/mlb/ general - AIRPORT edition

BWI: Adam Jones out of O's lineup Thursday night
IAH: Altuve getting day off Thursday against A's
YYZ: Donaldson scratched Thurs. with sore knee
PHX: Peralta, Drury sitting Thursday vs. Rockies
ORD: Cubs place Jason Heyward (hand) on the DL
ORD: Cubs sending Kyle Schwarber to AAA Iowa
OAK: A's place Matt Chapman (knee) on 10-day DL
OAK: A's designate C Stephen Vogt for assignment
PIT: Bucs' Cervelli lands back on concussion DL
STL: Fowler (quad) out of Cardinals' lineup Thuns.
DTW: Verlander retires first 16 batters Wednesday
SEA: Cruz drives in three as M's come from behind

Yankees 2bh

Royals

WE'RE FUCKING DOING IT AGAIN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

What went wrong?

this

are we fucking cursed or something

every time we have a chance, we get blown out by literally 7 runs or more

So did he take the bitch back to kpax or what?

dont worry lad, the winner of the next series literally is guaranteed to be .500

How to spot a lifelong

“big” fanbase, gamethreads with lots of people
>Yankees
>Red Sox
>Dodgers
>Giants
>Cubs
>Blue Jays
>Mariners

smaller fanbase, smaller gamethreads
>Indians
>White Sox
>Mets
>Orioles
>Rangers
>Royals
>Cardinals
>Tigers
>Nationals

smaller fanbase, occasional gamethreads
>Pirates
>Phillies
>Astros
>A’s
>Angels
>Braves

very few or no fans, very few or no gamethreads
>Marlins
>Rays
>Reds
>Padres
>Rockies
>Diamondbacks
>Brewers
>Twins

If you're in the bottom tier and your fans are suddenly out of the woodwork you have no excuse for defending "how long you've been here."

That said, I should update this.

Astros belong in the top level

>tfw ive been waiting forever for this game to start and talking to myself

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW
go fuck yourselb

I'm remaking this. You'll be in Tier 2

BUNTINERS!

UPDATED VERSION

“big” fanbase, gamethreads with lots of people
>Yankees
>Dodgers
>Red Sox
>Cubs
>Giants
>Mariners
>Blue Jays
>White Sox
>Royals

smaller fanbase, smaller gamethreads
>Mets
>Phillies
>Astros
>Tigers
>Orioles
>Indians
>Reds
>Athletics

smaller fanbase, occasional gamethreads
>Cardinals
>Angels
>Nationals
>Rangers
>Braves
>Pirates
>Padres
>Rockies

very few or no fans, very few or no gamethreads
>Diamondbacks
>Twins
>Marlins
>Brewers
>Rays

Astros @ A's

Remember when there were those Diamondbacks fans for like a month

>..Tonight!
>it's a very special "This is My Life, Now!!" episode; when user gets a D is her Boipussy
>and later
>for D for that Boipuusi

MARINYAS!

How good is the NL West?

One good team, two pretender teams, two garbage teams

this

Nope. Even with all the lifelongs coming out of the woodworks, your gamethreads are still empty.

Has any team really not come out of the Wood Work this season?

>Yet?
any surprises this year on attendance?

Dodgers overperforming slightly (mostly due to schedule)
Rockies overperforming a lot (but explainable thanks to their new manager and their schedule)
Dbacks overperforming slightly
Padres about right
Giants underperforming desperately with no hope, throwaway season

I mean, hell, pick a stat. Batting average? Boring, but alright. There are 185 players with at least 1000 plate apperances since 2015. Escobar’s .248 mark ranks 153rd. You want on base percentage? Uh, not good, with Escobar placing 183rd. Somehow, he’s even worse at isolated power—he’s nice and cozy sitting at 184th place—and that combination places him dead last in on base plus slugging (OPS).

You want defense? If you’re going by traditional metrics, then errors is as good a bet as any. There are 272 players with 1000+ innings played in the field since 2015. Escobar’s 32 errors are the 16th-highest amount.

If you want some more advanced metrics, let’s stick with Defensive Runs Saved (DRS) and Ultimate Zone Rating (UZR). By DRS (same qualifications as above), Escobar isn’t in the top 50, or 100, or even 150 of the best defensive players—rather, Escobar ranks 179th. By UZR, Escobar cracks the top 50 at 43rd place...but if you look at UZR/150, which prorates UZR for everybody out to 150 games, Escobar falls out of the top 50 and all the way to 71st place.

Good lord Alcides Escobar is trash.

Something odd about White Sox fans on Sup Forums: you only realize how many there are during Cubs playoff games.

That is blatantly false.

Thinking man stock image

wat

Escobar is on track for the worst offensive season by a qualified batter in the history of recorded baseball and, no, I am not making this up. The only batters worse, according to Fangraphs, were a handful of 19th-century players, none of whom had more than 60 plate appearances. Considering stat collection back then, when it was closer to the Civil War than to when functioning airplanes existed, I think we should take a mountainfull of salt with those numbers.

Is it safe to say Escobar is the worst player in baseball?

This is so fucked up. But the one thing you have to do is swap Padres and Dbacks.

What did he mean by this?

When was the last time a AAA ball player finished as a top 8 outfielder in the all star voting?

Warbs is the face of the game

AstGOATS

Cubs fans were a mistake

Have two rivals ever had the top two picks of the draft?

>Altuve out of the lineup
>Astros up 10-0 through 2 innings
is he holding >us back?

Are you seriously >imblyinguh that the DBacks had any presense at all before they were good?

I can't wait for you guys to blow the ALDS again, so I can quit seeing your retarded posts.

I swear I remember 2 AZ MLB trips in the past. I just remember them being in a Dodgers thread where the Dodgers were fucking the Dbags in their boypucci, the Dbags trips saying they were done and they haven't been seen since. Only Pads trip was Phillip Rivers and he's probably ded, a ton of *lifelong SF fans who are nowhere to be seen now and maybe 1 rockies trip.

>Implying we wont all be watching football

>only on pace for a -2.0 WAR season
Small time

Someone on the Royals is doing worse than Gordon?

>2 confirmed dead trips v. One trip that according to you isn't confirmed dead
Dbags everyone

Oh ok, so you're new. They've had multiple trips and they used to have regular threads. "Only Dbacks Trip" and that Parra trip were their biggest ones, but the first guy went off to boot camp and hasn't had time to post since. They were good for ok bantz.

>SF fans who are nowhere to be seen now
I've been here since the beginning of the board and I'll be here after you've fucked off to jail for some random stabbing.

NL Wild Card Game:

Rookies > Dbags

>Daily reminder that the Diamondbacks willingly placed their entire 2017 season in the hands of Zack Greinke by starting him in the 2017 NL Wild Card game.

AL Wild Card Game:

Analslime > Yaks

>Daily reminder that the Yankees willingly placed their entire 2017 season in the hands of Luis Severino by starting him in the 2017 AL Wild Card game.

NLDS:
1. Walgreens > 4. Rookies
2. Doyers > 3. Cusb

NLCS:
2. Doyers > 1. Walgreens

ALDS:
5. Mike Trout > 1. Lastros
2. Red Sux > 3. Injuns

ALCS:
1. Mike Trout > 2. Red Sux

World Series:
Mike Trout > Doyers

10/10

>I've been here since the beginning of the board

No you haven't

>and I'll be here after you've fucked off to jail for some random stabbing.

I'm in my mid 20's, don't do drugs and don't have a criminal record. You're more likely to die of AIDS than me being in jail for anything.

Are you an ALfag who doesn't know anything about these teams, or what? The Padres haven't had any real presence on the board since the 2010 division chase, not even exaggerating. And here you are putting them anywhere higher than the bottom of the list.

That Doyerfag knows more than you do. And that's not even the only problem with your list.

DFA Tulo

lel

That's it, just lel.

I'd make all the game threads, but I don't want to be expected of it

How do you get a job at a baseball stadium? I think that'd be pretty sweet

In 2009 the storied Washington rivalry had 1 and 2.
The ALE Washington won that one

That's why I stopped doing them for my team. I started just filling in but then everyone else stopped and left it to me for too long.

I didn't make the list, and I'm an NL fan. Both the Dbacks and Padres belong in the lowest tier because they have a near 0 presense on this board

Apply

It probably wouldnt be, assuming your talking about a service job
>low hours
>low pay
>dealing with drunk assholes
>never get to actually watch your team play
Now an office job would be cool. Something like assistant to the traveling secretary

Do you have any skills?

>4+ hour rain delay
I just wanted to watch some WSB...

>throwing changeups with a 7 run lead

texas is trash tbqh

>are we fucking cursed or something
Below-average starting pitching, defense, and offense sometimes causes baseball teams to have loss issues.

It's an off day which means we are guaranteed no to lose.

Jose Reyes is worse. He either strikes out or hits a home run, and he doesn't hit homers very often.

working at a minor league stadium is the GOAT high school summer job

...

Just don't book the team in the Ramada in Milwaukee

>implying that team is incapable of blowing a 7-run lead
oh ye of little faith

how many more mets have to get injured until they call up tebow?

Why don't you go down to duh aiuhpoaht and hold up a sign until he comes, oghkay?

SWEET

I got a military discount for getting MLB.tv @cause Service Before Self, Muthafuckazzzzzz

SUCK THAT KIM JONG UN

I don't care for the Royals, but thanks for that 50% off Papa Johns. PAPA BLESS

WEEEEEEEEEW

have started at Torget yet??

...

25 hours until David Ortiz comes out of retirement

When are we going to have a meetup, guys?

>dodgers/snakes/rockies all OVERperforming
>jints are UNDERperfoming

What did the shiteater mean by this?
How can a team who is shit on paper, perform like shit, be underperfoming?
How can 3 teams that are great on paper, performing great, be overperforming?

me on the left

Hey guys DG doesn't exist anymore so there's no reason to call him out on his dumb shit. You're not really reading it. It's an illusion.

I'm DG

wait wait wait

those two people with dark shirts on the left side clearly have the jints logo blurred out

how

fucking

cucked

can you be

lmao

>Lincecum Dodgers jersey

Respond to this.

He plays in the Free-Out league. Doesn't count.

That site is normie central. They have regular friendly rival posters in every team's board, seems like.

Somebody post the Royals ones with at least 5 different team hats.

>detoilet

>dodgers fans are actually giants fans

this honestly explains so much

pissboi's endless obsession should've been clue enough

I can at least excuse living in a flyover, rooting for another team and wanting to meet some people with similar interests. Going to your rival's meet up and then happily posing in the pic is pathetic.

>TOR 4th

u wot

DG confirmed for ginger lady

How will she will ever recover??

The normie world is pretty abnormal

You're right, that only happens in flyover country. LA is too big of a market for that.

>marrying a rival team's fan and living where they play
I don't understand that either, fucking disgusting.

I am by general standards a pretty gigantic normie and I would never even think of doing that shit. Then again, I would also never use reddit.

>tfw this sexy motherfucker is going to the world series

I can't believe he gets traded to the Phillies like that

>Rookies led the Al and NL in home runs
I wonder (((who))) could be behind this...

No obsession runs deeper than yours towards pissboi and the Dodgers though