how you know you are in a slump....

If you are struggling- and an umpire misses 6 pitches all night long- and 1 of them was a called strike 3 outside the strike zone...

Happened to Adam Eaton last night.

(05-05-2021 10:11 AM)stever20 Wrote:  how you know you are in a slump....

If you are struggling- and an umpire misses 6 pitches all night long- and 1 of them was a called strike 3 outside the strike zone...

Happened to Adam Eaton last night.

Thank goodness ofr Huascar Ynoa, or we'd be in a world of evn bigger hurt right now. Braves pitching has been a shambles so far this year...last season we didi pitching with mirrors and it worked, and we thought this season'd be better...but not yet. Still, we kinda have our own Two-way star: Braves' Ynoa hits slam, slams door on Nats

Fried goes tonight...let's see how he's feeling or if he's still having issues. We needs us some pitching back.

(05-05-2021 12:04 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(05-05-2021 10:11 AM)stever20 Wrote:  how you know you are in a slump....

If you are struggling- and an umpire misses 6 pitches all night long- and 1 of them was a called strike 3 outside the strike zone...

Happened to Adam Eaton last night.

Thank goodness ofr Huascar Ynoa, or we'd be in a world of evn bigger hurt right now. Braves pitching has been a shambles so far this year...last season we didi pitching with mirrors and it worked, and we thought this season'd be better...but not yet. Still, we kinda have our own Two-way star: Braves' Ynoa hits slam, slams door on Nats

Fried goes tonight...let's see how he's feeling or if he's still having issues. We needs us some pitching back.

what is that game you're talking about last night? I don't remember anything- just saw Will Smith in a black suit after seeing a flash of light.

Oh, Tony...

Quote:La Russa claimed he didn't fully know the extra inning rule, which would have allowed him to avoid using closer Liam Hendriks as a baserunner in a 0-0 game against the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday.

Hendriks had double-switched into the game in the bottom of the ninth inning, inhabiting the No.5 spot in the batting order which made the last out in the top of the ninth. Per MLB rules, as extra innings begin, the spot in the order to make the last out in the previous inning becomes the base runner at second base. However, if that spot is occupied by a pitcher, the team has the option to use the preceding player in the batting order as the runner. In this case, it would have been Jose Abreu.

"I didn't know that," La Russa said after the 1-0 loss. "We all thought Liam was going to be the runner. I wasn't aware Abreu could have run. I thought it was the guy that made the last out or the spot in that order."

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/3139...nning-rule

possibly the end of an era.... and definitely the end of an error...

Hope for Pujols' sake that he just retires. But this comment...

I feel so bad for them.... not...

wow saw the most crazy stat on Pujols....

he has a hit on 10.21% of all pitchers in MLB history....

1072 different pitchers he has a hit off of
been 10,501 pitchers in MLB history who have even thrown 1 pitch

While I enjoyed the sweep, I didn't expect it. Here's why:

The Braves are now 10-3 against the Cubs and Nationals. They’re 5-13 against everybody else. They’ve run out of games against the Cubs, but have plenty remaining with Washington. Ideally for them, of course, they start defeating other teams.

Braves are 10-3 vs Cubs + Nats, 5-13 vs everyone else.
— Dayton from Nebraska (@BravesAmerica) May 6, 2021


The Braves moved to 5-1 against the Nationals this season, with every game in Washington. The Braves have won 15 of their past 24 in the nation’s capital, which used to be a nightmare for them. It wasn’t too long ago when the Braves went 1-19 in Washington from 2015-16.


We need to start beating other teams if we want to have a shot to repeat as Div champs. Start it tonight against Phillies, please.

MLB offense is AWOL. A few snippets from this Jayson Stark piece in The Athletic:
https://theathletic.com/2562755/2021/05/...verywhere/

Quote:The batting average of the entire sport in April — an average compiled by the best collection of athletes ever to play baseball — was .232. That’s not just the worst it’s been since the Bob Gibson 1.12 ERA/Nobody Can Hit days of 1968. That .232 mark would be the worst ever. Heck, the league average in 1968 was an action-packed .237.

Quote:On-base %: .309, lowest since 1968
Slugging %: .389, lowest since 2014
OPS: .698, lowest since 1989
Hits per game: 7.63, lowest since ever

Quote:In the April we just completed, there were nearly 1,100 more strikeouts than hits!

STRIKEOUTS: 6,924
HITS: 5,832

Quote:Until May 2018, there had never been any month in the history of baseball with more strikeouts than hits. Until last year, there had never been a season with 1,000 more whiffs than hits. But now, if this pace keeps up, we’re looking at a season with about 7,000 more strikeouts than hits. Seven thousand!

(05-08-2021 02:44 AM)Wedge Wrote:  MLB offense is AWOL. A few snippets from this Jayson Stark piece in The Athletic:
https://theathletic.com/2562755/2021/05/...verywhere/

Quote:The batting average of the entire sport in April — an average compiled by the best collection of athletes ever to play baseball — was .232. That’s not just the worst it’s been since the Bob Gibson 1.12 ERA/Nobody Can Hit days of 1968. That .232 mark would be the worst ever. Heck, the league average in 1968 was an action-packed .237.

Quote:On-base %: .309, lowest since 1968
Slugging %: .389, lowest since 2014
OPS: .698, lowest since 1989
Hits per game: 7.63, lowest since ever

Quote:In the April we just completed, there were nearly 1,100 more strikeouts than hits!

STRIKEOUTS: 6,924
HITS: 5,832

Quote:Until May 2018, there had never been any month in the history of baseball with more strikeouts than hits. Until last year, there had never been a season with 1,000 more whiffs than hits. But now, if this pace keeps up, we’re looking at a season with about 7,000 more strikeouts than hits. Seven thousand!

why no one should be surprised on any rules changes next year. DH is close to a 100% lock IMO. Shifting eliminated close to a lock(babip of .284 lowest since 1989).

The strikeout rate is really the biggest issue, and there's no likely rule change that's going to address that. Any possible shrinking of the strike zone is several years away, after they get around to implementing an "electronic strike zone", and they'll never do anything radical like issuing a walk on three balls instead of four.

(05-08-2021 11:10 AM)Wedge Wrote:  The strikeout rate is really the biggest issue, and there's no likely rule change that's going to address that. Any possible shrinking of the strike zone is several years away, after they get around to implementing an "electronic strike zone", and they'll never do anything radical like issuing a walk on three balls instead of four.

If shifting is gone there will be more of a willingness to bat to contact.

The key is the electronic strike zone though long term. I mean you have some umpires like the one at Nats Park on Thursday that gave 1-2 inches on either side of the plate. That's a joke. You just have the strike zone called correctly and offense would pick up.

(05-08-2021 11:59 AM)stever20 Wrote:  

(05-08-2021 11:10 AM)Wedge Wrote:  The strikeout rate is really the biggest issue, and there's no likely rule change that's going to address that. Any possible shrinking of the strike zone is several years away, after they get around to implementing an "electronic strike zone", and they'll never do anything radical like issuing a walk on three balls instead of four.

If shifting is gone there will be more of a willingness to bat to contact.

The key is the electronic strike zone though long term. I mean you have some umpires like the one at Nats Park on Thursday that gave 1-2 inches on either side of the plate. That's a joke. You just have the strike zone called correctly and offense would pick up.

That's right. There are a lot of called strikes outside the strike zone and a lot of swinging strikes where batters swing because they've gotten burned taking pitches outside the zone that were called strikes. The result is 2-1 final scores with 20 strikeouts combined.

unreal-

(05-08-2021 09:28 AM)stever20 Wrote:  

(05-08-2021 02:44 AM)Wedge Wrote:  MLB offense is AWOL. A few snippets from this Jayson Stark piece in The Athletic:
https://theathletic.com/2562755/2021/05/...verywhere/

Quote:The batting average of the entire sport in April — an average compiled by the best collection of athletes ever to play baseball — was .232. That’s not just the worst it’s been since the Bob Gibson 1.12 ERA/Nobody Can Hit days of 1968. That .232 mark would be the worst ever. Heck, the league average in 1968 was an action-packed .237.

Quote:On-base %: .309, lowest since 1968
Slugging %: .389, lowest since 2014
OPS: .698, lowest since 1989
Hits per game: 7.63, lowest since ever

Quote:In the April we just completed, there were nearly 1,100 more strikeouts than hits!

STRIKEOUTS: 6,924
HITS: 5,832

Quote:Until May 2018, there had never been any month in the history of baseball with more strikeouts than hits. Until last year, there had never been a season with 1,000 more whiffs than hits. But now, if this pace keeps up, we’re looking at a season with about 7,000 more strikeouts than hits. Seven thousand!

why no one should be surprised on any rules changes next year. DH is close to a 100% lock IMO. Shifting eliminated close to a lock(babip of .284 lowest since 1989).

I think you've hit upon it, stever. They went too far with this year's baseball being deadened so they'd have no argument on the DH. I'm on record as being okay with not allowing infielders to shift past 2nd on either side.

PS. Braves pitcher Huascar Ynoa now hitting .400 for the season. Hate to see him not hit after this year.
1.7WAR 6Hits-15ABs .400/.400/.867 1-2B, 2-HR, 1GrandSlam, 6 RBI
Freeman, Swanson, Ynoa power Braves past Phillies

(05-09-2021 11:07 PM)stever20 Wrote:  unreal-

i'll take it.

(05-06-2021 12:48 PM)stever20 Wrote:  possibly the end of an era.... and definitely the end of an error...

Nicely done.