2025 MLB Season Thread
The Tokyo series is March 18-19th, will air on FOX, and is between The Cubs and The Dodgers.
The Regular Season starts Ma
And he's the last guy to throw 5000 innings. Only 3 active pitchers have even half that many.
And yes Spahn has the most wins among pitchers who played something resembling modern baseball.
I never realized quite how amazing Maddux and Clemens win totals were. Pretty much everyone above them is from the dead ball days.
MLB umpires seemingly adopted very wide strike zones in response to the steroid era. In many respects, an extreme groundballer with all-time great control like Maddux was ideally suited to era.
The Braves were my team when I was a kid. I'm sure that I watched Maddux pitch a few hundred games on TV. He used to do things that you never see. For example, he used to throw inside change ups to right handed power hitters because he was confident he could leave it a few inches off the inside corner and he didn't care about about allowing screaming foul balls.
My favorite Jamie Moyer stat is that on the day he retired, he had either faced, or been teammates with, 6% of baseball reference’s entire MLB database.
I was watching Schmidt's and Horner's. Could have been at Whitten's, daggone it. It looks like 3 losers of the 21: Delehanty, Horner, Suarez.
Only player to be traded the season he hit 4 in a game (not sure, ??): Suarez. lol
I made up a trivia game along these lines. It was sports trivia and it was based on "freaky stats: real or fake". It kind of evolved from my claim that "no left-hand batter ever reached base on Koufax in his career. " LOL. The guy I was playing with knew how to take that. He burst out laughing. But then we were always looking for freaky real stats after that.
If winning % doesn't matter where does Nolan Ryan fit in on GOAT-ish modern pitcher? What if a bunch of those 20-16 types seasons were 28-8 or so like they could/should have been? Not the peak of Pedro, but oh the longevity. Same ERA more or less as everybody else modern (except Kershaw). Has there been any study ... what should Ryan's record have been if pitching for better teams and in better luck -- something like 400-200??
If winning % doesn't matter where does Nolan Ryan fit in on GOAT-ish modern pitcher? What if a bunch of those 20-16 types seasons were 28-8 or so like they could/should have been? Not the peak of Pedro, but oh the longevity. Same ERA more or less as everybody else modern (except Kershaw). Has there been any study ... what should Ryan's record have been if pitching for better te
LOL of course not. Ryan was great and incredibly durable, but never as dominant as Clemens, Pedro, Maddux, Randy Johnson, etc. were in their primes.
Ryan has a career ERA+ of 112
Love Schwarber. Has anyone ever come to the plate with 4 HRs already in the game? I seem to remember, yes, a couple times. He just popped out.
Hard to dislike Schwarber. He seems like he is probably a good guy. And he is the star of what was arguably Jomboy's best video of all time.
Never forget.
Jonah Tong has a little bit of Lincecum in his delivery. I really like what I've seen after 6 outs.
This game could save the Mets' season.
LOL of course not. Ryan was great and incredibly durable, but never as dominant as Clemens, Pedro, Maddux, Randy Johnson, etc. were in their primes.
Watched a bunch of Ryan's stuff years ago and I concluded his ceiling days , he was basically unhittable, but the days he wasn't on he was closer to a regular all star than elite.
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Watched a bunch of Ryan's stuff years ago and I concluded his ceiling days , he was basically unhittable, but the days he wasn't on he was closer to a regular all star than elite.
He was always hard to hit. BBs were the perennial problem. Among pitchers in the modern era with a walk rate in excess of 4.5 per nine innings, Ryan is definitely the best.
A little bit. His motion isn't as rapid as Lincecum's was, but that's hardly surprising. Lincecum probably had the fastest windup of any great pitcher ever. Release point is similar. Tong is much stronger physically than Lincecum was.
Postion players pitiching is such a bad look. Yea you lost but man up and finish the game
Don't look now. NYY the hottest team in baseball with a relatively easy schedule to finish out the season.
With better health, Mike Trout certainly would have passed him. Eugenio Suarez and Paul Goldschmidt have outside shots but I would be very surprised if either gets there.
Among the next generation, Elly de la Cruz has enormous potential, but I am unconvinced that he will be an everyday player in his mid 30s after his athleticism fades.
Luv that comment about Elly. Combination of bad fundamentals and height might bode very poorly for him. He could move to OF or 1B if he slugs. Oddly, 18 HR first half, 1 the second half.
Ok I ****ing hate Devers
This was an all timer
Ohtani's 100th HR as a Dodger exited at a velocity of 120mph. The hardest hit of his career; Ohtani's continutes to be nothing shy of serendipitous.
I've been watching baseball a long time, but I don't think I have ever seen a MLB pitcher intentionally cross up his catcher.
