Running 2015 MLB Regular-Season Thread

Arietta's at 223 innings after Sunday. Greinke is at 207.2 going into his Monday start. I would assume both will make at least one more start before the postseason...so the difference in innings could be just one start, no more than say 12 innings.

I think it comes down to Greinke against the Giants and Padres. If he allows just a run in each outing and goes at least six innings, you are looking at 1.64. If he doesn't allow any runs in those innings, it's 1.56. That's really, really hard to overlook. Greinke is just average in either one, it will pull him back to Arrieta's ERA and then I don't voters will view Greinke as superior.

If he can do eight scoreless in each, then he passes Gooden for lowest ERA since Gibson. That's a winning setup for almost all the voters.

 

This is such a fascinating discussion.

 

Why should Bryce Harper pop a hamstring running out a pop-up? If it falls somehow, he's on first either way.

 

I'll amend to say "long after he was no longer worth the headaches."

 

Maybe he ends up on second?

 

Or in hustling to second and trying to beat a throw, he blows out his knee in a game that means nothing.

 

How many pop-ups get dropped at the big league level? One in 1,000? One in 2,000?

 

More than that when the Angels were dropping them for a while because they weren't trying at baseball.

 

Harper's biggest mistake was challenging a guy who had the high ground to a fight.

 

Just looking from the outside, I think Papelbon would knock the shit out of Harper, who, despite his obvious physical talents, seems soft.