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Friday Update
The Day by Day Database is up to date.
Less Disciplined
Jose Ramirez of the Guardians posted a good day at the plate, three for four with a grand slam. Despite that Ramirez appears to have lost his plate discipline, giving him a .260 BA and a .271 OBP...
3-22
The Twins beat the White Sox 6-3 Thursday afternoon, dropping Chicago’s record to 3-22 after 25 games. How bad is that? Chicago matched Cincinnati in 2022, Detroit in 2003 and Washington in 189...
Games of the Day
Jose Berrios leads the Blue Jays against the Royals and Cole Ragans. Berrios is off to a great start. He leads the AL in wins with four and stands second in ERA with a 0.85 mark. Ragans posted ou...
Beat the Streak Picks
The Log5 Method yields these top picks: 0.288 — William Contreras batting against Mitch Keller. 0.287 — Shohei Ohtani batting against MacKenzie Gore. 0.283 — Mookie Betts batting against Ma...
Best Batter Today
William Contreras of the Brewers returns to the top five of the Baseball Musings Batter Rankings. The catcher hit leadoff on the road and went three for four with a walk in a 3-2 win over the Pir...
Thursday Update
The Day by Day Database is up to date.
Pitchers on Injuries
ESPN interviewed a group of pitchers about the rash of injuries in the game. Every time I read something like this I like my idea of limiting pitch speed to 92 MPH and making batters swing heavy ...
The Carroll Paradox
The Diamondbacks dropped Corbin Carroll to the seventh slot today, and he went 0 for 3 with a walk in a 5-1 Cardinals win. That leaves Carroll with a .208/.321/.260 slash line. In 2023 Carroll pr...
Rib to the Crib
Cody Bellinger of the Cubs cracked two ribs Tuesday when he crashed into the centerfield. It took an MRI to diagnose the injury as it did not show up on an x-ray. There’s no timetable for his r...
Games of the Day
Spencer Turnbull takes on Nick Lodolo as the Phillies visit the Reds. Turnbull posted good numbers in 2021, but Tommy John surgery knocked him out until 2023. He seems to have regained his low wa...
Beat the Streak Picks
The Log5 Method yields these top picks: 0.285 — Jose Altuve batting against Jameson Taillon. 0.285 — Amed Rosario batting against Jack Flaherty. 0.280 — Steven Kwan batting against Cooper C...
Best Batter Today
Juan Soto of the Yankees remains atop the Baseball Musings Batter Rankings after he singled in four trips in a 4-3 win over the Athletics. His lead is down to six points as Shohei Ohtani of the D...
Wednesday Update
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Fried Fish
Max Fried pitched a masterful game against the Marlins, earning a shutout. Fried walked none and stuck out six, allowing just three hits. All the hits were singles. Fried got off to a slow start ...
Two Hits an Inning
Diamondbacks collect ten hits in the first five innings against the Cardinals to take a 10-1 lead in the game. Each of the Diamondbacks nine batters collected a hit. The team added three walks an...
Quite a Lively Pitcher
Ben Lively of the Guardians gave the team a great start against the Red Sox. He walked none and struck out seven in 6 1/3 innings, although he left trailing 1-0. The Guardians scored four runs af...
Games of the Day
Tanner Houck and the Red Sox face the Guardians and Ben Lively in Cleveland. Houck stands near the top of the Tom Tango Cy Young Tracker Points list. He walked just two batters in 26 2/3 innings,...
Lots of Shutouts?
It feels like the number of shutouts are high this season, but early in the year offense tends to be low. The majors saw 46 shutouts in 682 games, 6.74%. That’s lower than each of the previous ...
Beat the Streak Picks
The Log5 Method yields these top picks: 0.343 — Shohei Ohtani batting against Patrick Corbin. 0.335 — Mookie Betts batting against Patrick Corbin. 0.329 — Freddie Freeman batting against Pa...
Best Batter Today
Juan Soto of the Yankees sees his lead in the Baseball Musings Batter Rankings shrink to ten points after he posted an 0 for 4 with two strikeouts in a 2-0 Athletics win. The Dodgers did not play...
Tuesday Update
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Games of the Day
The Tigers visit the Rays with Tarik Skubal facing Zack Littell. Skubal sports a deadly combination of a high strikeout rate with a low BABIP of .207. Littell’s BABIP comes in at .361, but most...
Weekly Look at Offense
Every Monday Baseball Musings compares offense to the same point in the previous season. Through three full weeks, the 2024 season produced 8.89 runs per game compared to 9.14 runs per game in 20...
Beat the Streak Picks
The Log5 Method yields these top picks: 0.281 — Kerry Carpenter batting against Zack Littell. 0.278 — Nolan Arenado batting against Brandon Pfaadt. 0.277 — Luis Campusano batting against Au...
Best Batter Today
Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers moves into second place in the Baseball Musings Batter Rankings ahead of his teammate Mookie Betts. Ohtani collects two hits and a walk, including a home run in the 1...
Monday Update
The Day by Day Database is up to date.
Schwab Passes
I just heard on the Sunday Night broadcast that Howie Schwab died on Saturday. I worked with Howie for many years at ESPN. While I looked everything up on a computer, Howie would just try to know...
Ohtani Record
Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers hit the 176th home run of his MLB career. That’s the new record for a player born in Japan, passing Hideki Matsui. I’ll note that Matsui came to the majors in his...
Rocky Review
With two out in the bottom of the ninth in a game between the Mariners and the Rockies in Denver, catcher Jacob Stallings launched a ball to the wall in leftfield. At first, it looked like Seattl...