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FaramirG said:
He got it. Announcer said it's the first no-hitter for the O's in 30 years, and the first complete game no hitter since 1969. I have no idea what that means, aren't all no hitters complete games?
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They must have used the bullpen in their last one. The Baltimore commentators just said the 1991 no-hitter used four pitchers.
 
I tried to watch the end of the no-hitter game, but MLB.tv is a piece of shit platform and wouldn't load the game (even though this was supposed to be the free game of the day). Seems like Buffstreamz is dead which I also tried to use.

Good for John Means and the Orioles for getting his no-hitter.
 
That's three (or four) no-hitters in the first month of the season. Reminds me of about ten years ago when we were getting perfect games nearly every year.
 
Preferred Penne said:
That's three (or four) no-hitters in the first month of the season. Reminds me of about ten years ago when we were getting perfect games nearly every year.
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Batting averages are down across the league too. When MLB said they were going to deaden the ball they weren't kidding.
 
The Angels have finally bit the bullet and designated Albert Pujols for assignment. Not sure if it's going to be the end for him or not once they release him. He's 29 homers behind A-Rod for 4th on the all-time home run list, but he'll be 42 when the 2022 Spring Training season starts and he's unlikely to be getting a lot of at-bats even if he latches on somewhere else here quickly in 2021.

Oh and Willie Mays turns 90 years old today.
 
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Local Fed said:
I tried to watch the end of the no-hitter game, but MLB.tv is a piece of shit platform and wouldn't load the game (even though this was supposed to be the free game of the day). Seems like Buffstreamz is dead which I also tried to use.

Good for John Means and the Orioles for getting his no-hitter.
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I use bilasport.net for streams. It's pretty reliable.
 
Local Fed said:
The Angels have finally bit the bullet and designated Albert Pujols for assignment. Not sure if it's going to be the end for him or not once they release him. He's 29 homers behind A-Rod for 4th on the all-time home run list, but he'll be 42 when the 2022 Spring Training season starts and he's unlikely to be getting a lot of at-bats even if he latches on somewhere else here quickly in 2021.

Oh and Willie Mays turns 90 years old today.
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Pujols HAS to get a few ABs for the Cardinals when the rosters expand in September.
 
Ralph Cifaretto said:
Pujols HAS to get a few ABs for the Cardinals when the rosters expand in September.
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That would be cool but I just can't see that happening if the Cardinals are in playoff contention at that point (which I think they're likely to be especially since it's really just a four team race at best in the NL Central.) Last year is when they introduced the rule to reduce the expanded September rosters from 40 down 28 (although they did allow 30 because of the shortened season).
 
Local Fed said:
That would be cool but I just can't see that happening if the Cardinals are in playoff contention at that point (which I think they're likely to be especially since it's really just a four team race at best in the NL Central.) Last year is when they introduced the rule to reduce the expanded September rosters from 40 down 28 (although they did allow 30 because of the shortened season).
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Oh crap I totally forgot about the new restrictions on September callups. Yeah he may not ever play again.
 
Local Fed said:
but he'll be 42 43 44? when the 2022 Spring Training season starts and he's unlikely to be getting a lot of at-bats even if he latches on somewhere else here quickly in 2021.
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I can see him signing with some dogshit team just to get his dingers, especially if the Angels end up paying most of his salary. You're right, though, nobody's probably going to want him.
 
BIG BILL HELL'S said:
I can see him signing with some dogshit team just to get his dingers, especially if the Angels end up paying most of his salary. You're right, though, nobody's probably going to want him.
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One thing that I had thought of and had written (before backspacing) out before was that maybe the Rockies would sign him if he was willing to go there. There's no better place to try to pad your home run stats than Colorado. The team sucks and will probably suck harder if/when they trade Trevor Story for assets and could use some reason for fans to have some kind of interest in watching. Currently they have C.J Cron playing first base (and hitting well) but if he's still playing decently well I'm sure he'd be shipping off by the end of July to some playoff bound team looking for some depth. But even with that Pujols is best suited to stay in the AL anyway and I don't see many viable options out of the 14 non-Angels teams where he fits.
 
Taaaaake me out to the baaaaalgame.
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I'm pretty shitfaced and the AAA season started today so I bought a ticket on a whim. Albuquerque Isotopes vs the Sugarland Skeeters. My ticket is actually like deep left field but the view was fucking garbage and centerfield is basically first come first serve in the Isotopes park.


Lmao somehow the only yankees contingent in Albuquerque showed up to the fucking game and we've been cheering for Greg Bird like it's a fucking religion.

Apologies for the doublepost

Edit: I'm in fucking tears. The entire first baseline seating section has been cheering on Greg fucking Bird for like the last half hour. Literal chants of "GREG GREG GREG GREG"

Edit again: This was absolutely the best time I've ever had at a baseball game, courtesy of a few yankee jagoffs. I'm probably going to catch a couple more games this weekend, but it certainly won't match my time tonight.
 
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If any of you see this within the next few minutes, we might have another no-hitter tonight and the second against Cleveland already this season. The Reds are batting with two outs in the top of the 9th inning and Wade Miley has a no-no going with just 1 walk given up.

Edit: he got it. He breezed through the 9th inning getting a shallow fly out to right to sit down Rene Rivera, a strikeout of Cesar Hernandez as the penultimate out, and then ending it with a Jordan Luplow groundout to short.

Edit 2 & 3: actually Sean Manaea of Oakland is no-hitting Tampa Bay at home in the bottom of the 7th inning. He's only thrown 73 pitches so far, giving up just a single walk... and he gave up a double to begin the 8th inning so it's over.
 
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So the Angels released Albert Pujols the other day after this rather poor performance so far this year. I grew up with him when he was with the Cardinals and he was always fun to watch. I'll never forget the home run he made in the 2005 NLCS against the Astros. True, he lost some of his magic in his later years in St. Louis but he was still great. When he left the Cardinals for the Angels everyone was shocked and also felt betrayed. It was all the talk of the baseball world for a while and everyone thought the Angels would be a powehouse for a while going to the World Series. That didn't happen. They went to the playoffs once and even had some rather bad seasons. Pujols got worse and worse. He and the Angels made a trip to St. Louis a couple years ago where he hit a home run and got a standing ovation. For the most part it looks like the Angels wasted $254 million on him. As much as I loved him the Cardinals made the right decision not resigning him. It would have hurt more than helped. A lot of people are hoping to see him come back to St. Louis for the rest of the season and retire as a Cardinal. While that would be nice it would also be risky. Other than nostalgia reasons it might be not worth it.
 
FaramirG said:
I don't think it's that so much as pitching has gotten ridiculously good. Velo is going up around the league and it feels like every decent starter has at least one ridiculous offspeed pitch that tunnels perfectly with his fastball.
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Agreed. It's not even really a spectacle to see a guy hit 100mph anymore with his fastball. I remember back 15 years ago when Joel Zumaya debuted with Detroit how everyone was tuning in to watch him pitch because of his big fastball, and more recently back in 2010 when Aroldis Chapman debuted for the Reds. Now, however, almost every starter seems to sit in the low-to-mid-90s (especially since so many are only expected to pitch about twice through a lineup) with ease and relievers sit in the mid-to-high-90s with plenty of guys hitting triple digits. Pair that with at least one decent and reliable offspeed pitch and it's hard to hit.

When you combine this with the approach of hitters now (a lot more going with the launch angle analytics and going for home runs over a more contact oriented approach) the strikeout rates have soared. Defensively, analytics have affected things in a big way too with the shift, and how it seems like every game ends up with about 10-12 pitchers being used between the two teams (although this has nothing to do with one guy throwing a no-hitter), etc.

Just some statistical autism here in the spoiler. It should be noted that I'm less concerned with directly comparing the two players I'm using, but rather the league stats from when they played.

I compared two players, Pat Burrell who debuted in late May of 2000 and played his final MLB game in late September of 2011, and Jose Altuve who debuted in Late July of 2011 and is still playing today. During Burrell's career the league strikeout, walk and home run rates were 17.2%, 8.6% and 2.7% respectively. During Altuve's career (as of posting this) the numbers for the league have been 21%, 8.2% and 2.9% respectively.

Burrell struck out 24% of the time making him pretty prone to it in both eras, but he wouldn't even really stick out in that regard by today's standard; his 14.3% walk rate is elite in any era. Altuve, however, has a pristine 11.7% strikeout rate but his walk rate is below average at 6.7%. The latter is most likely explained by his super high contact ability as he won the batting title three times between 2014 and 2017. His strikeout rate has steadily crept up each year though from just 7.5% in 2014 to 9.5% in 2015 (which is when his home run numbers began to go up noticeably) all they way up to the high mark of 18.6% in 2020.

Edit: originally forgot to state that the yellow numbers were to indicate homer rates.
 
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FaramirG said:
I don't think it's that so much as pitching has gotten ridiculously good. Velo is going up around the league and it feels like every decent starter has at least one ridiculous offspeed pitch that tunnels perfectly with his fastball.
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That is a good point. Like the poster above mentioned, guys like Zumaya were once the exception but now there's probably more guys than I can count on two hands that hit triple digits on speed.

Then you had guys like Kerry Wood and Felix Hernandez ruining their longevity by throwing breaking shit that still hit low 90s.

It's crazy how much pitching has advanced in the last 30 years. I do long for the finesse of guys like Greg Maddux though.
 
Ralph Cifaretto said:
Taaaaake me out to the baaaaalgame.
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I'm pretty shitfaced and the AAA season started today so I bought a ticket on a whim. Albuquerque Isotopes vs the Sugarland Skeeters. My ticket is actually like deep left field but the view was fucking garbage and centerfield is basically first come first serve in the Isotopes park.
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I am jelly AF I am a huge AAA fan, my team is gonna be open.

I rocked my Iron Pigs hat today infact. Also there's really a team named isotopes? LMFAO My boomer ass thinking simpsons.

The Phillies are why I'm drinking on a Monday.

Edit: LAA letting Pujols go, bothers me. He's a first round HOF. Finish him out, he will pay for himself in selling stuff and team morale etc. Sure he's fallen off, I won't deny, but keep him for club house, people like him are near coaches too. IMHO tacky. I'm sorry for him.
 
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