General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

[Hot Sauce]

Candelario is exactly the type of player we should be kicking the tires on. 

[Clem Fandango]

Is this a meme stat? Yeah. Is there pretty legit stat math behind it? Yeah. Does it weirdly make sense? Yeah. Is it fun? Yeah. 

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj3gB7yW/

[javy knows my name]

13 hours ago, Clem Fandango said:

Is this a meme stat? Yeah. Is there pretty legit stat math behind it? Yeah. Does it weirdly make sense? Yeah. Is it fun? Yeah. 

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj3gB7yW/

I thought Clem only performed heists of imperial payrolls. Turns out he has the ticktock app

[We Got The Whole 9]

There were 9 games played today. 5 ended in shutouts and in 3 of the other games the losing team scored 1 run. Losing teams combined for just 8 runs lol

 

[cl smooth]

Missed his induction ceremony by less than a month. Peace out, Cobra. What a player!

[CubinNY]

Ohtani had threw three straight pitches over 100 last night. 

[Regular Show]

9 hours ago, CubinNY said:

Ohtani had threw three straight pitches over 100 last night. 

Is Ohtani trying to go for TJS #3? He can dial it back and still be very effective. I mean if you're going to throw this hard, at least save this effort (and velo) for the postseason. 

Edited June 30, 2025 by Regular Show

[We Got The Whole 9]

Misiorowski gave up a granny and back yo back with Nimmo and Lindor 

[Bertz]

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17K likes, 101 comments - tigers on July 4, 2025: "PLEASE LET ME GO FIRST I’M DOING SOMETHING".

 

 

[Derwood]

[gflore34]

4 hours ago, Derwood said:

The Horton start last week, did they even offer at any of his breaking/off speed stuff?   Although, I don't know how the cheating works on the road, I was under the impression it was solely a home field "advantage".

[imb]

On 7/5/2025 at 7:44 PM, gflore34 said:

The Horton start last week, did they even offer at any of his breaking/off speed stuff?   Although, I don't know how the cheating works on the road, I was under the impression it was solely a home field "advantage".

does anyone offer at horton's breaking balls though?

[Derwood]

Former Cub Miguel Cairo named interim manager in Washington

[Derwood]

Paul Skenes currently has more bWAR (4.8) than wins (4)

[soccer10k]

1 hour ago, Derwood said:

Paul Skenes currently has more bWAR (4.8) than wins (4)

In his last 11 starts, he’s allowed 11 runs. He gave up 4 in 1 game and 2 in another. The other 8 he gave up either 0 or 1. He’s 1-3 over those starts.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Raleigh with 2 more, setting a new AL record for HR before the break at 38. 

[Soul]

Can someone point me to the real Home Run Derby?  The one with the actual top HR hitters.

[Eeyore]

Starts at 7pm?

7:19 first pitch.

I guess that it's bed time. 

As annoying Chris Berman was, he was more entertaining than these guys 

[Derwood]

49 minutes ago, Soul said:

Can someone point me to the real Home Run Derby?  The one with the actual top HR hitters.

Yeah, this lineup is NBA slam dunk contest-esque

[soccer10k]

 

1 hour ago, Soul said:

Can someone point me to the real Home Run Derby?  The one with the actual top HR hitters.

Yeah, Jazz predictably did terribly.

[soccer10k]

Lol. Raleigh winning a tiebreaker to knock out Rooker by 0.08 feet might be the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

8 minutes ago, soccer10k said:

Lol. Raleigh winning a tiebreaker to knock out Rooker by 0.08 feet might be the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.

Dumber than the split screen where you don’t actually see where the balls end up? ESPN is so terrible at everything anymore.

[soccer10k]

1 minute ago, Ding Dong Johnson said:

Dumber than the split screen where you don’t actually see where the balls end up? ESPN is so terrible at everything anymore.

Both dumb but yes the tiebreaker is worse. No way they can project how far each of those would have traveled down to the inch. Just do a swing off like they’ve always done.

[Rcal10]

Has anyone seen PCA, Tucker or Boyd at all during the home run derby? I am shocked not to see PCA up front watching and having fun. 

[soccer10k]

3 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

Has anyone seen PCA, Tucker or Boyd at all during the home run derby? I am shocked not to see PCA up front watching and having fun. 

I believe I saw Boyd briefly but I haven't been paying super close attention.