Baseball Chatter 05/28

Manny Machado is walking more than ever, but he is also striking out more than ever, hitting .225 on the season. He threw his big wad of gum at a bird yesterday, and his antics are much more disturbing when he is batting .225 than when he is hitting bombs. Ugh.

Baseball Chatter 05/25

Cardinals pitchers have three earned runs and a .72 ERA over their last 37 ⅓ innings – seven earned runs with a 1.25 ERA over their last 50 innings and have allowed only 67 hits over the past 104 1/3 innings. That is 5.78 hits per nine innings.

Baseball Chatter 04/20

Byron Buxton started last season just as sucky as this. He was sent down twice before he figured it out. He crushes everyone at Triple-A when he gets demoted so maybe the guy just starts the season slow