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
They said he'd only be a 5 inning guy this year. He's at 68 pitches....
In any case that probably seals the NL MVP.
If he chases DiMaggio again (he hit in 12 straight games in August 😀), starts chasing Ryan's 7 no-no's, he set that all-time SB% record last year, keeps hitting 50 homers, keeps a .666 win % on the mound, keeps a K/9 up around 11, chases Bonds 762 ... etc. etc. ... he might really be the real deal, not to mention the hands down GOAT.
Cliffs: Lol Doyers
Phillies are peaking.
The Dodgers bullpen takes offense at the idea that Japanese starters try to throw no hitters.
Wow. Talk about pouring gasoline on a no-hitter. Looks like Ohtani got pissed and homered after his bullpen spewed. Too bad, he could have become the first player to participate in a no-hitter while hitting his 50th homer of the season, which is a pretty good distinction to have.
So he doesn't get a quality start for five no-hit innings. Seems a little bogus in this era of relievers.
Koufax's perfect game just came across my feed. He struck out the last six batters, 14 altogether. The opposing pitcher Bob Hendley pitched a 1-hitter for the Cubs. The only man to reach base in the game was Lou Johnson, via a hit and a walk. When he walked, he was sac bunt to second, stole third, wild throw by catcher he scored. The double no-hitter was still intact until the bottom of the 7th when Johnson hit a bloop double.
So when the trivia question is who in baseball history is the only man to be the only man to reach base in an MLB game, the answer is Lou Johnson. He was born in Lexington, KY.
It looks like that is 3 times that Raleigh has switch-hit homers in a game, twice this season. The record for a long time was Mantle with 10. Murray broke it at 11. Since then both Mark Texeira with 14 and Nick flippin Swisher with 13 have passed Murray. Unbelievable with Swisher, who hit on 245 homers, hit 30 only once, and only had about 5K atbats.
The Swisher thing is crazy. He only hit 60 homers right handed in his career, so in almost a quarter of those games he also homered from the left side.
Nick Swisher married the daughter on Reba (Joanna Garcia).
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Verlander just can't buy a win. Last 3 starts 20 IP 1ER and no decisions.
Overall he's cooking now 1 ER in his last 25 innings.
Pfaadt??? Has a hitter going in the 9th vs the Giants and he started the game with a 5.31 ERA and through 9 scoreless on 97 pitches it's down to 5.02. only allowed 1 walk and 1 single but no run support for him either. But he's had enough run support to be 13-8 with that ERA this year.
97 pitches and dominating but pulled after 9.
Ohtani pulled after 69 pitches with a no hitter going.
Baseball just hates being fun.
51 homers with only 95 RBIs looks really weird.
anyone else sweating The Brewers end of season results? they are maybe the year's best storyline...at least among the most consistent.
Brewers feels like destiny
I always felt #2 is a nice spot for a top slugger. Then just put your best obp guy in front of him.
Was looking through some old hitting stats for pitchers.
Curt Schilling had 901 career plate appearances and never hit a home run. For a 6'5" guy that was pretty strong physically, seems crazy that he didn't.connect even once.
Nolan Ryan was such a bad hitter that it cost him 2.3 WAR for his career. He batted .110 with 2 home runs in 957 plate appearances.
By contrast Steve Carlton earned himself 6.1 WAR with his bat. A .201 hitter with 13 home runs in 1881 plate appearances.
A cursory look shows 29 complete games in the majors this year and 13 complete game shutouts, counting Greene tonight for both. Then it said last year was 27 shutouts and a modern low. Not sure.
Was looking through some old hitting stats for pitchers. Curt Schilling had 901 career plate appearances and never hit a home run. For a 6'5" guy that was pretty strong physically, seems crazy that he didn't.connect even once. Nolan Ryan was such a bad hitter that it cost him 2.3 WAR for his career. He batted .110 with 2 home runs in 957 plate appearances.By contrast Stev
Bob Gibson was quite a hitter. Slugged .400 a few times, hit .300 once, OPS .750 one year, 24 career dingers. In 1970 he won the Cy Young and hit .300.
That would mean the years thru the 60's that he and Carlton were in the rotation was quite remarkable for pitchers slugging. I thought about it and all the times I saw Carlton pitch, I never remember really watching him hit somehow. So I googled it. Here is an at bat dinger he hit off a 300 game winner/Hall-of-Famer it looks like. I was wondering what he looked like at the plate. And his stance and bat position looks a lot like Wade Boggs, I thought.
