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Feb 26, 2005


:sickos:

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Feb 26, 2005


https://twitter.com/nocontextsfg/status/1512256768046354438

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Feb 26, 2005


not the 2022 WS but they probably eventually will

.....right?

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Feb 26, 2005

secular woods sex posted:

N: Steven Kwan has seen 58 pitches so far, and has not swung and missed at any of them.

V: I like this. More pesky contact assholes in the lineup please.

easily the best player in Cleveland Guardians history :haw:

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Feb 26, 2005

will_colorado posted:

the Oakland rear end

also that Rockies game ended in an incredibly silly manner

Can't have ASSHAT without the A's

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Feb 26, 2005

V: Ghost runners are still dumb (not because we lost, but because they're dumb)

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Feb 26, 2005

Intruder posted:

I mean who's even watching for him to steal? It's like when the Astros had Carlos Lee and he was their best base stealer by percentage

hey he was called El Caballo, gotta respect the speed :haw:

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Feb 26, 2005

Poque posted:

https://twitter.com/tigers/status/1514765032269131806

Pujols and Miggy having an old man race. Miggy leads 1-0

Miggy is four years younger (38 vs 42) and that's if you think Pujols' date of birth isn't a lie (which I'm finally more inclined to do now but it's not a given)

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Feb 26, 2005

Spoeank posted:

you guys are talking about two different chapmans lol


Big Mean Jerk posted:

Arguing with a wall about a different wall

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Feb 26, 2005

Sydin posted:

Cool visual on where each team's pitching is so far this season, with some surprises!

https://twitter.com/Pitching_Bot/status/1515813789886783505

Kind of a baffling choice to take two things they have numeric metrics for and then instead of plotting those actual things with appropriately scaled axes they plot the ranks.

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Feb 26, 2005

Let's not start making sweeping generalizations when some teams are just having their home openers this week (meaning some stadiums have had significantly fewer games in them).

Especially not when it's literally <2% differences.

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Feb 26, 2005

Oh I don't doubt they're messing with the ball, just saying with like half a dozen stadiums having significantly fewer games than others that alone could account for differences as small as 2%.

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Feb 26, 2005

Inspector_666 posted:

I can only assume this will somehow make their karma even worse.

I'm gonna go for the chaos guess and say they bought forged vaccination cards which will get found out somehow and cause a problem

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Feb 26, 2005

Julio Cruz posted:

that's cool, we've got literally the best pitcher on the planet on his way back

Zack Greinke is on the Royals though :confuoot:

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Feb 26, 2005


Of course, witnessing a 3000th hit is way more interesting than just about any A's game in 2022

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Feb 26, 2005

It's the correct call but still the wrong call

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Feb 26, 2005

seiferguy posted:

Umpires fuckin' hate Julio, for *some* reason :thunk:

https://twitter.com/CespedesBBQ/status/1517527417224667137

Imagine having elite pitch recognition and umps being like "lol no gently caress you" and ringing you up anyway

I can't help but read the quoted tweet in the fake Stephen A tweet format:
https://twitter.com/Hegelbon/status/492741034749620224

You KNOW I am sensitive to strike zone complaints

BUT

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Feb 26, 2005

https://twitter.com/danielle_lerner/status/1518743949741072385

why is the GLP press box practically on the roof :wtc:

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Feb 26, 2005

R.D. Mangles posted:

making an executive decision here but: combined no hitters don't count

Min 6 pitchers for a combined no-hitter IMO :v:

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Feb 26, 2005

https://twitter.com/FoolishBB/status/1520944995020251138?t=59-fQ9hF7MW7m3KuQBtyAA&s=19

This is great on its own but the replies asking them to make it clear that it's a joke are even better

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Feb 26, 2005

Big Mean Jerk posted:

I don’t remember Texas/Houston ever really being a whole thing until we joined the AL, so I choose to believe it was started by jealous Arlington residents/future insurrectionists

Once Interleague was introduced we had the Silver Boot Series but the Astros and Rangers have never been good at the same time since then. The Rangers brief period of relevancy was during the Tank Years.

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Feb 26, 2005


Kempin' ain't easy

also I didn't know he had swapped to 2B, used to seeing him in the OF, what a beast

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Feb 26, 2005

bawfuls posted:

I was just browsing Baseball Savant and saw this piece on how Greinke is thriving despite an absurdly low 6.6% strikeout rate this year, and it made me wonder about him reaching 3000 career strikeouts.

He's at 2819 right now, only 181 away which at first glance seems very doable for a future Hall of Famer still pitching well. But at his current rate of 2.7 K/9, he'll need another 603 innings to get there!

At his rate going back to the beginning of last year (5.7 K/9), he'd need another 285 innings.

So, does he get there? Will he find another gear and up the strikeout rate a bit? Or maybe he just cruises along like this for another 3-4 seasons?

Prop bet: 3000 K or 10 HR, which does Greinke get first

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Feb 26, 2005

Sydin posted:

lmao they sure picked a hell of a horse to back.

spoiler: any crypto/NFT play is bad at best and completely immoral/harmful at worst

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Feb 26, 2005

Kirios posted:

How are you feeling about him so far? It feels like the Astros really haven't missed Correa at all.

He's literally 60% ahead of every other non-pitcher in WAR so far, so yeah he's at least replaced Correa's production so far.

But it's early in the season, of course.

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Feb 26, 2005

Just throw it at Judge's shins and it'll get called a strike anyway :v:

Yeah that's probably just missing an inside pitch by a mile

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Feb 26, 2005

Dog Faced JoJo posted:

I hope Canada never gets rid of this rule, it's like an idiot detector for sports

"Sure like 98% of my fellow players have gotten the vaccine and for some of them it's been a year-plus now with literally nobody experiencing any ill effects aside from a bad day or so shortly after getting it, but..."

just absolute loving clowns

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Feb 26, 2005

Sir Dingleby Dapper posted:

Might as well fast forward to another Yankees/Astros ALCS

:sickos:

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Feb 26, 2005


Hell yeah, and while it's kind of a steal it's also not like a total slap in the face either.

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Feb 26, 2005

Managers are generally meaningless but I do like Dusty a lot so I wouldn't mind if he stuck around for a few more seasons to try to sneak into the top 5 all time in managerial wins, though sadly he'll never pass TLR.

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Feb 26, 2005

so is it only a NOBLETIGER if it happens to end the game? if not, the Astros totally NOBLETIGER'd in the 7th today in a shitshow against the Marlins

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Feb 26, 2005

Jagged Jim posted:

Didn't they give a save in the 30-3 game as well?

Yup, one of the 3-inning jobbers

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Feb 26, 2005

https://twitter.com/MarkBermanFox26/status/1537170476895817733

dang that owns

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Feb 26, 2005

mcmagic posted:

Yankees are playing those cheating assholes again today?

Yup we're playing some cheating assholes today too, weird

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Feb 26, 2005

good for Mark Appel

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Feb 26, 2005

dang even without Pena or Alvarez we still beat the Yankees, that's pretty cool

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Feb 26, 2005


https://fansided.com/2022/07/12/mlb-unvaccinated-players-list-toronto-travel/

Apparently only the Yankees/Rangers/Astros have had nobody go on the restricted list when going to Toronto and yeah the Royals are 2x the next highest team (the Phillies). :laffo:

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Feb 26, 2005

I'm glad Wade is going to the Yankees because it was really confusing/annoying watching Taylor Ward and Tyler Wade be on the same team.



Everything about this owns, goddamn

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Feb 26, 2005


good on the organization for promoting the vaccine at least, but loving lol at that list

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Feb 26, 2005

Ohtani owns

https://twitter.com/michaelschwab13/status/1547954338848354308

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