2013 MLB Regular Season running thread

[HanSenSE]

That wacky Jay Horwitz strikes again.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/joking-harvey-won-ditch-mets-rangers-game-4-article-1.1337107

 

[Zeke12]

Interesting stat from the Mariners radio crew:

By beating the Pirates 2-1 today, Felix Hernandez earned his 50th "FQS" ... a "Felix Quality Start" of at least 8 innings pitched allowing 1 or fewer earned runs.

He has 50 of those in 246 career starts.

Not too shabby.

Paging 93Devil.

 

[LongTimeListener]

With Mark Buehrle it's a forking Quick Start.

 

[Zeke12]

With Mark Buehrle it's a forking Quick Start.

Back when he was with the White Sox and the Twins had Carlos Silva and his sinker, they had a couple games clock in under two hours.

A thing of beauty.

 

[Orange Hat Bobcat]

Interesting stat from the Mariners radio crew:

By beating the Pirates 2-1 today, Felix Hernandez earned his 50th "FQS" ... a "Felix Quality Start" of at least 8 innings pitched allowing 1 or fewer earned runs.

He has 50 of those in 246 career starts.

Not too shabby.

I would be interested to know which pitchers, at least during the last 30 or 40 years, have the highest percentage of starts with eight or more innings and one or no earned runs allowed. Heck of a stat, and about as dominant as a pitcher can be. Maybe Verducci will do the research for some mid-season feature.

 

[Bodie_Broadus]

Interesting stat from the Mariners radio crew:

By beating the Pirates 2-1 today, Felix Hernandez earned his 50th "FQS" ... a "Felix Quality Start" of at least 8 innings pitched allowing 1 or fewer earned runs.

He has 50 of those in 246 career starts.

Not too shabby.

I feel bad for Felix sometimes, he has to pretty much throw a shut out to get a win.

He's one of maybe four pitchers who are capable of doing so every time out.

 

[dreunc1542]

Interesting stat from the Mariners radio crew:

By beating the Pirates 2-1 today, Felix Hernandez earned his 50th "FQS" ... a "Felix Quality Start" of at least 8 innings pitched allowing 1 or fewer earned runs.

He has 50 of those in 246 career starts.

Not too shabby.

I would be interested to know which pitchers, at least during the last 30 or 40 years, have the highest percentage of starts with eight or more innings and one or no earned runs allowed. Heck of a stat, and about as dominant as a pitcher can be. Maybe Verducci will do the research for some mid-season feature.

93Devil just blue himself.

 

[Bodie_Broadus]

Discussion at work today: Pick one, Andrew McCutchen or Carlos Gonzalez?

Really tough call, but I'll go McCutchen.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Discussion at work today: Pick one, Andrew McCutchen or Carlos Gonzalez?

Really tough call, but I'll go McCutchen.

This season is different so far, but for his career Carlos Gonzalez has been a barely even average hitter on the road. Career OPS at home is 1.001, and on the road it's .751.

 

[dreunc1542]

You're really going to bring some newfangled, made up statistic like OPS into this?

 

[Songbird]

Red Sox-Twins has begun like this:

Twins 4
Red Sox 5
Twins 3 and counting

Edit:

Twins 7 and counting

 

[LongTimeListener]

You're really going to bring some newfangled, made up statistic like OPS into this?

That's a good point. I forgot who I was talking to.

Gonzalez's bat does make the ball sizzle and he has the strides of a gazelle, that has to count for something.