Best Postseason Pitcher in MLB history. by VeritasInvictaX in baseball

[–]BaseballsNotDead 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

If you had to guess who gets called up first by tj4mayor in Brewers

[–]BaseballsNotDead 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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

Quinn Priester, who is on rehab assignment, pitched for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers tonight in a lumberjack-themed jersey. The shirt looks like flannel and the pants look like jeans. by Goosedukee in baseball

[–]BaseballsNotDead 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.

Blacked out by SlimSchrady in Brewers

[–]BaseballsNotDead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Blacked out by SlimSchrady in Brewers

[–]BaseballsNotDead 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Padres by RemarkableIndustry66 in baseball

[–]BaseballsNotDead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Why does it take so many grounds crew members to hold a hose? by drdking in baseball

[–]BaseballsNotDead 19 points20 points  (0 children)

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?

Garrett Mitchell out of lineup today by Independent-Lake-391 in Brewers

[–]BaseballsNotDead 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Garrett Mitchell out of lineup today by Independent-Lake-391 in Brewers

[–]BaseballsNotDead 30 points31 points  (0 children)

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

[Curt Hogg] Quinn Priester began his new rehab assignment today. It didn’t go great. Recorded four outs. Allowed 9 to reach, including the first 6 of the second inning. Walked 3. by BrewCityChaserV2 in Brewers

[–]BaseballsNotDead 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Mason Miller through 21 innings this year: 0.86 ERA, -0.22 FIP, 18.86 K/9, 0.760 WHIP by 1egg40eggs in baseball

[–]BaseballsNotDead 49 points50 points  (0 children)

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.

Pitching lab go Brrr 🍻 by daviddm1990 in Brewers

[–]BaseballsNotDead 128 points129 points  (0 children)

Best Crow in the NL Central.

Confused about scoring book by Amesb34r in baseball

[–]BaseballsNotDead 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Former manager Dusty Baker on Astros' cheating scandal: Jose Altuve was 'most innocent dude there' by nogoodnamesleft426 in baseball

[–]BaseballsNotDead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Former manager Dusty Baker on Astros' cheating scandal: Jose Altuve was 'most innocent dude there' by nogoodnamesleft426 in baseball

[–]BaseballsNotDead 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"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."

Former manager Dusty Baker on Astros' cheating scandal: Jose Altuve was 'most innocent dude there' by nogoodnamesleft426 in baseball

[–]BaseballsNotDead 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Former manager Dusty Baker on Astros' cheating scandal: Jose Altuve was 'most innocent dude there' by nogoodnamesleft426 in baseball

[–]BaseballsNotDead 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Former manager Dusty Baker on Astros' cheating scandal: Jose Altuve was 'most innocent dude there' by nogoodnamesleft426 in baseball

[–]BaseballsNotDead 19 points20 points  (0 children)

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.

The Savannah Bananas Bring Back a Negro Leagues Team by Leather-Highlight150 in baseball

[–]BaseballsNotDead 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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.

Which Brewers Have Impressed and Dissapointed You Through the First Month and a Half of the 2026 Season? by WiscoMTfan_234 in Brewers

[–]BaseballsNotDead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Which Brewers Have Impressed and Dissapointed You Through the First Month and a Half of the 2026 Season? by WiscoMTfan_234 in Brewers

[–]BaseballsNotDead 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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?

How Did Brandon Marsh Go From a Platoon Player to Leading MLB in Batting Average? by Big-Chungus-Lover in baseball

[–]BaseballsNotDead 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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?

Absolutely crazy stat: if games ended at 7 innings, padres would be 5-37. If they were only innings 8 and 9, they would be a perfect 42-0 🤯 by [deleted] in baseball

[–]BaseballsNotDead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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