MLB 2022 Miscellaneous News

[stalton]

After the Bears put up 3TDs against the Steelers.  Both Chicago and Pitt are both 1 game under. 500.  Chicago has +20 RD and Pitt has -29

[Joseph Zarr]

On 4/18/2022 at 9:15 AM, Patrick425 said:

This, to me is infuriating:

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/umpire-missed-whopping-27-calls-210544185.html

While missing that many calls is mind blowing, the part of it that makes me angry the most is that absolutely nothing will happen to him.  He won't be forced to improve.  His job will not be in jeopardy if he doesn't improve. There is no motivation for him to improve.  Just total and complete job security.

Holy heck that is terrible stuff. Considering 39 of the 45 went against the Blue Jays...ummm, ya know, maybe. Yeah.

[sveumrules]

Obviously early yet, but the “trade all our best players & spend as little as possible” Oakland Athletics are currently 9-8 while the “spend half a billion plus on free agents” Texas Rangers are 5-10.

[Joseph Zarr]

My broader MLB news piece for this late Sunday evening is: Byron Buxton is a Man God. Twins fans have to be rejoicing and praying he can stay healthy. That man is electric. I also saw this tonight:

[Brock Beauchamp]

On 4/23/2022 at 7:05 AM, RoCoBrewfan said:

The Giants at it again.... scoring in the 9th inning of a 7-1 game and the nationals got mad mad and started yelling at the giants dugout. 

clearly no team has ever scored 6 runs in one inning before.....

I'm not a fan of running up the score because I think it's best if everybody just gets it over with and goes home before anyone gets injured. Baseball is 162 games a year, just pack it in and try again tomorrow.

On the other hand, unwritten rules are terrible and if doing stuff like this makes old-timey baseballers mad, please continue doing it.

[TURBO]

7 hours ago, Julio Muchacho said:

My broader MLB news piece for this late Sunday evening is: Byron Buxton is a Man God. Twins fans have to be rejoicing and praying he can stay healthy. That man is electric. I also saw this tonight:

Ok, how many games has he played since 2019?

[sveumrules]

Yeah, Buxton is pretty nuts. Hopefully this year he finally makes it through a season unscathed by injury.

Fangraphs has him at 9.5 WAR (39th) since 2019 in only 725 PAs.

The guys on either side of him on the WAR leaderboard are Justin Turner (9.5 WAR | 1398 PAs) and Bryan Reynolds (9.3 WAR | 1464 PAs).

[homer]

12 minutes ago, sveumrules said:

Yeah, Buxton is pretty nuts. Hopefully this year he finally makes it through a season unscathed by injury.

Fangraphs has him at 9.5 WAR (39th) since 2019 in only 725 PAs.

The guys on either side of him on the WAR leaderboard are Justin Turner (9.5 WAR | 1398 PAs) and Bryan Reynolds (9.3 WAR | 1464 PAs).

I got him in round 8 of my fantasy draft. He has to stay healthy for one season in his career right? Hopefully it's this one.

[Joseph Zarr]

1 hour ago, TURBO said:

Ok, how many games has he played since 2019?

I can’t look. I won’t look. I’m going to pretend this is the year he won’t be on the shelf.?

[DuWayne Steurer]

2 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I'm not a fan of running up the score because I think it's best if everybody just gets it over with and goes home before anyone gets injured. Baseball is 162 games a year, just pack it in and try again tomorrow.

On the other hand, unwritten rules are terrible and if doing stuff like this makes old-timey baseballers mad, please continue doing it.

I get Kapler's point of view.  Run differential is a tie breaker at the end of the year.  There's a good chance his team will be in the hunt near the end of the season.  There's no reason to leave runs off the board just to spare Alcides Escobar's feelings when those runs have a chance, even if it's by percentage a very small chance, of playing a role in his teams playoff chances.  

Do those odds run against the chances of someone getting hurt?  Sure, but again, that's the factors they have to weigh and measure.  Also, as I said in my last post, six runs is not at all an insurmountable total to overcome.  It's kind of absurd that these teams are pitching a fit about opponents still "trying" in a six run game.  

[stalton]

When one makes run differential meaningful, it's my opinion that it changes the game.  If the Giants or another team misses the playoffs because they gave up on scoring runs, I'd be upset if I were a fan.  

If they made beard length a tie breaker, you bet your sweet bippy no one would shave even if it looked atrocious.

[stoutdude04]

1 hour ago, stalton said:

When one makes run differential meaningful, it's my opinion that it changes the game.  If the Giants or another team misses the playoffs because they gave up on scoring runs, I'd be upset if I were a fan.  

If they made beard length a tie breaker, you bet your sweet bippy no one would shave even if it looked atrocious.

This - we had this happen to us in a hockey tournament a few years ago.  Goal differential was the tie breaker, so we had to run up the score on a team that was misplaced.  They complained and we felt bad, so we let our foot off the gas.  We ended up with the last playoff spot by 1 goal.

If they make differential the tiebreaker...then expect teams to try and score.

[sveumrules]

Yeah, I totally don't get it.

It's not like basketball where you can just put in your garbage time squad, or the NFL where you can take out your starting QB & just run every down to eat clock.

What are guys supposed to do? Straight take until the game is over?

[KeithStone53151]

2 hours ago, RoCoBrewfan said:

Run differential is a tie breaker at the end of the year. 

This is not correct. Run differential is not one of the criteria for tie-breaking involving post season play or really anything for that matter...

That said, in baseball stats matter for each individual player. A hr hit in the top of the 9th of a 7-1 game is just as impactful to your end of year statline when negotiating a contract as one hit in the bottom of the 9th of a tie game. Same with a stolen base. Furthermore, every pitch thrown by an opposing pitcher is valuable to your team in a multi-game series. Getting on base, scoring runs, etc can get another team to use more pitches/pitchers and be less effective the following day or days.

Bottom line, running up the score is just what it is and I really don't have any problem with it.

[sveumrules]

Yeah, looks like run differential did not make it into the new CBA...

"CBS Sports incorrectly stated that run differential is one of the tiebreakers MLB will use instead of a Game 163 in the 2022 season in the initial version of this story. Run differential was discussed as a tiebreaker, but that rule did not make it into the new CBA. The five tiebreakers MLB is using this season are head-to-head record, intradivision record, interdivision record, last half of Intraleague games, and last half of Intraleague games plus one until the tie is broken. We apologize for the error."

[KeithStone53151]

2 minutes ago, sveumrules said:

Yeah, looks like run differential did not make it into the new CBA...

"CBS Sports incorrectly stated that run differential is one of the tiebreakers MLB will use instead of a Game 163 in the 2022 season in the initial version of this story. Run differential was discussed as a tiebreaker, but that rule did not make it into the new CBA. The five tiebreakers MLB is using this season are head-to-head record, intradivision record, interdivision record, last half of Intraleague games, and last half of Intraleague games plus one until the tie is broken. We apologize for the error."

Thanks for posting that link. I remember seeing something like it but couldn't find it. Also, I'm extremely hopeful that 2 teams tie in all of these metrics so we can see a playoff team decided by coin flip. Vegas would certainly be thrilled and it could easily be a half hour or one hour tv segment...

[DuWayne Steurer]

kapler mentioned rum differental being a factor. guess he was wrong.

I still don't have a problem with it.

 

 

 

 

[stoutdude04]

1 hour ago, KeithStone53151 said:

This is not correct. Run differential is not one of the criteria for tie-breaking involving post season play or really anything for that matter...

That said, in baseball stats matter for each individual player. A hr hit in the top of the 9th of a 7-1 game is just as impactful to your end of year statline when negotiating a contract as one hit in the bottom of the 9th of a tie game. Same with a stolen base. Furthermore, every pitch thrown by an opposing pitcher is valuable to your team in a multi-game series. Getting on base, scoring runs, etc can get another team to use more pitches/pitchers and be less effective the following day or days.

Bottom line, running up the score is just what it is and I really don't have any problem with it.

I was just coming here to point this out as well.  I had heard it from Kapler and assumed it to be true.  It is not one of the tie breakers.  

I still stand by playing til the last out though - like you said, guys get paid based on their stats.

[DuWayne Steurer]

I think a lot of outlets reported (erroneously) that it was in the new cba. I know I obviously thought so. 

even so, baseball players take the cake for being the softest babies about the other team playing hard to the end of the game, and that's something that I feel like most people agree can go away any time now.

[wallus]

Conforto out for the season due to shoulder surgery. Cross him off the list.

https://www.mlb.com/news/michael-conforto-undergoes-shoulder-surgery

[Thurston Fluff]

It's been a while but I seem to remember either the Yankees or Red Sox complaining about Houston cheating may have kept them from winning a championship. I  might be wrong on that but it appears Houston was just trying to keep up. Also not very flattering for Manfred

https://sports.yahoo.com/leaked-yankees-letter-confirms-team-stole-signs-in-2015-which-mlb-hid-from-public-212021003.html

[yfinn6]

Manfred is the worst. 

[stalton]

Cano DFA'd by the Mets and on the hook for 37 mil.  Granted the contract was twice as long but to me this is why I'm happy Cain is still producing what he is.  

[trwi7]

 

[nate82]

Second no hitter of the season by Reid Detmer.

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/reid-detmers-no-hitter-angels-rookie-left-hander-throws-second-no-no-of-mlb-season-vs-rays/live/amp/