Baseball Feelings

  this was more or less the size of it A Daulton Varsho home run is not nothing—it is demonstrably something!—but beyond that, this one was ...

  the unc of the hour (a tower of power [too sweet to be sour?]) In a game where pretty much everything went right start to finish—Vladdy th...

  who's got a ball / can I get a ball / who's got a ball Amidst the long-awaited return of young Trey Yesavage (no runs on just four...

four-seamer, if you look close Dylan Cease? More like Dealin' Cease for those first four innings of efficient one-run baseball, right ev...

  let me tell you something shocking about Louis Varland: George Springer is actually a bigger guy  (really makes you think about proportion...

  "I like to get out and I like to meet and talk to people from Canada"—me too, Kevin Guasman; me too Something of a nervous ninth...

  I share José Ramirez's concern for Nathan Lukes and his benighted hamstring Pinch-hitter/living-lesson-in-contingency Eloy Jimenez cam...

  a great photo, but as something of a glove sicko I am mostly noticing the way Zach Neto's mitt sits above the heel of the hand, indica...

  among my favourite Renaissance paintings of Vladdy scoring from first on a double Yes, Louis Varland threw a first-pitch (only pitch!) cha...

  yes sir, there she goes (let's admire that one) I would ask that we set aside not just Dylan Cease's twelve further strikeouts, ra...

  ganbatte, Okamoto-san Single, double, single, single, single, single, double, walk, strike out, double, pop out, strike out: that's an...

  another member of the my-sized-guys roster "It's too bad that it's Corbin Carroll coming up with the bases loaded," I di...

  friends since small times, these two here I have been simulating a good deal of early twentieth-century baseball in recent months, and one...

  find me ball that's smaller (" inside baseball ," in the original sense of that term) As it turns out, I remain somewhat sen...

  I'll say this for young Abner Uribe: he's a jaunty fellow Dylan Cease's six scoreless innings (two hits, three walks, six Ks) ...

go Kaz John Schneider totally emptied the bench (always fun! get on out there, everybody!), and probably more of the bullpen than he would h...

  we've certainly seen him Scherz more than this Did a Blue Jays starter give up a three-run homer for the third day in a row? Sure did!...

  there's no way that's good Aside from the company on the couch, which was exquisite, and the snacks, which were also strong, this ...

  safe imo As a holder of an actuarial certification and a contemporaneous reader of the earliest Bill James material, Dan Shulman is no foo...

  we are as back as Vladdy's position relative to Davis Schneider in this photo (in that he is in back of him) A two-run seventh to tie!...

  baseball glove æsthetics have come so far this century It's getting a little weird, isn't it, how often Kevin Gausman pitches real...

  Daulton Varsho, styled uponst jauntily  I can't be the only one who is a little surprised with how often Tyler Heineman has pitched so...

  sometimes you just gotta pat your homie on the butt and mark XP "Life moves pretty fast," (fictional?) Chicago baseball enthusia...

  at least Vladdy got one (great job as always, Vladdy; you're the best) Should it be Brandon Little to whom we extend our fellow feelin...

  peace was less upon me than I'd have liked by the end of this one Andrés Giménez's two-run homer to tie the game at three in the e...

  hello baseballs my old friend In his aspect and bearing (to say nothing of his performance), Brandon Little is exuding Charlie Brown energ...

  look at him Scherzing up Among the many distinctions of Max Scherzer's perfectly obvious first-ballot Hall-of-Fame career, one that su...

  well that ain't good As my friend Andrew recently noted, on my most nights, five runs is really good! Alas that this was not the case ...

  冷たい / tsumetai / [cold] Eric Lauer may not have quite gone the seven innings we asked of him in yesterday's post (I'm honestly no...