2025 MLB running thread

[Chef2]

McCarthy/ Kruk are best tv duo in bigs. Followed very closely by Krukow/Kuiper…….Sciambi/Deshaies…then Benetti/Gibby.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Brandon Hyde sits three guys who have been squaring up on the ball -- Mullins, Kjerstad, Holliday -- and among the machinations is putting Jorge Mateo in center for the 12th time in his career.

So of course Mateo misjudges a Bobby Witt fly ball into a triple to kick-start a big KC first inning. P.S. I'm pretty sure I see Cade Povich staring daggers in the direction of center field between pitches.

 

[HanSenSE]

Buy where's Thom?

 

[Hermes]

We got an ump show at Wrigley.

Third base umpire has completely unraveled. I'd give him a sobriety check.

He's called two balks on the Padres pitcher that has former pitcher Jim DeShaies mystified. Then he calls a lineout a non-catch that was a foot off the ground.

Bizarre.

 

[brn623cl]

Buy where's Thom?

If only Ovi scored 30 minutes later.....

 

[tapintoamerica]

Another million-dollar-per-start guy on the IL.

Brandon Hyde sits three guys who have been squaring up on the ball -- Mullins, Kjerstad, Holliday -- and among the machinations is putting Jorge Mateo in center for the 12th time in his career.

So of course Mateo misjudges a Bobby Witt fly ball into a triple to kick-start a big KC first inning. P.S. I'm pretty sure I see Cade Povich staring daggers in the direction of center field between pitches.

I understand that response. As the game proceeded, however, I found it harder to feel sorry for Povich, who allowed more hits -- all of them of the hard-hit variety -- than a disinterested security guy at a Dead show.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Is the 10-day injured list reserved for position players and the 15-day designated exclusively for pitchers? I ask because these are the current breakdowns according to Fangraphs:
10-day: All 43 occupants are position players.
15-day: All 84 occupants are pitchers, divided equally between starters and relievers
60-day: 57 of 62 are pitchers (15 relievers, 42 starters).
At any rate, the pitching injury thing is real. Pitchers normally occupy 55%-60% of teams' 40-man rosters, which normally have more than 40 because IL residents are exempt from the count if they were previously on the 40. At this point, 75% of the IL guys are pitchers.

 

[outofplace]

Michael Kay is right, but doesn't go far enough with these comments. I didn't realize the Pirates hadn't signed a free agent to a multi-year deal since 2016. That's just disgraceful. Kay is right to call the Pirates' ownership out for this, but he leaves out the part about MLB as a whole being partially responsible. The lack of a salary floor allows this to happen. I doubt the small-market owners will agree to a floor without a cap. The big markets don't want a real cap because they don't want to surrender their built-in advantage. Given that Kay shills for the Yankees, he will never point that out.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Two Royals -- Dairon Blanco and Tyrone Tolbert -- have more steals than plate appearances.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Spencer Torkelson walks off the White Sox

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Spencer Torkelson walks off the White Sox

Are the Tigers actually bad enough to be trailing the ChiSox in the bottom of the 9th inning?

 

[Hermes]

AL Central, baybeeee! First to 83 wins takes it all!