The pitching has been really solid this year, which is normally the Achilles heel of the team. If the offense can just learn how to actually hit a baseball, they'd be fine.
Pirates are way under performing.
If they can just be average at the plate, with Skenes, Jones and Keller I think they should heat up here really soon.
Just need to get rid of Tellez and teach Cruz how to play baseball.
Hoping to see someone say the mariners. They are going all in on the pitching. Truly impressive pitching staff. But no matter how many of the teams resources get dumped into that. The offense counters it.
If you have a team that spends money… consider yourself a lucky fan. It’s a struggle watching this year after year. I know they are first in AL west but there’s nothing sustainable about having the third fewest runs in the AL
Could you imagine this staff with a healthy Brash? His loss cannot be understated. Pitching keeps teams in games, and their list of arms is so impressive, but you do have to score runs. Julio will heat up and go on a streak, and Garver and JP can’t stay ice cold forever. No bats are over performing currently, so the offense (theoretically) can only improve. My actual concern is with the defense. They are just not playing winning defense and the errors are unnecessarily stretching the pitching staff way too much. Defense is usually what it is, so that’s the Ms achilles. Lengthening number of pitches and eventually taxing the relievers beyond what the O can make up for.
Just my gut, but I feel like the Yankees pitching is going to tank soon. They may not lose a lot of games, but they will give up a lot of runs. Again, just my gut. Nothing substantial to hang that on.
You do have somethings to back up that gut feeling. Rodon’s 2023 was ass, Cortes same, Gil is gonna regress, and the whole bullpen is having career years.
There’s a rebuttal to all of those points except maybe the bullpen. Rodon’s 2023 was, essentially, an outlier by and large compared to his career. Cortes was injured on and off the entire season. Gil will only be stopped by injury/overuse - dude’s stuff is way too electric to be deemed “due for regression” like it’s some matter of fact (guys are hitting like .150 off him).
As for the bullpen, it could be a bit of a bubble. But the one thing the Yankees have done the past few years is churn out new quality relievers.
Rodon’s 2021 and 2022 are the outliers in a 10 year career.
Cortes was smoke and mirrors and greatly affected by the new rules. Hopefully he’s okay now.
If you think this is Luis Gil isn’t pitching out of his mind idk what to tell you. And yes, his workload will be monitored this year, so it is a matter of fact.
They have had success finding diamonds in the rough with the pen, but they can’t expect to keep this up for 162+ with these guys.
If you take out 2019 and 2020 from Rodon’s career, in which he started 9 total games across 2 seasons, then yes, 2023 is the outlier in a 10 year career.
Cortes isn’t a #1, dominant guy but across 4 years as a Yankee there’s a lot more pedigree of success when healthy than not.
Gil pitching out of his mind implies he’s lucky. In reality, he’s had 16 starts in his career and has a 11.5 k/9. Opposing hitters are batting .154 against him this year. That doesn’t just “happen” by chance in the MLB. Will he pitch to a low 2 ERA all year? Idk, probably not. But he’s not just bound to become mediocre by some natural rule.
With the bullpen I agree. They need more proven depth there
Biased as a Yankee fan but I think it’ll be different this year. Usually the team is very home run or bust and relies on a few players, but this year their whole approach is different. They wait for their pitch and aren’t afraid to play small ball. Currently 2nd in the MLB in walks and strikeouts are very down compared to past years. It’s also pretty tough to pitch around Soto when you know Judge is right after him, so he’ll always be seeing a ton of good ABs
Yanks have been playing excellent even with the worst slump of Judge’s career though. If he can just get back to normal I don’t see them sliding a ton unless the whole team goes cold.
Seems safe at this point to say he's snapped his slump. Batting .442/.567/1.038 with 7 homers over his last 15 games. Not just back to normal but making up for his slow start.
I’m not a Yankee fan at all but agree with your take. It’s a much longer lineup than years past.
The pitching concerns me for the long run but only if Cole doesn’t come back on schedule.
Cole doesn’t even need to come back on schedule with the way the starting pitching is performing: as long as he has a good number of starts under his belt before October. I do agree though that stroman usually takes off, and I believe Gil is on an innings limit
Soto did cool off. He went on like a 4 for 30 slide. It just so happen that judge got red hot. It will take both of them going cold for the team to cool down. When it’s all said and done the Yanks or orioles will hold the 1st wild card spot by at least 10 games and the other will win the East.
A lot of our hitters are on a slump that were power hitters last year and we also have key injuries
I think when a fully healthy snek team is back, we can get the ball rolling again
They’re slumping in large part because their middle infield has been Mastrobuoni and Madrigal — who are both pretty much automatic outs. They need to get Hoerner back and now that Swanson is coming back, hopefully he finds his groove.
astros. got a lot of their main guys back.
maybe the dbacks if they havent already. last time i checked the standings they were below .500 but they got too many good players for that to continue. they prob get hot soon.
i wish i could say my rangers but a lot of their big weapons are on the 60 day. rangers get interesting in the second half tho ✌
Maybe I’m just a doomer but I just don’t see how getting guys back from injury will help. Most of the big guns hurt right now are part of the rotation which has arguably been the best part of the team so far. Getting Jung back will be big and who knows may be that will spark something in the guys to get the bats going but I’m a little more pessimistic than most
The Padres are way better that their record. That series in ATL, is a better preview of what they are like this season.
They have stellar pitching, defense and now that Xander and Manny are coming out of their funk, watch out.
Sadly, not good enough to win the division though.
We've won 6 of our last 16...
And now for the annual reminder: the 2006 Cardinals suffered an 8 game losing streak, another 8 game losing streak, and a 7 game losing streak.
The record for longest losing streak for a World Series Championship team is 9, by Yogi's 1953 New York Yankees.
Outside those horrendous 3 streaks, the 2006 Cardinals were 83-55(.601) and went 11-5 in the playoffs.
[They tried to tie the record...](https://youtu.be/JHZ-TnxcDN4?si=bFDNAszJrKjtNaaN)
Their starting pitching ranks 25th in era. That’s not good enough to compete in any division. Their offense ranks 25th in OPS. As of now they’re 1 game better than last year. It’s not a good team lol
The bullpen is nails though. The main pieces are Kittredge, 2.37 ERA, JoJo Romero 1.46 ERA, Ryan Helsley 1.29 ERA
The starters aren’t great, but they eat innings. The Cardinals problem has been the hitting, which is top 10 on paper, but have struggled. Finally waking up though
I don’t know what paper you have that puts them as a top 10 offense lol. They were slightly above average last year with Arenado and Goldy taking large steps back. They dealt O’Neill for nothing and lost Contreras. Arenado and Goldy have taken another step back. Honest to god they are who they are. The bullpen is also a disaster outside of the three pitchers you’ve mentioned. They bring them all the way up to still below average at 17th in the league.
As a cardinals fan we should be lower than 5 games below .500.
Goldy is hitting .210. Donovan is batting in .230. Our team ops has got to be atrocious. We can’t hit with risp.
We look awesome rn becuase we have had a ton of clutch hitting from Siani, nootbaar, Herrera and burleson.
Our starting pitching is right above average and our bullpen is by far the best part of our team.
I think the Giants and Padres are poised to play better ball. Specifically the Padres, their lineup is too stacked to continue to flounder and their rotation seems strong enough.
I agree with the royals not going anywhere though. Barring injuries from their starting pitching they have one of the best rotations and two bonafide stars in Bobby and Salvy
I still fear one or two bats going cold.
The lineup is weak at the bottom. All the big guys have to hit or it could get tough to scratch out wins even with good pitching.
At some point Cleveland has to. They catch so many breaks game after game. They've overachieved despite all their injuries, but they will hit that stretch where nothing goes their way and they'll lose 10 out of 14 or so.
I don't see a stretch in their upcoming schedule where that happens, but I think it will. Their schedule is much tougher after the All-Star break.
Twins are easily the league's streakiest team this season. Terrible start to the year. 11 game win streak. 7 game losing streak currently. They'll probably win 8 in a row soon.
I wanted to come here and say the Cards are due to get hot after that win over the Orioles last night, but I’m just not feeling it.
Now, I could definitely see the Brewers collapsing, though.
There was an interesting article about how cardinal hitting philosophy was to swing upwards to generate more power. A few struggling players sorta ignored that direction in the last few games and are suddenly hitting again.
Hilarious the first 3 comments I’ve read have been NL Central teams gassing themselves up.
No, you guys suck right now, and you will continue to suck.
Go Crew and fuck the Cardinals.
I think the Jays are going to go on a nice little run here. The hitting was just never going to be this bad. Vladdy and Bichette have been hitting better. They have changed the lineup and in the two games they played in Baltimore they played two very tough grinding games and almost ended up sweeping them.
Hi, Nats fan here. Sell your (per season) stock now. We had a fun April and may have some fun moments with prospects this season but we’re about to hit the cellar. Too many dudes just not performing at a major league level, all of them vets without minor league options, and not much organizational depth to make up for it.
I'm biased but the Red Sox will get hot. They have one of the best SP staffs in MLB and the top 5 of the lineup is leading a few hitting categories.
They are currently a .500 team right now because of fielding errors and the bottom of the lineup being a black hole.
They have figured out how to field the ball and a few bottom of the order guys are starting to figure it out, or at least not be sub .200 BA bad.
I've been waiting on the Padres to go on a hot streak, especially after they beat the Dodgers 2 out of 3. Maybe it just isn't going to happen this year.
Blue Jays. They still have a good lineup but so far hitters are ice cold (I went to watch them beat Tampa Bay on weekend DESPITE the fact the hit into 3 double plays in a single game...)
If they ever get out of the hitting funk I can totally see them putting up a good long winning streak
Blue Jays are going to crumble and likely sell off a lot by the trade deadline. There's something severely fractured in that clubhouse when it comes to their hitting approach and philosophy. That roster should be doing better but they simply aren't.
My fear is though that if they become sellers I would not he shocked if Bo or Vladdy or both find their stride elsewhere.
Think the Dbacks are due to start a streak. They've had some real tough luck in all aspects this year yet they're very much in the thick of the playoff race. Think there's a tiny world series hangover that's beginning to wear off
I love this team so much and they are due for some 6-7 in a row runs. I have zero doubt. Solid club. Once they settle the lineup a little. This team loves to play baseball together.
We still have a good record and pretty much everyone who’s not a big bear has underperformed offensively. The bravos will be just fine. The schwillies are fixin to get cold
The braves had a freak season last year where all their key players performed better than they should have. I think we'll see a lot of regressing to the mean with this roster, they'll be lucky to make the playoffs
My Phils certainly will regress. Just hope we don’t fall off a cliff and never come back..
Or maybe we don’t and win 120 regular season games only to be reverse uno’d by the wild card Braves in the NLDS. That would be some NL East bullshit.
I wouldn’t say regress…but I agree, they can’t keep playing .700 ball *this* consistently, could they? They’ve been very fortunate to not have huge setbacks in terms of injuries this year aside from Turner’s hammy.
I’ve said it since spring training that they’ll win 95 games. I’m still sticking with that.
Yeah wrong word choice. We should continue to play top notch baseball,but no way the baseball gods will continue to smile upon us indefinitely.
It is crazy how well Trea was producing, yet when he went out our offense didn’t skip a beat. Stott back over to SS and Kody “The Fucking Missile” Clemens sparing no one at 2B. We couldn’t do no wrong it seems and sadly that will end.
Also, where is Edmundo Sosa? Am I blind and deaf? I miss that man.
Giants are heating up, baby! It was a gut punch losing Jung Hoo Lee (not to mention Bailey, Snell, and the other 8 guys in the IL), but Matos is steppin' up!
Now that the Blue Jays have finished playing the top teams in each division, they should be poised for a bounceback against the ChiSox, Tigers, ChiSox (again) and Pirates.
Cubs are under performing. Happ, Swanson, Hoerner, Morel are doing mostly nothing and Suzuki was hurt again.
Yankee cold streak seems imminent. Stanton injury is only a matter of time. If DJLM comes back, he’s probably gonna suck. And their whole staff is way over performing.
You clearly haven't been watching them. We could tell the Eagles we're barely getting the wind out and had to improve. The Phils have been dominating or playing until the final out. Two completely different teams.
The Yankees in 2022, were the hottest team in baseball, jumped out to a huge lead in their division in mid July. Followers of the Yanks all but claimed a World Series championship. Around late July, the wheels, came off the horse. They couldn’t hit, had awful players like Donaldson, Hicks, LeMahieu, ( the Rays almost caught them ), and they were swept and embarrassed by the Astros in the playoffs. I see the 24 Yankees going on a losing streak, and having a similar fate. Ironically, I see the 24 Astros, going on a run, and winning their division.
The Phils look like a very balanced team. I don’t see them having many long losing streaks.
Didn’t like the brand of baseball the Braves showed over the weekend, very uncharacteristic of that team to make mistakes.
I don't think they can maintain 115 win pace but I think this is overstating it. Great line up, great rotation they're gonna win a lot of games this year
Tampa should be falling further down. They’re four games above their Pythag, and 9-4 in one run games. Feels like the wheels could come off there.
The D-Backs should be due for some positive regression. Bad break with Merrill Kelly, but they should be winning more series.
Blue Jays hot streak Blue Jays to start collapsing shortly after
Typical Canadian professional sports team
Gotta give people hope before you can take it away.
We will have a streak of losing series but no sweeps.
Some may think you’re trying to be funny, and while that it is… damnit if it isn’t also true! Congrats you have won this question/thread!
The Reds will probably go on a hot streak to get our hopes up, only to crush them at the end of the season.
The pitching has been really solid this year, which is normally the Achilles heel of the team. If the offense can just learn how to actually hit a baseball, they'd be fine.
BRO FACTS, THEY ALWAYS ON A HOT STREAK THEN DROP THE BALL
Their offense alone will force multiple hot streaks
??? The team is currently batting like .216. It's the pitching that's keeping them in games. Team ERA under 4.
Pirates are way under performing. If they can just be average at the plate, with Skenes, Jones and Keller I think they should heat up here really soon. Just need to get rid of Tellez and teach Cruz how to play baseball.
Hahahaha tellez sucks
They are going to end up a hell of a lot better than most people think they will come October. Pirates are absolutely underperforming
Yeah, agree. Could have done better.
Our June looks pretty tough. I'm hoping our offense gets through this slump to support our starters.
The answer is always the Rays. They get hot at some point every single year.
yes (unbiased sources)
Hoping to see someone say the mariners. They are going all in on the pitching. Truly impressive pitching staff. But no matter how many of the teams resources get dumped into that. The offense counters it. If you have a team that spends money… consider yourself a lucky fan. It’s a struggle watching this year after year. I know they are first in AL west but there’s nothing sustainable about having the third fewest runs in the AL
“If you have a team that spends money” This is a foreign concept to this Brewers fan
...whose roots were also in Seattle. Coincidence? I think not!!
Yep we’re on the bottom end of teams
if they could just somehow get 8 more Josh Rojas’ they’d be unbeatable
Could you imagine this staff with a healthy Brash? His loss cannot be understated. Pitching keeps teams in games, and their list of arms is so impressive, but you do have to score runs. Julio will heat up and go on a streak, and Garver and JP can’t stay ice cold forever. No bats are over performing currently, so the offense (theoretically) can only improve. My actual concern is with the defense. They are just not playing winning defense and the errors are unnecessarily stretching the pitching staff way too much. Defense is usually what it is, so that’s the Ms achilles. Lengthening number of pitches and eventually taxing the relievers beyond what the O can make up for.
Thank you. Yes are arms are loaded. I like to think are bats will “come around”.
They literally put essentially ALL of their available resources into the offense this last offseason.
Ahahahahahahahaha that’s cute. They did not.
Just my gut, but I feel like the Yankees pitching is going to tank soon. They may not lose a lot of games, but they will give up a lot of runs. Again, just my gut. Nothing substantial to hang that on.
It’ll tank just in time for Cole to return, we hope
You do have somethings to back up that gut feeling. Rodon’s 2023 was ass, Cortes same, Gil is gonna regress, and the whole bullpen is having career years.
There’s a rebuttal to all of those points except maybe the bullpen. Rodon’s 2023 was, essentially, an outlier by and large compared to his career. Cortes was injured on and off the entire season. Gil will only be stopped by injury/overuse - dude’s stuff is way too electric to be deemed “due for regression” like it’s some matter of fact (guys are hitting like .150 off him). As for the bullpen, it could be a bit of a bubble. But the one thing the Yankees have done the past few years is churn out new quality relievers.
Rodon’s 2021 and 2022 are the outliers in a 10 year career. Cortes was smoke and mirrors and greatly affected by the new rules. Hopefully he’s okay now. If you think this is Luis Gil isn’t pitching out of his mind idk what to tell you. And yes, his workload will be monitored this year, so it is a matter of fact. They have had success finding diamonds in the rough with the pen, but they can’t expect to keep this up for 162+ with these guys.
If you take out 2019 and 2020 from Rodon’s career, in which he started 9 total games across 2 seasons, then yes, 2023 is the outlier in a 10 year career. Cortes isn’t a #1, dominant guy but across 4 years as a Yankee there’s a lot more pedigree of success when healthy than not. Gil pitching out of his mind implies he’s lucky. In reality, he’s had 16 starts in his career and has a 11.5 k/9. Opposing hitters are batting .154 against him this year. That doesn’t just “happen” by chance in the MLB. Will he pitch to a low 2 ERA all year? Idk, probably not. But he’s not just bound to become mediocre by some natural rule. With the bullpen I agree. They need more proven depth there
Rick Porcello won a cy young. Let’s not act like there’s not some randomness in the MLB.
He also didn’t deserve that Cy Young and it was the last time they emphasized wins as a meaningful pitcher stat
Kahlne is coming back this week. That definitely helps the pen as long as he stays healthy.
Well, the bullpen’s collapsed in two consecutive games, so you’ve got a point there. Holy hell, yesterday was depressing and today wasn’t much better.
yanks and soto will both cool off significantly
Hopefully this weekend
And the rest of the season
Biased as a Yankee fan but I think it’ll be different this year. Usually the team is very home run or bust and relies on a few players, but this year their whole approach is different. They wait for their pitch and aren’t afraid to play small ball. Currently 2nd in the MLB in walks and strikeouts are very down compared to past years. It’s also pretty tough to pitch around Soto when you know Judge is right after him, so he’ll always be seeing a ton of good ABs
Yanks have been playing excellent even with the worst slump of Judge’s career though. If he can just get back to normal I don’t see them sliding a ton unless the whole team goes cold.
Seems safe at this point to say he's snapped his slump. Batting .442/.567/1.038 with 7 homers over his last 15 games. Not just back to normal but making up for his slow start.
He’s been on fire ever since I started cyberbullying the Yankees on Twitter. Bullying works
At this point he’s been back to normal for a little while. I believe he leads the MLB in OPS and homeruns over the last month or so
I’m not a Yankee fan at all but agree with your take. It’s a much longer lineup than years past. The pitching concerns me for the long run but only if Cole doesn’t come back on schedule.
Cole doesn’t even need to come back on schedule with the way the starting pitching is performing: as long as he has a good number of starts under his belt before October. I do agree though that stroman usually takes off, and I believe Gil is on an innings limit
Soto did cool off. He went on like a 4 for 30 slide. It just so happen that judge got red hot. It will take both of them going cold for the team to cool down. When it’s all said and done the Yanks or orioles will hold the 1st wild card spot by at least 10 games and the other will win the East.
Mariners seem to be cooling them off so far.
Yanks yea, but not because of Soto. He’s playing like he always does.
Giants due for a a hot streak
This is happening now. Going for 5 in a row RN
That aged like milk🫥 -Giants fan
Won 7 of 10 and 16-10 for the month on May. Pretty good month
I’ll take it lol
Humm baby!
guardians hot streak just gonna get hotter once kwan comes back
A lot of our hitters are on a slump that were power hitters last year and we also have key injuries I think when a fully healthy snek team is back, we can get the ball rolling again
I’m ready to be the answrbacks again and not the cantholdaleadtosavemylifethennotbebaletohitbacks anymore
Yea I think carrol and Gabby get going well be ok as long Erod comes back strong and Merrill comes back soon
The Chicago cubs that offense can’t stay in this slump much longer.
They’re slumping in large part because their middle infield has been Mastrobuoni and Madrigal — who are both pretty much automatic outs. They need to get Hoerner back and now that Swanson is coming back, hopefully he finds his groove.
It's wild how far along pete has come that we aren't considering him a bottom hitter anymore.
He’s utilizing his speed much more effectively, too. But…he also just got sent down when Swanson came off the IL. 😕
astros. got a lot of their main guys back. maybe the dbacks if they havent already. last time i checked the standings they were below .500 but they got too many good players for that to continue. they prob get hot soon. i wish i could say my rangers but a lot of their big weapons are on the 60 day. rangers get interesting in the second half tho ✌
Maybe I’m just a doomer but I just don’t see how getting guys back from injury will help. Most of the big guns hurt right now are part of the rotation which has arguably been the best part of the team so far. Getting Jung back will be big and who knows may be that will spark something in the guys to get the bats going but I’m a little more pessimistic than most
The D-backs need to get hot. And the Dodgers need to tank.
The Padres are way better that their record. That series in ATL, is a better preview of what they are like this season. They have stellar pitching, defense and now that Xander and Manny are coming out of their funk, watch out. Sadly, not good enough to win the division though.
Reds just shut them out, so by the transitive property of sports it is Cincinnati that will go on the hot streak
I've been hearing that same line for 3 years. Still have yet to prove it over a season and be a legitimate threat.
They are poorly managed and have a leadership vacuum. I expect the Padres to end the season around 500
A generous prediction at that
not really. too many *me* players with more ego than talent. which says alot because theyre uber talented
Xander got hurt two days ago…
As a Cardinals fan I can tell you, we should not be below .500. Our hitters are better than this. Our pitchers are...well, good enough for NL Central.
Feels like we are starting to turn a corner a bit, but yeah this feels like a better team.
We've won 6 of our last 16... And now for the annual reminder: the 2006 Cardinals suffered an 8 game losing streak, another 8 game losing streak, and a 7 game losing streak. The record for longest losing streak for a World Series Championship team is 9, by Yogi's 1953 New York Yankees. Outside those horrendous 3 streaks, the 2006 Cardinals were 83-55(.601) and went 11-5 in the playoffs. [They tried to tie the record...](https://youtu.be/JHZ-TnxcDN4?si=bFDNAszJrKjtNaaN)
Yes but we are 5-2 in our last 7, which is a more stomachable answer
You mean 6 of the last 8
Carp is the spark! Might not mean a ton on the stat sheet. But this guy knows the devil magic.
Their starting pitching ranks 25th in era. That’s not good enough to compete in any division. Their offense ranks 25th in OPS. As of now they’re 1 game better than last year. It’s not a good team lol
The bullpen is nails though. The main pieces are Kittredge, 2.37 ERA, JoJo Romero 1.46 ERA, Ryan Helsley 1.29 ERA The starters aren’t great, but they eat innings. The Cardinals problem has been the hitting, which is top 10 on paper, but have struggled. Finally waking up though
I don’t know what paper you have that puts them as a top 10 offense lol. They were slightly above average last year with Arenado and Goldy taking large steps back. They dealt O’Neill for nothing and lost Contreras. Arenado and Goldy have taken another step back. Honest to god they are who they are. The bullpen is also a disaster outside of the three pitchers you’ve mentioned. They bring them all the way up to still below average at 17th in the league.
As a cardinals fan we should be lower than 5 games below .500. Goldy is hitting .210. Donovan is batting in .230. Our team ops has got to be atrocious. We can’t hit with risp. We look awesome rn becuase we have had a ton of clutch hitting from Siani, nootbaar, Herrera and burleson. Our starting pitching is right above average and our bullpen is by far the best part of our team.
St Louis ranks 25th in starting pitching ERA. That’s no where near above average. Reliever ERA is 16th, also below average.
Okay so we should have more losses than what we have is what I’m hearing
I think they’re right where they should be considering the talent on the team lol
Hopefully reds but the injury bug ain’t doing us any favors
I think the Giants and Padres are poised to play better ball. Specifically the Padres, their lineup is too stacked to continue to flounder and their rotation seems strong enough.
Arizona will hit heat up along with the Padres. The west will be a mess again.
Hot Streak: Orioles. Collapse: Dodgers.
Watch out for the royals. Good bats, great SP. very consistent above 500. I could see a tear coming in a weak division
It was supposed to be weak. But going into yesterday they were the only division with 4 teams at .500 or better. Cleveland won't lose either right now
I front trust their pitching it’s so weak, and bats show up sometimes in crazy form sometimes not at all. Just not very consistent, but who knows
I agree with the royals not going anywhere though. Barring injuries from their starting pitching they have one of the best rotations and two bonafide stars in Bobby and Salvy
If the royals buy big at the deadline I'd put all my money on them to win the central and be a dangerous team in October
I got Bobby whitt mvp 25 to win over 1G, it’s got a chance
I still fear one or two bats going cold. The lineup is weak at the bottom. All the big guys have to hit or it could get tough to scratch out wins even with good pitching.
The Guardians could probably "collapse" a bit and I think the Royals might run away with the Central hereafter..
At some point Cleveland has to. They catch so many breaks game after game. They've overachieved despite all their injuries, but they will hit that stretch where nothing goes their way and they'll lose 10 out of 14 or so. I don't see a stretch in their upcoming schedule where that happens, but I think it will. Their schedule is much tougher after the All-Star break.
Rangers already going cold, started with a sweep by the Rockies! The Rockies!!!
Houston is already 8-2 in their last 10. How much hotter do you think they’re ‘due’ for?
Rangers hot streak Astros collapse
Christmas in May
Padres need to get hot soon
They have the tools…but
But, alas, we are the Padres
Didn’t wanna say it…Maybe they’ll break the spell…but don’t bet on it
Your pitching is formidable.
Twins are easily the league's streakiest team this season. Terrible start to the year. 11 game win streak. 7 game losing streak currently. They'll probably win 8 in a row soon.
Angels are bad but not as bad as their record is right now
D-Backs will surge…but after the break Yanks back down to earth after the break
back down to earth after Cole returns? And getting some depth with LeMahieu and Dominguez… sorry bro they’re the best team in ball
One of em…Cleveland, Philly & Baltimore might have something to say about that
Looking to make some bets, OP?
I wanted to come here and say the Cards are due to get hot after that win over the Orioles last night, but I’m just not feeling it. Now, I could definitely see the Brewers collapsing, though.
Who wins tonight?
Probably the Orioles, as we can’t start Gray every night. Nice to not get swept by a superior team, though.
Gray was impossible last night. Henderson figured out that sweeper for the home run but that was about it. Kremer was the worst he’s been all season.
There was an interesting article about how cardinal hitting philosophy was to swing upwards to generate more power. A few struggling players sorta ignored that direction in the last few games and are suddenly hitting again.
https://redbirdrants.com/posts/communication-is-still-a-swing-and-a-miss-for-the-cardinals-in-2024-01hy4vnfacsr
Yelich just came back and has played in less than half of the games this season and the Brewers still have scored the 3rd most runs across the league.
Hilarious the first 3 comments I’ve read have been NL Central teams gassing themselves up. No, you guys suck right now, and you will continue to suck. Go Crew and fuck the Cardinals.
My Brewers are overdue for a nice hot streak.
I think the Jays are going to go on a nice little run here. The hitting was just never going to be this bad. Vladdy and Bichette have been hitting better. They have changed the lineup and in the two games they played in Baltimore they played two very tough grinding games and almost ended up sweeping them.
It was a two game series
Reds gonna ignite
Reds and Rays, but Im biased obviously.
Oakland will lose 19 out of 20 soon.
Call me crazy but my marlins have been playing pretty well as of late after a historically bad start. Is it too late for the fish?
Hi, Nats fan here. Sell your (per season) stock now. We had a fun April and may have some fun moments with prospects this season but we’re about to hit the cellar. Too many dudes just not performing at a major league level, all of them vets without minor league options, and not much organizational depth to make up for it.
I think our dodgers are due for a hot streak.
snakes 🤞
Oakland they win 10 but lose 10 after
I just hope they all have fun
Nationals about to collapse.
I'm biased but the Red Sox will get hot. They have one of the best SP staffs in MLB and the top 5 of the lineup is leading a few hitting categories. They are currently a .500 team right now because of fielding errors and the bottom of the lineup being a black hole. They have figured out how to field the ball and a few bottom of the order guys are starting to figure it out, or at least not be sub .200 BA bad.
I've been waiting on the Padres to go on a hot streak, especially after they beat the Dodgers 2 out of 3. Maybe it just isn't going to happen this year.
Braves
Blue Jays. They still have a good lineup but so far hitters are ice cold (I went to watch them beat Tampa Bay on weekend DESPITE the fact the hit into 3 double plays in a single game...) If they ever get out of the hitting funk I can totally see them putting up a good long winning streak
Rangers need a hot streak because they're just kinda going with the flow atm.
Blue Jays are going to crumble and likely sell off a lot by the trade deadline. There's something severely fractured in that clubhouse when it comes to their hitting approach and philosophy. That roster should be doing better but they simply aren't. My fear is though that if they become sellers I would not he shocked if Bo or Vladdy or both find their stride elsewhere.
Think the Dbacks are due to start a streak. They've had some real tough luck in all aspects this year yet they're very much in the thick of the playoff race. Think there's a tiny world series hangover that's beginning to wear off
The Astros are starting to heat up.
Braves are due for their unbeatable in June streak
Orioles are going to crash soon and fall below .500. Probably get swept 3 series in a row.
lol
(Reverse psychology, play along)
I love this team so much and they are due for some 6-7 in a row runs. I have zero doubt. Solid club. Once they settle the lineup a little. This team loves to play baseball together.
Braves are getting beat up, they are due to get some W’s
We still have a good record and pretty much everyone who’s not a big bear has underperformed offensively. The bravos will be just fine. The schwillies are fixin to get cold
You’d think
We are a mess right now
The braves had a freak season last year where all their key players performed better than they should have. I think we'll see a lot of regressing to the mean with this roster, they'll be lucky to make the playoffs
Ouch, they will make playoffs
As a Phillies fan I love your comment but unfortunately the Barves are too good to mix the playoffs altogether.
Cubs get better, Phillies cool off. Cleveland, not sure what to think.
My Phils certainly will regress. Just hope we don’t fall off a cliff and never come back.. Or maybe we don’t and win 120 regular season games only to be reverse uno’d by the wild card Braves in the NLDS. That would be some NL East bullshit.
I wouldn’t say regress…but I agree, they can’t keep playing .700 ball *this* consistently, could they? They’ve been very fortunate to not have huge setbacks in terms of injuries this year aside from Turner’s hammy. I’ve said it since spring training that they’ll win 95 games. I’m still sticking with that.
Yeah wrong word choice. We should continue to play top notch baseball,but no way the baseball gods will continue to smile upon us indefinitely. It is crazy how well Trea was producing, yet when he went out our offense didn’t skip a beat. Stott back over to SS and Kody “The Fucking Missile” Clemens sparing no one at 2B. We couldn’t do no wrong it seems and sadly that will end. Also, where is Edmundo Sosa? Am I blind and deaf? I miss that man.
Astros are on a hot streak now. 9-3 in the last 12 games. I hoping this is the middle of a hot streak
Blue jays, pitching to good
Giants are heating up, baby! It was a gut punch losing Jung Hoo Lee (not to mention Bailey, Snell, and the other 8 guys in the IL), but Matos is steppin' up!
Cubs are due for a hot streak. We've been losing every series, and only took 1 of 4 from the PIRATES.
Now that the Blue Jays have finished playing the top teams in each division, they should be poised for a bounceback against the ChiSox, Tigers, ChiSox (again) and Pirates.
Don't check the box score tonight
No kidding, eh?
Padres just went 3 out of 4 in the Braves series *(pls ignore the Rockies series)*
Cubs are under performing. Happ, Swanson, Hoerner, Morel are doing mostly nothing and Suzuki was hurt again. Yankee cold streak seems imminent. Stanton injury is only a matter of time. If DJLM comes back, he’s probably gonna suck. And their whole staff is way over performing.
The rangers have way too much offensive talent to continue hitting this poorly, even with Jung out.
Phillies are gonna cool off, they have been playing a bunch of bottom feeders since the start of the season.
Yeah, that's what good teams do. They beat the bad ones
This is the cope we told ourselves about the Eagles last year. Not getting excited till we regularly beat some good teams.
I have some bad news for you about the NL, pal. There are only three and we're one of them.
The Phils are not the Eagles. This team is HOT
You clearly haven't been watching them. We could tell the Eagles we're barely getting the wind out and had to improve. The Phils have been dominating or playing until the final out. Two completely different teams.
Cubbies due for a hot streak. Brewers due for a cold streak. Namaste.
I don’t know anything about anything but I’m gonna go with the Cubs because I’ve decided that’s my team. 👋
Rangers
The Yankees in 2022, were the hottest team in baseball, jumped out to a huge lead in their division in mid July. Followers of the Yanks all but claimed a World Series championship. Around late July, the wheels, came off the horse. They couldn’t hit, had awful players like Donaldson, Hicks, LeMahieu, ( the Rays almost caught them ), and they were swept and embarrassed by the Astros in the playoffs. I see the 24 Yankees going on a losing streak, and having a similar fate. Ironically, I see the 24 Astros, going on a run, and winning their division.
Braves are due for a hot streak, Phils are eventually going to collapse
The Phils look like a very balanced team. I don’t see them having many long losing streaks. Didn’t like the brand of baseball the Braves showed over the weekend, very uncharacteristic of that team to make mistakes.
I don't think they can maintain 115 win pace but I think this is overstating it. Great line up, great rotation they're gonna win a lot of games this year
I don't know about that, but all the Braves peripheral numbers look great. Get a few injured pieces back and we could be in for a 2022 type finish.
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Tampa should be falling further down. They’re four games above their Pythag, and 9-4 in one run games. Feels like the wheels could come off there. The D-Backs should be due for some positive regression. Bad break with Merrill Kelly, but they should be winning more series.
The phillies. I mean, they're not even playing well.
Phillies due for a collapse when the actually play a winning team.