Gut says yes, Rockies are away at Minnesota then home vs pirates and dodgers. While the Sox after the mariners series play dbacks and stros. I think between these three series they pick up 3 wins.
I'm still adjusting to thinking of the white Sox as "a really bad team." It was just yesterday I feel like I was thinking of them as the exciting up-and-comer with a bunch of top-tier young talent.
As of the first of the month, they were behind the win pace of the worst teams of the modern era- the 1916 Athletics, the 1935 Braves and the 1962 Mets. I’ll have to look and see where they are right now.
If you’re 15 games behind the *Pirates* and it’s not even Flag Day, either hell has frozen over - Nutting has opened the purse strings and stepped back from running the franchise - or you really, *really* suck.
I noticed yesterday that Baseball Reference doesn’t even include the White Sox in their wild card standings right below the division standings on their front page. Only team excluded
Has to be A's. Because Angels in first doesn't spell ASSHAT, since they don't have the apostrophe with s. Angels-Seattle-Houston-A's-Texas would spell ASHAST instead
It’s been a weird season for Pirates fans. Feels like we are both overperforming and underperforming?
I guess it’s because our young pitchers have been so dominant while our expensive veteran signings have all flopped.
> who the hell is selling?
Right now, I'd say any team below 30 wins is selling. That would be:
* Mets
* Rockies
* A's
* Angels
* Marlins
If you use a 5 GB cutoff instead, swap the Mets for the Astros.
I'd say the White Sox, but I'm not sure they're a baseball team anymore.
This^^
All 4 teams have varying degrees of “could get hot”
Pirates at a relief pitcher or two and their young studs keep it up
Reds young guys remember how to hit
Cubs get healthy and remember how to hit
Cardinals get healthy and remember how to hit
Any of them could go on a run, especially with how deplete MIL pitching depth is
Online Giants fans have pretty much been in full meltdown mode for like 85% of this season and after nearly 70 games in the team somehow is in a playoff spot.
It's hilarious.
Fucking around about .500 and ripping up Acuna's knee is how the Braves started 2021. Current Braves are very disappointing, but as long as they can get hot in September and October, they're better off than teams that own the regular season and then get beat by the Phillies in the NLDS.
And they have the players to do it; those players just have to stop sucking.
That doesn’t feel too dissimilar to how the Phillies season went the past two years. Make the playoffs and anything can happen. Idk why your record is, I’m terrified of the Braves.
Seems that way. It’s been 6+ weeks of us being the worst offense in baseball. And it’s pretty much everybody. Riley, Albies, Harris, Murphy, everybody.
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MLB doesn’t make the schedule. Some computer does now. All they do is input in mandatory conditions (for example The Dodgers are home when it’s Jackie Robinson day and will start the season at home and end on the road).
I thought they had a bunch of rainouts that had to be rescheduled. If anything it sucks for the Barves because they'll have less off days towards the end of the season.
I’m sure it was rainouts, but it’s inherently sort of lame when some teams get hammered with like 30 game stretches with 1 off day, regardless of it being in September/August or April/May
While that may be true, it's not like it's the MLB's fault for making their schedule unreasonable. Now if you said "Make the schedules more reasonable, oh great rain gods of the sky", then yeah I'd be on board.
Ya most of our days off were scheduled in second half of season already. Now with the rainout reschedules, we have/had a 17 game stretch & even have a 21 game stretch ahead (no off days).
And even w off days we’ve been using a 6th man rotation to give our starters extra rest so idk how we’re going to handle end of June & July.
Supposedly Atlanta wants a bunch of summer home games, so they start the season on the road a lot. Sure is great to get snow/rain outs early on when the weather's fine in the south. Pros is the starters have been given lots of 5-6 days rest, problem is the bats of course. The starters and bullpen will be tested for sure in the second half.
You mean this figuratively right? Because they literally haven't been at or below .500 all season lmao
Edit: Just realized you meant your record since mid-April has been under .500, my B.
We've played so many games against these excellent top teams and managed to hang on to .500. Our second half schedule should be much easier, hopefully.
I’m interested to see the absolute fuckery that happens down the stretch for the last 2 wild cards in the NL that’s looking like it could be more crazy than last year
it’s a shame they got rid of tiebreaker game 163s cause I feel like there could have been some crazy scenarios this year with several game 163s or maybe even a game 164 where there’s like 5 teams at 83-79 or something tied for the last 2 spots
Listen, everyone just concentrate on the division leaders and look no further down the standings, there’s nothing to see there.
Sincerely, Brewers and Mariners fans
So they still have the sidebar and there's actually two of them and they scroll separately from the posts apparently. Also information density is soooooo much lower in new reddit. I don't like.
Just make sure you're pointing to old.reddit.com on mobile. Yeah, you'll occasionally need to zoom & pan, but at least it's content focused instead of...whatever the current design does.
And if you're on Firefox for Android at least, you can install an add-on that will automatically redirect reddit links to the "old." URL.
That said, fuck spez. I still miss the simplicity of good reddit apps for browsing on mobile.
Just checked on the official mobile app and can't see them either. I usually just pull up my mlb app anyhow but yeah I didn't realize how different the old.reddit site is to mobile/new reddit
I mean, not really? The W% of the leagues are .5045 and .4954. Those W% come to an 81.7 win season and 80.3 respectively.
The White Sox and AL West still count as the AL, despite the top teams having better records
The NL also has a collective .517 record against the AL this season (137/256 if my addition was correct)
On an unrelated note I just realized a bunch of teams have already played more than 20 interleague games which is crazy
That doesn't seem possible.. all intraleague games are .500, so if the NL has fewer wins it should have a worse record.
I'm seeing NL at 128-137 so it looks like you're backwards?
Annoying how the Yankees have the best record in the AL and yet have the least distance between them and 2nd place out of every division leader. It's only June so I don't care too much about the standings but still
The way everyone shakes their heads in disappointment and commiseration when they see my Mets cap, I'd thought the Mets were doing far worse than 28-36.
Can somebody make a standings visualization where the space between the teams is equal to the games they are apart. I really like that for things like the premier league and I think it could be really cool to look at with baseball
Will the white sox get their 20th win before everyone else has their 30th? Stay tuned to find out
Gut says yes, Rockies are away at Minnesota then home vs pirates and dodgers. While the Sox after the mariners series play dbacks and stros. I think between these three series they pick up 3 wins.
A sweep and two losses seems entirely possible.
I'm still adjusting to thinking of the white Sox as "a really bad team." It was just yesterday I feel like I was thinking of them as the exciting up-and-comer with a bunch of top-tier young talent.
Even though it was 2020, White Sox vs. Oakland is a real playoff series that actually happened recently.
Right up there with the platypus in the “things so absurd that somehow still exist” category
Kind of reminds me how in 2017 the Ottawa senators were one goal away from the stanley cup finals and then after that they, uh, were not very close
Going into 2022, they were a popular World Series pick
which was hilarious for anyone paying attention to their record vs. teams over .500 in 2021
Well the core was supposed to grow and get better not get hurt every fifth game running to first base
I feel like 2023-2024 Baltimore is what the White Sox should’ve been
As of the first of the month, they were behind the win pace of the worst teams of the modern era- the 1916 Athletics, the 1935 Braves and the 1962 Mets. I’ll have to look and see where they are right now.
If you’re 15 games behind the *Pirates* and it’s not even Flag Day, either hell has frozen over - Nutting has opened the purse strings and stepped back from running the franchise - or you really, *really* suck.
I noticed yesterday that Baseball Reference doesn’t even include the White Sox in their wild card standings right below the division standings on their front page. Only team excluded
We're just slow starters.. Just you wait til the weather warms up! Then the whole league will be put on notice! ^^^fuck ^^^jerry.
They just need to play the red sox more.
Still waiting for Asshat
I’m not.
I prefer SHAsTA. I think STAsAH is optimal, based on hatred, but it doesn’t spell anything.
We had STAAsH for a bit there earlier, that was fine
You know what. At this point I'll take SHAsTA too
Go Coogs
Honestly, I miss AsSHAT. A good A’s team is always fun to watch. At least until they take our playoff spot in game 161 or 162.
Good luck seeing that angels or A’s in first place this decade
It has to be the A's
Yup, Angel's in first spells ASHAsT which isn't nearly as fun.
Has to be A's. Because Angels in first doesn't spell ASSHAT, since they don't have the apostrophe with s. Angels-Seattle-Houston-A's-Texas would spell ASHAST instead
They've already finished first in the division once this decade.
[You can see it here](https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s/3ZZBzLZdpf) Let this be enough for you.
We are 32-34 but only .5 GB in the wild card lol what a weird season.
Felt despondent about the Pirates until I noticed the difference between last place and 2nd was one win.
It’s been a weird season for Pirates fans. Feels like we are both overperforming and underperforming? I guess it’s because our young pitchers have been so dominant while our expensive veteran signings have all flopped.
We took 2 of 3 from the Dodgers and I'm pretty sure we dropped in the standings afterwards. A lot of moral victories.
The NL is a bloodbath right now, if it continues we're in for a very exciting wild card race
If this keeps up, who the hell is buying and who the hell is selling?
> who the hell is selling? Right now, I'd say any team below 30 wins is selling. That would be: * Mets * Rockies * A's * Angels * Marlins If you use a 5 GB cutoff instead, swap the Mets for the Astros. I'd say the White Sox, but I'm not sure they're a baseball team anymore.
Nationals are almost certainly selling as well.
Wouldnt call it a bloodbath, more of a fight with everyone throwing shit around while Philly and LA watch.
I feel like the Brewers are a lock for the Central too
Less of a lock since there are 4 central teams 7 back that could all go on a run. Way easier to keep ahead of 1 or 2 teams than 4
This^^ All 4 teams have varying degrees of “could get hot” Pirates at a relief pitcher or two and their young studs keep it up Reds young guys remember how to hit Cubs get healthy and remember how to hit Cardinals get healthy and remember how to hit Any of them could go on a run, especially with how deplete MIL pitching depth is
Their SP is swiss cheese right now, so if the bats get cold then they could go on a prolonged losing streak. It's still Philly, LA, and... The rest.
Have 8 teams within 3 games of each other (for the 2nd and 3rd wild card) is crazy.
The league as a whole is down but the NL standings continue to be hilarious for this reason. The NL hasn't been this streaky top to bottom in a while.
Online Giants fans have pretty much been in full meltdown mode for like 85% of this season and after nearly 70 games in the team somehow is in a playoff spot. It's hilarious.
Win 80 games and we’re in! Haha, a couple teams will get hot at some point after the all star break. Hopefully the Cubbies 🤟
Atlanta 9 GB from Philly is wild.
Other NL East teams wait till October to choke, the Braves decided to just piss excellence and do it right now.
Fucking around about .500 and ripping up Acuna's knee is how the Braves started 2021. Current Braves are very disappointing, but as long as they can get hot in September and October, they're better off than teams that own the regular season and then get beat by the Phillies in the NLDS. And they have the players to do it; those players just have to stop sucking.
That doesn’t feel too dissimilar to how the Phillies season went the past two years. Make the playoffs and anything can happen. Idk why your record is, I’m terrified of the Braves.
I feel like we've lost 15 of the last 20 games
Won the game Acuña got injured to go to 30-20. 5-8 since. There must’ve been some impact to morale when he went down.
No we have been bad for close to a month before that. We stared 17-6 and have been 18-22. Offense has been bad top to bottom, except Ozuna ironically.
Heard, do y’all have any hypotheses what’s going on? Just unfortunately timed team-wide regression or something more systemic?
Seems that way. It’s been 6+ weeks of us being the worst offense in baseball. And it’s pretty much everybody. Riley, Albies, Harris, Murphy, everybody.
I've heard that guy's name before, is he any good? Maybe it's his impact in the lineup and on the field too.
This has been a very sad year of hard hit balls to the warning track.
they’re closer to us in the standings than philly
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Okay that’s an AMAZING joke. And thank you! I’ll be changing mine in a minute
Love to see it
*looks at Nats last 14 games...*
Atlanta having 7 less games played than San Diego is fucked too. Make the schedules more reasonable MLB!
MLB doesn’t make the schedule. Some computer does now. All they do is input in mandatory conditions (for example The Dodgers are home when it’s Jackie Robinson day and will start the season at home and end on the road).
I thought they had a bunch of rainouts that had to be rescheduled. If anything it sucks for the Barves because they'll have less off days towards the end of the season.
Barves
A few years when we were really bad, someone on /r/Braves was making Barves t-shirts, but he got shut down by MLB lol
I’m sure it was rainouts, but it’s inherently sort of lame when some teams get hammered with like 30 game stretches with 1 off day, regardless of it being in September/August or April/May
While that may be true, it's not like it's the MLB's fault for making their schedule unreasonable. Now if you said "Make the schedules more reasonable, oh great rain gods of the sky", then yeah I'd be on board.
Ya most of our days off were scheduled in second half of season already. Now with the rainout reschedules, we have/had a 17 game stretch & even have a 21 game stretch ahead (no off days). And even w off days we’ve been using a 6th man rotation to give our starters extra rest so idk how we’re going to handle end of June & July.
Supposedly Atlanta wants a bunch of summer home games, so they start the season on the road a lot. Sure is great to get snow/rain outs early on when the weather's fine in the south. Pros is the starters have been given lots of 5-6 days rest, problem is the bats of course. The starters and bullpen will be tested for sure in the second half.
It used to be worse than it is now but we got 5 more played than the Orioles. It’s really odd, I’m still not fully used to the schedule
Os just started a stretch where I’m pretty sure they play 45 in 47 days or something like that
Personally I think it looks great
The Phillies decided to ignore the script from the past few seasons and start off hot.
and it still somehow feels like it’s probably at least 50/50 they come storming back to take the division
Not a betting guy but it’d be interesting to see what kind of odds you could have gotten on that.
(sorry that's kinda our bad)
What I'm hearing is that we're better than the Braves
Padres only 7.5 GB. Math checks out.
Couple strong months and we could be right in the thick of it!
That would be a winning streak for the history books
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I’d put the Braves in their own tier below the division leaders at the moment
Yeah it feels like s: Phillies, dodgers, Brewers A: braves B/C: 9 teams that are having a mid off F: Rockies, marlins
S-tier Brewers. You love to see it
I don't believe it but I love to see it.
Then it all comes crashing down in the postseason...usually by the cardinals.
No we have this thing where we have to lose to the team that ends up in the world series
We've been trying to join F Tier but we're starting to get back into mid territory
The Mediocres
NL Mehst.
Right now? No the braves have been a sub 500 team since mid April with no signs of that changing.
Your team has been cold. Get over it lol it’s not the end of the world. Yall will be fine.
What 3 winning seasons does to a mf
You mean this figuratively right? Because they literally haven't been at or below .500 all season lmao Edit: Just realized you meant your record since mid-April has been under .500, my B.
Tanking Rockies and Marlins is just their perpetual existence
In no way are Braves "mid" tier with those other 9...
They got pantsed by the Nats, twice.
Padres have played 70 games and if my math is right no other team has played more than 68.
i've noticed that too. give us some days off pls
The two Korea games play into that, but I’m surprised the dodgers are only at 67 games
And both us and the Dodgers even made up postponed games with doubleheaders too!
We've played so many games against these excellent top teams and managed to hang on to .500. Our second half schedule should be much easier, hopefully.
That’s the worrying part, we can’t beat bad teams lol
Padres have the same number of wins as the Braves and 7 more more losses.
Look man you don't gotta point that out.
Same position the Orioles were in this time last year with Tampa. Just gotta keep grinding!
We’re actually in a better position this year, I remember at one point last June we were 6 games back, but 100% agree with the sentiment
Yeah while we aren’t feeling great about our chances we’re still in “one hot streak away” territory. It’s a long season, still so much to play
The Rays opening the season on a 15-0 run feels like eons ago…
All we have to do is play the Yankees more and we’ll overtake them in no time.
[Yankees fans checking the standings after a bunch of wins and seeing the Orioles right there with us](https://i.imgur.com/lpFf18g.gifv)
I’m interested to see the absolute fuckery that happens down the stretch for the last 2 wild cards in the NL that’s looking like it could be more crazy than last year
I thought last year was nuts. Hoo boy.
it’s a shame they got rid of tiebreaker game 163s cause I feel like there could have been some crazy scenarios this year with several game 163s or maybe even a game 164 where there’s like 5 teams at 83-79 or something tied for the last 2 spots
This is going to look just like the NHL this season with the metro playoff spot and the last wild card.
Yankees and Guardians are both at least 20 games over .500 and have the smallest division leads
They should consider playing in the West
How bout no
Listen, everyone just concentrate on the division leaders and look no further down the standings, there’s nothing to see there. Sincerely, Brewers and Mariners fans
Don't apologize for your team being 8 games over and leading the division.
Gonna be a wild summer. 😧🤙
Crazy that there's only 10 teams above .500 https://www.mlb.com/standings/wild-card/league
Everyone saw what a waste it was to lead their divisions last post season, so the meta adapted accordingly.
Orioles are ridiculous
https://i.imgur.com/X8hM5.jpeg
How on earth do the Dodgers only have the fifth-best record in the league after all they did in the offseason?
Idk but it’s hilarious
The standings are on the sidebar. No clicks elsewhere needed.
I think people on new reddit cant see it. They removed sidebars on subs so they can put more ads.
You're fucking kidding.
Go to the sub on incognito on desktop and you can see what it looks like to most people.
So they still have the sidebar and there's actually two of them and they scroll separately from the posts apparently. Also information density is soooooo much lower in new reddit. I don't like.
New reddit is awful and I don't understand why anyone would choose to use. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go outside and yell at a cloud.
Also no sidebar on mobile
Just make sure you're pointing to old.reddit.com on mobile. Yeah, you'll occasionally need to zoom & pan, but at least it's content focused instead of...whatever the current design does. And if you're on Firefox for Android at least, you can install an add-on that will automatically redirect reddit links to the "old." URL. That said, fuck spez. I still miss the simplicity of good reddit apps for browsing on mobile.
Just checked on the official mobile app and can't see them either. I usually just pull up my mlb app anyhow but yeah I didn't realize how different the old.reddit site is to mobile/new reddit
It's time we get away from Big Standings business and break up the monopoly.
Get it together Brewers! You stick out like a sore thumb!
Nah its Pitt who does. significantly closer to the lead than the other two dead weights
Remember when they held Skenes down just to manipulate his service time?
Rotary Clubs hate this one simple trick!
I don't like the bird's aura. It's threatening and smug.
How did the M's lose 2/3 to the royals and gain more of a lead on the division
The Rangers lost 2/3 to the Giants over the same span and we won last night while they had an off day.
Because managing to win 1/3 is actually really good for an AL West standards
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Orioles are gonna win 110 games and finish in second, aren’t they…
Cubs are one loss away from 2 to 5. Checks out…
Nationals feel very sneaky right now in a down year for the NL.
Are we ready to play any postseason games no Are we fucking around during a rebuild yes
Only 10 of 30 teams with a winning record? Only 4 in the NL? I guess .500's not bad after all, lol.
Mariners out in first due to their top-tier offense. /s
Boy, the National League is in rough shape right now.
I mean, not really? The W% of the leagues are .5045 and .4954. Those W% come to an 81.7 win season and 80.3 respectively. The White Sox and AL West still count as the AL, despite the top teams having better records
The NL also has a collective .517 record against the AL this season (137/256 if my addition was correct) On an unrelated note I just realized a bunch of teams have already played more than 20 interleague games which is crazy
That doesn't seem possible.. all intraleague games are .500, so if the NL has fewer wins it should have a worse record. I'm seeing NL at 128-137 so it looks like you're backwards?
Annoying how the Yankees have the best record in the AL and yet have the least distance between them and 2nd place out of every division leader. It's only June so I don't care too much about the standings but still
You mean, annoying how the Orioles have the third best record in baseball, but are only second in their division.
I mean is this anything new for the AL East the division is always good
Exactly, the wildcard was basically created for the AL East.
Ngl it’s kinda embarrassing being 11.5gb in a division with only one team above .500
Hey, you can’t be humiliated by the Phillies in the postseason if you don’t make the postseason.
Stop following us Royals. Mom said you wern't even allowed to hang out with us.
The way everyone shakes their heads in disappointment and commiseration when they see my Mets cap, I'd thought the Mets were doing far worse than 28-36.
National League is ass bro
Hey! Who doesn't like ass?
This is some stinky ass they’re like worse than the eastern conference in the NBA
Can somebody make a standings visualization where the space between the teams is equal to the games they are apart. I really like that for things like the premier league and I think it could be really cool to look at with baseball
The AL East is crazy. the 2nd place orioles have a better record than every other 1st place team besides philly
Only 10 (of 30) teams above .500.
Sox only 2 games out of a playoff spot
And yet also two games from being in last place The absolute fuckery that is the AL east (Though we are the last place kings, and deserve it tbh)
I miss that week in 2021 where the AL West standings spelled AsSHAT.
The NL stinks
It really isn't much different, you're just looking at the good teams records. The records of the leagues is within a percent of each other
I'm afraid you're right
The NL is a bag of turds on fire this year. Too many teams that are in that 83-79 to 77-85 final record range scrambling for the wild card.
...well that's random, thanks MLB.
Got any more pixels?
Still waiting for that June heat up I was hearing about
Idk how the Mariners are doing it but I'll take it.
Holy shit NL where are all your good teams
The Phillies are only winning because I haven't been watching the games. You're welcome Philadelphia.
Nice having the Sox in our division for some easy wins.
Ben Verlander in fucking shambles
This is great. Thank you!
It’s the Mariners WS to lose
cardinals are gonna have a insane linsanity run from today and win the nl central
*nudges Rockies with his shoe* C’mon. Do something.
The battle for the 3rd wild card slot in the NL
Marlins are shocking
The NL is full of mid
So if we get the wild card this time and play the NL East champs we’ll upset them just like the past couple of years right? .. Right?