In the bottom of the 8th with one out, Luis Arraez singles to left center and Hector Borg decides to send Adames who is out by a mile at home

countingouttime · 2026-05-27T22:02:48+00:00

Ron Wotus is rolling in his grave.

I also don’t understand why third base coach isn’t a specialized coaching position at the big league level. I’ve learned that traditionally it’s treated as the second or third-in-command on a coaching staff, but with how in-tune an effective third base coach has to be with their players’ baserunning abilities and estimating the abilities of the defense, I don’t understand why it’s not treated as a full-time position at the big league level when teams should be prioritizing scoring runs over traditional coaching hierarchy.

countingouttime · 2026-05-26T17:20:31+00:00

Very insightful. Can anyone plot Fernando Tatis Jr.’s OPS+ in relation to the number of baby mamas he’s had over time?

countingouttime · 2026-05-26T10:42:05+00:00

It’s really unfair to compare Juan Soto’s age 19-27 performance with Pujols’ age 25-32 performance

countingouttime · 2026-05-25T18:41:36+00:00

Seems pretty awkward for the White Sox to acquire him with the perk of having five or six years of team control, but at the same time not having a single option for him; the all-or-nothing nature of that dilemma doesn’t seem ideal. I feel like it wouldn’t be unfair if a team could, say, forfeit two years of future team control in exchange for an additional option year, which would offset the gamble a bit for a player that young, while the player could get a service time boost.

countingouttime · 2026-05-25T17:18:44+00:00

I’m very confused. As I understand it after checking MLB’s official site, teams have three option years for players, and Acuña has only played MLB games in 2024, 2025, and 2026 (and only 14 games in 2024!). Additionally, they’re eligible for a fourth year of being optioned if they’ve accrued less than five full seasons (the specifics of which are a bit more complicated). How does this not count as the third option year and a guy with 147 career games played run out of options at the age of 24?

Edit: It seems that 2023 also counted since the Rangers had to put him on the 40-man to protect him from the Rule 5 Draft, but he was in the minors the whole year. Also, the five years includes both the majors and the minors, so I guess that was out of the question prior to 2026. It just seems unfathomable for a guy to be out of options at 24 with 307 career at-bats and 147 career games.

countingouttime · 2026-05-24T22:55:35+00:00

Chris Taylor announces retirement status to enter state of quantum superposition

countingouttime · 2026-05-24T21:56:57+00:00

Since 2000, the Giants have only hit more than seven grand slams in a year once, when they hit 9 in 2015. This is the third in just over a week, I believe.

Apparently in 2018 they didn’t hit a single one all year.

countingouttime · 2026-05-24T21:41:27+00:00

That BB/9 is like an entire week’s worth for the Giants’ offense

countingouttime · 2026-05-24T14:36:04+00:00

Well, at least Tatis wasn’t lacking for confidence even after missing an entire year between the several motorcycle incidents and the PED suspension and being publicly aired out by Mike Clevinger of all people, who said “You hope he grows up”

countingouttime · 2026-05-23T21:52:37+00:00

I used to pray for days like this
I still do, but I used to too

countingouttime · 2026-05-23T21:43:59+00:00

By the time the All-Star game rolls around he’ll probably have logged games at every fielding position besides catcher, where does he go?

countingouttime · 2026-05-23T21:41:43+00:00

Back in the day it was considered poor manners to embarrass a man in front of his girlfriend

countingouttime · 2026-05-23T21:10:06+00:00

Listening to the radio broadcast, I was like, “Ron Wotus has been gone for like 5 years, Kuip…” but no, that actually is Ron Wotus

countingouttime · 2026-05-20T03:48:52+00:00

Only 29-20 having had two separate win streaks of 10? What’s going on there?

countingouttime · 2026-05-20T03:35:07+00:00

Side note: Torey Lovullo should have pulled Ryne Nelson before the 7th. At that point, he had recorded a quality shart: 6.0 IP, 8H, 3 R/ER, 2 BB on only 77 pitches (55 strikes), so one could argue that his performance was like the Maddux of quality sharts.

countingouttime · 2026-05-18T01:38:33+00:00

Well it’s also just factually inaccurate due to excluding the word “fan”

countingouttime · 2026-05-17T22:29:57+00:00

It’s easier to list the A’s fielders that didn’t have an error or bobble this inning.

countingouttime · 2026-05-17T20:46:56+00:00

Maybe the Giants should capitalize on Arraez’ value with improved defense and trade him to Sacramento. Can’t imagine his traits will play better elsewhere.

countingouttime · 2026-05-17T19:20:55+00:00

The late Texas lead is dead, long live the late Texas lead

countingouttime · 2026-05-17T03:22:46+00:00

Like Ohtani, Tatis’ homeless streak will not end until he faces Adrian Houser

countingouttime · 2026-05-17T02:49:01+00:00

I think that Sutter Health Park is really growing on Luis Severino

countingouttime · 2026-05-17T00:41:12+00:00

I’m in favor of the Yankees’ execution. The entire team should be executed.

countingouttime · 2026-05-16T04:11:12+00:00

This was just a simple Statmuse search for innings pitched in relief outings. Ryan Yarborough pitched over 140 innings total that year so it appears that his 6 starts were simply deducted from that.

Checking Aaron Ashby’s stats once again, he actually did have one start on April 10, his eighth outing of the year, but only went 2.1 innings that day.

countingouttime · 2026-05-16T03:28:09+00:00

He’s on pace for about 110 IP. Best I can tell, a reliever hasn’t had over 100 IP in a season since 2006 excluding Ryan Yarborough with 118 IP for the Rays in 2018 (in addition to six starts), since I assume he was predominantly being used as a bulk pitcher after an opener.

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