2026 MLB Season Thread
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Last year was amazing entertainment. This year pr
Ooh, good guesses. I can't come up with a hint that doesn't give it away. I will.
Vagueish hint: If I gave one certain clue, you would guess Jim Bunning first, and then the right guy.
re the state in common that Bunning hails from ... both me and the no-no guy too.
Kentucky
This Trout stuff is getting serious, and convincing. But we need more data.
What in the world was that brawl abou ttonight The pitch was way high but not even an inch inside I don't think.
Soler absolutely owns Reynaldo. I think he was expecting a message pitch and probably read too much into a pitch that wasn't particularly close to him.
Soler homered in the first inning, got hit by a pitch in his second at-bat and it was the third at-bat that he charged the mound after the pitch that was high and inside.
Soler owns him so much that I guess hitting him once with a pitch wasn’t enough.
Inexcusable Bad Analysis by multiple people during Mets game....
I'm frequently bothered by fans and supposed intelligent fans unable to understand that all outs on the bases aren't the same. If you're out advancing you lost base positioning but you cause the batter to reach on a fielder's choice, so you cost your team a BASE, not an out. It's frequently treated as the same thing but this really got taken to an extreme I've never seen before...
1st and 3rd, 0 outs, down 1-0 B6
Very hard ground ball to 1st baseman , a bullet fielded cleanly, a double play is routine, they were playing for the double play up the middle. But because the runner at 3rd broke home and the 1st baseman was in, he declined the DP and trapped the runner, Lindor the runner at 3rd actually forced a perfect throw back to 3rd for the out, almost got around the tag, but was out. Basically, if he stayed put, hes standing on 3rd with 2 outs. Because he went, it was 1st and 2nd and 1 out.
This was framed by the booth as a ''mistake by Lindor'
Furthemore in the postgame analysis, Nelson Figeuroa, a former player, left no room for misinterpreting his stupidity. He flat out said "if they turn the double play, you're still at 3rd, where you can score on a wild pitch, infield hit". He then criticized Lindor again later in the segment how with the team struggling he made a mistake of trying to do to much.
This obviously correct decision was analyzed incorrectly by 5 people. I'm a bit astounded, are the people who work in baseball really this poor at understanding win probability?
are you saying that lindor deliberately baited the throw to 3rd to break up the double play? bc it seems much more likely that he assumed they would trade the DP for the run, broke for home, and was surprised when the throw didn't go to second
agree with your overall point though.
are you saying that lindor deliberately baited the throw to 3rd to break up the double play? bc it seems much more likely that he assumed they would trade the DP for the run, broke for home, and was surprised when the throw didn't go to second
agree with your overall point though.
He broke for home but the ball got to the 1B so quickly that the 1B first pumped to home but Lindor was so far away he just went back. Rather than just be dead at home he decided to go back, dance around 3rd and maybe be safe on a throw there. But the criticism from postgame analysis was centered on the fact that Lindor went at all. Very perplexing to me.
Offense must be way down so far this year if Trouts .693 OPS is good for a 106 OPS+
#1 UCLA struck out 30 at Rutgers in a 14 inning game Friday. Would have been great if they ended up losing.
I didn't read that Konnor Griffin got married to his H.S. girlfriend, Dendy in January at age 19 before signing the $140 mil contract. This is the intelligence the Pirates scouting missed on. At least Skenes chick was famous before him and has her own money, before they move on.
I didn't read that Konnor Griffin got married to his H.S. girlfriend, Dendy in January at age 19 before signing the $140 mil contract. This is the intelligence the Pirates scouting missed on. At least Skenes chick was famous before him and has her own money, before they move on.
Oh man
I have my doubts someone getting married at 19 for being good at sports has the foresight of a prenup
Is he a Mormon or something? Who does that?
Maybe it's true love.
Brandon Webb is, however, the most ‘what might have been’ pitcher of the last decade plus
He was ****ing good
Brandon Webb is, however, the most ‘what might have been’ pitcher of the last decade plus
He was ****ing good
Because of the modern emphasis on velocity, you don't see many extreme ground ball pitchers like Webb any more. Framber is probably the closest thing to an extreme ground ball pitcher in the league right now.
