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I love a speedy center fielder who can steal a bunch of bases as much as the next guy. I like one who can get on base a lot and win you a few games with his glove even better.

So I did a query to determine the Losing Batter of each game in 2024 and 2025, for which I have play by play files. The Losing Batter is the guy who makes the last out at the plate to lose the game. Here’s are the leaderboards for each those seasons. 2024 Losing Batter Leaderboard (Top 30) |Rank|Player, Team |Times| |----|----------------------|-----| |1 |Bryan De La Cruz, PIT |14 | |2 |Korey Lee, CHA |13 | |2 |Andrew Vaughn, CHA |13 | |4 |Zack Gelof, OAK |12 | |4 |Corey Seager, TEX |12 | |4 |Jose Caballero, TBA |12 | |4 |Leody Taveras, TEX |12 | |4 |Brent Rooker, OAK |12 | |9 |Brenton Doyle, COL |11 | |9 |Jesus Sanchez, MIA |11 | |9 |Nico Hoerner, CHN |11 | |9 |Colton Cowser, BAL |11 | |9 |Patrick Bailey, SFN |11 | |9 |Michael Toglia, COL |11 | |9 |Alec Burleson, SLN |11 | |9 |Julio Rodriguez, SEA |11 | |17 |Nolan Arenado, SLN |10 | |17 |Gavin Sheets, CHA |10 | |17 |Jeimer Candelario, CIN|10 | |17 |Josh Bell, MIA |10 | |17 |Danny Jansen, TOR |10 | |17 |Andrew Benintendi, CHA|10 | |17 |Manny Machado, SDN |10 | 2025 Losing Batter Leaderboard (Top 30) |Rank|Player, Team |Times| |----|---------------------|-----| |1 |Brenton Doyle, COL |15 | |2 |Patrick Bailey, SFN |13 | |2 |Dansby Swanson, CHN |13 | |2 |James Wood, WAS |13 | |5 |Ryan O’Hearn, BAL |12 | |5 |Josh Lowe, TBA |12 | |5 |Juan Soto, NYN |12 | |8 |Adolis Garcia, TEX |11 | |8 |Sean Murphy, ATL |11 | |8 |Jordan Beck, COL |11 | |8 |Cedric Mullins, BAL |11 | |8 |Brice Turang, MIL |11 | |13 |CJ Abrams, WAS |10 | |13 |Ke’Bryan Hayes, PIT |10 | |13 |JJ Bleday, ATH |10 | |13 |Javier Sanoja, MIA |10 | |13 |Ryan Mountcastle, BAL|10 | |13 |Jackson Holliday, BAL|10 | |13 |Tyler Freeman, COL |10 | |13 |Josh Jung, TEX |10 | |13 |Riley Greene, DET |10 | |22 |Nolan Schanuel, ANA |9 | |22 |Victor Caratini, HOU |9 | |22 |Josh Naylor, ARI |9 | |22 |Mookie Betts, LAN |9 | |22 |Agustin Ramirez, MIA |9 | |22 |Lenyn Sosa, CHA |9 | |22 |Miguel Vargas, CHA |9 | |22 |Michael Taylor, CHA |9 | |22 |Ryan McMahon, COL |9 |

Ahh, well, good thing they don’t debit you two losses when you get your everlovin’ ass kicked like this.

12-4! Only six batters until the tying run comes to the plate!

Rhetorical tweet.

On April 25, 1901, the Milwaukee Brewers took a 13-4 lead into the ninth inning of the first-ever Detroit Tigers game as a major league team. The Tigers scored ten to win 14-13. Just sayin’.

Four three-run shots would do it, too. More than one way to skin the cat.

They just had a shot of the dugout and it’s pretty funny how, now that’s he struck out a hitter in the major league game, they’re showing Jake Rogers explaining to Tarik Skubal and Jack Flaherty how to strike out hitters in a major league game.

Even Kevin McGonigle is getting in on the ****upery.

And how often was that #2 hitter a shortstop?

I knew Nick Castellanos was a really bad defender, but I didn’t realize he was this bad: he ranks seventh in lowest defensive WAR of all time among players who have played at least 95% of their career games at defensive positions (i.e., not DH). And it doesn’t help that his OPS+ is the second worst on list that’s visible here.

That failure to record an out at first? What is this, 2019?

BOOOOOOO!!!!!!

We’ve come a long way from reflexively putting the crap batter who can bunt the best in the two-hole.

Maybe he’s off doing a MAC spring football game for a Tubi pop-up channel.

Telling us exactly what he was going to do was the thing we should have been reminding each other of whenever Trump and his cabal accused Biden of weaponizing the government against "conservatives".

Are red hats so up his ass that they can compartmentalize his unhinged boast about Vietnam and his openly obvious failure in Iran that cleanly?

Looks to me as though he might be conducting an open audition for his next fascist daddy.

I know, I like when Dave quizzes ex-players about their own careers like this.

In preparation for tonight's game—or maybe not—here's a fun interview of Dan Petry in FanGraphs.

Ballmich must be lighting votive candles due to this news.

One other problem is the expectation that pitchers must elicit swing and miss with every hitter and strike out 10+ guys per nine, versus lucking into five strikeouts per nine while serving up pitches and saying here you go, hit it and get yourself out by the guys behind me.

That’s what I was implying with Flaherty, too. If he’s done done as some insist, who starts in his place who’s going to be better for sure? Keider is already up. Who else is there? I think Flaherty’s history is such that he’s earned at least five more starts to show he can be at least good in more games than he’s bad. It’s a low bar but to Lee’s point, there are too many pitchers and not enough pitching.

He was 30 years ahead of his time. He had his best year with us: 1992, .247/.337/.547, 32 bombs, and 919 innings of arguably average defense in right.

Apparently, Gill did not get the memo that the current term of art is "mentally retarded."