Foolish went from beta stats nerd to omegachad old school baseball dad, and I am here for it

@FoolishBaseball

Жыл бұрын

The greatest sabermetric of them all: the understanding that innings are outs and you need 27 outs to win a game

@cantripleplays

Жыл бұрын

@@FoolishBaseball wait a minute.. innings aren’t outs. Innings are 3 outs. Wait.. they are outs. Oh no.. what does this mean for LeBron James’ legacy next on ESPN

@ligmaemperor7064

Жыл бұрын

​​​@@cantripleplaysLeBron has never pitched an inning of MLB baseball, which means he has never made any outs. But, this also means he has never given up a run or even a hit! Furthermore, he may never have gotten an at-bat or a hit, but this also means he has never made an out! Clearly, this means that LeBron is a far superior basketball player than plumber Jordan. Join us next week, where we discuss the recent news that has come out about LeBron drinking his coffee with cream and no sugar, and why it means he could probably be a better soccer player than Messi.

@rorye6952

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, his big blowup was about a starter pitching in the 8th inning

@AndreIguodalaFan55

Жыл бұрын

I’m so here for it baby

"Men want to be him! Women... Don't watch these videos..." Holy hell that made me laugh pretty hard lol

@stephen_cs

Жыл бұрын

The video metrics graph was fucking killer

@FoolishBaseball

Жыл бұрын

My apologies to the 4% who are actually watching

@Xav3rageJoeX

Жыл бұрын

​@@FoolishBaseball who are we kidding, the 4% are just guys on their mom's account

@mslemongirl

Жыл бұрын

​@@FoolishBaseballHappy to contribute to that 4%! Great stuff. My favourite obscure stat is outs/BF. Seems so simple and intuitive.

@bipity-bob

Жыл бұрын

@@mslemongirl dont lie, we know your just on you mothers account.

When you get so deep in the sabermetrics matrix you loop all the way back to loving high IP workhorses.

@FoolishBaseball

Жыл бұрын

horseshoe theory

@alextrivunovic644

Жыл бұрын

​@@FoolishBaseballbased!

@warlordofbritannia

Жыл бұрын

When everyone wants that 120IP 160ERA+ guy, the innings eater becomes an undervalued commodity And there’s nothing sexier to a sabermetrician than dat cheap booty 🤤

@NicCageCDXX

Жыл бұрын

A beautifully renovated house has a lot less value if it's on a cracked foundation, and as such, having some excellent pitchers is much less valuable if you don't have anyone to absorb the ugly innings.

@topcatmatt

Жыл бұрын

​@@FoolishBaseballsabrmetrics sticklers are the *real* fascists

As a woman watching your videos...there are literally dozens of us!

@FoolishBaseball

Жыл бұрын

despite my earlier comments you are valid

@dfp_01

Жыл бұрын

Change "woman" to "A's fan" and the sentiment is the same

@AndrewJW

9 ай бұрын

Tens of ones

This is a certified Jordan Lyles moment

@FoolishBaseball

Жыл бұрын

This is like eating dinner at Jordan Lyles' house

@jimbopoppin3152

Жыл бұрын

@@FoolishBaseballsay gex

@FoolishBaseball

Жыл бұрын

@@jimbopoppin3152 gecs

@Cheifs15

Жыл бұрын

As a royals fan lyles make me mad every time he starts

@myname1555

Жыл бұрын

@@Cheifs15 As a royals fan I think it’s truly beautiful when he goes 7innings with 6 earned runs 🥹

Jordan Lyles gets one win and Foolish Baseball reward him with his own video

@FoolishBaseball

Жыл бұрын

He gets 1 video per win that was always the deal

@goonbosstv5349

Жыл бұрын

​@FoolishBaseball half a season remaining...you might be getting yourself into trouble here 😂

@SGAfan2

11 ай бұрын

Foolish, Jordan got the another win. I’ll be expecting another vid

@craigwheeler4760

9 ай бұрын

The Texas rangers have a history of very good innings eaters. Back in their world series years, they had an entire rotation of them. The chad in the group was Colby Lewis, who averaged about 200 per season while throwing in the upper 80s and having an era slightly better than League average. Interesting Lee enough, the Texas rangers, in one of his last season's, went 19-13 in games he started and he personally one like 18 of them.

Jolly Olive: James Shields will be remembered only for two bad moments Bailey: CHAD INNINGS EATER

@zachwilkens7524

Жыл бұрын

idk if that guy is 10 years younger than me or what, but Shields was Big Game James. Sure he was traded for Tatis but I mean c'mon it was a very nice career. Looking at that video it feels all hyperbole and reductive. I had no recollection he was the pitcher for Colon's HR.

@CBahlBowling

Жыл бұрын

@@zachwilkens7524fr like he was the ace for those great Royals teams in the mid 2010s

@slaugmromni6743

Жыл бұрын

That JO video was pure trash.

@RatBrain

11 ай бұрын

He'll always be big game James to me ❤️

@mitchellsanchez3937

11 ай бұрын

Haha yep

15 minute work break has been mandated by King Bailey, Bringer of Bits.

@FoolishBaseball

Жыл бұрын

I'm calling for a 15-minute holiday

@BenLikesPurdue

Жыл бұрын

@@FoolishBaseballI love you, Bailey

Lmao Jordan "eating innings by the piles" Lyles is the actual best nickname, it better get one of those nickname cards in the show

@CorgeekGUS

Жыл бұрын

Better see 33 overall incognito Eating Innings By the Piles"

"the children, they yearn for their innings." Made me laugh harder than i thought it would.

No mention of Tim Wakefield. Played almost two decades, threw over 200 innings 5x, 150 innings in his final (age 45) season, and would routinely fill in for garbage innings as a middle reliever. 200-180 W-L and 105 career ERA+.

@valpix7007

Жыл бұрын

Like Niekro, a knuckleballer. And some of those garbage innings were huge too in the 2004 Red Sox ALCS comeback. People forget he was supposed to start Game 4 (and probably Game 7 as well, since Lowe started both) but volunteered to sacrifice it to finish the blowout loss in Game 3.

@thenightrider2121

Жыл бұрын

We need more knuckleballers.

I’m going to have to frame this thumbnail and hang it on my refrigerator It’s too inspirational.

@cantripleplays

Жыл бұрын

It’s even NORDVPN protected!

@FoolishBaseball

Жыл бұрын

thanks I made it in 23 minutes

@warlordofbritannia

Жыл бұрын

Just don’t let the real Jordan Lyles near your fridge. He might think there’s innings inside it…

@glucosaminecondroitan9135

Жыл бұрын

​@@warlordofbritanniathat cracked me up.

@The_Devil_Himself

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate how his shirt even says OUTS! instead of OUCH!

Loved what Lyles did for us last year and happy to see him finally get his win this year

@FoolishBaseball

Жыл бұрын

took a while!

@qhillis

Жыл бұрын

@@FoolishBaseballLyles is a John Sherman deep state agent executing their plan to get a new stadium in downtown KC

@robertcrist6059

Жыл бұрын

@@FoolishBaseball You're telling me! I'm a Royals fan trying to find a reason to even think the team can win when he takes the mound. Literally never wager against KC b/c I don't want to wish bad on the team I root for. I still do from time to time b/c obvious, but I put down an L for KC the other day in a parlay and wouldn't you know it Lyles got the dub that day. I was okay losing out on my $1k return (other parlay legs faild so it wasn't all on him, thank goodness or I really would have been pissed).

@baileysmith4744

Жыл бұрын

Kyle Gibson is basically Jordan Lyles but with a couple good seasons at some point in his career, which Lyles never really had

@00millern

Жыл бұрын

@@baileysmith4744 not really, he does 5-6 innings a night. He got pulled in the 6th last night and we lost in extra innings because we had to use Keegan Akin, something no team should ever have to do

I laughed way too loud at the “BIG MONEY, BIG CARS” reference 😂

@ale69420

Жыл бұрын

GHETTO BOYZ

@VersaceJesus

Жыл бұрын

I sit alone in a four cornered room staring at baseball stats

@AndrewJW

9 ай бұрын

​@@VersaceJesus🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

In 1969, Miguel Cuellar (the greatest pitcher of all time) threw 297.2 IP and led the league in ER, HR allowed, CGs, Wins, and managed an ERA+ of 105. Almost got back to back Cy Youngs.

Finally, a video for all of us Mike Leake-pilled Wade Miley-cels. Thank you

@hooverhoover5

Жыл бұрын

Holy shit I called it

@FoolishBaseball

Жыл бұрын

I've always been Leake-pilled

@jackmonaghan6294

11 ай бұрын

What about us Alejandro De Aza pulled individuals

I think Bailey just delivered his comedic magnum opus with this one

@dfp_01

Жыл бұрын

It's up there, at least as far as his serious videos go. His Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez videos are pretty darn funny though

Jordan Lyles throwing a complete game in a 4-2 loss in 2023 is more ridiculous than I even realized. Reminds me of Mark Buehrle who did it twice in a month in 2015 (CG/4er) He lead the Majors in Complete games with 4 but it was his first and only full season he failed to reach the 200 innings after 14 consecutive years of doing so. It ended up being the last season of his career. Absolute CHAD.

"Let me out of this locker" is a great line and an example of the self-effacing humor which helps create the warmth Bailey's fans have towards him.

Watching Lyles pitch every 5 games is always interesting. I know he's gonna go 6+ innings, and I know ~5 of them are gonna be great, but I also know that in the 6th or 7th inning he's gonna allow 6 runs, and I don't know how to feel.

@morimo11

11 ай бұрын

This is exactly why I don’t understand the value of an innings eater. Like I legitimately do not get the concept.

@liguy181

11 ай бұрын

@@morimo11 Honestly I've watched the video a couple of times now and I still don't know Bailey's exact conclusion, but I would say that the innings eater is the "Ol' Reliable" of the pitching staff. They're serviceable enough where you know they won't get injured, they won't give up too many runs (though it'll still be more than actually good pitchers), and their games won't turn into bullpen games. No team is gonna have a rotation of 5 workhorses, so having an innings eater pitch every 5 days eases the load for the bullpen and the rest of the team

@alexisborden3191

10 ай бұрын

@@morimo11 Basically its the SP equivalent of a long reliever, you have a long reliever for when the game is kind of a blowout, you're up by 6 or whatever, so you don't wanna use your good pitchers yet, so your glad if you can get 3 or 4 innings from this guy even if he might give up 2 or 3 runs, and then if it ends up being close you can bring in your good relievers. Basically any Innings Eater start is gonna be a game you don't need to use your bullpen. If the game is lost, its lost, its fine because you didn't use your good arms if you used any. But if its close you only need 1 or 2 innings from your relievers instead of 4 or 5 good ones if its close all game. Its valuable to have a guy who can just throw innings that don't matter at somewhat league average quality, he saves your above average pitchers for more critical points in other games.

"Just like my marriage" made zero sense but still somehow was perfectly executed at the same time. Wow.

Bailey never change man. Your little goofy additions such as; "They make big money, drive big cars" literally makes me laugh out loud even when I'm all alone. Your talents & videos are incredible

@elijahengland6032

Жыл бұрын

But late at night, something ain't right

@malloyy6828

Жыл бұрын

@@elijahengland6032 I feel im being tailed by the same suckas headlights

If there is one thing I've learned from your videos, it's that even though the Rangers haven't really been competitive the last decade, they've made roster decisions that have really allowed our current young talent to learn and come into their own with time & shine.

@baseballisfun35

Жыл бұрын

Yeah yeah rangers rangers we only care about the royals (Sorry this was a joke please don’t take it personally)

The ultimate Chad innings-eater that I have seen was Jamie Moyer. Jamie would throw 200-plus innings per season, yet had an era about league-average most of the time. He also somehow got people out through an 85 miles per hour.

Remembering the Mariners rotations that had Mike Leake and Marco Gonzales. Couple of quality start machines

@WavyKid13

11 ай бұрын

former and future cardinals at those stages of their careers

ah baseball, the only sport where being just ok makes you elite

How does Bailey keep getting funnier while consistently making great quality vids? He's the innings eater of baseball youtubers.

Loved having Lyles on the O's last year, and Gibson has done a great job of filling that role this year! Long live the innings eaters!

Growing up a reds fan, my dad and I loved watching mike Leake start because he would simply just get the job done and when I started pitching I continued the same sentiment, you don’t have to be incredible, just get in there and get outs, no matter how ugly

Bailey always delivers just at the right time. Love me some new bits!

@FoolishBaseball

Жыл бұрын

thank you very much!

@Gabe-zm9vh

Жыл бұрын

@@FoolishBaseballh

Lyles can easily pass at least one of those pitchers on the quantity start leaderboard. I believe in him.

As a member of the Innings Eating Club back in high school, we appreciate the recognition Mr. Bailey.

I think the funniest thing is that Bailey looks like the type of person he is mocking in the intro 😂

*Mets staring at the table full of innings left unconsumed*.

@FoolishBaseball

Жыл бұрын

They need to be HUNGRY

180 IP and a 90 ERA+ for the 2022 innings muncher award. The bullDAWG himself Marco Gonzales. That’s my inning eater GOAT

Reminds me of the 2021 Cy Young debate. Wheeler had 213 innings, almost 50 more than Burnes who won the award with only 167 innings

@MetFanMac

Жыл бұрын

Burnes irrationally annoys me because in those 167 innings he put up the second-lowest single season FIP since the end of the dead ball era (1.631), and no other pitcher with a FIP even as low (high?) as 2.5 pitched that low an amount of innings in a non-shortened season.

@grumpyrock

Жыл бұрын

@@MetFanMac I really hate he barely pitched 5 innings a start and won the award.

@MetFanMac

Жыл бұрын

@@grumpyrock Actually untrue - 167 IP over 28 starts works out to 5.96 innings per start.

Known innings eater Domingo German throws up a perfect game his first start after the drop 👀

the virgin rate optimizer vs the chad innings accumulator

you always direct these videos so brilliantly. I think thats why I resonate with your videos more than most. Many people are great at containing and covering these types of ideas, but you put it together in a way that makes it special.

This has boosted my night. Thank you, Foolish Baseball. Bright spot in a tough work week.

time to do an OOTP run with exclusively chad innings eaters as my starting pitchers

@FoolishBaseball

Жыл бұрын

your bullpen ERA will be excellent

@1Polikina1

Жыл бұрын

​@@FoolishBaseballwho needs a bullpen when your entire rotation pitches over 200 innings

@WavyKid13

11 ай бұрын

@@1Polikina1that’s a lot of outs made my friend

with the continued uptick in pitcher injuries, teams may need to start deploying two Chad Innings Eaters

Mariners lost our own innings eater in Gonzales and it's not the only reason they're doing poorly but it sure isn't helping. We need that dog in the rotation.

We need a video on the 1972 season from Steve Carlton. Crazy how a single pitcher recorded 27 wins on a team that only won 57 games for the whole season.

@shoukatsukai

7 ай бұрын

Baseball AF did a pretty good video of that

“Innings eater” is the MLB equivalent of “game manager” in the NFL

@dfp_01

Жыл бұрын

RIP Ryan Mallett

I always appreciate how you use data to support an argument for or against old school baseball ideals. You make my favorite baseball content :D

My favorite Chad Chadington performance is Mark Redman against the Dodgers on April 26, 2008. He gave up 10 runs in the first inning and was the first pitcher since 1900 to give up 10+ runs in the first and finish the inning. Then he pitched five scoreless innings.

This is why jack morris belongs in the hall. Slightly above average for more innings than anyone in the 80s(plus clutch in the playoffs)

@bmac4

Жыл бұрын

Naaaaah Innings eaters are chads for doing thankless jobs, hall of famers are icons of the game who get that glory. Jack Morris is basically just Jamie Moyer with less longevity and two good postseason runs.

Your jokes really landed today Bailey! You had some excellent ones

I’m so happy he’s back I couldn’t wait for another video!

This channel is a gem find. Stumbled across it. Funny and informative. Subscribed for sure

Unrelated but Domingo German just threw a perfect game

We knew this ep was coming since he's been proclaiming "innings are outs" for the past two years

Absolutely love the humor of this channel, the fact that it has interesting baseball only makes it better

Really great video Bailey! Great premise and execution as always

THANK YOU!! Literally in April of this 2023 season I was with my buddy and his wife. Buddy and I played baseball, we know whats up, wife is new and learning. I said Lyles, at the time, was the best pitcher on the team b/c he eats innings. She had no idea or concept for a team purposely putting someone on the mound that more than likely will lose the game for you. I sent them this video and I cannot thank you enough for explaining it in more detail.

@spoonsz

Жыл бұрын

I want to send this video to every royals fan on Twitter.. People who don't understand his value drives me insane lol

@robertcrist6059

Жыл бұрын

@@spoonsz Good luck. Literally at the game on 6/29 wathing Greinke home starts as he's working his way to 3K K's. I have a sign with the city connect KC image and I'm dating each start and adding the number. Some guy wearing KC gear asked me what my sign was about. After explaining he said, "Is Greinke pitching?". Royals fans can be passionate, but I'm not sure how baseball smart they rank.

@spoonsz

Жыл бұрын

@@robertcrist6059 you're 100% on this. I'm going to see marsh tonight for his debut. Crazy lyles misses his first start after this video comes out lol

@robertcrist6059

Жыл бұрын

@@spoonsz After his first win too haha Partied too hard drinking seltzer water and eating reduced salt sunflower seeds. So do you live in KC/KC area? If so it would be neat to catch a game together; meeting through a video would be pretty funny.

@spoonsz

Жыл бұрын

@@robertcrist6059 definitely I need more baseball friends in my friend group the only person who actually likes baseball moved to Florida lol even tho not much to talk about royals wise right now.

As a Yankee fan, I fell in love with Hiroki Kuroda. Seemed like every start went into the 8th for him and he was under 3 ER. Of course, for some weird reason, he got little run support on a team called the Bronx Bombers. Meanwhile, CC Sabathia would go out there and give up 4 ER but the team would score 7 for him and he'd get win after win.

These are so dang funny and informative. Thanks for the good times. I always laugh at the old-timey baseball names (and records).

I always love your content, but this video was next level. Amazing stuff!

You did it! I don't know how twitter works but about a year ago i tried tweeting you to please do a video on Jordan Lyles because I couldn't quite understand on how this guy is an MLB Pitcher still and you did it! Good job and Thank you.

Haven’t even made it through the pre-roll ad, already know it’s a heater

This was one of your if not the funniest video yet. I died multiple times. Thanks for the great vid! You help keep my love of baseball alive :)

Yay!!! New Baseball Bitz. It's always a pleasant surprise when these pop up on my notifications. My favorite are Jeff Mathis and Ol' Hoss.

Its impossible for Bailey to create a bad stat for analyzing baseball. You cannot change my mind.

Being an Orioles fan I knew exactly who this video is about

Honestly one of the best videos you have ever made Bailey. Thank you

I must thank this video for giving me the powers to beat Wii Sports Resort Golf's 18 holes in 10 minutes and 32 seconds

Bobo Newsom is the most Pitcher person I've ever seen holy hell. That's Alejandro Kirk levels of sculpted by the gods for his position.

@MetFanMac

Жыл бұрын

Bobo had an interesting career. Six sporadic appearances over three seasons (in a five-year span), suddenly became a full-time starter at age 26 leading the league in losses, walks, and batters faced, and proceeded to become one of only 40 players who ever played past their 45th birthday following a four-year gap after his initial retirement in 1948, the last active player from the 1920s. The only player not in the Hall of Fame to be mentioned in Ogden Nash's famous poem "Line-Up for Yesterday". (Also, FWIW, listed at a sveltish 200 pounds on a 6'3" frame.)

While I do understand the importance of a Lyles on some teams, the Yankees have a bullpen where every time someone good gets injured a randomly generated NPC with an above average ERA shows up to take his place so they don't really need one

@ommy7672

Жыл бұрын

Ian Hamilton

@jacobelsenbrook1121

Жыл бұрын

but then they have games where boone throws cause he feels he has to “save the bullpen” for another game

what a refreshing and uplifting focus. we all just gotta do the most and best we can

Great vid Bailey. Loved every second

One of the Mets biggest issues this year is starters not going 6+. Would have loved for Jose Quintana to be healthy and munching innings this year, I think he would have made a huge difference.

The Swirvin Irvin name drop was unexpected but Im All here for it

I must be old, because I really like seeing the starting pitcher go 7 or 8 innings every game. Nothing worse than having your guy finish too early

@dfp_01

Жыл бұрын

Nah, I seriously despise the recently trendy helicopter managing style that is inclined to pull a pitcher before he's even thrown 100 pitches because the analytics say so. What about the eye test? What about what the pitcher and catcher think? It pains me, and I've got a master's in data analytics

Easily your best video yet! Good job!

uploaded the day of the first perfect game since felix

Lol, I work at a grocery store and consider myself an Hours Eater. My job performance is slightly below average but I consistently take more customers than everyone else.

"women..don't watch these videos" BANGERRRR i lost it LMAO

Love your vids and glad to now be apart of your patreon community!

This was beautiful, Foolish. Here's to all the underappreciated guys out there.🍺

These guys are like if Frank Gore was a pitcher. At or slightly above replacement level on a week to week or year to year basis, but added a lot of value to the roster and will be remembered for a impressive career by being an outlier on some counting stat metrics.

@dfp_01

Жыл бұрын

Within baseball you might look at someone like a Tony Gwynn, whose rate metrics were ok but never elite (except for batting average) but who stuck around forever because the one thing he was exceptional at was contact

this video praising jordan lyles makes me feel much better about handing him his first win

Having just gotten back into baseball after a long hiattus and really as a hobby - these videos are excellent.

Saw the subject matter and immediately thought of Steve Trachsel. 16 seasons, 10 qualifying (7 with 200+ innings), 5.95 innings per game, career 99 ERA+, only cracked 2 bWAR seven times with a career high of 4.4.

I could throw 200 innings with a 19 ERA easily

@thetexanshurtme

Жыл бұрын

UCLs are for chumps

@FoolishBaseball

Жыл бұрын

your arm would fall off

@thetexanshurtme

Жыл бұрын

​@FoolishBaseball luckily I'm ambidextrous. I can give up double the runs of your "Jordan Lyles"

@QuarrelsomeLocalOaf

Жыл бұрын

Hey, what do you call a shitty ambidextrous pitcher? ... _Scat_ Venditte! (I'm so sorry, that was awful)

Came for the stats, stayed for the geto boy’s reference

Great video Bailey. I really like the line "permission to fail", I didn't think about that in the context of innings eaters.

For me, innings eater of note was my cubs Matt Clement who was a wonderfully average 4/5 starter for 7 years between SD, CHC and BOS

Foolish gonna mess around and get himself a Front Office job in the Big Leagues

@ErikHinrichsen

11 ай бұрын

This is all part of the long-term plan to get Truist Park renamed Patreon Field.

Wait a minute!! Are you saying Jacob DeGrom has been injured before? This is news to me!

w foolish for uploading on my birthday lol keep up the w content bro

I had no idea where this was going when we began, but like always, I learned a lot and appreciate something new about baseball. 👍 thanks, Bailey

Perfect! it was almost time for the monthly baseball bits binge

@glucosaminecondroitan9135

Жыл бұрын

After watching the new video it always makes me want to watch older ones.

i’m a woman and i want a chad inning eater :3

This is why ilove baseball..these the kinda insight i love..under appreciated players and looking deeper

This is why, as Mariners fan, I will always defend Marco Gonzalez. He'll never pitch a shutout, but there's real, tangible value in a guy who goes out there and gives you 6 innings of 2-4 run ball every time. He'll never make the HOF, his jersey won't get retired, but his value to the team can't be understated. Love ya Marco, get healthy soon man

We need more old school pitchers. Guys who set out to throw complete games. No relievers.

Always great to see a Bobo Newsom sighting in Baseball Bits! (This might be the first one?)

@ImmortalChitchat

Жыл бұрын

Hopefully not the last!

This channel is my favorite part of baseball, nothing else like this out there

This is some of your best work.