Random Baseball Musings

[Guest]

Preller will not rest until he can have 10 right handed hitters in the game at once. It will be his legacy.

[Guest]

all i really remember as far as my impressions of it was that i was making fun of their OF defense

now they're toying with the idea of playing Middlebrooks at short & Yonder Alonso at 3rd...

 

yikes

[Gilby]

all i really remember as far as my impressions of it was that i was making fun of their OF defense

now they're toying with the idea of playing Middlebrooks at short & Yonder Alonso at 3rd...

 

lol, that reminds me of when the Reds played Alonso at positions other than 1B. I want to say Campana got his only MLB homer because Alonso was kicking the ball around in LF.

[cubscott34]

I think we all knew this already, but nice to see it thrown out there once again:

 

Cardinals Are Not Best Team in Baseball

[weis21]

I think we all knew this already, but nice to see it thrown out there once again:

 

Cardinals Are Not Best Team in Baseball

I should not have started reading the comments section. God, why did I have to do that?

[Cubswin11]

For all the attention Kershaw/Greinke are getting.... Arrieta has an ERA .01 higher than Kershaw (2.52 v. 2.51) and this is after Kershaw has thrown 3 straight CG SHO. Kershaw does have better FIP/xFIP, Arrieta and Greinke essentially have the same FIP and Arrieta has a better xFIP than him. Kinda nuts Arrieta hasn't gotten much, if any, national attention since he came back last year as he's been arguably the 2nd best pitcher in the NL behind Kershaw and top 5 pitcher in all of baseball.

[BigSlick]

The White Sox being bad, but not historically bad, to reflect how historically bad their position players are, pisses me off

 

I demand their record reflect how god awful they are. 8 games under is not bad enough. I need blood

[Ding Dong Johnson]

For all the attention Kershaw/Greinke are getting.... Arrieta has an ERA .01 higher than Kershaw (2.52 v. 2.51) and this is after Kershaw has thrown 3 straight CG SHO. Kershaw does have better FIP/xFIP, Arrieta and Greinke essentially have the same FIP and Arrieta has a better xFIP than him. Kinda nuts Arrieta hasn't gotten much, if any, national attention since he came back last year as he's been arguably the 2nd best pitcher in the NL behind Kershaw and top 5 pitcher in all of baseball.

He's not even better than Samardzija!

http://www.billjamesonline.com/polls_ratings/starting_pitcher_rankings/

[Post Count Padder]

Mets promoted Conforto today. Then said part of the inspiration for the move was the Cubs promoting Schwarber. OooooK?

[TruffleShuffle]

[Guest]

It should be noted that the A's actually clinched their division the night before so likely only put that lineup out because everyone else was hungover.

 

So basically the Mets are the only team to do it while actually trying to win a game.

[PackLandVA]

Rookie pitcher Eddie Butler died on the filed: TWICE!

 

Link to article

[Guest]

The top three NL rookies in WAR (exact order depends on fWAR and bWAR) are Kris Bryant, Joc Pederson and Matt Duffy. Didn't see that third name being atop the leaderboard coming into the year.

[Sammy Sofa]

Rookie pitcher Eddie Butler died on the filed: TWICE!

 

Link to article

 

Glorious.

[Gilby]

The top three NL rookies in WAR (exact order depends on fWAR and bWAR) are Kris Bryant, Joc Pederson and Matt Duffy. Didn't see that third name being atop the leaderboard coming into the year.

 

Matt Duffy didn't hit a homerun in his college career (over 500 AB's). Bryant had 31 his Junior season alone. Duffy has only 4 fewer homers in the majors this season. That's kind of...annoying.

 

Looking more at Duffy's numbers, he had a .594 OPS in his college career! Then something clicked for him in the minor leagues.

[Sammy Sofa]

Awkward timing:

 

http://sports.cbsimg.net/images/visual/whatshot/kris-bryant-72815.jpg

[OleMissCub]

Paddy, you turd, why'd you lock the game thread?!

[sweetpeteman]

Rookie pitcher Eddie Butler died on the filed: TWICE!

 

Link to article

 

Glorious.

 

I love the catcher catching the throw and turning to make the play at the play only to find that there's nobody there.

[Guest]

The top three NL rookies in WAR (exact order depends on fWAR and bWAR) are Kris Bryant, Joc Pederson and Matt Duffy. Didn't see that third name being atop the leaderboard coming into the year.

 

Matt Duffy didn't hit a homerun in his college career (over 500 AB's). Bryant had 31 his Junior season alone. Duffy has only 4 fewer homers in the majors this season. That's kind of...annoying.

 

Looking more at Duffy's numbers, he had a .594 OPS in his college career! Then something clicked for him in the minor leagues.

Untraceable chemicals?

[UMFan83]

The Blue Jays typical starters by OPS

 

.890 (Donaldson)

.868 (Bautista)

.863 (Colabello)

.844 (Travis)

.818 (Tulowitzki)

.817 (Martin)

.786 (Smoak)

.784 (Encarnacion)

.700 (Pillar)

 

Actually I could be off in on a name or two. Valencia (.849 OPS) is starting quite a bit..

 

Anyways compare that to the Cubs

 

.894 (Rizzo)

.811 (Bryant)

.771 (Coughlan)

.729 (Montero)

.700 (Fowler)

.695 (Soler)

.665 (Russell)

.575 (Castro)

[jersey cubs fan]

.575 (Castro)

 

Is that bad?

[Sammy Sofa]

.575 (Castro)

 

Is that bad?

 

http://i.imgur.com/uv5VX0g.gif

[imb]

Pitching prospect Kyle Crick of the Giants has this line on the season:

 

51.1 IP

39 H

2 HR

54 BB

6 HBP

54 K

2.98 ERA

 

The nuts part is that I'd totally be into him as a Cubs prospect. Healthy, more pedigree than most, big, and a power arm check most of the boxes for a RHP prospect in my eyes.

 

He reminds me a little bit of Kerry Wood, who we had Prior to Theo.

[Derwood]

Jenry Mejia (sp?) gets a 162 game suspension

[ctcf]

Speaking of OPS fun, Pablo Sandoval has a .677 OPS so far in the first season of his 5 year, 95 million contract.