2013 MLB Regular Season running thread

You'd like to think they'd be less obvious if that were the case.

 

Today's clubhouse leader ....

 

OK, once again, if you're going to use just a handful of at-bats, you could say Reed Johnson is having a slightly better season. But if you use career sample probability, it was a stupid move to make. But hey, the season is two months old so obviously everything this season is significant, right?

 

Anyway, 57 games in and the Nationals are a game below .500. Who'da thunk it?

 

Matt Magill may break the MLB record for walks in one game today. He has seven through 3 2/3.

Another garbage pitcher who the Dodgers keep running out there.

 

<sigh> ...
For the next five years, give me Jason Heyward over Reed Johnson. It'll work out that Heyward outperforms him. For one at-bat, when you need a hit, you go with the hot hand. And, at the moment, that ain't a struggling Jason Heyward.
Not to drag this down to a political debate, but it's climate vs. weather. If you live in Atlanta, you know it'll be warm most of the year. You know you can wear shorts 250 days out of the year. You also know and can predict when a cold snap is coming and it might get down to freezing for a few days. If it's been 45 degrees for the past three days, and it's not supposed to be 70 again for three more, do you really want to wear shorts tomorrow just because it's usually warm in Atlanta?

 

The hot-hand theory is a fallacy.

 

When you're in such a deep hole, why don't you just stop with the fucking digging?

 

The Mets trainers put a concussed player on a plane to Denver and then cleared him to play. They're still the leader in the clubhouse.