MLB 2022: The Long and Winding Thread

If you knew the truth, you’d drop me out of this reference.

 

Nobody cares about your their fantasy league.

 

I know the truth and he shouldn’t drop you from it.

 

Gotta love baseball. Tyler Mahle was a pretty good pitcher the last two seasons, but somewhere along the way last season, he started getting lit up just about every time he pitched at home. He entered today's game against the Giants with a 7.70 ERA at Great American Ballpark. For the entire 2021 season, his ERA at home was 5.49 with a 1.49 WHIP. It was 2.31 with a 1.05 WHIP on the road, so the split was huge. Today, he faced a pretty good San Francisco lineup at home. Of course, he took a no-hitter into the seventh inning and ended up with 6 2/3 shutout innings with one hit, three walks, and eight strikeouts.

 

His older brother Greg played summer league ball in Microville while at UCSB. Made it to MLB with the Angels for about five weeks in 2016 as a situational lefty, got lit up once or twice but did OK for the most part, then got sent back down, lost something off his stuff and just disappeared. Last I saw he was in the Mexican League.

Great kid, great family. MLB can be pretty unforgiving if you don't perform great when you first come up and the team didn't invest a lot of money in you as a high draft pick; there's not always a lot of incentive to let you develop and get a second chance. Guys like Kelenic will get chance after chance while the Ritchie Scheinblums of the world keep getting sent back.

Tyler was gonna play here too but he signed instead. Somebody might get a sneaky good pitcher when he leaves the Reds and doesn't have to pitch half his games in that bandbox.

 

There were rumors he was going to be traded to the Mets before they got Bassitt. They might want to resurrect that idea with the injuries they have had to their pitching staff. The dimensions of the park are rough, but he did handle them just fine in 2020, when he was better at home than on the road. The place just seemed to get in his head last season and that carried over to this one. I agree that he should be much better if he can play elsewhere. And yes, my interest is driven by fantasy baseball.

 

Fucking unlistenable bore Alonso put himself to sleep.

 

Eighteen cameras and ESPN misses the winning run scoring. The Mets got rid of Lindor's blowbuddies so he has to toe the line, but Buck will find a way to apple up when it counts most. It's May, not August.

 

What torture it is to watch a game on ESPN. I'm trying here, it's just so bad.

 

Broadcasts are doing this on purpose now, I’m convinced.

 

Mike Matheny has cheesecake where normal human beings have a brain.