the play before this altuve stole 2nd and advanced to third on an overthrow by raleigh but the umpire interfered with raleigh, so altuve got called back to first https://x.com/mlb/status/2043465805585666508?s=46&t=dGdml54Bn5gAjlxSoZTivg

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Walk-off!

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jordan walker with the longest homer (429 ft) to dead center the most impressive thing with walker is his homers are all to center or opposite field. while most players are selling out for pull power, walker is letting the ball get deep and trusting his 99th percentile bat speed to tap into his monstrous power

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mickey moniak's 2 homer game puts him at the top of the run value leader board for yesterday's slate of games he generated a total of 4.24 run value while going 3-4 against the padres

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some of the top plays from this game - julio rodriguez first home of the year that tied the ball game in the 5th was the 2nd longest homer of the day (426 ft) and 4th most valuable play (2.31 rv) of the day - josh naylor also smoked a ball at 102 mph that had a expected batting average (xba) of 0.903 but was caught

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this was a wild cubs game featuring 3 of the top 5 win probability added swings - alex bregman's single in the bottom of the 9th to tie the game created a 46.5% wpa swing - seiya suzuki's game ending pop up with the bases loaded in the 11th created a 43.5% wpa swing - yohan ramirez's throwing error with runners on 1st and 2nd in the 11th created a 33.3% wpa swing

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why don’t teams care about batting average anymore? some context on baseball hitting philosophies - old school thinking: batting average, contact, and situational hitting is a premium skill - analytics school thinking: batting average, contact, and situational hitting doesn’t matter the best way to illustrate why the analytics school believe average holds little value is to compare a player like elly de la cruz with luis arraez despite hitting 66 less points in batting average and similar on base percentage to arraez, edlc is still generating 2 runs more than the average player on offense while arraez is generating 1.2 runs more than the average player the main difference here—slugging. edlc has hit 1 double and 4 homers while arraez has hit 1 double and 2 triples those 4 homers are far more valuable than the 5 additional singles and 2 triples arraez has this is why putting the ball in play isn’t prioritized in the analytical era. power (especially home runs) are just so much more valuable even at a major sacrifice to average

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gn Houston

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I’m sorry because they’ve generally been killing it, but if I’m the Brewers how am I putting Renifo 2nd in the lineup??

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some context around just how good mason miller has been a 703 era+ normalizes a pitchers performance across the league by accounting for park effects and opponents strength. so a 703 era+ means that he is 603% better than the league average pitcher robert keyes currently holds the highest adjusted era+ at 540 in 28 innings in 1944

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mason miller has a a negative field independent pitching (fip) stat the only way this happens is if a player gives up no home runs and strikes out an incredibly high number of batters he’s already generated 0.7 fwar (in only 7.1 innings) which puts him in the top 20 of all hitters and top 5 of all pitchers

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imanaga was the best pitcher by run value (4.32 rv) yesterday he went 6 strong innings giving up no hits, only one walk, and striking out 9. the cubs still lost the game 2-0 despite imanaga's great outing.

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just mason miller throwing 102.8 mph (twice) to strike out the side against the rockies yesterday the wildest thing about mason miller—his slider (79.2% whiff rate) is by far his best pitch. his fastball only has a 45.8% whiff rate

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max muncy had a hell of a night yesterday - top win probability added + run value swing on his walk-off homer (47.8% wpa / 2.70 rv) - most run value added by any player (6.98 rv) with his teammate andy pages in 2nd (2.95 rv) - his first homer generated 2.60 rv alone

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"holy sheets!" what a great walk off call from the pads announcers

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