Interesting Baseball News Items That Do Not Warrant Their Own Thread

[effdamets]

In other words, they're winning by scoring more runs than the other team.

They're winning because:
a) when the situation presents itself, runs are being driven home.
b) when the offense gets a lead, the pitchers are holding onto that lead, at least for the next inning.
c) they're doing A and B more often than their opponents...

[JL25and3]

They're winning because:
a) when the situation presents itself, runs are being driven home.
b) when the offense gets a lead, the pitchers are holding onto that lead, at least for the next inning.
c) they're doing A and B more often than their opponents...

In other words, they're winning by scoring more runs than the other team.

[effdamets]

In other words, they're winning by scoring more runs than the other team.

Well - that, and they're holding the other team to less runs than they're scoring.

[Yankee Tripper]

In other words, they're winning by scoring more runs than the other team.

you just can't predict baseball

[Jax Teller]

Since joining LA

Gonzalez
.636OPS to go with a .288OBP

[Ram Man]

Per ELIAS: Most wins at Citi Field since All-Star Break-- Nationals 6, Braves 5, Rockies 4, Mets 4

[Donnybaseball72]

Per ELIAS: Most wins at Citi Field since All-Star Break-- Nationals 6, Braves 5, Rockies 4, Mets 4

Must
End
The
Season

[Mr Coffee]

[Ram Man]

Must
End
The
Season

M-E-T-S Mets Mets Mets!

[Jax Teller]

Brandon McCarthy ‏@BMcCarthy32 WELL IF BEING DISCHARGED FROM THE HOSPITAL ISNT THE BEST TIME TO ASK ABOUT A THREESOME THEN IM FRESH OUT OF IDEAS

[philleotardo]

Brandon McCarthy ‏@BMcCarthy32 WELL IF BEING DISCHARGED FROM THE HOSPITAL ISNT THE BEST TIME TO ASK ABOUT A THREESOME THEN IM FRESH OUT OF IDEAS

That seals it. He is a FA this year and he has to come here for no other reason than this tweet.

And his wife is smoking hot. A threesome with her and a very mediocre chick would still be the greatest day ever.

[GordonGecko]

That seals it. He is a FA this year and he has to come here for no other reason than this tweet.

And his wife is smoking hot. A threesome with her and a very mediocre chick would still be the greatest day ever.

Brandon McCarthy (@BMcCarthy32)
"I pitch baseballs. I love Liverpool and LSU football. Those are different footballs but I'm not explaining the difference. My wife says to say that I'm married."

[GordonGecko]

Phillies now play 4 against Houston followed by 3 against the Mets

[snapple]

That seals it. He is a FA this year and he has to come here for no other reason than this tweet.

And his wife is smoking hot. A threesome with her and a very mediocre chick would still be the greatest day ever.

I agree.

[Mr Coffee]

Beckett thrown out at first on what should have been a base hit: http://www.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?co...3704758584-996

[Heatseeker]

Beckett thrown out at first on what should have been a base hit: http://www.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?co...3704758584-996

Wahahahaha!!

[d32123]

Wahahahaha!!

"Cum at me! Cum at me!"

[StingrayJG]

Beckett thrown out at first on what should have been a base hit: http://www.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?co...3704758584-996

I don't even know if I can get on his case about not hustling, that might legitimately be as fast as he can run.

What a slug.

A 50yd. dash between him and Posada would be real interesting.

[Yankee Tripper]

I don't even know if I can get on his case about not hustling, that might legitimately be as fast as he can run.

Yeah just a good positioning and great instincts by Beltran. Josh was acutally running out of the box and the play wasn't particularly close.

[effdamets]

BBRef headline:

The Stumble to 500,000 Errors.... 499,965 MLB errors since 1876.
500,000th expected in 2 days.

[Mr Coffee]

BBRef headline:

The Stumble to 500,000 Errors.... 499,965 MLB errors since 1876.
500,000th expected in 2 days.

They originally expected it to happen in 6 days, but they found out Nunez was playing.

[Ram Man]

BBRef headline:

The Stumble to 500,000 Errors.... 499,965 MLB errors since 1876.
500,000th expected in 2 days.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/unofficial-milestone-of-baseball-error-no--500-000-deserves-inglorious-honor.html

[roblyo33]

I don't even know if I can get on his case about not hustling, that might legitimately be as fast as he can run.

What a slug.

A 50yd. dash between him and Posada would be real interesting.

I would like to see Big Papi and AGon in that race,also.

[StingrayJG]

Kevin Gregg released today. Apparently he was one of the secrets as to how Baltimore kept their pitching staff fairly fresh. Looks like he was the official pitcher of "garbage time" for them.

The Orioles have scored 623 runs this year, while allowing 643. Baseball teams that score fewer runs than their opponents are supposed to be losing teams. According to the Pythagorean record-projection system, the bedrock tool of objective baseball analysis, a team with Baltimore's scoring profile ought to be 69-74. Instead, the Orioles are beating their Pythagorean projection by 12 games. They are 27-7 in one-run games, which simply doesn't happen. They are 13-2 in extra innings. Backup catcher Taylor Teagarden is batting .133 and has only six hits all year—five for extra bases, and three of them game-breakers.
The sabermetric term of art for the quality that allows a team to overachieve this way is "luck."

That was the end of Gregg as a conventionally valuable relief pitcher. It was a week before manager Buck Showalter would pitch him again—to handle the eighth inning in Toronto with the Orioles trailing 6-0. One meaningless, harmless inning.
From that day, May 28, through his release, Gregg pitched in 29 games. In those games, the Orioles had a record of 6-23.
It's not that Gregg was that bad. He just pitched in bad games. Pythagoras, meet Hippocrates: Given a $5 million pitcher who'd failed under pressure, Showalter decided to first make sure he could do no harm. So Gregg became the proprietor of garbage time. He entered games down six runs, down five, down eight, down nine. Much more rarely, he would come into a blowout that the Orioles were winning.

http://deadspin.com/5943419/pythagor...osite-of-lucky

[Eldee5]

They originally expected it to happen in 6 days, but they found out Nunez was playing.