2026 Regular Season Thread

KluberSociety said:
Guess which team is Cleveland @CDAV45

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The Guardians are looking for a road rage incident in Florida with that speed. Even the snowbird grandmas are flipping them the bird as their bats speed on by.

I thought they traded away Myles Straw and Andres Gimenez? Is there a Guardians Deep State going on, and these two are secretly taking ABs and we just don't realize it?
 
Vogt said the game’s evolution goes beyond velocity, with starters now routinely carrying upper-90s fastballs deep into games while defensive positioning continues to shrink the margins for hitters.

“You’ve got guys throwing 100 miles an hour that are pitching,” Vogt said. “Before you might see a bullpen guy that can chuck it up around 100, but now you have starters that are carrying 96 to 100 for seven innings. It’s never been harder to get a hit.”

It's really hard to get three hits in an inning which is probably one of the reasons why the Guardians are drafting players who have power. They're emphasizing pull-and-lift because it's really hard to string hits together.

I think they should put even more emphasis on stealing bases. The Guardians are 4th in stolen base percentage at about 82%. If you draw a walk and steal 2nd it only takes one single to get a run in, and that might be all you can get in one inning.

For example, Rocchio has 15 steals. His previous career high is 10 and we still have 70 games to go. With the Guardians playing so many one-run games they can't wait around for the home run or double that probaby won't come. They need to get on, steal 2nd, and slap an opposite field single or hit a ground ball that finds a hole. They're 27th in home run percentage and play in a ballpark that is harder than average to homer in by 15% (park HR factor of 85 over the last 2.5 years).

Jose, Bazzana, Watson, Schneemann, and even guys with average speed like Rocchio and DeLauter should be running at almost every opportunity. They're almost never going to get three hits in one inning and the home runs are few and far between. Even Jose isn't hitting home runs this year and it looks like DeLauter and Bazzana are line drive spray hitters.
 
sportscoach said:
Armstrong actually was not expensive and was cheap... The only reason why he is at the top of payroll is the fact we have a ton of pre-arb players... Hence why we have one of the bottom in terms of payroll... The media would have completely blasted us if we didn't sign anyone...
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I doubt they care much about the media. Baseball’s hierarchy? Sure. I suspect that’s why they dabble in free agency annually.
 
Simplify things.

The Guardians team wRC+ was 95 when the injuries occured.

Since then, without Jose, Martinez, and, partially, Delauter, it is 78.

SEVENTY EIGHT

Only Toronto has been worse.

Since the injuries...

Watson, Ingle, Arias, Fairchild, and Halpin have combined for 171 PAs.

Watson....63 wRC+
Arias.....75
Ingle....-5
Fairchild....-9
Halpin....12

Most of the overall offensive woes disappear when the missing reappear.
 
Wham with the Right Hand said:
It's really hard to get three hits in an inning which is probably one of the reasons why the Guardians are drafting players who have power. They're emphasizing pull-and-lift because it's really hard to string hits together.
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You don't have to get three hits in an inning to score. That's a myth perpetuated by those who think slugging solves everything. Until, of course, those sluggers don't hit homers in a short series and are quickly dispatched because they have no other way to generate runs. The Tigers' awful May that destroyed their season was almost solely due to not hitting homers, which is all their team is built to do. Now they're back to hitting homers and suddenly they look formidable again.

A walk and two singles will do. Two walks and a single will do. A double mixed in here and there and you can score runs. Putting the ball in play generates errors and misplays as we've seen over and over. If you don't hit homers at an average rate, you better be able to walk, put the ball in play, steal bases, take the extra base, walk, be situationally adept, and not throw outs away while running the bases. If you have speed, you can turn singles into doubles and doubles into triples. You don't have to wait to hit the ball over the wall. But when you DO, it helps to have people on the bases who've drawn walks because they know the strike zone and understand the odds or guys who can hit singles, which, after all, are STILL easier to get than hitting homers.

Our problem is we have lousy hitters, period; you give me a few good hitters with decent approaches who don't chase and hit line drives and hard ground balls from line to line like DeLauter and I couldn't care less how many balls go over the wall.
 
If you want to knock in a few more runs, the team BA has to be higher than .229.

OBP is more important overall than BA, but a team wont drive in many runs without hitting the ball. Without a single extra home run, this team would have driven in a lot more runs...a difference making number...if its BA was close to the a league average .244.
 
If Herrin goes on 10 day IL for his elbow construction he received tonight off a line drive, why ya got replacing him?

I doubt it’s Espino yet, so would it be a simple lefty for lefty move considering Dion and Allen are both on the 40 already?

Will they reward Allen with a call up for his last 3 outings at AAA? Or will they call Dion back up like they did when he got the call for Sabrowski’s similar stint?

The only 3 other pitchers besides Espino/Dion/Allen who are already on the 40 and won’t require a corresponding DFA are Gomez, Peterson and Heuer and Walters too but you want to count him too although currently on his own IL stint.

Will they give Heuer a 10 day run? Espino is the most deserving and best option but logistically right now not the best option.

I’m going to go with Allen getting the call, if Herrin goes on the IL. Guardian Perspective through out a Festa or Armstrong potential DFA and there is probably a less than 1% chance either of those happen.. not with a short 10 day IL stint anyways.
 
CATS44 said:
Simplify things.

The Guardians team wRC+ was 95 when the injuries occured.

Since then, without Jose, Martinez, and, partially, Delauter, it is 78.

SEVENTY EIGHT

Only Toronto has been worse.

Since the injuries...

Watson, Ingle, Arias, Fairchild, and Halpin have combined for 171 PAs.

Watson....63 wRC+
Arias.....75
Ingle....-5
Fairchild....-9
Halpin....12

Most of the overall offensive woes disappear when the missing reappear.
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Are the Guardians the only team in baseball who deal with injuries? I've made this point to you numerous times and you never answer. You just keep posting the same stupid slop over and over again. Injuries are part of the game. Every team deals with injuries. When I look at the series thread previews it seems like the opposing team almost always has one of the better hitters out too.

These posts are embarrassing
 
American Hero said:
Are the Guardians the only team in baseball who deal with injuries? I've made this point to you numerous times and you never answer. You just keep posting the same stupid slop over and over again. Injuries are part of the game. Every team deals with injuries. When I look at the series thread previews it seems like the opposing team almost always has one of the better hitters out too.

These posts are embarrassing
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The Guards have about the healthiest pitching in the MLB this year...
 
Watson has always been concerning for me, because of his K rates. His calling card here was the timing of the hits he did get, but that timing was more about good fortune than clutch.

Another with concerns is Martinez, but he has a (so far) saving grace.

Consider these comparisons of chase rate, in zone contact, overall contact, and swinging strike rate.

Arias........ 36%...73%...63%...21%.
Watson.....36%...80%...70%...16%.
Martinez...39%...90%...81%...10%.

There is a lot more to hitting than merely these stats on swing and contact. But that they comprise the foundation.

Arias, as is well established, is awful with no hope of significant change. He is the baseline.

They all chase well above the average of around 29%.

Watson has better contact rates across the board, but nothing special. Martinez has nearly elite contact in the zone (better than CDL), which is a difference maker.

But, even with Martinez, their inability to lay off pitches out of the zone limits their upside.

There are some productive players that chase a lot, but most of them come with more power than these kids have. But they are exceptions. Often, even the exceptions have production that wildly vaccilates from season to season.

A caveat...

There is a mythology that usually begins, "When he learns to stop chasing..."

Very few ever learn.
 
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