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All things Baseball

Randy Daytona said:
Here we go: Dodgers-Blue Jays World Series Game 1.

Last time the Blue Jays were in the World Series, the Marine Corps color guard brought out the Canadian flag upside-down. I would think that will not happen again.
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I stole this from Twitter but: "if the Taliban were playing against the Dodgers in the world series, I'd be in the stands wearing a burka"
 
What a game! A solo homerun wins it for LA in the bottom of the 18th, which ties for the longest World Series game in history.
 
Meyerkord said:
I’m rooting for the Blue Jays now, but man, watching Freddie and Shohei is amazing baseball.
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Looks like we get more baseball this weekend as Toronto evens the series at 2-2.

What are the odds of this: country music star Brad Paisley has sung the national anthem for 4 World Series games - all went to extra innings.

World Series Game 2 in 2017 (11 innings)
World Series Game 3 in 2018 (18 innings)
World Series Game 1 in 2024 (10 innings)
World Series Game 3 in 2025 (18 innings)

And just because, his first big hit:

 
Randy Daytona said:
Good article on the ever increasing velocity of baseball pitchers, with 100 mph being regularly topped
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As I watched Paul Skenes take a perfect game into the 7th inning last night, I heard the announcers say that the manager had a tough decision to make, to allow him to continue or not. He was at 80-something pitches, and his season high so far for a start was 86.

I thought to myself “you’ve gotta be crazy to even consider pulling this man from this game” but I guess that’s just how the game has evolved. When was the last time you saw someone pitch a complete game? It’s rare these days, especially when pitchers are throwing absolute gas at 100mph and Tommy John’s has become the norm.

Either way, he ended up giving up a hit in the 7th and finished the inning, ending up around 93 pitches, and not returning for the 8th. What a monster performance.
 
Randy Daytona said:
Good article on the ever increasing velocity of baseball pitchers, with 100 mph being regularly topped.

As for the season so far, after last year’s MLB worst start, the Atlanta Braves have baseball’s best record at 19-8, and the Cubs have won 10 in a row. That said, my money is still on the Dodgers for a Three-peat.

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Pitchers going 4-5 innings is one of the worst changes that analytics have brought to baseball. If you ask a modern GM if they'd rather have a pitcher who always throws 5 scoreless innings or a pitcher who always goes 9 and lets up 2 runs, they will pick the former, because mathematically your average bullpen will not let up 2 runs in 4 innings of work.

It was an interesting part of the game when a pitcher had to face a batter 4 times. How is he going to approach the batter this time? Is he still going to be able to fool him?

Now it's two times through the order and you're out, which enables guys to crank up the velocity when they don't have to go deep into games. We can put in some random nameless reliever who will gladly throw his arm out for a paycheck while we *wink wink nudge nudge* violate his player rights, and statistically that's better than facing the order the third time. If he sues the league we'll just pay him a few million dollar settlement.

I remember going to a game Pedro started and he threw 88mph in the first inning (although this was measured at the plate and not at release, so it was probably closer to 92). He didn't top out his velo until the third. This was pretty consistent among pitchers who expected to go deep into games.

Purists hate the idea of roster restrictions, but I wish MLB would cap pitchers on the roster to 11.

Anyway, I can't find it anymore because of google's shitty indexing, but there was a former pitching coach who broke down the Mets' rotation in 2014-2015 and said that every single one of them is going to need TJS due to the timing between their stride and release to get 100mph. Fast forward and he was right. Those mechanics are ubiquitous in MLB, but no one cares. It's also why pitchers writ large have started to get mostly limited to 3 year deals but with absurd annual value. Everyone in the industry, including the players, expects they will injure themselves.

Meyerkord said:
I thought to myself “you’ve gotta be crazy to even consider pulling this man from this game” but I guess that’s just how the game has evolved. When was the last time you saw someone pitch a complete game? It’s rare these days, especially when pitchers are throwing absolute gas at 100mph and Tommy John’s has become the norm.
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Johan Santana's no hitter famously ended his career. Pedro's 9 perfect innings in a 10-inning loss did not (and he is not credited with a perfect game because he let up a hit in the 10th).
 
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