Baseball Miscellany

Cap Anson, look him up

Chaim Bloom is out in Boston.

Hard to think of anything that has really gone right for that franchise since he took over.

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Mullins just made a great catch in CF against the Rays. He’s really had a tremendous year.

ETA: when he’s been healthy.

A-Rod, narc

That is some pretty tawdry shit.

Also, attempting to read an article on the NY Post on your phone is basically wading voluntarily into a realm of the inferno.

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I do not follow the Braves, never will. But these home run numbers are absolutely crazy.

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I’m trying to figure out if this is really Matt Olsen’s level or if we can expect regression next year. Unfortunately for the rest of us, what I’ve seen of him this year doesn’t make me think this is just a fluke.

Holy fuck, Angel…

That’s over 1/3 of strike calls missed. Slightly more accurate than literally flipping a coin, and given the sample size, it’s not impossible that a random strike call generator would be more accurate. And this man feels he should be calling Postseason games.

Sure, but look at all the balls he got right!

In the real world, he would be fired.

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It’s not just the number of misses. It’s that only two of those are remotely close.

https://x.com/brianmctaggart/status/1702801315351421020?s=20

Astros announce they are adding green paint to the right side of the batter’s eye at Minute Maid Park. The adjustment will be complete prior to the upcoming homestand on Monday.

Screen cap version

Also

https://x.com/jbristolkhou/status/1702808991154266312?s=61&t=v80u_yJ15DPUcpgFVeEI8g

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Direct TV better carry that shit.

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Surely they will. If not, that ends my 20ish year run with Directv

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The Astros are the only reason we keep DirectTV. My wife reminds me of that often.

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Only reason I have ATT TV is to watch the Astros.
It’s such a lackluster product/network…