MLB 2023 Season

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by dsvitak

Cards just finishing up taking 3 of 4 from the Dodgers, while scoring the most runs in a four game series in the entire history of their franchise.

This puts the Cards in THIRD place, five games out. No doubt Milwaukee and Pittsburg are hearing footsteps.

As Mr. Pelican said, the Cardinals are better than they look(ed).

[Déjà Bru]

If it were up to me, this is how MLB would look. Conferences instead of AL and NL. Notice the divisions that make sense geographically. Canadians and Mexicans have their well-deserved slots. Also fixed is the nonsense of more than one team per city. No favorites; in my world, NY, Chi, and LA have one fictional team each.

[Syd Thrift]

Originally Posted by Westheim

And yet would tell me more about how a guy's doing than OBP.

Rough sketch of player data in terms of single-stat usefulness, in descending order:

OPS
Batting average
Homers
Eye Color
OBP

Unrelated, what happened with Tim Anderson, and have the Sox noticed yet?

“Hi, I don’t know anything about baseball stats but I have an opinion!”

[Déjà Bru]

Since when are the Yankees looking up at the Orioles in the standings?

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

Since when are the Yankees looking up at the Orioles in the standings?

I am afraid there is some justification for this situation.

[monkeyman576]

American League Projected All Stars as of 5/26/23
Starters(AL) - Note: All teams have at least one player as per MLB rules WAR is the primary statistic used to determine placement
C Adley Rutschman(BAL) - .270 7 HR 25 RBI(1st all star game)
1B Yandy Diaz(TB) - .322 11 HR 27 RBI(1st)
2B Marcus Semien(TEX) .299 8 HR 40 RBI(2nd)
3B Matt Chapman(TOR) .301 7 HR 27 RBI(2nd)
SS Bo Bichette(TOR) .307 9 HR 30 RBI(2nd)
LF Randy Arozarena(TB) .311 11 HR 39 RBI(1st)
CF Aaron Judge(NYY) .294 14 HR 33 RBI(5th)
RF Josh Lowe(TB) .306 11 HR 33 RBI(1st)
DH Byron Bruxton(MIN) .238 10 HR 23 RBI(2nd)
SP Sonny Gray(MIN) 4-0 1.82 ERA 66 K(3rd)

Reserves
C Jonah Heim(TEX) .273 6 HR 33 RBI(1st)
C Salvador Perez(KC) .280 11 HR 28 RBI(8th)
1B Anthony Rizzo(NYY) .307 11 HR 30 RBI(4th)
2B Taylor Walls(TB) .246 7 HR 19 RBI(1st)
2B Adam Frazier(BAL) .253 6 HR 23 RBI(2nd)
3B Josh Jung(TEX) .273 11 HR 34 RBI(1st)
SS Wander Franco(TB) .286 7 HR 25 RBI(1st)
SS JP Crawford(SEA) .250 2 HR 20 RBI(1st)
OF Luis Roberts Jr(CHW) .267 13 HR 29 RBI(1st)
OF Kevin Keraimer(TOR) .312 3 HR 14 RBI(1st)
OF Brent Rooker(OAK) .268 11 HR 32 RBI(1st)
OF Yordan Alvarez(HOU) .297 12 HR 46 RBI(2nd)
OF Cedric Mullins(BAL) .275 8 HR 39 RBI(2nd)
OF Jerrd Kelenic(SEA) .289 10 HR 25 RBI(1st)
DH Harold Ramirez(TB) .290 7 HR 21 RBI(1st)
DH Justin Turner(BOS) .263 5 HR 18 RBI(3rd)

Pitchers
SP Gerrit Cole(NYY) 5-0 2.53 70 K(6th)
SP Joe Ryan(MIN) 7-1 2.21 ERA 70 K(1st)
SP Shane McLanahan (TB) 8-0 1.97 ERA 75 K(2nd)
SP Eduardo Rodriguez(DET) 4-4 2.19 ERA 61 K(1st)
SP Nathan Eovaldi(TEX) 6-2 2.60 ERA 66 K(2nd)
SP Shohei Ohtani(LAA) 5-1 3.05 ERA 80 K(3rd)
SP George Kirby(SEA) 5-3 2.62 ERA 47 K(1st)
SP Shane Bieber(CLE) 3-3 3.07 ERA 47 K(3rd)
SP Framber Valdez(HOU) 4-4 2.45 ERA 72 K(2nd)
SP Dane Dunning(TEX) 4-0 1.67 ERA 26 K(1st)
SP Cristain Javier(HOU) 5-1 3.07 ERA 64 K(1st)
SP Bryce Miller(SEA) 3-1 1.15 ERA 28 K(1st)
CL Emmanuel Clase(CLE) 16 SV 3.38 ERA 16 K(2nd)
CL Felix Bautista(BAL) 12 SV 1.44 ERA 50 K(1st)
MR Matt Moore(LAA) 3-1 1.44 ERA 21 K(2nd)

Tampa Bay Rays - 7 Baltimore Orioles - 5 Texas Rangers - 5 Seattle Mariners - 4 New York Yankees - 3 Toronto Blue Jays - 3 Minnesota Twins - 3
Houston Astros - 3 Cleveland Guardians - 2 Los Angeles Angels - 2 Boston Red Sox - 1 Detroit Tigers - 1 Chicago White Sox - 1 Kansas City Royals - 1
Oakland Athletics - 1

[Syd Thrift]

Seattle is underrepresented for pitching. They’ve got 4 guys in the top 10 in WAR right now. This may be how it goes (though I’d swap out Miller in favor of Castillo) but it should be said…

[kq76]

Originally Posted by Syd Thrift

Seattle is underrepresented for pitching. They’ve got 4 guys in the top 10 in WAR right now. This may be how it goes (though I’d swap out Miller in favor of Castillo) but it should be said…

They're doing great, no doubt, but what site are you looking at? None are in the top 10 for rWAR and 2 are for fWAR. And which do you prefer?

[Syd Thrift]

Originally Posted by kq76

They're doing great, no doubt, but what site are you looking at? None are in the top 10 for rWAR and 2 are for fWAR. And which do you prefer?

Maybe it’s changed in the last week then?

Wait, no, it’s still Kirby, Gilbert, and Castillo, with Miller not making it because he hasn’t played enough to qualify:

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.as...date=&enddate=

[Pelican]

Heh. What happened to the Cards after that LA series? I think this is called “regression to the mean” by the statheads. Again, it is entirely possible they could win in a weak division. Only to get thumped in the playoffs again. But the balanced schedule is making life hard.

[kq76]

Originally Posted by Syd Thrift

Maybe it’s changed in the last week then?

Wait, no, it’s still Kirby, Gilbert, and Castillo, with Miller not making it because he hasn’t played enough to qualify:

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.as...date=&enddate=

Ah, and your link is just looking at the AL whereas looked at NL and AL. Makes sense since you were talking about the ASG.

[Cobra Mgr]

"He's a magician".

[Westheim]

I hope Dodgers fans got up early for an 8:30am PT start because their game in Tampa is 7-7 in the third

[dsvitak]

Originally Posted by Westheim

I hope Dodgers fans got up early for an 8:30am PT start because their game in Tampa is 7-7 in the third

I lived in California as a kid, from 1963-1971. I thought all baseball games started at ten am. Good news is that games were over long before 1 pm, and the rest of the day was open. Saturdays, only, for TV games.

This was after TWIB, or "This week, in BASEBALL!" Best. Show. Ever.

[Cobra Mgr]

Originally Posted by dsvitak

"This week, in BASEBALL!" Best. Show. Ever.

"You may be wrong for all I know
But you may be right."
- Billy Joel

[Westheim]

I have made it in life. I have seen TWO baseball games ending 11-10 in ONE day.

[dsvitak]

Shoot me. Someone just shoot me.

8th inning, and the Freaking Kansas City Royals are throwing a perfect game against the Cardinals.

Contreras and Arenado are a combined one for their last sixty.

Edit to add...Arenado and Contreras both got a hit. Immediately. Contreras broke an 0-27 skid.

[Westheim]

If you're watching the Padres, you might want to know where you can do so from today.

And per Wikipedia:

on May 30, Diamond let a grace period expire that resulted from a missed rights payment to the Padres one week earlier. It led to Diamond advising the Padres that the company "decided not to provide additional funding to the San Diego RSN that would enable it to make the rights payment to the San Diego Padres during the grace period." As a result, the Padres May 30 game at the Miami Marlins would be the team's last broadcast on Bally Sports San Diego

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally_Sports_San_Diego

[rudel.dietrich]

This next month should be interesting. I wonder if Diamond Sports Group still has the cash to keep paying their broadcast crews and production people.

[Cobra Mgr]

CB Bucknor is beginning to take his place among the all time umpire incompetents.