Around Baseball 2026

[Orgfiller]

TJStats tracks the power as unremarkable/notably below average, and vastly overperforming his contact quality, but elite contact rates, walks, good speed - 18 SB to 4 CS - and elite defense.

Very interesting to see the Brewers invest so much money into low power, defense first prospects with good hit tools. Both guys have been promoted aggressively and backed it up however, so it's looking like a worthwhile gamble assuming the defense translates.

[Brownie19]

2,500 hits for Freeman.  One of the good guys in baseball.  Happy for him.

 

[Terminator]

Orioles fans are really having a tough time.

One (correct) call in a 162 game season has cost them their entire season.

[Laika]

51 minutes ago, Terminator said:

Orioles fans are really having a tough time.

One (correct) call in a 162 game season has cost them their entire season.

One cool thing about social media algorithms is that if you click stuff you get more of that stuff

So if you read tweets from salty Baltimore fans, you get to read more and more for days

They are crashing out about this call and there was an article yesterday that they were all parading around as a gotcha moment where supposedly an anonymous source from MLB confirmed that MLB called the umps and told them they got this call wrong 

[Laika]

Anyway, I read that rule and I feel like the best interpretation of it should be that as soon as Henderson had the ball and moved towards Ernie the basepath was established.

In other words, Ernie clearly went too far and should have been called out lmao. 

[Terminator]

4 minutes ago, Laika said:

One cool thing about social media algorithms is that if you click stuff you get more of that stuff

So if you read tweets from salty Baltimore fans, you get to read more and more for days

They are crashing out about this call and there was an article yesterday that they were all parading around as a gotcha moment where supposedly an anonymous source from MLB confirmed that MLB called the umps and told them they got this call wrong 

Yes exactly. Twitter's algorithm is extremely sensitive. My feed the past 3 days is about 90% Orioles fans crying about that call lmao.

[Orgfiller]

21 minutes ago, Laika said:

One cool thing about social media algorithms is that if you click stuff you get more of that stuff

So if you read tweets from salty Baltimore fans, you get to read more and more for days

They are crashing out about this call and there was an article yesterday that they were all parading around as a gotcha moment where supposedly an anonymous source from MLB confirmed that MLB called the umps and told them they got this call wrong 

Unfortunate for them that this was the first wrong call in MLB history, and their s***** pitchers couldn't bear with the stress of not being granted an additional, desperately needed out.

[Brownie19]

1 hour ago, Laika said:

Anyway, I read that rule and I feel like the best interpretation of it should be that as soon as Henderson had the ball and moved towards Ernie the basepath was established.

In other words, Ernie clearly went too far and should have been called out lmao. 

Baseline is established as soon as a tag attempt is made.  Once that line is established, you can go 3 feet in either direction.  I don't think Clement veers more than 3 feet once Henderson weak tag attempt.

[BTS]

While we're piling on the Orioles, I think there might be something wrong mentally with Mike Elias. They missed the playoffs last year because their rotation was absolute cheeks, and their solution was to trade for Shane Baz, sign Chris Bassitt, assume that Trevor Rogers was actually an ace, and run it back. Dude is so invested in being the smartest guy in the room that he's going to waste one of the best offensive cores of the last decade trying to prove that actually he can just pluck good SPs from the scrap heap. 

Reminds me of a roommate I had in university who never went to class because the professors just taught from the textbook anyway, and then just failed out of school and has worked retail ever since. 

[Laika]

49 minutes ago, Brownie19 said:

Baseline is established as soon as a tag attempt is made.  Once that line is established, you can go 3 feet in either direction.  I don't think Clement veers more than 3 feet once Henderson weak tag attempt.

"tag attempt" needs to be interpreted as simply running at a player between the bases though, IMO

I don't think that it should or needs to be defined as actually extending your arm and trying to slap someone. That leads to somewhat absurd possibilities. Theoretically. 

"tag attempt" is not defined in the rules  

[Laika]

23 minutes ago, BTS said:

While we're piling on the Orioles, I think there might be something wrong mentally with Mike Elias. They missed the playoffs last year because their rotation was absolute cheeks, and their solution was to trade for Shane Baz, sign Chris Bassitt, assume that Trevor Rogers was actually an ace, and run it back. Dude is so invested in being the smartest guy in the room that he's going to waste one of the best offensive cores of the last decade trying to prove that actually he can just pluck good SPs from the scrap heap. 

Reminds me of a roommate I had in university who never went to class because the professors just taught from the textbook anyway, and then just failed out of school and has worked retail ever since. 

Just an endless stream of "I am so smart" moves

Signing Alonso rather than just playing Basallo at first base?

Trading Grayson for one expensive year of Taylor Ward?

Tyler O'Neill when you have 6 incumbent outfielders? 

Five prospects for Shane Baz + extending him when you could have just spent money on Cease or something like that instead of Alonso?

[Brownie19]

22 minutes ago, Laika said:

"tag attempt" needs to be interpreted as simply running at a player between the bases though, IMO

I don't think that it should or needs to be defined as actually extending your arm and trying to slap someone. That leads to somewhat absurd possibilities. Theoretically. 

"tag attempt" is not defined in the rules  

Yeah - that's fair.

[hanton]

what in tarnation......lol

...and he singled

[Terminator]

I’ve seen enough, the Toronto Blue Jays are the 2025 champs 

[SeranthonySantander]

Deport ohtani.  Nobody can hit and pitch without ped

[jaysblue]

On 6/9/2026 at 10:23 PM, Brownie19 said:

2,500 hits for Freeman.  One of the good guys in baseball.  Happy for him.

 

Has aged like fine wine. One of my favourite hitters! 

[Olerud363.354]

On 6/10/2026 at 2:22 PM, BTS said:

While we're piling on the Orioles, I think there might be something wrong mentally with Mike Elias. They missed the playoffs last year because their rotation was absolute cheeks, and their solution was to trade for Shane Baz, sign Chris Bassitt, assume that Trevor Rogers was actually an ace, and run it back. Dude is so invested in being the smartest guy in the room that he's going to waste one of the best offensive cores of the last decade trying to prove that actually he can just pluck good SPs from the scrap heap. 

Reminds me of a roommate I had in university who never went to class because the professors just taught from the textbook anyway, and then just failed out of school and has worked retail ever since. 

Probably financially constrained, but yeah I guess in that case why waste money on Alonso instead of a starting pitcher.  

Will be interesting to see how this turns out.   My biggest concern with the Orioles was that 3 years of winning with a deep playoff run would increase their revenues enough that they could sustain a really long run.  Seems like they broke the momentum but still are a random deep playoff run from getting back there.

What I mean is the Rays could win 115 games and go 11-0 in the playoffs and would draw 1.7 million the next year, they could win 100 5 years in a row, and attendance would probably drop as people got bored of winning 100.  But the Orioles.  A few years of winning with a deep playoff run and they are back to 3 million a year and big time revenues.  

[Brownie19]

How sad must Padres fans be?

Tatis - 101 wRC+, 2 HRs

Machado - 68 wRC+

Merrill - 74 wRC+

Bogaerts - 90 wRC+

and their top SPer is Walker Buehler 😬

 

How the f*ck is this team over .500?

[Orgfiller]

52 minutes ago, Brownie19 said:

How sad must Padres fans be?

Tatis - 101 wRC+, 2 HRs

Machado - 68 wRC+

Merrill - 74 wRC+

Bogaerts - 90 wRC+

and their top SPer is Walker Buehler 😬

 

How the f*ck is this team over .500?

Mostly luck, their Pythag W-L has them as more of a 32-35 team as opposed to their true record of 35-32. Sometimes teams with elite bullpens like the Padres can outperform their Pythag record since they're more likely to win close games, 1-run games, etc. since once they have a late lead they might be more likely to maintain it. It's mostly luck though. Their inter-league record is 14-7 and the AL has been quite weak this year, so that's helping them stay above water.