro sports and you do everything you can to nickel and dime your organization and fans to death.shadyridr said:
Baltimore does the same stuff but not to that degree, and they play in a much smaller market (not as small as Angelos wants you to believe, they probably still have more fans in the NCR than the Nats do).
Plus the Mets seem to hurt all their players.
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Dickie Dunn
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Longest streaks of consecutive games with at at least one strikeout since 1913 (non-pitchers only):
Adam Dunn, 36 (9/24/11 to 5/9/12)
Chris Carter 31 (9/2/12 to 4/5/13)
Jarrod Saltalamacchia 28 (7/23/08 to 4/25/09)
Aaron Judge 27 (7/8/17 to 8/10/17) current
Dunn also is the only one with a longer streak within one season, with 32 of his 36 coming to start the 2012 season.
The MLB record of 37 is held by Bill Stoneman (1971-72). Other pitchers on the list include: Bob Veale 36 (1967-68), Vida Blue 34 (1971), Jim Nash 29 (1967-68), Dean Chance 29 (1965-66), Rich Gale 27 (1982-83), Dean Chance again 27 (1964-65), and Steve Barber 27 (1960-61).
Adam Dunn, 36 (9/24/11 to 5/9/12)
Chris Carter 31 (9/2/12 to 4/5/13)
Jarrod Saltalamacchia 28 (7/23/08 to 4/25/09)
Aaron Judge 27 (7/8/17 to 8/10/17) current
Dunn also is the only one with a longer streak within one season, with 32 of his 36 coming to start the 2012 season.
The MLB record of 37 is held by Bill Stoneman (1971-72). Other pitchers on the list include: Bob Veale 36 (1967-68), Vida Blue 34 (1971), Jim Nash 29 (1967-68), Dean Chance 29 (1965-66), Rich Gale 27 (1982-83), Dean Chance again 27 (1964-65), and Steve Barber 27 (1960-61).
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
Bryce just mangled his knee. Cleats sliid over 1B and his knee looked to hyperextend when they hit the ground
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
Is now the time to talk about how stupid the bases are?
Capella
Footballguy
Ha. I actually thought that after seeing the replay last night. Other than tradition why do they have the bases? Why not make them all like home plate? I never thought of it before.
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shadyridr
Footballguy
hard for a first basemen to feel for the base on standard grounders. Guys stealing second have nothing to stop them from sliding past second. The bases are definitely necessary.
Capella
Footballguy
Didn't think about people sliding into them. That doesn't seem to be really great either though.
The Kerminator
Footballguy
I don't know. What's the injury rate for players sliding in to them?
An interesting article from 2014. Although many of the injuries they talk about are from head first slides, the discussion of new bases is interesting.
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/10902301/mlb-game-bases-hazard-player-health
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TobiasFunke
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Yup, the problem here was that the base was wet. MLB was in a bind because it was an east vs west team, and they'd already been rained out Friday night and scheduled a doubleheader Sunday, so they had to play the game that night and they had to start as early as possible to give the players a few hours of sleep. As it was they ended up playing 29 innings of baseball in 24 hours. Thankfully the worst case outcome was apparently avoided.gump said:
Quick fix would be just give the 1B ump a hand towel and ask him to keep the bag dry when it's wet out.
JaxBill
Footballguy
rodg12
Footballguy
They actually change the bases too much nowadays. They change them like 3 times a game. Leaves them slick and hard to begin with. Rain on exacerbates the problem.
shadyridr
Footballguy
Limp Ditka
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shadyridr
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Dickie Dunn
Footballguy
What's amazing is that this is the same kid from this video ... who has kind of become one of the recent faces of the Jimmy Fund. He's actually a high school pitcher.
TobiasFunke
Footballguy
I was watching MLB Network during the massive Judge HR last night, and I think my new favorite thing is baseball players who hate it when math nerds act like they know the sport better than the people who played it also feel qualified to question the physics that go into calculating projected HR distances.
"455 feet! Come on, that ball went 500 feet if it went an inch! I should know- as a former professional baseball player I spent many hours evaluating exit velocity, trajectory and spin as they relate to distance traveled and can now do such calculations accurately after watching a five second clip from one angle."
"455 feet! Come on, that ball went 500 feet if it went an inch! I should know- as a former professional baseball player I spent many hours evaluating exit velocity, trajectory and spin as they relate to distance traveled and can now do such calculations accurately after watching a five second clip from one angle."
shadyridr
Footballguy
Dickie Dunn
Footballguy
Nope. He only broke the consecutive games within one season. Dunn still holds the record for non-pitchers at 36, of which the last 32 all came within one season (the "record" Judge broke).
That would be like saying Cal Pipken Jr.'s consecutive games record is 163.
As I posted above, the all-time record is 37 games by Bill Stoneman.
Wrigley
Footballguy
Now 34 straight
2 more and he'll have the record to himself (bleacher report has Stoneman at 35)
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Capella
Footballguy
Still can't believe he ever sees a fastball. Wtf was degrom trying to get past him last night.
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
Adrian Gonzalez starting at 1B and batting seventh tonight. LA's got the weekend with a DH, so it's not going to start getting awkward/Pippy until next week, probably.
Dickie Dunn
Footballguy
Like with Dunn, whose overall streak is 36, Stoneman's overall streak actually is 37.
Code:
1 Bill Stoneman 1971-04-30 1972-04-21 37
2 Adam Dunn 2011-09-24 2012-05-09 36
3 Bob Veale 1967-07-21 1968-08-18 36
4 Aaron Judge 2017-07-08 2017-08-17 34
5 Vida Blue 1971-04-09 1971-09-12 34Wrigley
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Eephus
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Eephus
Footballguy
Jered Weaver exits the game after a much better career than his brother: 150 wins, 34.8 rWAR and almost $100M earned. For a few years in his prime, he was a top five AL pitcher and was always an interesting guy to watch work, even when getting shelled.
He never was a hard thrower which left him zero margin for error as he lost velocity with age. By the end, he was throwing fastballs at change-up speed with predictable results.
His top ten B-R comps are a distinguished group of horses
He never was a hard thrower which left him zero margin for error as he lost velocity with age. By the end, he was throwing fastballs at change-up speed with predictable results.
His top ten B-R comps are a distinguished group of horses
- Cliff Lee (952.5)
- Don Newcombe (950.7)
- Chris Carpenter (948.2)
- Zack Greinke (946.2)
- Jon Lester (945.5)
- Roy Oswalt (944.9)
- Dennis Leonard (928.5)
- Ramon Martinez (926.4)
- Denny McLain (923.7)
- Adam Wainwright (918.6)
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
Not sure why, but Curtis Granderson is now a Dodger
Dickie Dunn
Footballguy
Will be a tough team to beat in the NL if they have all the players.Limp Ditka said:
Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
Giancarlo 
Doctor Detroit
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Dickie Dunn
Footballguy
That's OK. I dislike them enough for you and everyone else here, including @Eephus ... 1981 seems like just yesterday.
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
More like 'Non' Super Nova, amitire?
Eephus
Footballguy
shadyridr
Footballguy
A fully healthy national team can beat them and I don't think it would be considered a choke.
rodg12
Footballguy
Not really. NBA and NFL are more of a cursory acknowledgement these days than a line. Guys will go chat up buddies they know in each post game, but it's not like everyone high-fives everyone. More of a college thing than a pro thing except for Hockey.
Eephus
Footballguy
Utilityman Paul Janish retires after 1305 PAs in parts of nine years in the bigs. He was 4-9 in seasons above the Mendoza Schwarber line.
B-R career comps
B-R career comps
- Omar Quintanilla (977.9)
- Luis Alvarado (973.9)
- Jim Anderson (972.5)
- Al Brancato (971.7)
- Jack Heidemann (968.1)
- Billy Consolo (966.7)
- Jose Valdivielso (964.6)
- Rick Auerbach (963.9)
- Ted Kazanski (960.7)
- Jerry Dybzinski (958.8)
Encyclopedia Brown
Footballguy
White Sox fans have bad flashbacks to #10 on that list. It was his baserunning blunder in the 1983 division series that thwarted their one big rally, and pretty much sealed their fate.
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
#### Tito Landrum
