Tim Boyle Sucks

@ScottLBruce3 @joe_block @DelusionPosting

@joe_block Joe - the Pirates swept the Orioles in the middle 3 games of the 1971 World Series in Pittsburgh. So you’re not swept a Baltimore team since the 1800s is incorrect.

Pirates sweep Baltimore in a 3-game series for the first time since Sept. 1893

@StephenLebo9 @PhilsTailgate @prophetanon332 Was an all star as a met

@PhilsTailgate @prophetanon332 HE’S ALWAYS BEEN BAD!!

Taijuan Walker tonight: 4.2 IP | 10 H | 7 R | 6 ER | 3 BB | 2 K

@BaseballQuotes1 This is him in homeostasis

someone check on Pete Alonso

If you're upset that Williams allowed 2 baserunners, I promise you diaz would have them loaded before recording an out

he really is the greatest at everything he does

If you said Paul Skenes would get 7 support runs and the Mets would win without needing their closer I would call you a sociopath

How many times is tony romo going to say "conditions"

@McLagy @hennycamenzyn Under rated cook

If there are 7 days a week and 52 weeks a year, how is there 365 days? #Noticing

@RocTheJetsFan Mike Remmers

Help me finish this Jetsmaculate Grid

how did people watch BOTH home alone movies and still name their kid ""kevin""

@MikeJanela nice

@TalkinBaseball_ Senga is in syracuse

Top Japanese pitching free agent Tatsuya Imai says he does not want to sign with a team that already has Japanese players

Yoenis Cespedes lets ball sit under outfield wall, allows inside-the-park home run bit.ly/1XQBc9B

And now I’m tearing up again…Rex 😢💔

Same shots, 50 seasons apart 🎥

@JeffPassan @JohnJHarwood Jeff did you type all of this out on your phone or did you use the computer

Great question, John. For most of baseball history, the walk was sneered at -- a lesser form of getting on base compared to the exceptional skill it takes to swing. The analytical revolution in the game changed that. If the objective of the game is to outscore a team, then the likeliest way to score runs is for people to get on base. Post-Moneyball, on-base percentage replaced batting average as more reliable metric for helping produce runs. Batting average was almost a victim of its own popularity, though. Because it does matter. It's just not the first determinant of a baseball player's quality. Sometimes I do fear the pendulum has swung too far in the anti-batting-average direction. Let's take three players as examples, with their batting averages, on-base percentages and slugging percentages: Manny Machado: .302/.361/.507 Juan Soto: .248/.383/.486 Eugenio Suárez: .248/.319/.572 Three totally different hitters. Machado is balanced and batting average-heavy. Soto’s average is deflated but he’s an on-base savant thanks to the highest walk rate in the major leagues. Suárez is a masher whose high slug is his calling card. So who’s the best? Well, if you’re judging by a metric called weighted on-base average, which seeks to be a catch-all offensive number that is park-neutral … they are pretty much identical. It goes to show: Offensively, there are plenty of ways to be really good. A great batting average is never a bad thing. But a poor one, as Soto and Suárez illustrate, does not doom you to mediocrity.

hi @JeffPassan, casual baseball fan here with a question. your exchange with Doug Mientkiewicz raised something i've wondered about: why has batting average become a less-meaningful measure of the caliber of a hitter?

God I wanted to hear trumpets in Atlanta just for kicks

cmon blue thats way outside

This may be the worst called 3 game series behind the plate I have ever seen