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MLB 2020: We'll Play Ball, I Guess.

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We post our lineup as baseball cards before every home game.

This is what happens when your lineup is AA players and a guy who wasn't playing professional baseball last week:

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aparch said:
The three hole is a just saying; it's not supposed to be an actual gap on the lineup card...
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Note: that lineup won.

God bless Jake deGrom.

Also fun: at one point in that game the Mets had three catchers in their order.
 
The Mets active slugging% leaders
  1. Jacob deGrom - .529
  2. Johneshwy Fargas - .524
  3. Tomas Nido - .520
  4. Patrick Mazeika - .500
  5. Brandon Drury - .500
1. Pitcher (Fuck the DH)
2. AAA player called up for injury -- now is himself injured
3. Back-up catcher
4. DFA'ed AA player who had not played baseball since 2019, signed for injury
5. AAA player called up for injury

We're in first. This is so dumb.

Oh, and we signed a different DFAed player last night. He's batting cleanup today.

Batting averages for today's game:

1. .223
2. .185 <-- Opening Day Starter
3. .196 <-- Opening Day Starter, used to bat 8th
4. .207
5. .260
6. .250
7. .200
8. .000 <-- OPS is .125; not the Pitcher
9. .063
 
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Kepler said:
The Mets active slugging% leaders
  1. Jacob deGrom - .529
  2. Johneshwy Fargas - .524
  3. Tomas Nido - .520
  4. Patrick Mazeika - .500
  5. Brandon Drury - .500
1. Pitcher (Fuck the DH)
2. AAA player called up for injury -- now is himself injured
3. Back-up catcher
4. DFA'ed AA player who had not played baseball since 2019, signed for injury
5. AAA player called up for injury

We're in first. This is so dumb.

Oh, and we signed a different DFAed player last night. He's batting cleanup today.

Batting averages for today's game:

1. .223
2. .185 <-- Opening Day Starter
3. .196 <-- Opening Day Starter, used to bat 8th
4. .207
5. .260
6. .250
7. .200
8. .000 <-- OPS is .125; not the Pitcher
9. .063
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So you are basically singlehandedly showing Sabermetrics is garbage, lol...
 
I mean, Baez is there signalling safe while he's still a live runner. And if they get him at any point, the inning is over and the run doesn't count and it's all moot. And they still don't get him.
 
aparch said:
Ladies and Gentlemen, the New York Me...

Correction: the Pittsburgh Pirates!

Mind you, this all went down with *TWO OUTS* in the inning. All they had to do was step on first base.
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NGL, first thing I thought when I saw the replay during our game was, "thank all the gods that ever lived it wasn't us."

My favorite thing about the play is it's all moot even after the runner has scored if they just get Baez, and they still don't.

I think this might actually be the stupidest play in baseball history. Mets announcer Gary Cohen was laughing so hard when he saw it I was honestly worried for him.
 
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Kepler said:
The Mets active slugging% leaders
  1. Jacob deGrom - .529
  2. Johneshwy Fargas - .524
  3. Tomas Nido - .520
  4. Patrick Mazeika - .500
  5. Brandon Drury - .500
1. Pitcher (Fuck the DH)
2. AAA player called up for injury -- now is himself injured
3. Back-up catcher
4. DFA'ed AA player who had not played baseball since 2019, signed for injury
5. AAA player called up for injury

We're in first. This is so dumb.

Oh, and we signed a different DFAed player last night. He's batting cleanup today.

Batting averages for today's game:

1. .223
2. .185 <-- Opening Day Starter
3. .196 <-- Opening Day Starter, used to bat 8th
4. .207
5. .260
6. .250
7. .200
8. .000 <-- OPS is .125; not the Pitcher
9. .063
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I would just like to point out, as the coup de grace for this lineup, it won this game. With 3 hits.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
I had no idea that was the case


https://sports.stackexchange.com/que...-reaches-first
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I didn't know about the "fourth out" application in this instance. In the Baez case, for example, I thought (erroneously) that if, subsequent to the runner scoring, Baez was tagged rather than forced then the run would count.

I can imagine if this gets mixed up with double plays and men on other bases then this rule can get really, really messy.
 
Kepler said:
I didn't know about the "fourth out" application in this instance. In the Baez case, for example, I thought (erroneously) that if, subsequent to the runner scoring, Baez was tagged rather than forced then the run would count.

I can imagine if this gets mixed up with double plays and men on other bases then this rule can get really, really messy.
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It's actually quite simple. All you need to ask is if the Batter-Runner reached 1st base. Once he reaches 1st base the run is counted. If he doesn't reach first base, the run is negated.
 
I'm reasonably confident the 4th out happened few years back. Could be around the time that substack question was asked.
 
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