2025 MLB Season Thread

I can't imagine how hard it is on a pitch like that to actually tell yourself that and override your instincts. A looping curveball? Sure.

Yeah exactly. A ball that fast, you're just pure reflex.

Well I would be anyway. And I'd probably still get hit because my old man reflexes are too slow.

Hilarious baseball has so over corrected for pitchers getting abused in the past to the point of doing the other team a favor of pulling great pitchers absolutely dominating.

103. With such a heavy work load he'll have to brush his teeth right handed tomorrow morning.

Well if you don't think very consciously about it, telling yourself not to dodge a pitch at you, you just go by instincts when it happens. But it is a mistake. Some minority of hitters would have the tying RBI there, even leaning into it a bit while making it look like they were trying to avoid it.

Exactly. It takes a very conscious effort, but certainly is done by a lot with tough competitor, smart hitters.

Seems like with all the high tech stats now they would include amount of pitches for each pitcher in box score. Not there at least in the ones I generally look at.

Teoscar must be so dumb how on earth did he make an out at home there lmao

No and all pitches aren't the same.

103 in 8 innings with one base runner and nothing but terrible swings all night is way different than 103 in 5-6 innings weaving in and out of trouble all night.

Also lol@ jays taking out Gausman game 1 at 76 pitches bc he made one bad pitch.

Blue Jays are a national embarrassment.

Can't believe I ever supported these sub 6 feet athletes.

Bring back The Expos.

That's weird. I use MLB, ESPN, and Yahoo mostly, which has it. What do you use?

Brewers win Game 2 by the score of 5-2.

Win series in 7 games.

Some box scores have them at the bottom (along with errors, IBB, HBP, etc). If the gripe is that they aren't in the pitching stat line, then I understand the frustration.

I'm not Canadian but I always thought they had the best logo in baseball.

The injury concerns are real. The issue is that load management isn't that effective at alleviating the problem because the problem is mainly caused by the modern emphasis on velocity and spin rate.

I don't see a solution. Velocity and spin rate are highly correlated with effectiveness, and it isn't realistic to expect professional athletes to sacrifice short term effectiveness in order to reduce risk of injury, especially players on the margins who have to pull out all the stops in order to be viable in the big leagues.

I guess you could expand the strike zone to add 2 inches on the inside and outside corners and lower the upper end of the strike zone by 4-5 inches. That was more or less the strike zone that was actually called in the big leagues in the 1980s. That sort of strike zone increases the viability of control-oriented groundballers and reduces the effectiveness of velo monsters who live by throwing fastballs up in the zone and bouncing splitters off the plate.

But who are we kidding? That sort of change would significantly curb the number of HRs, which means it would never be implemented. Fans don't want to see guys like Derek Lowe who throw 70 sinkers a game and end up with anywhere from a 2.80 to 4.80 ERA depending on whether the BABIP gods favor him or not in a given year.

lol not taking a hbp for a run to take the lead. imo

Ya, some players just have that turn your shoulder and butt in mentality, and some don't. Don't throw it anywhere close to Muncy for example, mo fo will lean into pitches.

Dave is doing his best to keep the Brewers in this series. Using BlaQ is a high leverage spot was... wow... just got lucky basically. Blaq should only be in low leverage, 3+ run lead spots or desperation. I love Dave... but he's a stubborn fker who sometimes tries to be a players manager too much, and puts his team in bad spots.

You're taught to watch the ump and listen to your 3rd base coach (or should have been at some point playing baseball your whole life)... instead, Teo was being a fan apparently. Not only did he not tag up correctly, I mean, I've taught the bobble rule to HS players for years on tag ups, but he ran back twice...

... and then the cherry on top was sliding into home on a force play. Just run full through. Holy hell.

They hit just fine last night. Even their outs were mostly hard outs. Should have scored more runs, but sht happens.

I picked to start the PO (I believe in here), it would be Seattle vs Dodgers, Dodgers winning WS.

I'm a Dodgers fan, but mostly, they are just playing good bball and finally healthy. I mean, even semi healthy, this is a 110+ win team. I think Dodgers had the 2nd or 3rd most injured WAR lost this season.

It makes a big difference when you have 4 aces to start in the PO's and they are rested and healthy. The bullpen is mid, but they have enough down there now that it will work.

Any team facing Snell twice in a series is in a hole. They just better hope something weird happens (it's baseball), or their staff keeps the game close.

seattle mariners team of density because Humpy the salmon finally won the salmon ..., it is known

What's the argument against raising the mound a few inches? I don't know if it would prevent injuries. but I guess it could be fun.

Cool McFly reference

You should make the same post 100 more times. The first 100 wasn't enough.

Fastball Freddie is dealing tonight! Hope they can score some runs.