The Official 2019 Major League Baseball Thread

[Stradling]

15 minutes ago, ScottT said:

And charging the mound after someone throws at you for silly reasons.... is much more understandable 

The guy reacted to words by charging the dugout. Ridiculous 

You spelled awesome wrong 

[ScottT]

Awesome if you are a sports talk show host.  Always want that great story. Dan Patrick may mention baseball tomorrow. Wooohoo!

We'll see how awesome MLB thinks it was

[Angelsjunky]

On 7/29/2019 at 8:23 AM, m0nkey said:

Walker Buehler has pitched:

• 122.1 IP,  3.38 ERA, 1.030 WHIP
• 3.12 FIP
• 1.5BB/9
• 10.1 K/9
• 6.85 K/BB

But only has 1.0 Baseball reference WAR.  Can one of you smarter folks explain how that is?

You probably need one of the even nerdier guys like @Inside Pitch to better explain it, but the short version is that BR calculates their WAR for pitchers by Runs Allowed, which includes unearned runs, whereas Fangraphs tries to take out the defense and focus more on what is in a pitcher's control, using FIP (Fielding Independent Pitching). So if your defense sucks, your bWAR will be worse. fWAR equalizes defense.

In other words, a pitcher will theoretically have the same fWAR whether he has Andrelton Simmons or Miggy Cabrera playing shortstop, whereas bWAR will reflect more positively on the pitcher with Simmons.

[Broad Street]

Sean Newcomb is on in the 9th with a two run lead, but bases loaded and no outs

[Broad Street]

Aaaaaand tie game

[Stradling]

4 minutes ago, Kody Mac said:

Sean Newcomb is on in the 9th with a two run lead, but bases loaded and no outs

They no longer the lead, it’s tied

[Broad Street]

9 minutes ago, Stradling said:

They no longer the lead, it’s tied

I agree. 

[m0nkey]

Josh Donaldson is having a good comeback year

[ScottT]

Tim Salmon thinks Dietrich was "showboating" and he loved the old school garbage that went on. 

Why anyone would take offense to what he did is beyond me. 

[mulwin444]

Ray's just swept the PEDSux in Boston

[Vegas Halo Fan]

On 7/30/2019 at 10:43 PM, Tank said:

As he was being removed from the game, someone in the Pirates dugout  was mouthing off to him, and Garrett made a very determined march over to their dugout, threw down his glove, balled up his left fist, and delivered a major league haymaker. 

Both managers were ready to go at it, too. David Bell, the Reds manager, had been ejected earlier and is probably looking at a sizable suspension for coming back onto the field.

As usual, Puig blew a gasket and was ready to take on the entire Pirates organization single handedly.

Heard the Reds GM on MLB Network yesterday. He said that they didn't take Puig out of the lineup because they weren't sure that the deal was going to go down. They got confirmation during the eighth inning. He said that they figured that he wouldn't get hurt in the field for two outs, but they weren't going to let him bat again. Then the fight happened in the ninth, and he was holding his breath.

[Angel Oracle]

PedSux have pitching woes too.  Their team ERA isn't much better than the Halos' team ERA.   They only have two relievers who have gotten the job done.

Their starters can pitch deeper into games of course than the Halos pitchers do, but they are giving up a significant number of runs.

[mulwin444]

20 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

PedSux have pitching woes too.  Their team ERA isn't much better than the Halos' team ERA.   They only have two relievers who have gotten the job done.

Their starters can pitch deeper into games of course than the Halos pitchers do, but they are giving up a significant number of runs.

Porcello and Cashner have been bombed lately

[Lou]

28 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

PedSux have pitching woes too.  Their team ERA isn't much better than the Halos' team ERA.   They only have two relievers who have gotten the job done.

Their starters can pitch deeper into games of course than the Halos pitchers do, but they are giving up a significant number of runs.

and did nothing at the trade deadline to help themselves out.

so dysfunctional of them 

[Lou]

Ryu to IL (neck)

May, AKA Gingergaard, to start tonight

[Docwaukee]

4 minutes ago, Lou said:

Ryu to IL (neck)

May, AKA Gingergaard, to start tonight

Ryu has a neck?

[Lou]

3 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

Ryu has a neck?

Barely 

[Taylor]

3 hours ago, Lou said:

and did nothing at the trade deadline to help themselves out.

so dysfunctional of them 

FlahpFlag is going berserk on RedSoxWin.com.

[UndertheHalo]

Lmao.  He’s right !

[Vegas Halo Fan]

5 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

PedSux have pitching woes too.  Their team ERA isn't much better than the Halos' team ERA.   They only have two relievers who have gotten the job done.

Their starters can pitch deeper into games of course than the Halos pitchers do, but they are giving up a significant number of runs.

Watched the Sux-Yanks game tonight. Weird game. Two run homer by J. D. Martinez in the top of the first, grand slam by Gleyber Torres in the bottom of the first, and nothing the rest of the way.

[m0nkey]

Harper currently 0-6 and hitting under .250.

 

[m0nkey]

From the same game:

 

[Tank]

1 hour ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

Watched the Sux-Yanks game tonight. Weird game. Two run homer by J. D. Martinez in the top of the first, grand slam by Gleyber Torres in the bottom of the first, and nothing the rest of the way.

I went to a dodgers game around 75 or so and Ron Cey hit a slam in the B1, and that was it for the rest of the game. 4-0 doggies.

[Tank]

3 minutes ago, m0nkey said:

Harper currently 0-6 and hitting under .250.

boy he's having a tough year.

I wonder how the fans are treating him.

[m0nkey]

12 minutes ago, Tank said:

boy he's having a tough year.

I wonder how the fans are treating him.

Not as bad as you'd think.  He'll only get the occasional boo