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Fucking Maldonado is playing 1st.

This is awesomely bad

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Nobody go anywhere. We just cut it to 15. Down to a 2-score game. Just need a couple 3-and-outs.

My mantra of "never leave any game early" is really testing me tonight

3 minutes ago, Gut Wagon said:

Nobody go anywhere. We just cut it to 15. Down to a 2-score game. Just need a couple 3-and-outs.

And the Jets just lost to the Lions, so Houston is still in it.

Mengden???

Oh we gonna win mothaduckasssssss

Framber is the color of my energy

25 minutes ago, Scraps said:

My mantra of "never leave any game early" is really testing me tonight

Hang in there.  We're going to fuck this aggy up at least

1 minute ago, WBT said:

Hang in there.  We're going to fuck this aggy up at least

Is this even possible? In baseball, you never run out of time. 

Tonights badass purchase 61fc1fda6f63e9195e71eefb1205ae9e.jpgb88ee63ad4544889708443ab2951ca2d.jpg

Maldonado is a hitting machine!!!!

Lmao i just made eschenfelder and stanton look at my mike scott pin. They were like wtf. I asked stanton where he was in 1990 he said Braves. Fuck the braves.

"Nice seeing you" - Stanton

21 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

New York even screws us when it doesn't matter

Still ahead of New York thanks to the tiebreaker despite Wade Miley's best effort.

Miley has given up 12 ER in 0.1 IP in his last two starts. That is good for a 324.0 ERA over those two games.

Hey, by Thursday night it's JV day again.

Either Miley is hurt or he’s tipping pitches.  Or maybe he just sucks and held it together with smoke and mirrors until now.

2 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Either Miley is hurt or he’s tipping pitches.  Or maybe he just sucks and held it together with smoke and mirrors until now.

The latter. 

2 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Either Miley is hurt or he’s tipping pitches.  Or maybe he just sucks and held it together with smoke and mirrors until now.

His FIP and xFIP (fielder-independent pitching on FG) have been significantly higher than his ERA all season, suggesting some smoke and mirrors to keep his ERA low. 

His BB and K rates are just about in line with his career averages. He's a 4 ERA guy, not a 3 ERA guy. 

58 minutes ago, Hank Chinaski said:

He's a 4 ERA guy, not a 3 ERA guy. 

After last night, that's for sure.

Here I was making fun of Fiers because his ERA went up .4--at least he lasted into the second

 

Ok, let’s get back to winning tonight.

Based on data from baseballsavant.com, Miley's velocity is higher in the last two games compared to all his previous starts in MMP this year.  Spin rate is also slightly higher on all his pitches except the 2-seamer.

It could be due to smaller sample size when looking at just two games, but the pitch location charts show his pitches coming slightly more inside to RHB than before these two debacles.  Release points seem to be about the same.  Since release points and velocity / spin are in line with previous performances it does not appear to be a physical issue.

I get it that he's not a 3.00 ERA guy and no one thought that would hold up, but these last two performances have been more than just a reversion to the mean.

Against the Stros, but still badass

Go America

1 hour ago, Hank Chinaski said:

His FIP and xFIP (fielder-independent pitching on FG) have been significantly higher than his ERA all season, suggesting some smoke and mirrors to keep his ERA low. 

His BB and K rates are just about in line with his career averages. He's a 4 ERA guy, not a 3 ERA guy. 

He looks like the kind of guy you'd go back to the dugout saying, "He doesn't have much. We can hit him hard." Same as Keuchel for several years...and a lot of other "crafty' pitchers before him. Sometimes these guys keep it going for a whole season, and sometimes they don't. I'm guessing the real Wade Miley is way closer to an ERA of 4.5 than he is to a 3 or 6. But we sure need him to be where he was for most of the season. 

34 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Based on data from baseballsavant.com, Miley's velocity is higher in the last two games compared to all his previous starts in MMP this year.  Spin rate is also slightly higher on all his pitches except the 2-seamer.

It could be due to smaller sample size when looking at just two games, but the pitch location charts show his pitches coming slightly more inside to RHB than before these two debacles.  Release points seem to be about the same.  Since release points and velocity / spin are in line with previous performances it does not appear to be a physical issue.

I get it that he's not a 3.00 ERA guy and no one thought that would hold up, but these last two performances have been more than just a reversion to the mean.

Chandler Rome has an article that suggests a) Miley is a "pitch-to-contact" guy (so he is not going to blow batters away like JV and Cole); b) opponents are making an effort to stay inside the ball and go the opposite way.

First inning last night was

88mph single to RF by RHH

93mph out to CF by RHH

Walk

72mph single to RF by RHH

93mph single to CF by RHH

102 mph single to RCF by RHH

77mph single to RF by RHH

102 mph single to LF by RHH

90 mph single to RF by RHH

 

That is one pulled ball and only two balls struck in excess of 100. Miley and Strom need to adjust.

Based on data from baseballsavant.com, Miley's velocity is higher in the last two games compared to all his previous starts in MMP this year.  Spin rate is also slightly higher on all his pitches except the 2-seamer.
It could be due to smaller sample size when looking at just two games, but the pitch location charts show his pitches coming slightly more inside to RHB than before these two debacles.  Release points seem to be about the same.  Since release points and velocity / spin are in line with previous performances it does not appear to be a physical issue.
I get it that he's not a 3.00 ERA guy and no one thought that would hold up, but these last two performances have been more than just a reversion to the mean.
The video guys are surely checking for tipping pitches
1 hour ago, APMP said:
3 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:
Based on data from baseballsavant.com, Miley's velocity is higher in the last two games compared to all his previous starts in MMP this year.  Spin rate is also slightly higher on all his pitches except the 2-seamer.
It could be due to smaller sample size when looking at just two games, but the pitch location charts show his pitches coming slightly more inside to RHB than before these two debacles.  Release points seem to be about the same.  Since release points and velocity / spin are in line with previous performances it does not appear to be a physical issue.
I get it that he's not a 3.00 ERA guy and no one thought that would hold up, but these last two performances have been more than just a reversion to the mean.

The video guys are surely checking for tipping pitches

Send video of his last two performances to Carlos Beltran and ask him to sort it out like he did with Yuli's swing.

Then offer him $50 mln per year to be our full time sign stealing, pitch tipping, guru.

Why is Mike Stanton always holding a baseball when he's on TV?  Trivial thing that annoys the shit out of me.

Mike Stanton annoys the shit out of me period.

 

31 minutes ago, Lat22 said:

Why is Mike Stanton always holding a baseball when he's on TV?  Trivial thing that annoys the shit out of me.

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Why is Mike Stanton always holding a baseball when he's on TV?  Trivial thing that annoys the shit out of me.


I said the same thing about game 9 of the season on this thread. Annoying
1 hour ago, Lat22 said:

Why is Mike Stanton always holding a baseball when he's on TV?  Trivial thing that annoys the shit out of me.

He needs something to throw at a-hole fans that walk up and insist on asking dumb questions. 

Ask scraps 

I believe yesterday’s lineup card wasn’t posted so if we score half a hundred and shut them out today we know who to blame for yesterday’s disaster. 

59 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

I believe yesterday’s lineup card wasn’t posted so if we score half a hundred and shut them out today we know who to blame for yesterday’s disaster. 

Muledick

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