Around Baseball 2019

[Terminator]

Not sure if this was posted but it's worth a discussion if not.

 

For the first time in like 50 years have starters posted a lower ERA than relievers in a month. 4.34 for starters and 4.39 for relievers.

 

Wow that's interesting. Any reason why that could be?

[Brownie19]

Wow that's interesting. Any reason why that could be?

 

Shorter outings (avoiding 3rd time through the order) for starters, combined with higher usage for relievers - combined with good old fashion luck would be my guess.

[Brownie19]

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/how-hitters-are-fighting-back-against-rising-strikeouts/

 

I thought that was a decent read.

 

One issue I see is the Jays have a lot of guys who are free swingers [Randel, Teo, Drury, Galvis, Urena, Gurriel, McKinney (the version we got it seems)]. It seemed at the time that as long as they hit the ball hard - they could still produce and it didn't matter that they had no eye at the plate.

 

However, as pitchers continue to improve - this could be a pretty significant issue for these types of hitters...they may fall behind as hitters with more patient lay off the increase/improved offspeed pitches and make pitchers bring the ball in the zone where they can handle it.

Edited May 1, 2019 by Brownie19

[Todd Van Anus]

When is Stanton back?

[TheHurl]

Shorter outings (avoiding 3rd time through the order) for starters, combined with higher usage for relievers - combined with good old fashion luck would be my guess.

 

Rays putting up a 2.04 ERA from their starters helps, and the O's starters were Horrible but their relievers were worse in the same number of innings.

 

I can't extract monthly data for past years from Fangraphs. I can tell you that in April Starters had 4623 innings pitched and relievers were 3140 for a 55/45 split. In 2010 it was a 67/33 split and I'm sure if you go back 40 years it's closer to 75/25

[G-Snarls]

Jackie Bradley Jr "slugging" .182 through 100 PA

 

Ouch

[G-Snarls]

Rays putting up a 2.04 ERA from their starters helps, and the O's starters were Horrible but their relievers were worse in the same number of innings.

 

I can't extract monthly data for past years from Fangraphs. I can tell you that in April Starters had 4623 innings pitched and relievers were 3140 for a 55/45 split. In 2010 it was a 67/33 split and I'm sure if you go back 40 years it's closer to 75/25

 

Red Sox atrocious SP can't even help with this odd month of SP/RP stats

 

Rick Porcello 5.52

Eduardo Rodriguez 6.16

Chris Sale 6.30

Nathan Eovaldi 6.00

David Price 3.60

 

That's just a heaping stinky mess apart from Price being a little better than league average

 

Folks, that's a 103.3 Million dollar rotation right there ^

 

Porcelo 21M

Price 31M

Sale 30M

Rodriguez 4.3M

Eovaldi 17M

Edited May 1, 2019 by G-Snarls

[P2F]

Jackie Bradley Jr "slugging" .182 through 100 PA

 

Ouch

 

This dude is such an enigma. He might be the streakiest hitter I've ever seen.

[Pendleton]

Jackie Bradley Jr "slugging" .182 through 100 PA

 

Ouch

 

[G-Snarls]

This dude is such an enigma. He might be the streakiest hitter I've ever seen.

 

I don't imagine Cora likes having to bat his speedy CF 8th in the lineup

[Jimcanuck]

When is Stanton back?

 

When he is healed.

[Krylian]

When he is healed.

 

When will he be healed?

[wilko]

When will he be healed?

 

When he's not sore anymore.

[Spanky__99]

Billy Hamilton... Wow!

[Jimcanuck]

When will he be healed?

 

God Only Knows

[TheHurl]

for boxy. Your boy has a personality. I hate the f***ing Mets

 

[TheHurl]

Corey Kluber has a fracture in his right arm.

[BlueRocky]

Salazar, Clevinger, now Kluber?

[G-Snarls]

What lucky bastard has Cody Bellinger in the LOD?

 

Insane month of April. 431/.508/.890 slash line, with 14 home runs

 

My calculator can't calculate that high of an OPS

[G-Snarls]

Corey Kluber has a fracture in his right arm.

 

Damn. That sucks

 

Indians are now actually kinda f***ed

[jays4life19]

What lucky bastard has Cody Bellinger in the LOD?

 

Insane month of April. 431/.508/.890 slash line, with 14 home runs

 

My calculator can't calculate that high of an OPS

 

Washington Nationals which is SirBjay. He also has Vlad Jr

[Orgfiller]

These pitches are all ridiculous. Poor Edwin.

 

[Dr. Dinger]

Washington Nationals which is SirBjay. He also has Vlad Jr

 

He gets no credit, I drafted them both at incredible value.

[Boxcar]

for boxy. Your boy has a personality. I hate the f***ing Mets

 

 

Now that he's got his power back, he's probably going to be pretty damn close to Joey Votto as a hitter.

 

What a guy

[Brownie19]

These pitches are all ridiculous. Poor Edwin.

 

 

If only Dillon Maples could throw strikes. He throws that slider 60+% of the time...might might explain his 10+ BB%.

[Terminator]

Has anyone else heard this crap about Felipe Vazquez and his sister? What the hell is going on here?

[Pendleton]

Has anyone else heard this crap about Felipe Vazquez and his sister? What the hell is going on here?

 

It came up around the time he changed his name but I can't recall any specifics now.

[Spanky__99]

Corey Kluber has a fracture in his right arm.

 

 

Ouch!

 

Syndergaard's your MVP today, CG SO 10K's and hit the lone Hr in the game, winning 1-0, lol. Wow!

[Terminator]

It came up around the time he changed his name but I can't recall any specifics now.

 

This is from a Pirates fan on Reddit:

 

Weird s***. Weird weird s***. We joke about him smashing his sister a lot but we legit don’t know what’s actually going on. He got a tattoo of her stylized as the Virgin Mary. And he’s like always with her. It’s really weird.

 

Like literally 90% of his IG posts involve her and we didn’t really know he was his sister before the name change, until he posted like 1 Instagram post like “happy birthday to my wife” and everyone was like WTF

[Spanky__99]

This is from a Pirates fan on Reddit:

 

lol... messed up s***.