The Official 2020 Major League Baseball Season Updates Thread

[Docwaukee]

5 minutes ago, Inside Pitch said:

LOL!  People would be losing it.

Skubal has been getting hit pretty well too.   Both guys (and Manning), are good bets long term.

On the plud side for them, Spencer Turnbull is finally showing signs of life at age 27.

personally, I've never been super high on Mize.  Always felt he was a guy that would get squared up by major league hitters and he didn't have the velo to get around that.  Don't get me wrong, I think he'll be a solid pitcher but more middle of the rotation than a front line guy.  That said, he's got all of about 23ip under his belt after making the jump from AA.  So once he learns to locate better, I am sure he'll come around.  

[Inside Pitch]

2 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

personally, I've never been super high on Mize.  Always felt he was a guy that would get squared up by major league hitters and he didn't have the velo to get around that.  Don't get me wrong, I think he'll be a solid pitcher but more middle of the rotation than a front line guy.  That said, he's got all of about 23ip under his belt after making the jump from AA.  So once he learns to locate better, I am sure he'll come around.  

Mize may be a guy I end up being off on.  I wasn't all that worried about the 93-94 gun readings because he throws such a heavy FB, but hitters have been wrecking his curve and his split has not been effective for him.  The GB rates are there and the sinker has been working but everything else has been hammered.

[Docwaukee]

27 minutes ago, Inside Pitch said:

Mize may be a guy I end up being off on.  I wasn't all that worried about the 93-94 gun readings because he throws such a heavy FB, but hitters have been wrecking his curve and his split has not been effective for him.  The GB rates are there and the sinker has been working but everything else has been hammered.

he'll probably end up being somewhere in between what we both initially thought.  His lack of immediate success probably has more to do with the fact that he jumped from AA than anything.  Where you can miss location and still have success.  

[Angelsjunky]

Alex Gordon is retiring after this season.

1749 games (with a few more left), .257/.338/.411, 190 HR, 113 SB, 867 Runs, 749 RBI, 102 wRC+, 32.2 WAR.

I'd call that the Hall of Kind of Good.

[Lou]

17 minutes ago, Angelsjunky said:

Alex Gordon is retiring after this season.

1749 games (with a few more left), .257/.338/.411, 190 HR, 113 SB, 867 Runs, 749 RBI, 102 wRC+, 32.2 WAR.

I'd call that the Hall of Kind of Good.

@Tank take a look at that slugging percentage.

[Claude]

19 minutes ago, Angelsjunky said:

Alex Gordon is retiring after this season.

1749 games (with a few more left), .257/.338/.411, 190 HR, 113 SB, 867 Runs, 749 RBI, 102 wRC+, 32.2 WAR.

I'd call that the Hall of Kind of Good.

HoF? Probably so but you would have to consider Torii Hunter even more.

[Tank]

56 minutes ago, Lou said:

@Tank take a look at that slugging percentage.

That’s fantastic!

[Angelsjunky]

1 hour ago, RendZone said:

HoF? Probably so but you would have to consider Torii Hunter even more.

No, that's not what I said. I said Hall of Kind of Good, playing off of the common trope "Hall of Very Good" to refer to players--like Torii Hunter--that will never reach the HoF, but still had good careers. Gordon is a step down.

 

[Inside Pitch]

9 hours ago, RendZone said:

HoF? Probably so but you would have to consider Torii Hunter even more.

Wait..... You think Gordon is a "probably so" for the HOF?  

[Lou]

8 minutes ago, Inside Pitch said:

Wait..... You think Gordon is a "probably so" for the HOF?  

No chance in hell. 

[Inside Pitch]

26 minutes ago, Lou said:

No chance in hell. 

I agree.  But given his view of other players, to associate Gordon with the HOF as a "probably so" is surprising. 

[rafibomb]

On 9/22/2020 at 10:06 PM, m0nkey said:

Homer Bailey is pitching for a playoff team in September 2020. 
 

If anyone can name the team he’s pitching for without looking it up, you’re lying. 

 

 

[Lou]

lol 

Like clockwork.

[rafibomb]

 

 

[m0nkey]

deGrom probably lost the Cy Young today, so it’ll probably be either Darvish or Bauer

[Lou]

Ron Roenicke out as manager of the red sox.

[Stradling]

In the most 2020 thing ever there are three teams vying for the last playoff spot in the NL.   They are all losing late. 

[Lou]

I remember when people were laughing at Jeter's Marlins and the Giants at the beginning of the season.

[Angel Oracle]

The Cards fortunately did not need to make up those two missed games with the Tigers.

Even if they were to lose them, they’d still be in the post-season.

I’m amazed that with the earlier CoVid cancelled games, those were the only two MLB games not played.

The 7 inning DH games no doubt helped.  Still don’t like it going forward though.

Edited September 28, 2020 by Angel Oracle

[Inside Pitch]

Man, just realized Phillies went 3-7 to close out the season and miss the playoffs.   They had a 70% chance to make the playoffs just the other day.

Arte might have competition for Dombrowski.

[m0nkey]

10 minutes ago, Inside Pitch said:

Man, just realized Phillies went 3-7 to close out the season and miss the playoffs.   They had a 70% chance to make the playoffs just the other day.

Arte might have competition for Dombrowski.

Our old friend Matt Klentak is the mastermind behind that. I watched a lot of Phillies games this year, that bullpen is something else. Their big acquisition of Brandon Workman had a WHIP of 2.46 to end the year. 
 

The way the season ended, if they won one of 3 games in Tampa, they would’ve been in. 

[Inside Pitch]

3 minutes ago, m0nkey said:

Our old friend Matt Klentak is the mastermind behind that. I watched a lot of Phillies games this year, that bullpen is something else. Their big acquisition of Brandon Workman had a WHIP of 2.46 to end the year. 
 

The way the season ended, if they won one of 3 games in Tampa, they would’ve been in. 

Yep, people have been referencing that huge 60s Phillies choke job all week.  Heads will roll.

[Warfarin]

Everybody "competing" for the 8th spot in the NL just completely choked to finish off the year.