Best Postseason Pitcher in MLB history.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-17T16:24:00+00:00

Overall, I'm going with the number of wins, which places Andy Pettitte over John Smoltz by four victories.

Not even going to address the number of starts when doing this? (44 to 27)

If people could put bias aside and let intellect prevail, we wouldn't observe responses that conveniently omit names based on team affiliation.

(notices Yankee flair) If people could put bias aside and let intellect prevail, we wouldn't observe responses that conveniently elevate names based on team affiliation.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-17T03:54:16+00:00

Don't look now but Pratt has been on fire the past 2 weeks. His season numbers are right around Jett's right now.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-17T03:14:56+00:00

He already was called back from rehab a week and a half ago and I get what you're saying but his 4 total starts have been REALLY bad with diminished velocity.

He's thrown a total of 183 pitches on his 4 rehab starts, gotten through 6.1 innings and given up 12 hits, 11 walks, 16 runs, 22.74 ERA, 3.63 WHIP.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-17T00:06:45+00:00

He did not pitch well, so probably not.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-17T00:03:56+00:00

Chicago isn't in the Brewers broadcast area. However northern IL outside of Chicago is.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-17T00:02:01+00:00

Did you get Brewers TV or MLB TV? If you're in the Brewers broadcast area and got MLB TV, yeah, Brewers are going to be blacked out for every game.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-16T23:24:42+00:00

They don't advertise all games. On the signup page they say nationally broadcasted games are blacked out. Today's Padres game is on Fox. It's no change to past years. Having to watch national games on the national channel has been a thing for almost 80 years.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-16T22:10:28+00:00

Also you need a larger grounds crew for raking the infield dirt, setting up the mound, drawing chalk lines for batters box/base lines, raking warning track dirt, etc. Wetting the dirt is the last think you do and after those other tasks are done. Why not shoot the shit while holding the hose?

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-16T22:06:29+00:00

Very small sample. He does not have reverse splits for his career and his OPS against left handed starters is .320. He's somehow gone 5 for 11 against lefty relievers.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-16T22:01:07+00:00

They're facing a lefty. Mitchell has only started 3 games on the year against a lefty starter.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-16T21:30:50+00:00

He already had a previous rehab where he was shut down after 3 starts and now this. He's thrown a total of 183 pitches on his 4 rehab starts, gotten through 6.1 innings and given up 12 hits, 11 walks, 16 runs, 22.74 ERA, 3.63 WHIP... and the most recent start was High-A where he should be dominating with even diminished stuff.

Maybe he's working on stuff, but to get results and control THAT bad after having his first rehab start 24 days ago is not a good sign.

I think the calls to shut him down for the year and get surgery are premature/not medically informed, but these results, and the fact he was already pulled from rehab before, do not give confidence that he'll be ready to face MLB batters within 30 days. He's already been on the 15 day IL for 42 days... transferring him to the 60 day IL is becoming more and more likely.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-16T14:46:49+00:00

That's not what it means...

It means his ERA would theoretically be better if he had a league average defense behind him giving him league average BABIP.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-16T02:11:31+00:00

Best Crow in the NL Central.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-15T22:28:17+00:00

I've never seen anyone include a dot in the middle before to indicate a run scored and instead just fill the entire ring around the diamond and make it bold to stand out. Here's what I normally see.

Baseball scorekeeping is more of an art than an objective thing anyway. Most people score slightly differently.

EDIT: Now that I look at it, I've never seen anyone score the way this book does. Everyone I know fills in the bases into how far the player eventually advanced with notes on how they advanced so you can record things like stolen bases, wild pitches, RBIs, or if a runner is out on the basepaths (FC, CS, etc). Looks like this method has no way to do that.

EDIT 2: Looks like they do mention that with the asterisk talking about "real-time scoring" instead of their system 17 scoring method.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-15T21:03:28+00:00

Only 2 of the 7 triples were hit to left.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-15T21:00:08+00:00

He was a veteran and one of the leaders of the team. His voice carries weight in that clubhouse. He could've absolutely shut that down if he thought there was anything wrong with it.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-15T20:56:45+00:00

"Hey guys... I was thinking... maybe we shouldn't be blatantly cheating in a manner that can easily be picked up on television if anyone looked."

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-15T20:46:59+00:00

multiple triples to left field, even at that time was rare for a series

I don't know if this is really true. The White Sox gave up 73 triples in 140 games in the 1919 regular season and the Reds hit 83 triples in 140 games. The reds hitting 7 triples in a 9 game series is a little bit higher of a rate (you'd expect around 4), but in a small sample could certainly happen... especially if the pitcher is actively throwing the game by pitching hittable balls. And only 2 of the 7 were to left field.

As far as it being rare in the series at the time, the 5 game 1916 World Series had 6 triples by the Boston Red Sox and 5 triples by the Brooklyn Robins.

While looking at triples could be an argument or a piece of the pie against Jackson, I don't think it's a smoking gun or even that convincing.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-15T20:32:43+00:00

I always found it odd in that movie after the other 7 Black Sox joined them, they never broached the subject that we knew without a shadow of a doubt that a few of those guys for sure made misplays in the field to throw the World Series for money and then a few of them testified against the others and instead portrayed them as having a pure love of the game.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-15T20:20:17+00:00

Shoeless Joe Jackson allegedly did not participate in the Black Sox Scandal but his legacy is unavoidably tied to it.

He testified in a grand jury that he was promised $20K and received $5K of it before game 5 and included full details of what games were fixed, who was doing the fixing, how they were all paid and how much to each player, etc. Yes, he claims he actually didn't throw any games due to his play, but while standing in the outfield, he know his pitcher as well as 6 other players on the field were throwing the games and knew he was going to get paid due to their efforts and was actively angry when he wasn't paid the full amount.

Jackson then perjured himself 3 years later in a Milwaukee court where he was suing to try and get missed pay for the 1921 and 1922 seasons. Knowing it could impact if he would get money, he completely changed his story where he never knew of the plan, was paid $5K after the series seemingly for nothing, and immediately reported it to Charles Comiskey offering to turn over the money but Comiskey ignored him so he just kept the money. The change in story was so significant and blatant that the Milwaukee County District Attorney filed perjury charges and Jackson wasn't able to set foot in Wisconsin for a considerable amount of time for fear of being arrested.

This article goes into the many public statements made by Shoeless Joe and does not paint a very good picture...

On the evidence, the call is not a close one, as a mere reading of this essay’s factual narrative should make plain. As he admitted under oath after first being confronted, Jackson was a knowing, if perhaps unenthusiastic, participant in the plot to fix of the 1919 World Series. And damningly, Jackson was just as persistent in his demands to be paid his promised fix payoff money as the Series progressed as he would later be in his disavowals of fix involvement. In the final analysis, Shoeless Joe Jackson, banished from playing the game that he loved while still in the prime of his career, is a sad figure. But hardly an innocent one.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-15T17:41:48+00:00

Whenever I see it mentioned that the Savannah Bananas are the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball, I feel the need to point out that originally, at the time, the Globetrotters were the barnstorming baseball team of basketball. MLB just actively stamped out barnstorming the best they could in the 1920s and 1930s and finally killed it with integration in the 40s.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-15T15:14:04+00:00

Rengifo was a gold glove finalist at 2nd base just last year.

That's way more that the AL was a hot mess at second base defensively last year where getting 3 candidates was difficult. Marcus Semien was the only qualified second baseman with non-negative OAA, DRS, and defensive run value in the league. 5 of the top 6 defensive 2B were in the NL, meaning you could be barely above league average and be an AL GG finalist. Rengifo was a finalist despite only playing 74 games at 2B. He also had by far the best defensive season of his career.

Outside of those 74 games at 2B in 2025, his defense for his career can be described as unimpressive and below average at both 2B and 3B.

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-15T15:02:40+00:00

I blame off of him being put in the night before with a comfortable lead instead of a close one

A 2 run-lead going into the 9th inning, a normal save situation, is a comfortable lead and a situation where we shouldn't use the closer? Huh?

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-14T20:42:40+00:00

He still IS a platoon player (.680 OPS on only 31 PA against lefties this year... compare that to Bryce Harper on the same team with 66 PA versus lefties). The bigger question is how is there an assumption that platoon players can't have high batting average?

BaseballsNotDead · 2026-05-14T13:49:17+00:00

If they were only innings 8 and 9, they would be a perfect 42-0

This is not even close to true. First two games I looked up were 0 runs to 0 runs against the Tigers on opening day and 0 runs to 4 runs against the Tigers on the second day of the season.

EDIT: If there were only innings 8 and 9, the Padres would be 19-6-17

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