2016 MLB Season

Owen Glyndwr said:
Hey man, I'm ecstatic we're doing this well. We're missing our starting: right fielder, 2nd baseman, 3rd baseman, and #4 starter and have been for more than a month. Our bullpen is an utter dumpster fire. I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop. There's no way we should be this good.
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Owen Glyndwr said:
That's baseball. The Cubs are too good for their recent performance to persist for long. They'll come around, I'm sure.

Moreover the Giants are way too thin of a team for their successes to persist for long. They'll bounce, I'm sure.
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Well yeah, I think so too. They're 50/88-90 of the way there already and that can't be taken away. However this is still a team composed of: Buster Posey, Brandon Belt, Brandon Crawford, Madison Bumgarner, Johnny Cueto, and a hastily assembled gumbo of assorted no-name minor leaguer parts with some even-year Giants juju sprinkled on top.

Samardzija had a good start, but he's looked increasingly shaky of late, you honestly never know what you're going to get with Peavy and Suarez, and we still are missing Panik, Duffy, Cain, and Pence. Not to mention our bullpen is still a dumpster fire. At least we got Sergio Romo blowing on it a little now.
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So yeah, all those things I said? Yeah, vindicated. I'd be more smug if it weren't so goddamned pathetic.
 
The Reds gave up their 242nd homer of the season to Jason Heyward, setting the new all-time record for most homers allowed. And they still have two weeks of games left to play.

On the positive home run total side, the Orioles still have an outside shot at the home runs hit record, about 30 away, but they'd need to hit 2 homers a game for the rest of the season to get to 264 homers. They're much more likely, though, to set a negative record: They have 6 triples this season, which would be the fewest any team has hit since the formation of the National League in 1876 (Not counting the four Union Association teams in 1884 that played about 50 games between the four of them).

That includes a bunch of 18th century seasons with way fewer games in a season than the modern 162, and a couple of strike-shortened seasons. The 2016 Orioles stand above them all. They've hit fewer triples as a team than Trea Turner has hit all on his own (he has 7), and Turner has only been in the majors for two months of the season.

Also their backup catcher might set a new record for RBI-less plate appearances, so that's a thing, too.
 
Aaaaand they blew another lead in the 9th.
 
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Dennis Eckersley, 1990
BF 262, H/9 5.0, BB/9 0.5, K/9 9.0

Zach Britton, 2016
BF 233, H/9 5.0, BB/9 2.6, K/9 9.8


Britton is 45-for-45 in Saves; Eck had 48 saves in 1990, but I don't know what his pct was.
 
Here on the first day of Autumn, is it too soon to be talkin' MVPs and Cy Youngs?


I see two guys at the top of AL: Mike Trout and Mookie Betts.

If I were assembling a Strat-O-Matic team, I'd unquestionably take Trout before Betts, but that's not what an MVP Award is, to me. I also don't necessarily consider the MVP Award to be "Best Player" (and certainly not "Best Hitter", as some people do) and I do give the player from the more successful team a little extra credit.

For AL Cy Young, Corey Kluber looks like my favorite right now, but I'm also smelling what Zach Britton and Rick Porcello are cooking.

In the NL, I'm looking at Kris Bryant for MVP. Nolan Arenado is another 'Strat-O-Matic player' being squandered by a mediocre team.

Earlier in the year it looked like Clayton Kershaw was running away with the Cy Young, but he's only got 19 starts and 135 innings, which nearly disqualifies him in my mind. Today I'm leaning towards Max Scherzer.
 
RIP Jose Fernandez.

I found the name of one of the New York Yankees relief pitchers interesting: Kirby Yates.

I was scouring online for information about him and I stumbled upon this image:

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As a Jays fan, it would be interesting if the Jays were to make it to the playoffs and face the Rangers.
 
Clinching the division on someone else's loss always feels weird to me. In the sports that don't have playoffs (soccer/football, around the world), a team can win a whole league championship that way, watching 2 other teams play. That must be kind of anti-climactic.
 
Playoffs:

AL Division Winners: Rangers, Indians, Red Sox
Wild Cards: Blue Jays, Orioles
NL Division Winners: Cubs, Nationals, Dodgers
Wild Cards: Mets, Giants

Anyone have any playoff picks?
 
Red Sox are going to have a really good look at another WS title, I think.

Jays not hitting, problem has persisted all year, don't foresee that changing.

Cubs won't win because they'll remember they're the Cubs.

Mets could be the darkhorse here.
 
Don't count out the even year buff...

The Giants are at their most successful when they're an inexplicable garbage team.
 
What's an even year buff?

Orioles/Jays wildcard tonight. Once again, I'm going to be far too anxious to enjoy any of it. I think Toronto pulls it out, though. Is there anybody who doesn't want to see Toronto/Texas?
 
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Giants inexplicably won the World Series in 2010, 2012, and 2014 despite being arguably the worst team in the playoffs of all three of those years.
 
Blue Jays walk off the Orioles, as Zach Britton gets Craig Kimbrel'd, because obviously you can't bring in your best reliever into a tie game in extra innings on the road when you could still have a save situation!
 
Haven't really been following baseball this season...But that Baltimore vs Toronto game was pretty good...Still haven't found a team to follow, just don't want to seem like a bandwagon fan...
 
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