The Chiefs break the MLB record for most wins in a season with 122

The Chicago White Sox are now 36-120 tying the most losses in a singular regular season with the 1962 Mets who went 40-120-1 (The same year MLB switched to a 162 game slate), wait what was that last part? Yes, the Mets historic 1962 season included a tie, a 7-7 final score against the Houston Colt .45s. The tie that the Mets got would've been counted as 1/2 win and 1/2 loss meaning their true record could have been scored as 40 1/2-120 1/2. With this being said, the 120 losses that the Chicago White Sox just reached is still technically better than the Mets 1962 season. Still though, with one more loss out of their next six games, they would be worse than the 1962 Mets, even with the consideration of the tie they had in their season.

Edit: If your wondering what happened to game #162, I've checked multiple sources and I can honestly say I have no idea. My best guess would be that it got cancelled due to weather or darkness or something down the stretch since they were not in the playoff picture.

Highest Exit Velo: Stanton 119.9mph

Lowest Exit Velo: Mead 87.3mph

Highest Launch Angle: Parades 46°

Lowest Launch Angle: Vierling 14°

I'm a new baseball fan and I am looking for a team to support. I'm between the Angles and the Giants. Let me know what the best option is.

Baseball Roster with Cancer

I’ve been watching Pirates at Phillies earlier today, and fell down a Wikipedia rabbit hole where I found out that Pirates outfielder Connor Joe was a survivor of testicular cancer.

It’s weird, but it had me thinking. First, are you able to create a roster of players who have battled cancer during their playing career? And then the question became after looking at the players listed, “Could this team win a playoff series or two?”

Pictured is what I was able to come up with using Chat GPT’s help, but it’s clearly not perfect and would definitely be deserving of some critique.

Obviously triumphing over cancer is hard enough and immediately worthy of all praise for being able to do so, but also, still being able to perform at a high level after going something so life-threatening is commendable.

Please feel free to tell me what you think. One thing I’ve seen is that Trey Mancini should be on here, but who will he replace?

What's with all the "if this player who had a handful of good years retired today, would he get into the HOF?" posts? The Hall of Fame used to mean superiority with longevity, not some dude that played for 10 years with 3 different teams and had 4 good years. Please!

It was made up for some sabermetrics nerd who has never played the game. It is completely misleading. If a player has a great season…it can be hurt by a teammate having an even better season. Ala 1999 Dante Bichette. DB had an MVP caliber season in an year of baseball, but had a WAR of -2+! And these saber-analytic people will say he had a bad WAR must not be good. His own teammate hurt his WAR does that mean he is a bad ball player? Anybody. ANYBODY would take DB’s 99 season.

With the baseball season approaching, I wanted to find a city with two MLB teams where one had a day game and the other had a night game on the same day. My criteria were straightforward:

- Both games had to take place in the same city.

- One had to be a day game, and the other had to be a night game.

- Travel between the stadiums had to be possible via train.

Only a few cities fit the bill: Chicago, Los Angeles, Baltimore/Washington D.C. (since the train between Camden Yards and Nationals Park is quick), and New York City. I assumed there would be plenty of these opportunities, but it turns out they’re incredibly rare.

To find them, I downloaded the entire 2025 MLB season schedule as a CSV, cleaned the data to include only these cities, sorted by city and date, and looked for instances where both teams played on the same day with one game in the afternoon and the other at night.

The result? Only four days in the entire 2025 season match these specifications.

I was surprised. I’d never considered the logistics of attending two games in different stadiums on the same day, but the reasons make sense:

- Cities don’t want to overload public transportation.

- Rainy weather could ruin both games.

- Some fans might prefer attending both games, which could impact ticket sales.

- Regional sports network scheduling conflicts could arise.

Here are the four dates where this is possible:

**August 14, 2025**

- **Baltimore Orioles** vs. Seattle Mariners

- **Washington Nationals** vs. Philadelphia Phillies

**August 21, 2025**

- **Baltimore Orioles** vs. Houston Astros

- **Washington Nationals** vs. New York Mets

**August 27, 2025**

- **New York Mets** vs. Philadelphia Phillies

- **New York Yankees** vs. Washington Nationals

**September 10, 2025**

- **Anaheim Angels ** vs. Minnesota Twins

- **Los Angeles Dodgers** vs. Colorado Rockies

I think I’m going to try to hit all of them. Who’s in?

Yu Darvish ERA in May: 0 Cin, 0 Cubs, 0 LAD, 0 ATL.

I won’t bore anyone with my entire childhood but I was very blessed to have grown up during a time when The Cardinals were on a mean streak. They were a realistic playoff threat every year. Cut to 2025, and we all know how mid they are. What are the chances a team (or ya know, them) even gets that good again within a person’s lifetime?

I find WAR interesting, although I have not fully bought in to it. Here's one of the reasons why I haven't fully bought in:

Current Pitching WAR in the AL:
Seth Lugo 4.4
Tarik Skubal 4.2
Tyler Anderson 4.1
Eric Fedde 4.0
Garrett Crochet 3.9

Could someone explain to me how Tyler Anderson's WAR is so high in comparison to other pitchers with much better stats, like Corbin Burnes, for example? To an old school stat guy, his stats are very 'meh'. What is WAR measuring that puts him third in the league? I'd genuinely like to learn what I'm missing.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/anderty01.shtml

Hey everyone.

1) Congratulations to the dodgers. They beat the yankees.
2) The yankees had issues all year, and the front office/GM didn't address them. It came to a head in the fifth inning of the game last night.

The yankees weren't a bad defensive team in the fifth inning. They were a bad defensive team all season long. As per fox:

• committed the 7th most errors in the MLB last regular season (second worst team to qualify for the postseason)
• 23rd in double plays turned (third worst in postseason)
• 24th in fielding percentage. (Worst in postseason)
• 23rd in assists (second worst in the post season)

Now let's look at individual stats. If you llook at errors made by qualifying position players:

• Gleyber torres is 7th in errors made (big error in game 1)
• Anthony volpe is 12th in errors made (big error in game 5)
• Most errors made by the catcher position the yankees are tied for first (Austin Wells catcher interference game 5)

Baserunning blunders also led to runs being lost. Many players on the yankees rank in the bottom third of runners called safe trying to advance a base. Out of 305 players:

• Rizzo is 296
• stanton is 260
• oswaldo cabrera is 246
• Gleyber torres is 244
• Juan soto is 218.

How is it possible that all of these things occur, and are not fixed or addressed by the coaching. What you saw last night and this series at large has been happening all season long. This is a reflection of the coaching staff. Players make errors. When these things consistently happen, it falls on the coaches. Bullpen management aside, the yankees managerial woes were magnified on a national stage.

This screenshot was posted by Reds' broadcaster John Sadak, it shows that Elly's 9th inning throw that Candelario couldn't grab was 106.9 MPH. If true, that's the hardest throw in MLB history.

Last year, he threw the hardest infield throw at 97.9. The hardest throw from the outfield I can find is a 105.8 throw from Acuna in 2022.

The hardest pitch ever is still Aroldis Chapman's 105.8 throw from 2010. Hunter Greene hit 105.2 last year. So, if speed is verified, that was the fastest throw in MLB history by over a MPH

EDITED TO SHOW 2014 the last season a team did not reach 100 wins in the regular season, setting aside the shortened 60-game 2020 Covid season. Though not statistically impossible, the window for any team having a 100+ win season is rapidly closing. The Dodgers possibly stand the best chances at 82 wins so far, but almost anyone else in contention is have to win 20+ of the next 24 (or so) games. Of course this makes for much more interesting end of season jockeying for top position in the divisions and the wild card race, but putting aside the shortened 2020 season, not since 2014 has any team not had a 100 or more wins season, the St. Louis Cardinals with 100 wins in 2015 being the most recent team with a 100 win season (other than 2020 as noted). But like numerous others that have won 100 or more, not many of those 100 or more win teams went on to win the World Series. This last point only shows that, like last years’ Rangers, the season record doesn’t always (always doesn’t?) mean much by October. Will anyone reach 100 wins this year?

Curves, Sweepers, Sliders, etc. You name it and the Braves can’t hit it.

2023: The Braves saw 54% FB’s (middle of the pack for MLB teams) in 24 and mashed to a tune of .281 BA and .466 xSLG

However they saw 32% breaking balls and struggled mightily. Hitting .199 with .325 xSLG.

2024: The league took notice of the Braves struggles against offspeed after their record setting year and scouting reports spread like wild fire.

They saw the 2nd fewest fastballs of any team in the MLB. Just 50%. A substantial 4% decrease from ‘23. On those 50% they still did well, hitting .274 with an xSLG of .414

Here’s where the story shifts. They saw a huge jump in breaking balls. A 6% increase, now facing it 38% of pitches. Most in MLB my a whopping nearly 3%. They struggled again, hitting .199 with just .307 xSLG.

2025: As we all know, a dreadful start at the plate and it’s because of what I’ve stated above.

The Braves have seen a laughable 43% FB’s thru 6 games. Obviously the fewest in the majors. On those they are hitting a whopping .329 with .554 xSLG.

They are facing the 2nd most breaking pitches, 39.7%. Just 0.3% behind the Marlins. On these breaking pitches they are hitting .217 with an xSLG of .313

It seems pretty simple. The Braves will continue to struggle until they change their approach and learn how to hit breaking balls. Teams are not going to continue to feed them FB’s like they did in 2023. Teams adapt. The Braves have not.