John_Havok

There's 0 reason to overreact to one loss, it just stings the casuals more because it was Gausman who got torched and it was by a team they consider to be sub-par. In reality, Baltimore is probably the best team in the AL outside of the rest of the East teams and Houston. They just got ROFLstomped by the Yankees alot early on.

Its because as Laika said earlier, some guys are throwing max effort and throwing 93. Velocity is not the factor, its whether they are throwing max effort or not. It's like youre assuming that pitchers who arent throwing 100mph are not throwing max effort, when the reality is that in todays game, the majority of pitchers are throwing max effort, they just cant all get to 100mph with said max effort. And yes before you pick that apprt, of course there are other pitchers that do not throw max effort. There's no absolutes, just trends. As for the talent pool thing, it is deeper. It's a fact of life in every sport that as the sport moves forward, the talent pool gets bigger, and the replacement level player gets better. The gap between the best and the worst gets smaller and smaller incrementally over time.

Actual evidence is rather had to come by, given the tech to measure such things wasnt around back then. But logical thought says that with todays technology and massive amounts of data that we have access to now... guys are throwing 100-103 mph with as close to max effort as possible. Knowing this, and knowing the types of physical training regimens and the huge advances in said training that todays athletes have, it's not much of a stretch of thought to say that if todays athletes have all of these things and still can only top out at 100-103 at as close to max effort as can be measured, then someone throwing 100mph 30 years ago, was also probably throwing max effort when he hit 100mph, but he also didnt throw near 100mph with every fastball. He dialed it down quite a bit for most of his pitches and just used the 100 mph when he wanted to. He likely didnt throw max effort a massive amount of the time because he didnt need to. That is what liekly got him as many innings as he got. Look at how many pitchers throw at or near 100 mph now vs then. Ryan and the other (very few) hard throwers were the absolute unicorns of their time. They had fastball that were like 15mph faster than league average.

Awesome, put the worst OF on the team in CF. CAn't see that going horribly wrong at some point at all

Both teams, Teoscar was next with his HR, over 114….Mountcastle’ was a pedestrian 110. Hit the gym pussy

115.7. Hardest hit of the game In fact, Vlad had all 3 of the hardest exit velos at 114.8, 115.4 and 115.7

God I love teams that give away outs intentionally…

Ffs

Add another baseball to the pile of dead bodies. Damn

Damn, that’s a close call

Hello? 9-1-1? Yeah, make that a double homicide.

Someone call the cops, I need to report a murdered baseball at the RC.

ugg. no Moreno or Biggio(i mean lefty... but still)... and we see Tapia instead. at least he's hitting 9th...

Uh oh. Jim, how can you live with this absolutely sick burn?

Well i guess it is closer than I made it out, but I like HRs and bigger bats in the all star game, not speedy slashers and defense. For me the AS game isnt about celebrating who has the biggest fWAR, it's who makes the biggest noise with the bats. Jazz brings the Thunder, Erdman moreso the lightning. Both are defensible picks at the end of the day i suppose.

Most of Espinals value is defensive versatility. Love the player but he'd not exciting enough for an All Star Selection. He's the perfect player for the Jays though. He doesnt have the stats that will get him paid in arbitration and will still be worth 4+ WAR every year assuming he keeps his current skillset, which isnt much of a stretch. He's Ben Zobrist lite.

Not over Chisolm at 2b, it's not even really close.

Assuming Votto even allows a trade here, it would lessen the cost to get Castillo. There's nothing the Reds want more than to get rid of Votto's money. Im not necessarily in favor of such a move though, while still a good eye at the plate he doesnt add much to the lineup on either O or D and costs 25 million per year.

It's concerning for sure, but he's got tons of time to reign that in before getting up to the big club.

They said it pretty well last night on the broadcast, he throws the fewest # of pitches in the strikezone of any pitcher. That's not a great stat, especially when your fastball is as pedestrian as his.

My all-star ballot - slightly homeristic

I love that you think i dont know the basics of baseball. My point is that Gorman could have easily been safe without sprinting through the bag given how that play set up. They essentially traded a possible run with possibly more coming for 1 guaranteed run and pretty much guaranteed end of inning. I dont think that qualifies as "genius." Interesting yes, but genius????

I fail to see how this is “genius”

Richards has lost his command completely this season it seems. Nothing is even close to looking crisp. Hitters know it’s always a ball

Of course some idiot had to go and open his mouth…..what a moron.