2013 MLB Regular Season running thread

Wheeler goes six shutout innings, hits for himself in the seventh, and then is taken out before he can pitch in the bottom half.

Really bizarre move by Terry Collins.

 

Yet, the Mets won.

 

St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Jon Jay has gone 215 consecutive games without making an error in center field. He is second in team history behind Curt Flood (226). Jay last made an error on Aug. 24, 2011.

 

Perhaps not quite as impressive, Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright has now walked nine batters in 110 innings this season, an average of 0.74 per nine innings and one for every 11.11 strikeouts.

For the sake of comparison, Maddux's best walk rate over the course of a season was 1997, when he walked 20 in 232 2-3 innings, 0.78 per nine innings. Wainwright is 31 now, the same age Maddux was that season.

 

Seventh straight win for the Jays, who are suddenly the hottest team in the American League after an absolutely horrific start.

 

As I mentioned, ballpark sizes in the 1920s were still gargantuan compared to those of the 1950s. Though a new era of play began in 1920, clubs weren't going to scrap all of their ballparks for new ones. The ones holding games in 1920 were the same massive fields being used five, ten years before. Huge dimensions meant more doubles, less home runs. Only a select few per team, like you said, became true sluggers because they were the only ones truly capable of doing so.

You're only looking at the immediate years preceding and following WWII. Looking at the entire scheme (ignoring 1943-1945):

Code:

Year	R/G	ERA	G	IP	R	ER
1955	4.49	4.00	2468	22011.0	11069	9781
1954	4.38	3.90	2474	22126.2	10827	9581
1953	4.61	4.14	2480	22032.0	11426	10135
1952	4.18	3.70	2478	22206.0	10349	9136
1951	4.55	4.04	2478	22208.1	11268	9967
1950	4.85	4.36	2476	21972.2	12013	10641
1949	4.61	4.12	2480	22038.2	11422	10085
1948	4.57	4.12	2474	21932.0	11312	10037
1947	4.35	3.89	2486	22043.1	10826	9516
1946	4.01	3.46	2484	22147.1	9955	8514
1942	4.08	3.48	2448	21952.0	9996	8499
1941	4.49	3.89	2488	22199.1	11171	9595
1940	4.68	4.11	2472	22051.2	11570	10080
1939	4.82	4.27	2462	21826.0	11870	10347
1938	4.89	4.28	2446	21658.1	11966	10306
1937	4.87	4.27	2478	21907.1	12069	10386
1936	5.20	4.52	2476	22043.2	12863	11079

Going back even further, from 1930-1942 the runs scored per game is 4.81. From 1946 to 1960, it drops to 4.42, a significant shift. Home runs certainly increased, but again we're dealing with smaller parks and the fact that the remnant dead-ball players had disappeared. Everything else decreased. You showed that the war only interrupted the flow of the 1940s, but something had to cause overall dip before and after the war. I believe the slider helped to do that, and its role is greatly underrated.

 

According to ESPN.com's standings, the Red Sox -- who are in first place in the East but hold only a four-game lead over the Yankees/Rangers for the final wild-card spot -- have an 86.7 percent chance of making the playoffs.

I would love to be able to short-sell on that.

 

I think I can sum of this entire page of posts with the statement "I was told there would be no math."

 

Jose Valverde, brought in in the 9th inning with the Tigers down 9-3, has thrown 10 pitches and given up two singles, a double and a long home run by Chris Davis.

 

Career over. Gone by sundown.

 

Orioles have an interesting challenge this weekend.

@awfulannouncing Joe Angel on the radio broadcast: "O's will face Dickey, Wang & Johnson. Shouldn't be too hard to get up for that series."

http://www.awfulannouncing.com/2013/june/your-double-entendre-quote-of-the-year.html

 

For his career, Yu Darvish is 14-4 at Rangers Ballpark ... and 3 of those losses are against Oakland.