MLB 2017: The Yankees are dead, Yankees burn in hell
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Robbed Chapman of a save.
Saves are such an arbitrary statistic, who cares about them?
OK, could have saved me staying awake to 1am
I thought you were the stats guy...
At least half of every working day of mine is spent in numbers and statistics. The issue with saves is that they exist completely without context, and as a result tell you very, very little. It's like when people talk about a team's record in one-run games: Without context, it's meaningless, because it could mean the bullpen sucks out loud and they tend to eke out wins by a run, or it could mean they tend to come back in late innings, or what have you.
After two very rainy days in San Diego, which I was told was very rare. Petco has only had 3 rainouts and yesterday was one. It's a beautiful night for a baseball game.
And just like that, the Cubs are in 4th place at .500
Fatigue? Championship hangover? Too much non-baseball BS?
That starting pitching has been pretty bad, as has the bullpen. The Rockies cleaned Arrieta's clock the other day.
I hope they get over whatever's ailing them soon.
Fatigue? Championship hangover? Too much non-baseball BS?
That starting pitching has been pretty bad, as has the bullpen. The Rockies cleaned Arrieta's clock the other day.
I hope they get over whatever's ailing them soon.
The strange thing is, the only real roster changes were swapping Fowler for Jay and Hammel for Anderson (now, probably Montgomery).
Statistically speaking, the starting pitching was due for a regression -- but not this bad. Arrieta clearly has something wrong with him and I think Lackey is just cooked. Even Lester and Hendricks aren't themselves, their FIPs are through the roof, and that's going to catch up with them soon. But beyond that, Contreras, Rizzo, Baez, Russell and Schwarber are slumping badly. Schwarber, in particular, is just swinging wildly at everything in sight, and I think it might be due to exhaustion from playing the field. When Heyward gets back from the DL, I think an outfield of Zobrist / Jay / Heyward for a week or two might be called for, because Schwarber hitting .190 isn't helping the team at all right now.
Maddon's malarkey about how he puts a slumping hitter in the leadoff spot to get them going is a little lame.
Leaving Schwarbs there with his current troubles, even worse.
Hell, even before Heyward gets back, Zobrist/Almora/Jay would be a good option for a while.
Leaving Schwarbs there with his current troubles, even worse.
Hell, even before Heyward gets back, Zobrist/Almora/Jay would be a good option for a while.
It actually is pretty incompetent and negligent on the Mets' part -- he told a trainer that he was having tingling in his pitching hand, and they still sent him out to get clobbered that day. Tingling could have been a sign of anything: Heart issues, severe hypokalemia, ketoacidosis, clots, what have you, and the staff should have gone straight to Collins and said, "Look, he can't pitch today, he needs to be checked out now." (Side note: After gradually losing the ability to walk in the last few months of 2015, I was finally diagnosed with pulmonary embolisms and DVT -- I had a clot in my left arm so huge that more than a half-pint of blood had pooled near my armpit, and the clotting across my body was so severe that my Vitamin B12 levels were literally undetectable. That shit's nothing to mess with.)
In other news, with Bryant, Heyward, Jay and Russell all hurting, the Cubs have called up first-round pick Ian Happ, who can play around the infield and anywhere in the outfield.
Edit: And Bryce Harper just signed the largest one-year deal for an arb-eligible player in history, at $21.65 million with a $1 million bonus for winning another NL MVP.
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Contreras had a good game last night. 2 HR's and picked off Fowler from his knees.
Happ has a 2 run HR for his first big league hit, but the Cubs are currently down 5-3.
Happ has a 2 run HR for his first big league hit, but the Cubs are currently down 5-3.
Dear Joe Maddon,
Kyle Schwarber's defense is somehow worse than his offense, and now he's just lollygagging in left field. Please bench him immediately and abandon your "I'm so smart by putting a slow fat guy in leadoff" experiment, thanks in advance.
Kyle Schwarber's defense is somehow worse than his offense, and now he's just lollygagging in left field. Please bench him immediately and abandon your "I'm so smart by putting a slow fat guy in leadoff" experiment, thanks in advance.
Joe has been busy complaining about the slide rule. He'll get back around to managing the team.
Also, Aroldis Chapman to the 10 day DL with rotator cuff inflammation. Hard to believe it doesn't happen to him a lot more.
Also, Aroldis Chapman to the 10 day DL with rotator cuff inflammation. Hard to believe it doesn't happen to him a lot more.
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God, that endless dicksucking was nauseating.
A fun Jeter stat: Defensively, -156 runs saved from 2003 - retirement. The second-worst shortstop is Michael Young about a country mile behind at -82. He's literally one of the worst defensive players of all time. Career dWAR is -9.4, which is 2.4 worse than #2 in the modern era. If he has that career anywhere but New York, there's no way ESPN does an hours-long circle jerk about that retirement ceremony. Can make an easy argument for the most overrated player in history.
In more fun news, Bryce Harper is currently breaking baseball. We're halfway through May and he's slashing .384 / .500 / .752, good for a .512 wOBA.
Also, just before Yanks and Mr. Laser Beam throw out their rolleyes or whatever: "Overrated" =/= "bad player." Offensively speaking, Jeter was an average to above-average player for much of his career, with occasional runs of going nuts. But there's a reason it would take about fifteen minutes at most to assemble a "past a diving Jeter" supercut, because he had more than a decade of being a defensive liability. dWAR has gotten significantly less broken over the years, and Jeter's numbers are terrible.
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