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6 5 1 vs Nats
6 4 2 vs Cards
6 3 1 vs Phils
8 4 2 vs Mets
9 1 0 vs Rays
3-1.
Oh, did I forget to mention 2.2 7 6 vs Twins? My bad.
Being a pitcher is rough. He ended April with a 2.29 ERA, throws 5 excellent starts inluding 2 of the best of his career ... and his ERA goes up to 2.59 because of one terrible start. And the Cubs' offense is kinda deGromming him to a 5-4 record. He is first in WARpit for the NL.
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4
5 Hamels (still not pitching for anybody)
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7
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10
11
12
13t
13t Strasburg
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18
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20
"Hints": There are no relievers in the top 20 (Kimbrel #22 with 21.7). 5 LHP (incluuding Hamels). Only 6 have won the CYA. Maybe a couple of surprises but no "shockers" I don't think. There's a 3-WAR gap between #19 and #20 -- quite big under the circumstances -- but #20 probably won't be #20 by season's end ... maybe not even after another 1-2 Stroman starts.
those hit totals are nice, Mikolas was on a short leash to start the month, but he has a tendency to allow quite a few hits even in games he's pitching well, but his saving grace is he doesn't walk people (he had 3 starts in May where he allowed zero walks) Including Stroman's bad game, they both effectively pitched 38 innings in May (Stroman 37 1/3) but Miles allowed 30 hits, 6 walks Stroman 24 hits, 11 walks( 2 to 1 on hbp) 29 strikeouts for both 2 hrs allowed for both, the 6-0 advantage for Mikolas in stolen bases probably also helped him have the better month. although the 6-2 gdp advantage helped Stroman.
62 extra-inning games (i.e. 124 team-games), 143.1 extra innings pitched, 162 RS, 109 UER with just 4 RoE. Walk rates also very high but that's the 47 IBB; otherwise the slash line is pretty similar to the 9th inning. Anyway, give or take, 105 of 143 ghost runners have scored.
The IP total is going to solidly underestimate the number of innings that have taken place, since in home wins the bottom of the last inning is never credited as a full IP. If 2022's extra inning distribution roughly carries over to this year, I would estimate about 180 extra innings (that is, 90 innings*2 teams) having taken place.
1 verlander
2 Kershaw
3 Greinke
4 Scherzer
5 Hamels (still not pitching for anybody)
6 Sale
7 Wainwright
8 deGrom
9 Cueto (pitched 1 inning so far this year)
10 Cole
11
12 Bumgarner
13t Nola
13t Strasburg
15 Darvish
16 Lynn
17
18
19 Wheeler
20 Hendricks (though he might slip by)
#11 should be pretty easy. Too early for hints on #17 and #18.
EDIT: Hasn't pitched since 2019 when he was only 32
Spin: Walker appears set to rejoin the Cardinals ahead of Friday's series opener against the division-rival Pirates. The 21-year-old top prospect struggled to a .274/.321/.397 triple-slash line with two homers and two steals across 20 games to open the regular season before being jettisoned to the minors back in late April. He's really turned things around of late at Triple-A Memphis and is clearly talented enough to make an immediate impact for fantasy managers.
..................
(I just traded him a week ago on a bargain contract for a lame duck Corbin Burnes - what could go wrong?)
All three missing pitchers have pitched this year.
When you are forced to start Edman in centerfield, it's time to bring up the talent you have, although we still don't have a legit health centerfielder-- if Nootbaar is still not healthy enough to play. (one good thing about two days off, is that it gives him truly a few days to recover) Mercado was listed as a supposed decent fielder, but his performance so far hasn't shown that to be the case. Poor positioning, poor routes and a couple of errors.
Sonny Gray?
Carlos Carrasco?
Can you guess 15-20?
[hint: A lot of Dunder Mifflin employees are grads of this school]
"In 2022, the New York Mets broke the modern MLB record for most hit-by-pitches in a season, accumulating 114 plunkings in 165 total games, their brief postseason run included. That’s 0.69 HBPs per game.
This spring, the Division-III Misericordia University Cougars were hit 153 times in 52 games for an eye-popping rate of 2.94 hit batters per game, an all-time NCAA record. They have ridden that avalanche of beanballs all the way to the D-III World Series, where they will take on No. 1 overall seed Johns Hopkins on Friday afternoon."
Since 2014, the Cougars have averaged 111 HBPs per season. These student-athletes are not soldiers of fortune or accidental baseball magnets, but rather, practitioners of patience and pain. Their monk-like approach is part of a unified and effective strategy designed to win ballgames. Misericordia wants you to hit them, again and again and again, until they score enough runs, steal enough bases, bunt enough runners over and beat you.
"Some of these guys will stand there, not move and take one off the ribs like a f***ing maniac," explained Dante Salerno, a current D-III assistant and former Misericordia outfielder.
1) I meant Gray at 18
2) #17 is a leftie. AS only once, received just 1 CYA vote in his career ... been on the IL all year.
Xander
Springer
JDM (he's been around a long time)
Cruz (he's been around even longer)
Lindor
Rendon
Abreu
I know that's 7 guys for 6 slots. :-) That's OK, I got only one right -- Cruz. One guy I am universally embarrassed that I missed, one that I'm locally embarrassed that I missed, two I thought were probably still just outside the top 20 and one I'm shocked is still hanging onto his spot in the top 20.
(Lindor 22, Xander 25, Springer 26 weren't bad guesses.)
Freeland has a good chance to become the Rockies' all-time leader in pitcher WAR this year. He's currently in second at 17.6, behind only Ubaldo Jimenez at 18.9.
The cardinals have started playing Edman in CF with all the injuries.
Part of their pitching collapse this year has been a much worse fielding team;
Edman has been bad everywhere he has played with uncharacteristic errors at both SS/2B. Walker is abysmal in RF. Gorman is a statue at 2B (although to be fair he is good at everything else), Donovan plays everywhere but not well. They've given starts to Yepez in the OF who has racked up a -2 OAA on only about 10 chances. Burleson looks like early career Schwarber but with a better arm. Contreras/Knizner don't look great and seem to be a step down from Yadi the ancient mariner. On top of that they put O'Neill in CF early in the year and he was terrible vs his gold glove look in LF.
Stl fans have been used to great defense making the pitching play up and we simply don't have it this year. The "philosophical difference" with Shildt and Mozeliak were clearly about this all-bat approach
Contreras can throw out runners with the best of them, but the other aspect of his game is lacking, meanwhile Knizner is just the opposite, he fields just fine, but not the same arm ability. Nootbaar still looks solid+ in the outfield.
You almost have to assume Edman and Mercado will rebound with their defense. Basically as long as DeJong is the starting shortstop, and if we can get our outfield healthy enough, the infield will return to elite status with Edman being the second baseman, and the outfield will end up being slightly above average with Walker/Yepez being the true weak links defensively. Finding playing time for Donovan will be difficult, but if it's at third/second then he's above average also.
The entire team started poorly at all aspects of the game, there is no reason to think those aspects won't return to their established level as the season works it's way out, and certainty figures into their roles.
I second that. There have been a number of times I've been watching Cardinals games this year and have seen a play maybe a little harder than "routine" and then realized it was Gorman making it (they also play Donovan & Edman at 2B) and thought, "hmmm, not bad..."
You forgot about the *other* other aspect of his game---hitting! Which is the reason the Cardinals signed him!
Knizner still out OPS+ing Conteras, 91 to 83 (.708 to .664) and out bWARing him (0.6 to 0.4) despite Contreras's 218-to-82 PA advantage in playing time.
DraftKings now has them down to only 35-1.
so they are offering to let me "cash out" and walk away with a profit in hand.
tough call - take back my $2 bet AND the 15-cent profit on top of it and ballgame over, or "let it ride"?
lol.
apparently they have algorithms, and it's not worth their while to make the effort to just post offerings to, for example, bets of $1,000 and up, where a gambler might have to take stock of his options....
Contreras has been good offensively for exactly one week this season: April 16-23, when he went 10-for-23 with 7 of his 23 XBH on the year.
For the rest of the season, he is .189/.265/.343 (that's an OPS+ of about 65) in 188 PA---a third of a season---with just 3 HR and 14 RBI, and much of THAT (2 homers and 6 RBI) came in a single game on May 18.
Subtract that one week + that one game from Contreras' line, and he has 1 homer and 8 RBI in 183 PA hitting in the middle of the Cardinals' lineup.
I know that's cherry picking, but cherry pick any other hitter's best week plus one other game and see what you have left, and I'd be shocked if you could come up with someone who's been consistently worse compared to expectations than Contreras so far in 2023. All you have to know is that Andrew Knizner has out-hit Contreras in 2023.
Hendricks and Stroman ?
Not clear where the upgrades might be coming from in a league where 25-27 teams are still in it
I need to correct my math on this one: 7 of his *17* XBH on the year were from April 16-23.
The Rays are only in Boston one more time in 2023: the Red Sox' last two home games of the year, Sep.26-27.
But the dude is 6'7" and I don't think the umps always account for that when they see the pitch come in.
This Pirates pitcher has now walked the bases loaded despite getting the gift call on Walker.
Gorman up, can put a 5-0 game out of reach here...
So you are saying he's the new Judge? I can get behind that. :)
Apparently the teams have a scheduled day off this Monday, so they'll make up the game then. That said, there's rain the forecast for tomorrow's DH, too...
one swing and the game can be tied...
Huh, looks like it's coming back to bite them as Cardinal relievers can't get anyone out...
You called it. Cards' pen blows a 5-0 lead...
Pirates coming through with the big hits where the Cardinals couldn't.
Not Gallegos's best night: 5 batters faced, four earned runs, plus allowed two inherited runners to score.
Posted at 9:40:
but you've gotta know your players.
both Harvey WAS and Gallegos STL are coming off SV, and both tonight came in with one out in the 7th inning and runners on second and third - so no SV for them. in possibly unrelated news, both immediately escorted the inherited runners home, and yes Gallegos piled on top of that....
in a 5-1 game, I'm not sure Gallegos is my go to guy, unless it was pre-planned because of the multiple days off. (mind you, Gallegos might have thought he won the save role with him getting three saves last week)
"Everyone is aware of where McCutcheon stands, see how quickly Edman got to the ball and backhanded it like a shortstop and fired it back in."
EDIT: Steeeeeeerike three!
Let's see what Jordan Walker does: extend the game, or end it right here.
EDIT: on a 3-2 count, weak three-hopper to 2b to end the game.
for the season, saves:
Gallegos 7
Helsey 6
so you're telling me that Helsley is the durable one - AND never mind that Gallegos is getting most of the saves of late, and now has more this season than Helsley does.
how many more SV in a row would Gallegos need to move you off "Helsley is considered the closer" ?
the closermonkey.com website that obsessively follows such things also for some crazy reason calls this a "bullpen my committee" - which means no one is "the closer." perhaps we need to correct them - but warning, it may not be easy, given the facts at hand....
Ladies and Gentlemen, your 2023 Cardinals: often terrible, never boring.
By "meditation" I guess I really meant "bothersome thought that will never leave." So instead, I'll just wish Bassitt's partner and soon-to-be offspring the best of births. Go birth.
@SlangsOnSports
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35m
Justin Verlander’s 117 pitches are the most in a game by a pitcher at age 40 or older since R.A. Dickey threw 121 on 8/30/17
It’s the most by a 40+ old non-knuckleballer since Bartolo Colon also threw 121 on 7/28/14…for the Mets
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nothing will ever beat Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton flipflopping for weeks (months?) for all the all-time K lead, but with teammates both heating up, it adds some intrigue
MLB K LEADERS
10. Greg Maddux+ (23) 3371 5008.1
11. Phil Niekro+ (24) 3342 5404.0
12. MAX SCHERZER (16, 38) 3241 2729.2
13. JUSTIN VERLANDER (18, 40) 3228 3193.0
note that Max has more than half as many IP as Niekro - but just barely
Congrats to Mr. Bassitt and further congrats!
@ByRobertMurray
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37m
First baseman Jon Singleton is being called up by the Milwaukee Brewers, according to sources familiar with the situation. Singleton is now set to return to the majors for the first time since 2015. An amazing comeback.
...........
[Singleton's 2015 teammates included .... wow, their ONLY batter all season not in their 20s was 31-year-old Jedd Lowrie. PS included Roberto Hernandez, Scott Kazmir, Scott Feldman, Pat Neshek, Chad Qualls, Luke Gregerson, and Oliver Perez.
Singleton will play the role of over-the-hill backup 1B previously played in 2023 by Luke Voit and Darin Ruf.]
Well, let's see if the Cubs keep following through on this before getting too "worried." They extended Nico which is part recognition which is part recognition of his defensive prowess and part because he's pretty cheap. Swanson's been excellent; Bellinger has been fine but he's just one year. Other than Nico, we haven't developed good defensive players although hopefully PCA's speed will translate to good CF defense. Happ's back to being bad; Suzuki's average, Wisdom is poor; I doubt Morel will ever be good unless maybe he's left alone at a position. So Swanson and Hoerner will be there for several years but this team could really use an Arenado (duh) or at least a Hayes type to be a "dominant" defensive team. (PCA as the next, oh, Steve Finley or Mike Cameron would be fine too.)
So maybe he should have been in the top 20 list after all
funny part to me is that if you had asked a few hours earlier, I would have just stared blankly at the screen. but then I saw this note right before your query:
06.02... José Quintana (ribs) is scheduled to throw live batting practice on Monday.
Spin: It's a big step for Quintana, who required bone graft surgery on his ribs in March. The southpaw began throwing off flat ground at the end of April and has made steady progress until this point. He's still trending toward a return in July, potentially providing a boost to a Mets' rotation which has begun to find its sea legs in recent days.
-- In that time, the stadium has had four names, as many as the Giants have had managers.
-- All 100 homers have been hit by left-handers, including switch-hitters batting left-handed.
-- Seventeen splash homers came in the first two seasons, 15 of them by Barry Bonds. The other two were hit by the same guy: You guessed it, Felipe Crespo.
-- In total, Bonds hit 35, the last on Aug. 8, 2007.
-- Brandon Belt is second with 10, two more than longtime teammate Pablo Sandoval.
-- Tied for fourth place with five are current Giants LaMonte Wade Jr., who hit No. 100 last night, and Mike Yastrzemski. Also Denard Span, who spent only two seasons as a Giant and generally speaking wasn't a home-run hitter. Brandon Crawford is one behind that group.
-- Joc Pederson comes next with three, and no one else has more than two.
-- Onetime Giant Livan Hernandez is one of three pitchers to have given up two (no pitcher has given up more than that). The others are Colorado's John Thomson and San Diego's Chris Paddack.
-- Bonds is the only player to hit two in one game, and he did it twice. The only other instance of two in one game was by Yastrzemski and Steven Duggar.
-- 2015 was the only season in which none were hit, making the gap between Belt's homers on Sept. 25, 2014, and June 8, 2016, the longest time between splash homers.
Is that accurate? I though LaMonte hit two in one game earlier in the week(or maybe two weeks ago)?
edit: obviously not, as he hasn't had a two hr game this season.
edit2: it was Jack Suwinski of the Pirates.
He got my all star vote today, in the one position that is probably legitimately the tightest race.
"The D-backs played crisp baseball and got another outstanding performance from starter Merrill Kelly to beat the Braves, 3-2, in front of a raucous crowd.
“Awesome,” Kelly said of the atmosphere. “That seventh inning, especially. [Braves fans] started doing the [tomahawk] chop, and our fans didn't like that too much. That was some of the better energy I felt in here, and games like that are why we do this. It's really good energy. It's a really good team. It's good to see, you know, not only their fans into it, but it's good to see our fans into it.”
The last time the D-backs won six straight games was Aug. 12-18, 2020.
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[apparently the Braves' 8-12 mark in their last 20 games hasn't calmed their impudent fan base.]
It's not the most impressive stat, especially when you consider it's just a .272 average, but Walker has a hit in 18 of the 22 games he's played in. (18 out of 21 he's started)
The fans were excited about four series against the Reds, Indians, Royals and Pirates. Here's our chance to make up ground !
If we can't beat these teams consistently maybe we are a sub .500 team.
That has to be the worst contract ever
almost worth its own thread today !
;)
That's "tied for #18 on the active bWARpos list" Heyward to you buddy! (EDIT: decent sabermetric bar bet for the next couple of weeks or so -- who has more career bWAR, Heyward or Judge?)
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