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i saw yesterday that the record for HR given up by one team in a single season was something like 250, with the 2019 O's on pace to give up like 365 or something. They've given up more than  2 HR for every game played. 

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i saw yesterday that the record for HR given up by one team in a single season was something like 250, with the 2019 O's on pace to give up like 365 or something. They've given up more than  2 HR for every game played. 

I saw the other day that they had given up 72 HR in April.  The previous record was 50.

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I saw the other day Gerrit Cole has 65 Ks through April. That’s like 2 Ks per day for every day of the season.

And on the topic of individual pitcher single season K record, yeah there was an article in The Athletic around this time last year arguing that that record was probably the most unbreakable record in baseball.

Cole currently leads the majors in that category by 10.
Assuming he starts every fifth game for the Astros the rest of the season, he’d have to average ~12 Ks per game.

He’s averaging 9.3 Ks per start so far this year...

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Winning rules, but i'm not gonna lie...some days i long for having a whole section to myself at the Astros game like I did back 7 or so yrs ago

And to think, those lucky members of Rays-nation get to enjoy both.

I can neither confirm nor deny that the Rays offer a mere $5 “section” upgrade to have one all to yourself.

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2 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

I saw the other day Gerrit Cole has 65 Ks through April. That’s like 2 Ks per day for every day of the season.

And on the topic of individual pitcher single season K record, yeah there was an article in The Athletic around this time last year arguing that that record was probably the most unbreakable record in baseball.

Cole currently leads the majors in that category by 10.
Assuming he starts every fifth game for the Astros the rest of the season, he’d have to average ~12 Ks per game.

He’s averaging 9.3 Ks per start so far this year...

Here is something I just saw.  The two active career strikeout leaders are CC and Verlander:  3002 and 2759 over 34 years.  Add those together and you get 5761.   Just beating Ryan's 5714 in 27 seasons.

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6 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

I saw the other day Gerrit Cole has 65 Ks through April. That’s like 2 Ks per day for every day of the season.

And on the topic of individual pitcher single season K record, yeah there was an article in The Athletic around this time last year arguing that that record was probably the most unbreakable record in baseball.

Cole currently leads the majors in that category by 10.
Assuming he starts every fifth game for the Astros the rest of the season, he’d have to average ~12 Ks per game.

He’s averaging 9.3 Ks per start so far this year...

The trick here is to pitch every 4th game...and get 9-10 per game. 

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Good start to this contract. 

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Los Angeles Dodgers center fielder A.J. Pollock will need surgery because of an infection in his surgically repaired right elbow.

Manager Dave Roberts said Pollock will undergo the operation on Thursday. Roberts had no timeline on how long Pollock will be sidelined but said "it's going to be a little bit." Roberts said he expects Pollock back this season.

The former All-Star and Gold Glove winner bumped his elbow over the weekend in Chicago, leading to an infection in his bursa sac. Roberts said doctors are unable to treat the infection with antibiotics only because Pollock has a plate in his elbow from an operation in 2016. The plate will be removed, and Roberts says the structure of Pollock's elbow is good.

The 31-year-old Pollock signed a $55 million, four-year contract with the Dodgers in the offseason but has struggled at the plate. He is batting .223 (23-for-109) with two home runs and 14 RBIs in 28 games.

Pollock originally fractured his elbow while diving for a ball in a 2010 exhibition game. A plate and screw were inserted in the elbow, but Pollock reinjured his elbow in 2016 and was forced to undergo a similar surgery.

 

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4 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

Turns out the mariners are who we thought they were

 

Outscored 44-7 in their last 3 games +3.5 innings tonight

Ends up 46-7 over their last 4.  That's not good for the old run differential.

 

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2. Presto! Watch the single, triple and stolen base disappear

 

For every baseball action, there’s a reaction. I think Socrates Brito once said that. Or maybe Sir Isaac Galloway. But whatever, the changing shape of baseball in 2019 means that even as homers, strikeouts and those all-consuming Three True Outcomes keep rising, you might not even have noticed the stuff that’s disappearing. But we can help you with that.

 

SINGLES – It’s hard to even comprehend, but the average team now hits just 5.06 singles per game. Yeah, you read that right. That was five singles a game! Between massive shifting and launch-angle fever, it’s never been harder to hit a single – ever. If this pace continues, that would produce about 1,600 fewer singles than last year – and nearly 4,000 fewer than just five years ago:

 

And the Giants just walked off the Dodgers with 3 singles in the bottom of the ninth

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Thor just threw a complete game shutout where the Mets won 1-0, and he was responsible for the teams only run with a solo HR. Has that ever happened before? I’m sure it has (probably by mad bum or grienke), but that has to be pretty fucking rare.

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Thor just threw a complete game shutout where the Mets won 1-0, and he was responsible for the teams only run with a solo HR. Has that ever happened before? I’m sure it has (probably by mad bum or grienke), but that has to be pretty fucking rare.

He’s the first Met to do it. Bob Welch was the last to do it in 1983

 

Finished with 99.5 mph K against Puig

 

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Damn, how much longer will Kuechel and Kimbrel remain unsigned?

 

Really looks like Kuechel should have taken the Astros 1 yr/18 mil offer.

Big Boston fan here and I wish Boston would just give both of them a one year contract for more than they are worth.  We need the help.

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Damn, how much longer will Kuechel and Kimbrel remain unsigned?
 
Really looks like Kuechel should have taken the Astros 1 yr/18 mil offer.

Posted Stark’s April in review article here the other day where he talked about this.
They likely won’t be signed for another month due to draft comp pick rules.
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Man, I miss Tony Gwynn.  I've heard the opening story before, I think from Eric Sorenson, and I've told it on here.  The way I heard it was that he threw down his bat and yelled, "See, it's not that fucking hard."

 

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The memory is still vivid to the Sons of Tony Gwynn, the young men who played for Gwynn when he was head baseball coach at his alma mater, San Diego State University. The ones who were there at the end.

The players still talk about one particular batting practice at SDSU in early 2013, about 2 1/2 years after Gwynn first was diagnosed with salivary gland cancer. At the time, he had been retired for nearly 12 years. But what he showed that day — the transcendent skill, even with his health failing — his players will never forget.

Nearly five years after Gwynn’s death on June 16, 2014, his legacy endures through his family, through Nationals right-hander Stephen Strasburg, the first overall pick out of San Diego State in the 2009 draft, through the players on his final teams who are playing professionally.

One of those players, third baseman Ty France, made his major-league debut with Gwynn’s former team, the Padres, on April 26 in Washington. France’s first at-bat came as a pinch-hitter, and he singled — naturally — through Gwynn’s preferred 5.5 hole between shortstop and third base.

Gwynn would have loved that moment, loved seeing France, 24, defy the odds as a 34th-round pick — the 1,017th selection in the 2015 draft — to fulfill his major-league dream. But at the San Diego State practice France and teammates recall that in ‘13, Gwynn was not in the best of spirits.

Right-hander Bubba Derby remembers the players sometimes noticed a change in Gwynn — a different mood, a loss of energy — when he was undergoing chemotherapy. But Derby, now at Triple-A with the Brewers, also recalls the San Diego State hitters trying to pull everything in batting practice, adopting sort of an anti-Tony Gwynn approach.

Gwynn, sitting on a stool next to the batting cage, normally did not say much to his hitters. But eventually, he decided he had seen enough.

At age 52, he put on batting gloves, picked up a bat and began taking swings off assistant head coach Mark Martinez, who later would replace him as head coach.

“Watch,” Gwynn said.

Outfielder Greg Allen was part of the group Gwynn had ordered out of the cage. Then a sophomore, Allen figured it had been a long time since Gwynn had taken swings off a tee, much less against live pitching. But as Gwynn began, he told the hitters, “Look, it’s not that hard.”

Allen, who is now at Triple-A with the Indians, recalls Gwynn proceeding to flick balls left and right. France says Gwynn was calling his shots — 5.5 hole, whack; up the middle, whack; pull-side double, whack. Derby — before telling Martinez on the mound, “look out, Mark” and drilling a ball up the middle with his final swing.

Derby, standing maybe 60 feet behind shortstop in left-center field, had a slightly different recollection.

“He was just peppering line drives as easy as it could look for anybody to do — line drive after line drive, over my head,” Derby says. “A couple of them almost hit me.

“I’m standing there in awe of what I’m seeing. You have this man straight out of chemo. He could barely walk. He was overweight. And he just gets in the box and starts peppering line drives. I’m not talking flares. I’m talking squared-up line drives to left-center.”

Martinez, too, recalls Gwynn kept hitting balls through and over the 5.5 hole as easily as if he were pressing a button on an elevator.

“I’m sick and I can do this!” Gwynn shouted.

France and the other San Diego State hitters could not believe their eyes.

“That’s not fair,” France thought. “You’re Tony Gwynn!”

Freshmen baseball players at San Diego State would arrive thinking, Wow, Tony Gwynn is my coach. Gwynn punctured his own aura almost immediately, telling his players not to view him that way.

“He was so good at making himself more like a father figure and a coach rather than, ‘I’m Tony Gwynn.’” Derby says. “He never acted like that.”

Gwynn, with his wife, Alicia, raised a son of his own, former major-league outfielder Tony Gwynn Jr., as well as a daughter, R&B singer Alisha Nicole. His infectious personality made him beloved throughout the sport. But his college hitters did not always grasp his instruction.

“You get there, and the first practice he was like, ‘Get in position, take your best swing, that’s how you hit.’” France says. “I’m like, ‘What? OK, I’m going to try that.’ And I did it. But it just wasn’t clicking for me. I didn’t really understand what he was talking about.

“I tried that for all of fall. I was like, ‘Coach Gwynn, I just don’t get it. I don’t know what you’re saying. Hitting is not that easy. I don’t know what else to do.’ He sat me down and said, ‘This is really all hitting is. If you get your foot down, get in good position to swing and take your best swing on a good pitch, you’re going to hit the ball hard.’ That whole fall, I was completely overthinking things.”

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Hitters didn’t always grasp Tony Gwynn’s instructions. (Lenny Ignelzi / Associated Press)

France started his freshman season slowly, but Gwynn relaxed him by saying, “We’re not going to take you out of the lineup. Go out there and have fun.” Gwynn connected not just with the team members, but also their families. And even while he was ill, he still could dazzle his players with his knowledge and instincts.

One day during France’s freshman year, he stood next to Gwynn in the dugout. Gwynn, staring out at the opposing pitcher, began calling out pitches — Fastball. Curveball — based solely on the way the pitcher’s hands would break. France was dumbfounded, unable to decipher what Gwynn was seeing.

Gwynn also would tell his hitters stories about his career — stories so captivating, pitchers occasionally would stop to listen. Allen marveled at the detail with which Gwynn recalled showdowns with pitchers such as Greg Maddux and Curt Schilling that had taken place at least a decade earlier.

For the San Diego State players, though, Gwynn’s illness was also part of their experience, making their time with him bittersweet. Gwynn underwent surgeries for cancer in his right cheek in August 2010 and February 2012, and his condition worsened as the ‘14 season progressed. He was undergoing chemotherapy. Airline flights caused him problems. His wife, Alicia, would drive him to select road games, before he took a leave of absence on April 24.

“The fact he would come straight from chemo every day and walk through the clubhouse . . .” Derby says. “There were days when you’d ask him, ‘Hey coach, how are you feeling today?’ He would be honest. He’d say, ‘Not so good today.’ Or, ‘I’m surviving.’ It was more the fact he was there. He wasn’t just there and quiet. He was there and he was present.”

But Gwynn also was weak from the chemo — so weak, France recalls, that he would frequently fall. Before a game in late March at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, the hitters were just starting their meeting in the outfield when Gwynn fell in the dugout. He picked himself up but required assistance to walk to the outfield. He then apologized to the hitters, saying he was not feeling well and needed to go back to the hotel and rest.

“I love you guys,” Gwynn said. “Go out there and win this for me.”

San Diego State fulfilled his wish, but the players delayed their usual custom of singing the school fight song after a victory. They instead went back to their hotel, flocked to Gwynn’s room and sang the song for their ailing coach.

“To see that glow in his eyes, how proud he was of us, that was a very big and special moment for the team,” France says.

Less than three months later, Gwynn was gone.

France’s cousin George Snyder, who pitched at San Diego State in 2008 and ’09, and mother, Diane, awakened him at around 8 o’clock on the morning of June 16, 2014.

They wanted to know if the news was true. France had no idea what they were talking about.

“Turn on the TV, any channel,” Diane told Ty.

France, who had just completed his sophomore year, quickly learned of Gwynn’s passing. Martinez, the assistant head coach, called him and asked him to come to the field, where reporters had gathered. France, who is from West Covina, Calif., east of Los Angeles, had remained in San Diego that summer to rehabilitate from labrum surgery.

“It didn’t really hit me at first,” France says. “It all happened so fast, I couldn’t really process it. But once I left the field that day, I was in shock. I couldn’t believe it was real.”

Neither could Allen, who was a year ahead of France at San Diego State and days earlier had been selected by the Indians in the sixth round of the 2014 draft. Allen was home in Chula Vista, Calif., the second-largest city in the San Diego-metropolitan area, preparing to depart for rookie ball in Mahoning Valley, Ohio. His mother, Kim, awakened him with the news of Gwynn’s passing.

Allen, too, was stunned.

Earlier in the season, Gwynn seemed to be doing well, and Allen saw his coach’s vibrancy returning. Even later, after Gwynn’s condition worsened, Allen says the players never thought their coach’s health had reached a critical state. They just assumed Gwynn would fight through any downturn, just as he had before.

Allen considered postponing his minor-league debut with the Indians, wanting to stay in San Diego to attend Gwynn’s memorial service. But he wound up leaving for Mahoning Valley as scheduled and watched the ceremony from Petco Park via the Internet at his host family’s home.

He was thousands of miles from San Diego, alone.

“I remember sitting in my room with my computer on, crying,” Allen says.

The San Diego State baseball program continued. Martinez took over as head coach. France returned for his junior year and produced another big offensive season, ending his collegiate career with a .337 batting average and .905 OPS.

France recalls his agent at the time, John Boggs, initially telling him he might be selected between the third and eighth rounds of the 2015 draft. But France fell precipitously, perhaps because teams were concerned with his past shoulder injury, even though he did not miss a game in three years at San Diego State.

Hundreds of players came off the board. Boggs learned that the Dodgers might select France between rounds 25 and 40. Finally — France recalls it was around round 30 or 31 — Boggs said the Padres had entered the picture.

“That’s what I was hoping for,” France recalls. “That’s the first thing I thought of — Coach Gwynn, how special it would be to be a Padre, considering he was Mr. Padre.”

Still, he was a 34th-round pick. The vast majority of 34th-round picks do not reach the majors. But France wasn’t your typical 34th-rounder.

He kept hitting, breaking out for good in 2018 by leading the Padres’ system with 236 total bases and tying for the lead with 22 homers between Double-A and Triple-A. The Padres protected him on their 40-man roster last November to avoid losing him in the Rule 5 draft, but after they signed free agent Manny Machado to play third base, France’s future in the organization looked dim. His other position is first, where Eric Hosmer also is under a long-term contract.

Undaunted, France began his Triple-A season by hitting an insane .423 with nine homers and a 1.385 OPS in his first 92 plate appearances. The Padres promoted him after infielder Jose Pirela strained his left oblique, and playing time opened at third when shortstop Fernando Tatis strained his left hamstring, requiring Machado to move to short.

 

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1 hour ago, TonyTexas said:

I think it’s safe to say that the ball is juiced.

 

 

I think the other part of it is that every baseball player in the country under the age of 22 has been coached to swing like Cody Bellinger.

<Insert UT baseball joke here.>

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