Give me a chance to wager right now and I'd take the under on Chris Williams, 1 PA.

Then what are we even talking about here? Looks like a multi-comment multi-day discussion on something that takes 3 seconds to look up. I think you can even get rolling averages from Savant if you want. Subtracting BA from OBP gives you a quick and easy roundabout ballpark figure of a player's walk...

I heard A.J. lost some weight and joined the Girl Scouts.

He's now a thin Minter.

who wants to tell them how many places include BB% in the list of stats? Is everyone here 65 years old? [TWEET]https://x.com/JSterlingCalls/status/1300580776464068608[/TWEET] Baseball Reference lists walk rates (BB%). It's in the Advanced Batting section for each player. Also, I don't get your age ...

who wants to tell them how many places include BB% in the list of stats? Is everyone here 65 years old?

[TWEET]https://x.com/JSterlingCalls/status/1300580776464068608[/TWEET]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Tue Dec 10, 2024 1:21 pm So anyway...

When is the physical? It seems that Cohen has been openly acknowledging the deal, which you typically don't see until the physical has been completed.

he's got a habit of bragging and then reneging on his deals, but I don't think there's any real issue here.

I don't remember the source of the article (which may have said "widely believed" rather than widely accepted) but it was from earlier this year and was in connection with Soto's pending FA-gency saying essentially that what the signing team doesn't want to experience is what happened wit...

None. But neither did anyone have anything on Pujols until it was recently reported that it's now "widely accepted" in MLB circles that he was up to three years older than his listed age. I think it's tougher to get away with that kind of thing now but so it was said during Albert's time ...

What would likely happen if this rule is adopted, I would guess, is not much, fan-wise, other than griping about or applauding the new rule. The new rule will neither drive away old and established fans nor will it bring in new fans all on its own. Existing fans aren't going away no matter what the...

MFS62 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2024 2:15 pm Thanks and giving are in the name of the holiday.
Not a day for narcissists.
Later

If we're being honest, isn't it a day for colonizers and oppressors?

It can be frustrating, if you let it. Lately, whenever I search for news about the Mets, I get a flood of stories about trade proposals and predictions from "MLB insiders" who are working with little more than their imaginations. Yes!! I haven't bothered to even search for Mets articles f...

Giving thanks is so parochial. Tell me what you're TAKING thanks for.

as a single issue voter, both parties are pretty regressive towards my issue, but since there's not a single thing that would be better under Trump if you're not rich, it's not really any choice at all. Ironic, given how much choice that party wants to deny us.

But bottom line is that if Manfred hadn't watered down the playoffs without complementing with expansion, the Mets wouldn't seriously be thinking they were in it. That's true and I totally agree. But the playoffs are watered down, and baseball now is, I think, a shitshow. But in this shitshow, the ...

National obviously, though I don't harbor much disdain for American. They're the same really.

The Mets are a mediocre team still, in general. More things have gone right than wrong, so they're slightly better than mediocre perhaps now, but on average, they're not really better than the Padres, Diamondbacks, or Braves. That doesn't mean they can't beat them, or things can't go more right for ...

Nice of Olney to finally notice, 4 years in, that Lindor is awesome.

[TWEET]https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3l2ddj4nk2l2p[/TWEET] I know this week is all about people cheering on Harris/Walz, but I still need to inform you that the Democratic Party's tech policy platform (pro-KOSA, anti-230) is still shit. I mean, the other guy is looking to end de...

Short Center starts at UMass Amherst next week. Now I know that's been his nickname here for a long time. But, be honest, is he still shorter than you? Ha. No, he passed me a while ago! Wait. Does that mean I'm Short Center now? conventional wisdom is you have to move off center as you get older.

can you really not paste pictures here either? yikes. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/david-peterson-656849?stats=statcast-r-pitching-mlb Peterson's rankings are poor. He's got a good sinker, but they hit it hard. He's been lucky in that most of the ones they hit hard are good sinkers,...

https://x.com/taylorswift13/status/1313938080290803715 https://x.com/taylorswift13/status/1313938080290803715 Swifties aren't confused about her stance on things. quote from the post that apparently doesn't embed here. Is is 2002? 4 years ago: "I spoke to @vmagazine about why I’ll be voting fo...

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You know what modern baseball is missing? flagging mid starting pitchers struggling to get through the order a third time.

I can't wait until Buck Showalter sees his pitcher at 99 pitches against Juan Soto in the 5th and has him throw one in the dirt so he can pull him.

Answering two of my own questions: My dream rail trip is also the Orient Express. I've never knowingly used AI. But somebody sure has ben using it on me, tracking my purchases and preferences. It seems like every time I scratch my butt, I get emails and Facebook pop-ups about butt scratching. Later...