The 2023 Running Baseball Thread

I LOL'd when I saw this pop up on Facebook

 

Fixed

 

It’s crazy that the Braves are already 8 games in front this early in the season against what was predicted to be a tough division.

 

The Mets were seven ahead on May 10 last year and 10 1/2 ahead on May 31. But this feels much different. Braves have picked up where they left off at the end of the 2022 regular season...and so have the Mets.

 

Mets are a total mess at this point. Probably enough talent that if the pitching gets healthy, they can get things righted and be a wild card in the playoffs. But that certainly is not the scenario you’d be happy about with the mega payroll.

 

They have NO starting pitching outside Verlander. Scherzer looks like he might physically be done. Carrasco has been trending downward for a few years. Senga is OK but awfully Daisuke Matsuzaka-esque, which is fine when you're the 2007-08 Red Sox but not if you're anyone else. Their depth is non-existent...David Peterson has just been awful this year. The good news is it could be worse. Carlos Correa is terrible, but he's terrible for the Twins.

 

And I’m not sure how much Verlander has in the tank.

 

Rutschman hit a ball last night that might still be in the air. Os really needed that one against Tampa. First three-game skid of the year, best team in baseball in town, needed to stanch the bleeding quickly. Nice win, even if Bautista has been starting to have some real control issues of late. He did manage to induce a double play and a long flyout to end it.

 

I hope they can keep him when his rookie contract runs out. He's a great kid. His dad is on the BOD of the wood bat summer team I work for, a great guy too, and his namesake grandfather was one of the most successful college football coaches in the country, never had a losing season. Adley played for us for about a month the summer after graduation from high school before being injured, just as Nick Madrigal did the previous summer.

 

So it was always bullshit that shorter games lead to fewer beer sales?

https://www.si.com/mlb/2023/05/09/b...Gc8-lX66_VNBVX1lJQ31wwEE_txHs&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

 

Key question for the A's today: Who's starting, and which stadium plan are they pushing?