Official 2021 Major League Baseball (News, Notes & Scores around the League)

[Blarg]

 Calhoun doesn't care about winning!

[T.G.]

 

[Taylor]

13 hours ago, True Grich said:

Padres come from a 7-1 deficit to win 8-7 in 10 innings.

[Chuck]

The Giants starting pitching has been fantastic early on this season. It's no wonder why they're sporting a solid 14-8 record. 

 

[Angels in 2030]

So good SP = winning, huh?  

Interesting...you may be onto something   ;)

[Angel Oracle]

A’s finally lost yesterday!

Freaking miracle!

Alert Ripley’s!

[m0nkey]

The way of today's game

[Chuck]

With the Giants 12-0 win and the Dodgers loss, SF pulls into a 1st place tie with the Dodgers.

You love to see it.

[Lou]

The Royals have the best record in baseball.

[totdprods]

15 hours ago, m0nkey said:

The way of today's game

Angels are at .267/.325/.444/.768, good for second, third, and second in the league. 

Dead last in AL in walks, but 4th fewest strikeouts.

[Docwaukee]

9 minutes ago, totdprods said:

Angels are at .267/.325/.444/.768, good for second, third, and second in the league. 

Dead last in AL in walks, but 4th fewest strikeouts.

saw this.  Last in MLB actually.  Not sure I like this trend but it does make for more watchable baseball.  

[Inside Pitch]

5 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

saw this.  Last in MLB actually.  Not sure I like this trend but it does make for more watchable baseball.  

They had the 6th most walks in MLB last year, not a lot of offensive turnover.   Looking at at the swing data my guess is they will eventually see the walks go up.

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=5&season=2021&month=0&season1=2021&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2021-01-01&enddate=2021-12-31&sort=4,d

The Z contact and the sort is impressive.

[Angels in 2030]

The offense has been great so far.  On the other side of the coin -- pitching:

28th in WHIP

30th in ERA

29th in ERA+

On the hopeful side, 11th in FIP

 

Fielding: last in FP

[totdprods]

I’m giving it a couple more weeks before I really start looking over the numbers. Sample size is a little small still, rainouts and Covid wreaked havoc on the schedule and the rotation, a lot of at-bats from reserves with all the injuries. I think (hope) some of the bullpen struggles are attributed as well to Maddon simply exploring roles and leverage situation for guys still.

By mid-May things should be ‘settled’ a little better, and things should start getting closer to where the truth really lies. 

[Angel Oracle]

Any news on Stassi???

Don’t know how much more of Suzuki’s piss poor defense and pitch framing the team can handle.

[Taylor]

After starting 13-2, the Dodgers are 2-6 in their last 8 games.

[T.G.]

F the Dodgers.

[Angels in 2030]

4 hours ago, totdprods said:

I’m giving it a couple more weeks before I really start looking over the numbers. Sample size is a little small still, rainouts and Covid wreaked havoc on the schedule and the rotation, a lot of at-bats from reserves with all the injuries. I think (hope) some of the bullpen struggles are attributed as well to Maddon simply exploring roles and leverage situation for guys still.

By mid-May things should be ‘settled’ a little better, and things should start getting closer to where the truth really lies. 

Hogwash with your sound, rational, level-headedness common sense.  Freaking out irrationally is what we do best man

[T.G.]

Yankees don't have a single sacrifice fly or triple this season.  They're also dead last in going first to third...

[Inside Pitch]

9 minutes ago, True Grich said:

Yankees don't have a single sacrifice fly or triple this season.  They're also dead last in going first to third...

The bats have really been slow to start the season.

Consider this...

Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	C	Gary Sanchez	28	17	65	55	7	10	1	0	2	4	0	0	8	15	.182	.308	.309	.617	82	17	0	2	0	0	0
2	1B	Jay Bruce*	34	10	39	34	3	4	1	0	1	3	0	0	5	13	.118	.231	.235	.466	37	8	2	0	0	0	0
3	2B	Rougned Odor*	27	13	48	44	5	7	0	0	3	8	0	0	3	8	.159	.229	.364	.593	70	16	2	1	0	0	0
4	SS	Gleyber Torres	24	21	89	77	6	16	2	0	0	2	1	0	12	17	.208	.315	.234	.548	64	18	1	0	0	0	0
5	3B	Gio Urshela	29	20	77	72	7	19	4	0	3	10	1	0	5	18	.264	.312	.444	.756	118	32	2	0	0	0	0
6	LF	Clint Frazier	26	18	61	49	4	7	2	0	0	1	0	0	12	19	.143	.311	.184	.495	50	9	0	0	0	0	0
7	CF	Aaron Hicks#	31	19	77	68	7	11	1	0	3	7	0	0	8	20	.162	.260	.309	.569	66	21	2	1	0	0	0
8	RF	Aaron Judge	29	20	86	72	7	18	3	0	4	9	0	0	14	21	.250	.372	.458	.830	142	33	4	0	0	0	0
9	DH	Giancarlo Stanton	31	19	80	73	8	14	2	0	5	14	0	0	7	24	.192	.263	.425	.687	97	31	2	0	0	0	1
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
10	IF	DJ LeMahieu	32	20	90	80	9	20	4	0	1	6	0	0	10	16	.250	.333	.338	.671	98	27	4	0	0	0	0
11	OF	Brett Gardner*	37	13	43	36	4	7	2	0	0	1	0	0	6	11	.194	.310	.250	.560	67	9	0	0	1	0	0
12	C	Kyle Higashioka	31	10	25	21	5	6	2	0	3	5	0	0	4	5	.286	.400	.810	1.210	242	17	0	0	0	0	0
13	1B	Mike Ford*	28	4	17	15	2	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	3	.133	.235	.333	.569	64	5	0	0	0	0	0
14	OF	Mike Tauchman*	30	11	16	14	1	3	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	6	.214	.267	.286	.552	62	4	0	0	1	0

Bruce retired but remains the guy with the most AB's at 1B, his replacement hasn't faired any better...  7 regulars batting .208 or under  6 guys with an OPS under .617

[Inside Pitch]

BTW -- the Yankees bats sucking means MLB will re-introduce the juiced balls any day now because we (Manfred), can't have the Yankees not do well.

[m0nkey]

Vlad Jr has 3 homers tonight (2 off scherzer) and a 1.177 OPS so far this season. 
 

Didn’t mean to trigger some on the board

[Angel Oracle]

Skanks pen has been ridiculous.

2.70 ERA

I wish I knew what that was like.

Skanks stat to send to Ripley’s:

Third in AL HRs, but TWELVETH in OPS

Edited April 28, 2021 by Angel Oracle

[Stradling]

1 minute ago, Angel Oracle said:

Skanks pen has been ridiculous.

2.70 ERA

I wish I knew what that was like.

Yankees record is 3 games under .500.  Are you wishing you knew what that was like?

[Angel Oracle]

13 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Yankees record is 3 games under .500.  Are you wishing you knew what that was like?

Point taken, it has been a long time though since the Halos pen was effective enough as a unit.

Great seasons here and there from Robles, Mayers, and Petit, but otherwise, meh for the previous five seasons.

That has to change for them to be real contenders.

Edited April 28, 2021 by Angel Oracle