The Official 2018 Major League Baseball Thread

[Taylor]

10 hours ago, hangin n wangin said:

Edwin Diaz imploded. Mariners lose.

but the Mariners

[Inside Pitch]

23 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

At least you beat up on the Twins, the Halos struggled to split 4 home games with them.

And you have played mostly the top 3 in the AL Central, and only 6 games vs the bottom two cellar dweller types.

AL West SoS

Oakland - .522, 4th toughest
Texas - .516, just below the A's
Angels- .516, see above
Astros - .503, 16th toughest
Seattle - .486, 25th toughest

Nobody in the AL Central has played a SoS above .500..   Cleveland's over .500 thanks to a 12-5 record .vs the AL Central.   Seattle has played a lot of games .vs the Central but nobody has done better than the NYY's record of 10-1 against them.  Boston has only played 3 games .vs the ALC -- they are 24-10 .vs the AL East, the Yanks 11-9, so their relative stregth of schedules may end up being HUGE factors.

Oakland BTW is 15-6 outside of the AL West..  10-19 in division.    There have been some really weird W/L figures this year.

At the end of the day.   The AL West has three good teams, one great team and a last place team that's only 4 games under .500 outside of the division.
 

[zenmaster]

Didi in the last 28 days:   .113/.155/.175/.330

Kole has someone beat! (barely at .117/.206/.133/.339)

[Angel Oracle]

14 minutes ago, zenmaster said:

Didi in the last 28 days:   .113/.155/.175/.330

Kole has someone beat! (barely at .117/.206/.133/.339)

At least Cold is still taking BBs.

[Angel Oracle]

47 minutes ago, Inside Pitch said:

AL West SoS

Oakland - .522, 4th toughest
Texas - .516, just below the A's
Angels- .516, see above
Astros - .503, 16th toughest
Seattle - .486, 25th toughest

Nobody in the AL Central has played a SoS above .500..   Cleveland's over .500 thanks to a 12-5 record .vs the AL Central.   Seattle has played a lot of games .vs the Central but nobody has done better than the NYY's record of 10-1 against them.  Boston has only played 3 games .vs the ALC -- they are 24-10 .vs the AL East, the Yanks 11-9, so their relative stregth of schedules may end up being HUGE factors.

Oakland BTW is 15-6 outside of the AL West..  10-19 in division.    There have been some really weird W/L figures this year.

At the end of the day.   The AL West has three good teams, one great team and a last place team that's only 4 games under .500 outside of the division.
 

Boston has built the best team in MLB.   Offense, defense, speed, pitching, late innings/closer..they have it all.   Still the only team to embarrass the Halos so far

Houston has the best by far starting pitching as a group, but they do have a few lineup holes and not one true closer.

[Taylor]

1 hour ago, Angel Oracle said:

At least Cold is still taking BBs.

Any pitcher who issues him a walk needs to take a long, hard look at themselves.

[Stradling]

Paxton only threw 89 pitches tonight.

[fan_since79]

Rays' Eovaldi removed in the 7th while pitching a no-hitter.

Wth?!

[Dick B Back]

4 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Rays' Eovaldi removed in the 7th while pitching a no-hitter.

Wth?!

He’s thrown 10 minor league innings this year... that’s it.

[Inside Pitch]

6 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Rays' Eovaldi removed in the 7th while pitching a no-hitter.

Wth?!

first game back from TJS isn't it?

[Troll Daddy]

What’s up with Matt Kemp ... dude is killing it so far this season. 

[Ender]

12 hours ago, The Boogie Man said:

Paxton only threw 89 pitches tonight.

And then the bullpen promptly blew it.

I said before I hate Scott Servais. I reaffirm my feelings.

[m0nkey]

Dogs put kershaw on the DL with a lower back strain. The same injury cost him 5 months last year. 

 

It’s pretty tiring not shedding tears at this point

[nando714]

5 hours ago, m0nkey said:

Dogs put kershaw on the DL with a lower back strain. The same injury cost him 5 months last year. 

 

It’s pretty tiring not shedding tears at this point

I doubt he opts out 

injuries starting to pile up 

[Tank]

On 5/30/2018 at 9:09 PM, fan_since79 said:

Rays' Eovaldi removed in the 7th while pitching a no-hitter.

Wth?!

workload management.

[nando714]

Edwin Diaz

el oh el 

[Pablo]

On 5/30/2018 at 9:15 PM, Inside Pitch said:

first game back from TJS isn't it?

DOUBLE TJ surgery.

[Homebrewer]

Wacha (Stl)  is 3 outs from a no-no against Pit 

[Ender]

On 6/2/2018 at 12:51 AM, nando714 said:

Edwin Diaz

el oh el 

He sure is bad.

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

Boston leads the Astros 6-1 in 6th.

[BackUpTheTruck]

2 minutes ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

Boston leads the Astros 6-1 in 6th.

Let's see how Boston's bullpen does

[Troll Daddy]

On 5/30/2018 at 9:31 AM, Angel Oracle said:

Gardenhire was a great hire.   He works well with young players, like he did in Minnesota.

He’s older than Sosh and is as old school as they come. 

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

Astros lose and fall a game behind The Dipotos of Seattle.

[GrittyVeterans]

Was looking at some statistics from players around the league this morning, and this one really caught my eye:

Cody Bellinger 2017: .267/.352/.581/.933; 143 OPS+

Cody Bellinger 2018: .225/.298/.413/.711; 95 OPS+

I know he'll improve probably but that's a big sophomore slump

[nando714]

Severino and Verlander slugging it out for the cy young