Twenty percent of the season is in the books. Too early to draw definitive conclusions (last year the Giants were 19-12 on May 5th last year and went 57-74 the rest of the way) but a great point to bullshit.

The Brewers are the early surprise team of the year. Their starters have more Quality Starts than any team in baseball. The bullpen has a sub 3.00 ERA. And Carlos Gomez is as good at playing baseball as he is at making people mad. Now to see if they can weather Ryan Braun being hurt and the inevitable regression to the mean.

Meanwhile in the same division, the Pirates appear to be the early season disappointment despite Andrew McCutchen restating his claim for best player in the NL, or at least until Troy Tulowitzki ends up on the DL.

The AL East looks like another dog fight.

The Tigers are starting to separate themselves in the AL Central and that's without Miguel Cabrera shifting into gear.

Jose Abreu crushes baseballs
Dee Gordon runs fast
Jose Fernandez is hard to hit

every team in the NL East is over .500. Giancarlo Stanton is on pace for a million RBI. who the hell is Jesse Chavez.

From 2003-2008 he had the best ground ball rate in all of baseball and was an absolute work horse. Came out of the game on Opening Day in 2009 and then never came back.

he's a trivia question: name that Cy Young winner / which pitchers have had the longest scoreless streaks in the last 25 years?

The Tigers are not good enough to be pulling away from a division yet that is exactly what they are doing.

And if Hanrahan has anything left and we add a bat.........

I love that Kinsler hates Texas too

Haven't really watched the Tigers yet this season so I have not been able to form any opinion of him as a manager, but I always liked him as a player.

But being able to go 1st to home, the ability to let runners take off was never at Leylands disposal. Dirks getting hurt has been a blessing in disguise early on as Rajai has been extraordinary the first month. It is very nice to be able to get the leadoff man on and put immediate pressure on the starter. Teams have done it to us for years.

Ausmus really hasnt made too many pitching staff blunders aside from CONTINUING to bring in Phil Coke. But when you dont have any lefties to use what can he do?

And he's hitting .337? Good for him.

then blamed everyone else for the chemistry problems smh


im glad hes doing well in detroit. ill take choo over him every day of the week

Seriously. That's an awful division.

Cutch is one of the best players in the league, but basically the entire roster had a career year last year and then they made no steps to improve this year.

Had 1 year flash written all over it.

Gerrit Cole will still probably be very good at some point. Edinson Volquez flashed a little something last season that he could have built on. Gregory Polanco is going to be a stud.

But yeah, it hasn't come together. It has to get a little better though. As a team, Pirates shortstops are hitting .160/.217/.198. For reference, Cardinals pitchers are hitting .175/.224/.254 this year.

CalltheGyorkstore is already a stupid nickname/hashtag

Melky seems to hit much better without a tumor in his lower back

Charlie Blackmon hasn't done his Tuffy Rhodes impersonation, he's still hitting

Tampa is going to take Toronto's place and lose all their starting pitching this year

Rivera St. is a thing.

>Melky seems to hit much better without a tumor in his lower
>back

but anyone who watched how he moved in the OF last year vs. this year....wouldn't even be a question

Gallardo has been better than he's been in 3 years,Lohse is awesome but he is old,and K-Rod still hasn't given up a run,which can't last.

But Wily Peralta looks to be s stud,the offense hasn't really done anything yet(Aramis is 2-his last 38,Braun can't feel is right thumb,they're still playing Rickie Weeks,Segura is just now starting to come around).


Gomez and Lucroy have been the only real solid spots for what should be a really good offense.
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He and Rizzo have been terrific.

Everyone else, not so much. Hopefully I don't have to see any more Darwin Barney at-bats this year.

>He and Rizzo have been terrific.
>
>Everyone else, not so much. Hopefully I don't have to see any
>more Darwin Barney at-bats this year.


Rizzo is putting up great numbers and with the way Samardzija is pitching, the Cubs should get some really good prospects when they trade him.

cant wait for that to happen in a playoff series

It's pretty weird to end a game that way but I'd rather see a playoff game given to the actual winner than won by a mistake made by someone not on a team.

I just cant wait to see the other side outrage.

granted it was the AAAstros, but Robbie Ray can hurl AND Porcello has taken a step.

Prince is doing nothing in Texas and Kinsler's unlucky looking BABIP suggests even more good things to come

Rajai ballin. flat out.

he's stacking W's right now and after the draft i imagine he will make his pitch to Drew.

>Rajai ballin. flat out.

Davis is usually good for one hot month per season...he's still swinging at anything (worse than his career average in walk and strikeout rate) and riding that .400+ BABIP.

regardless, he's already made his return on the investment even if he doesn't do much from here on out.

>regardless, he's already made his return on the investment
>even if he doesn't do much from here on out.

DO with that what you will.

There is so much pressure on the starters because of all the unearned runners and runs combined with the pen not being able to maintain or hold. Three consecutive walks in the 10th tonight followed by a sac fly (deep on the warning track, just missed being a grand slam) and then a single to plate another. The amount of games we have given away is getting ridiculous.

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He's looking like a poor man's Manny Machado.

Streaks are fun. He's only hitting .360 over those 28 games. He's got a few things in his favor. He plays for Colorado, which means a bump in the offensive environment. The Rockies are hitting the hell out of the ball and he's hitting second in the line-up. Giving him opportunities like on 4/25 when he picked up his hit in the 11th inning in his 5th AB. He doesn't strike out a ton and walks even less.

If Dan Uggla can string together a 33 game hit streak, sky's the limit for Arenado.

second no-hitter broken up after 8⅔

Ortiz just wanted a hit more than Darvish wanted the no-hitter?