MLB 2022 Regular Season Thread

[alkeiper]

Miguel Cabrera sitting on 2,999 hits, the Tigers host the Yankees at 1pm today. Cabrera is in the lineup, hitting 4th.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1517920444569038848

 

[909]

Mfer is at the game too

 

[alkeiper]

Of course he is. How do you think he got the hit?

Cabrera hit .326 over a span of twelve consecutive seasons. Four batting titles. I honestly think he’s as talented a right handed hitter as has ever played the game. If he played 100 years ago given the conditions he might’ve been Rogers Hornsby.

 

[geniusMoment]

Bauer is basically done:

MLB suspends Dodgers' Bauer for two seasons

Trevor Bauer is appealing the suspension, which would encompass the rest of 2022, all of 2023 and some of the 2024 season.

www.espn.com

 

[Aero]

Mets combined no-hitter, over 159 pitches!

Could be the best sports weekend of my life.

 

[alkeiper]

Update: since Phil Castellini asked “Where ya gonna go?”, the Reds haven’t won shit since and basically half the team had some sort of injury or just absolutely blow ass.

1-8 since this post. Joey Votto’s OPS is .413. His previous low OPS for a 22 game span was a .514 mark in 2015-16. I can’t assume Votto is cooked but at 38 it’s a bad trend.

 

[Dandy]

The entire time has been shitty and I have to imagine morale and disgust for ownership is not helping. Votto tried out a new bat for the first time in his career (hockey puck style knob that changed the fulcrum point) and jettisoned it a couple of games ago because it was screwing up his swing. He hit the ball hard immediately since switching back, but right at some people. He says he immediately hit better in BP after the switch but he still hasn’t gotten a hit in the handful of games after the switch.

I predict he goes on a tear but this dismal start will still make his season averages look poor.

I also think it has bothered him that ownership has traded away some tremendous players/teammates/friends, and he knows he can no longer be Ben consider the Reds picking up his option year, which will force him to retire or play with a different team, something he did not want to do.

 

[alkeiper]

TBH that option is a hard sell. $13 million for a 40 year old (which Votto will be in 2024). You can't let sentiment enter into it. The Reds' preseason trades sent away good players and replaced them with inferior ones. Always a question about that at the end of a long term contract.

The Mets DFA'd Robinson Cano. If they don't trade him (spoiler: they won't) they're on the hook for $40 million of his contract. But Jeff McNeil is a better 2B option, Dominic Smith is better at DH and this move makes the Mets better. Maybe some other team gives Cano a shot but where at one point he had a good chance for 3,000 hits, he seems unlikely to reach that now. And he has virtually no chance at the Hall of Fame.

 

[snuffbox]

Luis Urias is back for Milwaukee.

 

[alkeiper]

Current MLB league batting line. .232/.306.368. Lowest league batting average ever. Lowest league OBP since 1968. Lowest league slugging percentage since 1976.

 

[alkeiper]

More fun with statistics.

The Arizona Diamondbacks collective batting average in April was .181. It's .188 now. For a 22 game stretch to start the season, that .181 was the WORST figure since at least 1901. Somehow despite the anemic batting the D'Backs are 12-13.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Colorado is right behind the hammerin' Yankees in team SLG with a whopping .426 compared to the Yankees' .428...

Detroit has just 10 HR on the year with Baltimore sitting at 11 HR.

 

[snuffbox]

"Last year, Milwaukee's starting pitching was basically three deep," is an actual quote from the brain center at ESPN.

 

[alkeiper]

Hunter Greene made headlines last month when he threw 39 pitches over 100 mph in a start. Unfortunately Greene allowed five home runs today, given him ten home runs allowed in 20 2/3 IP. It's hardly the worst stretch in history but you would think a pitcher with that kind of stuff would miss bats.

The Reds are trailing today 8-5 after six in case you were wondering.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Hunter Greene made headlines last month when he threw 39 pitches over 100 mph in a start. Unfortunately Greene allowed five home runs today, given him ten home runs allowed in 20 2/3 IP. It's hardly the worst stretch in history but you would think a pitcher with that kind of stuff would miss bats.

The Reds are trailing today 8-5 after six in case you were wondering.

I've read that hitters actually like when pitchers can throw that fast because it makes it much easier for them to physically time when to swing compared to a change-up that looks like a fastball coming out or a pitch with more movement.

 

[geniusMoment]

3-22 for your Cincinnati Reds. Time for that all important question...."how we lookin?"

 

[alkeiper]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1522068258937004034

 

[alkeiper]

I've read that hitters actually like when pitchers can throw that fast because it makes it much easier for them to physically time when to swing compared to a change-up that looks like a fastball coming out or a pitch with more movement.

I think that professional hitters adjust to speed. If everyone throws 88mph, they adjust and hit it. And if everyone throws 99mph, they adjust to that. But movement is important, and there are pitchers like Scott Mathieson who could throw 100mph but wasn't fooling MLB hitters with it.

 

[strummer]

The terrible weather on the East Coast postponed 6(!) games tonight. And more likely coming tomorrow.

 

[strummer]

Gerardo Parra retired

 

[alkeiper]

Amazing how players keep retiring right after they find out no one wants to employ them anymore.

 

[alkeiper]

Walker Buehler has either the best or second best W/L% in MLB history for any pitcher with 100+ starts (depending on if you count Al Spalding in the National Association). Win/loss records are losing influence as starters pitch fewer innings. But Buehler has only lost 13 of his 100 starts, the lowest total of anyone since 1901. The previous low was Whitey Ford who went 58-17 in his first 100 starts.

 

[strummer]

The Reds allowed 0 hits v the Pirates today and lost.

Technically not a no hitter (Andy Hawkins rule)

 

[strummer]

Yankees are off to an unreal start (26-9). The last three teams to have gotten off to this good a start have all won the World Series

2005 White Sox

2016 Cubs

2018 Red Sox

 

[Broward83]

They'll lose to Boston or Houston in the ALCS..

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Clapping Back: The MLB Has Addressed Complaints About Baseball Being Too Slow By Making The Games 8 Hours Long And More Tedious Than Ever To Show How Fucking Good Fans Had It

For years, Major League Baseball has been plagued by complaints from viewers that games take too long and move too slowly. But now, at long…

clickhole.com

Having a hard time discerning satire from reality these days

 

[strummer]

During the White Sox/Yankees game today Josh Donaldson apparently called Tim Anderson "Jackie".

Yeah so no wonder Anderson was pissed and two benches cleared later on

 

[Krankor]

Josh Donaldson was trying to play innocent and act like it was some inside joke between the two stemming from some 2019 interview Tim Anderson had with Sports Illustrated. Josh Donaldson is just a scum.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1528121376829280256

 

[909]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1529199417600921600

Dallas Keuchel also said that Donaldson had problems getting along with Latino players, which once led to him getting traded. Big fucking yikes right there.