I looked it up, MLB suspensions are without pay for off the field actions including PEDs but with pay for on field actions. The latter should include sticky stuff?

FWIW, both players suspended for sticky stuff in 2021 got paid. Scherzer makes roughly 2.4mil in 10 games.

Getting Jim Joyce’d out of a perfect game will never be topped

Drew Smyly today in the conversation for 2nd most painful way to lose it

Meh 8th inning 0 outs. Can't compare that to the multiple people who lost one with 2 outs in the 9th.

Also not perfect games but Dave Steib lost no hitters with 2 outs in the 9th inning in CONSECUTIVE STARTS.

He lost one of them on a routine ground ball that took a bad hop.

https://youtu.be/EkPxtOViVoo

He also lost a perfect game with 2 outs in the 9th inning the next season.

cuz they suck, I don't want them here, we don't need them here and we certainly don't want to fund their stadium...Buttercup

we already have their AAA team playing here in a new stadium...that's enough for them

I expected that link to be the Jon Bois doc about Dave Stieb, and since it's not I'll link to it because it is, and I don't exaggerate at all here, the greatest piece of baseball media I've ever seen and I think everybody should watch it.

This is part 1 of 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlviajJlctQ

I get all that but I present this counterpoint

Hahaah fair counterpoint

Steib is criminally underrated
Meanwhile that sack of crap Jack Morris who he was so much better than gets in the HOF

Opposing hitters are 0-24 with 15 strikeouts against just 2 walks when they face Ohtani third time through the batting order this season. That is absolutely bonkers - and there's no selection bias here since he's not yet been pulled due to ineffectiveness this season and if anything there's a bit of bias towards the top of the order here. Given this, looks like Ohtani's control woes are mostly due to having to get used to the pitch clock and the pitch-com (he's calling his own pitches through pitch-com this season). He's also pitching every six days, so his workload should end up being comparable to other aces this season. His stuff has been otherworldly and clearly improved since last year, so if his command goes back to the same level as last season, there's a reasonable chance he could end up with one of the best pitching seasons we've seen. As is, with pitch clock violations and control woes, Ohtani has a 0.64 ERA this season and leads the majors in pitching bWAR. He's also only given up 7 runs over his last 12 starts (73 IP) or so as well for 0.86 ERA.

Ohtani hasn't put up similar numbers at the plate but his statcast #s based on batted ball data are better than ever. His xwOBA is .409, which would be the best mark of his career (though I think hitting numbers are slightly up across the board this season). His career high in xwOBA was .408 in 2021 and his career high in wOBA was just .393 in 2021 as well. With a shift ban, there's no good reason for Ohtani to persistently underperform his xwOBA as he has so far this season (xwOBA of .409 vs wOBA of just .359).

All of this adds up to a potential GOAT season - not purely based on the difficulty and novelty of being a two-player, but an actual 13+ WAR type of season, if he stays healthy.

Neither had a great chance at that play anyhow. Sucks to lose the perfecto but I'm happy with the thrashing we put on Urias and the Dodgers. Cubs are playing nuch better than expected so far. Liking my over 77.5 win wager.

Let's take this statcast thing a bit further, since there's a lot of noise in early season data. Gerrit Cole, Zac Gallen, Luis Castillo, Ohtani and deGrom have been the top-5 pitchers in fWAR. This is their xBA and xSLG (expected batting average and slugging for opposing hitters based on statcast batted ball data and strikeouts):

Gerrit Cole: 214/317
Zac Gallen: 201/303
Luis Castillo: 210/299
Ohtani: 141/183
deGrom: 179/309

Ohtani is a huge outlier here even among the best starting pitchers.

Live bet the rays ML -180 at the end of the 9th

I’m gonna chase that feeling

$100 on Miami wins 50 cents

Maybe I will not chase that feeling with this game

A’s/rangers o11.5 -115 let’s gooooo

And the A’s immediately hit into an inning ending double play

2-2 after 1 let’s goooooo

7-2 after 2 let’s gooooooo

Continuing to chase that **** I now have tigers/orioles o8.5 -120 let’s goooo

Continuing to chase that **** I got in on Red Sox brewers o7 -120

Just chucked some more on rangers/A’s o17 for fun

Nicole Hoerner Goat

Defeat!

ship it