MLB 2018 regular season thread

Didn't Perez and Peavy debut about the same time? Who would've thought Perez outlasts Peavy by this much. Wasn't Perez also the one who went to
the Mets when the pitching coach (think it was that loon Rick Peterson) said he could fix Perez's mechanics in 5 minutes.

 

This is weird. It's only June. The Brewers usually wait until much later in the season to start vomiting all over themselves.

 

I think that was Victor Zambrano. And give Peterson a little more credit for modesty—he said it’d take a whole 10 minutes!

 

Peavy debuted about a week later, June
22 and just turned 37

 

I looked up the boxscore and saw Perez got the win, Jamie Moyer the loss and Trevor Hoffman the save.

Off the top of my head, Ichiro is the only other guy to play after 2010.

Seattle Mariners at San Diego Padres Box Score, June 16, 2002 | Baseball-Reference.com

 

Random baseball card.

Code:

                                                                                           
Year     Tm  W  L  ERA   G GS GF CG SHO SV    IP   H   R  ER HR  BB  SO ERA+  FIP  WHIP SO/W
1973    BOS  3  2 5.60  12  7  4  0   0  0  54.2  70  35  34  4  18  24   72 3.63 1.610 1.33
1974    BOS  1  1 4.20  15  2  8  0   0  1  45.0  55  28  21  6  13  32   93 3.82 1.511 2.46
1975    BOS  4  6 4.42  18 11  4  2   1  0  89.2 102  46  44 11  32  42   94 4.38 1.494 1.31
1976    BOS  6  5 4.33  31 15  6  1   0  0 120.2 131  62  58  8  48  49   91 3.93 1.483 1.02
1977    SEA  7 12 5.15  25 24  1  3   0  0 122.1 127  76  70 16  57  51   80 5.15 1.504 0.89
1978    SEA  4 11 6.48  21 18  1  2   0  0  98.2 122  82  71 16  41  41   59 5.20 1.652 1.00
6 Yr   6 Yr 25 37 5.05 122 77 24  8   1  1 531.0 607 329 298 61 209 239   79 4.48 1.537 1.14
162     162  9 13 5.05  42 26  8  3   0  0   181 207 112 102 21  71  82   79 4.48 1.537 1.14
                                                                                           
BOS     BOS 14 14 4.56  76 35 22  3   1  1 310.0 358 171 157 29 111 147   88 3.99 1.513 1.32
SEA     SEA 11 23 5.74  46 42  2  5   0  0 221.0 249 158 141 32  98  92   70 5.17 1.570 0.94

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 6/18/2018.

 

The great thing about Dick Pole is that he has at least one shutout to his credit, in 1975 against the White Sox (hi, @Dick Whitman!).

June 3 in front of 10,000 at Fenway.

And what's great is that Pole gave up a leadoff triple in top-9 then retired the 2-3-4 hitters to complete the shutout.

Chicago White Sox at Boston Red Sox Box Score, June 3, 1975 | Baseball-Reference.com

 

And the game went 2 hours and 2 minutes.

 

Yeah, I think it was Zambrano, who did have some talent, but never put it all together.

I remember walking into my newsroom and being told the Mets traded Kazmir for Zambrano and thinking it was a heckuva deal. Then I found out it wasn't for Carlos.

 

Zambrano had all the talent in the world but was an emotional wreck. Getting him a little help would have gone a long way.

 

What was with all the stupid hats yesterday?

 

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