2022 MLB thread

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3 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

Trout 1 HR tonight, Shohei with a solo and a grand slam.

 

EDIT:  Sho's first grand slam at any level.   

They were waiting to use this one for a while...

Trout swims upstream of Salmon in record books

161st blast at home sets mark for most all time at Angel Stadium

[Scraps 13561]

 

Would have been a good time to bust out "are you Sheeting me?"

[Scraps 13561]

Josh Naylor may run out of innings but is halfway home to reverse HR cycle
GS in the 9th to tie it up.
3 run HR in the 11th to put them up 3.

Best part of all this is the grand slam was off douchenugget Hendriks

[UTexasFight 9454]

13 minutes ago, Scraps said:

9 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

Josh Naylor may run out of innings but is halfway home to reverse HR cycle
GS in the 9th to tie it up.
3 run HR in the 11th to put them up 3.

Best part of all this is the grand slam was off douchenugget Hendriks

110%

[Ojo Rojo 1965]

Why do they have to keep jacking with the ball?  Is it impossible to standardize the thing?  Forced manipulation to get numbers up or down sucks for the game and for fans.

[Huckleberry 32882]

On 5/9/2022 at 8:45 AM, Fudge Nuggets said:

So what's up with the hijinks and assorted bullshit?  Do relief pitchers enter the game by repelling from a Blackhawk helicopter?  Do they have a guy on a unicycle juggling firesticks circling the bases between innings?  I guess this is the WWE equivalent of baseball.

A lot of it is dumb but the batter staying in the box and the pitcher just pitching is awesome. Obviously it's faster than is reasonable as part of the entertainment goal, but there's no reason MLB should average 23 seconds between pitches if it's just a called strike or ball. 

[Helobious 9454]

 

[UTexasFight 9454]

3 minutes ago, Helobious said:

 

Trying to ensure the A’s don’t have the lowest single game  attendance?

[WBT 20586]

What happens in 2025?

[Helobious 9454]

23 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

Trying to ensure the A’s don’t have the lowest single game  attendance?

Yankees-Sox had a huge turnout there in 2019

[ztejas 43462]

25 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

Trying to ensure the A’s don’t have the lowest single game  attendance?

Did you miss the picture of the sold-out stadium in London hosting an MLB game?

[Scraps 13561]

23 minutes ago, WBT said:

What happens in 2025?

War

[Underdog 28688]

What is it good for?

[UTexasFight 9454]

24 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Did you miss the picture of the sold-out stadium in London hosting an MLB game?

Yeah sure.

for Red Sox/Yankees. 

What happens in year 2 or 3 when the novelty has worn off and it’s Phillies vs Rays being sent over?

I mean, don’t get me wrong.I hope it works. Off the cuff, to me though, it just smacks of “let’s copy whatever the nfl does”.

 

[TonyTexas 10515]

Baseball is a way more international game than football. It should do great. 

[Helobious 9454]

9 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

Yeah sure.

for Red Sox/Yankees. 

What happens in year 2 or 3 when the novelty has worn off and it’s Phillies vs Rays being sent over?

I mean, don’t get me wrong.I hope it works. Off the cuff, to me though, it just smacks of “let’s copy whatever the nfl does”.

 

You think the MLB would ever send over teams like the Phillies & Rays for a big international game like that? 

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9 minutes ago, Helobious said:

You think the MLB would ever send over teams like the Phillies & Rays for a big international game like that? 

You think the nfl would ever send over shitty teams for a big international game?

 

[Helobious 9454]

NFL is a different animal entirely.

[shadow_operative2.0 15987]

Ouch. 

 

[ztejas 43462]

Helo after that judge walk off.

[Helobious 9454]

I’m typing this almost close to teary-eyed. I vividly remember the day the Yankees drafted Judge. Immediately looked up everything about him because I only knew him from the college Home Run Derby before. I read minor league box scores daily over the next three years, tracking his progress. I remember the day he got called up and homered in his first big league AB. He’s done nothing but endear himself to Yankee fans ever since. To see him hit his first walk off homer is purely magical. What a fucking moment.
 

Totally awesome. 

[ztejas 43462]

[Guadaloopy 10973]

7 minutes ago, Helobious said:

I’m typing this almost close to teary-eyed. I vividly remember the day the Yankees drafted Judge. Immediately looked up everything about him because I only knew him from the college Home Run Derby before. I read minor league box scores daily over the next three years, tracking his progress. I remember the day he got called up and homered in his first big league AB. He’s done nothing but endear himself to Yankee fans ever since. To see him hit his first walk off homer is purely magical. What a fucking moment.
 

Totally awesome. 

Sixth. Season.  

You want a moment?   Here’s a moment:

 

[Beau Vine 54246]

13 minutes ago, Helobious said:

He’s done nothing but endear himself to Yankee fans ever since.

 

[ztejas 43462]

No one counts losses in the championship series like the Houston Astros.

 

[tx 3 putt 76980]

6 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

Sixth. Season.  

You want a moment?   Here’s a moment:

 

 

1. I was at that game, fuck the yankees and their douchebag fanbase.

2. The astros had jake maerisnek on deck and they decided to pitch to altuve. pure stupidity 

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20 minutes ago, Helobious said:

I’m typing this almost close to teary-eyed. I vividly remember the day the Yankees drafted Judge. Immediately looked up everything about him because I only knew him from the college Home Run Derby before. I read minor league box scores daily over the next three years, tracking his progress. I remember the day he got called up and homered in his first big league AB. He’s done nothing but endear himself to Yankee fans ever since. To see him hit his first walk off homer is purely magical. What a fucking moment.
 

Totally awesome. 

 

 

it's fucking may !!! be a fucking man !!

[TonyTexas 10515]

It’s gonna be glorious when Judge signs with the Giants next year

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21 hours ago, Ojo Rojo said:

Why do they have to keep jacking with the ball?  Is it impossible to standardize the thing?  Forced manipulation to get numbers up or down sucks for the game and for fans.

The purity of the game/ statsbois get salty about PEDs but insist numbers translate across eras. Hell, they don't even translate across decades.

[youdunnf'dup 2147]

Watching this live was pretty fucking badass

 

[Hank Chinaski 6315]

2 hours ago, slorch said:

The purity of the game/ statsbois get salty about PEDs but insist numbers translate across eras. Hell, they don't even translate across decades.

The good stats do. The ones that are relative to the league. wRC+, OPS+, etc. The absolute/counting numbers? Sure, those don’t, and anyone who understands baseball data knows that (and that’s why we have season-relative metrics). 

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9 minutes ago, youdunnf'dup said:

Watching this live was pretty fucking badass

 

Y’all keep talking shit about the Savannah Bananas…

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11 minutes ago, Hank Chinaski said:

The good stats do. The ones that are relative to the league. wRC+, OPS+, etc. The absolute/counting numbers? Sure, those don’t, and anyone who understands baseball data knows that (and that’s why we have season-relative metrics). 

The point is the administrators of the game Jack with the results as much or more than the alleged cheaters did. Then they lose their mind at the thought that a player damaged the numbers of the game.

Lots of warning track power out there already this year. It’s for no other reason then they changed the ball. It is not reflective of better pitching or lower performing batters.

Edited May 11, 2022 by slorch

[Hank Chinaski 6315]

3 minutes ago, slorch said:

The point is the administrators of the game Jack with the results as much or more than the alleged cheaters did. Then they lose their mind at the thought that a player damaged the numbers of the game.

Lots of warning track power out there already this year. It’s for no other reason then they changed the ball. It is not reflective of better pitching or lower performing batters.

Oh yeah, MLB screws with the balls and pretends they don’t. MLB has trouble getting out of its own way. 

[tx 3 putt 76980]

8 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

It’s gonna be glorious when Judge signs with the Giants next year

Or diamondbacks 

[Scraps 13561]

17 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Or diamondbacks 

Red Sox...the answer is the Red Sox.  Funny as hell 

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46 minutes ago, youdunnf'dup said:

Watching this live was pretty fucking badass

 

Every game - a position player has to pitch one inning. Same position player can only pitch once per week

 

[Beau Vine 54246]

 

[Fudge Nuggets 19195]

1 hour ago, Scraps said:

Red Sox...the answer is the Red Sox.  Funny as hell 

Astros to take over Brantley's spot when he retires at the end of the season.

[Fudge Nuggets 19195]

1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

Every game - a position player has to pitch one inning. Same position player can only pitch once per week

 

Start each game with an "opener", have your real starter parked out in left field and pray no one hits a ball to him.

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31 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Start each game with an "opener", have your real starter parked out in left field and pray no one hits a ball to him.

he has to sit in a chair, until the ball leaves the pitchers hand 

[WBT 20586]

1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Astros to take over Brantley's spot when he retires at the end of the season.

[Fudge Nuggets 19195]

Pirates take 2 out of 3 from the Dodgers.

 

[Underdog 28688]

[Fudge Nuggets 19195]

Yelich goes for the cycle for the third time in his career.  All three times were against the Reds.

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[UTexasFight 9454]

3 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Yelich goes for the cycle for the third time in his career.  All three times were against the Reds.

Appropriate as the reds losses have cycled their wins 3 times 

[Scraps 13561]

sure....

 

[Beau Vine 54246]

 

[shadow_operative2.0 15987]

Padres signing Cano.