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A seemingly minor delay turned into a postponement on Saturday night, as the Yankees and Red Sox won’t be taking the field. They have instead rescheduled this game for August 29th—another Saturday—in which these two clubs will play a doubleheader with the first game taking place at 1:05 p.m. According to a press release from the Yankees, everyone who bought a ticket for tonight’s game will be entitled to watch the first one of that doubleheader in late August, the makeup game so to speak.

With Sunday’s game moving forward in the same time slot at 1:35 p.m., instead of pushing everyone back a day, the Yankees will not interrupt Cam Schllitler’s schedule and have him take the mound. Will Warren, who was set to pitch tonight, will move back to the series opener against the Guardians on the road on Monday, facing standout Cleveland starter Gavin Williams. It’s worth noting that pitching on the road has been a rather productive activity for Warren, who has a 2.25 ERA in five starts on the road this season.

There’s no word yet on whether the Yankees will stick with Ali Sánchez at catcher for his team debut with Austin Wells hitting the IL, or if the gone-but-quickly-returned J.C. Escarra will go behind the plate instead. The Red Sox will seemingly stick with their Saturday starter, lefty Ranger Suárez, on Sunday, so the righty Sánchez would seem to be the logical choice.

Enjoy your evenings and we’ll see you tomorow.

After last night’s crazy game, the Brewers are back in action for the second game of their series against the Rockies. Jacob Misiorowski is on the mound for his first start in Colorado.

Prior to today’s game, the Brewers made a roster move to bolster their hurting bullpen. After leaving the game early yesterday, Brian Fitzpatrick was placed on the 15-day IL with a left elbow injury. According to Pat Murphy, Fitzpatrick’s MRI showed a UCL strain. He will seek a second opinion before deciding between rehab and surgery. To fill his spot on the active roster, Drew Rom’s contract was selected from Triple-A Nashville. The Brewers had an open 40-man roster spot following Jake Woodford’s DFA.

The Brewers also made one additional move today. They acquired RHP Joel Kuhnel from the Athletics in exchange for cash. Kuhnel was designated for assignment earlier this week following a loss to the Cubs where he allowed four runs in 2/3 of an inning. Overall this season, Kuhnel has a 4.21 ERA and 3.97 FIP with a 4.9 K/9 and 2.1 BB/9. This is Kuhnel’s second time with the Brewers. He signed as a free agent in June 2024 and was on the active roster twice, but did not appear in a game.

Misiorowski will make his first spot in the high elevation of Colorado this afternoon. He is coming off of an amazing month of May where he allowed just one run over six starts. He held batters to a .109/.154/.116 batting line and struck out 57 while walking just six. For the Rockies, Zach Agnos will make the start. He’s had a rough season, posting a 7.78 ERA and 5.08 FIP over 37 innings. This is just his second start of the season, though he has served as long relief out of the bullpen. In his one other start, he pitched five innings and threw 71 pitches. His ERA is elevated after two relief appearances where he allowed seven runs in each. This is his first career appearance against the Brewers.

The Brewers could use a long start from Misiorowski today. Trevor Megill, Aaron Ashby, and Craig Yoho all pitched yesterday. Yoho is likely not available at all after pitching two innings, while Megill and Ashby could be available. Chad Patrick threw 49 pitches on Wednesday, but with Shane Drohan pitching tomorrow, manager Pat Murphy will likely want to keep him to pitch multiple innings tomorrow. Abner Uribe and Rom are the two rested arms, assuming Grant Anderson is still day-to-day.

The lineup is mostly the same from yesterday. Andrew Vaughn and Joey Ortiz get starts, while Garrett Mitchell and Luis Rengifo get the day off. The top five remain unchanged despite the top four having rough days yesterday.

First pitch is set for 8:10 p.m. It will be on Brewers.TV and is free if you’re in the Brewers broadcast area. It will also be on the Brewers Radio Network.

LOS ANGELES — It’s been one month since Tyler Glasnow’s last start, and now it will be at least one month until he pitches again for the Dodgers. The right-hander was moved to the 60-day injured list on Saturday, as his back issues have proved to be a larger setback than originally thought.

Glasnow left his start on May 6 in Houston after only one inning, and two days later was placed on the 15-day injured list with back spasms. Last weekend, Glasnow was throwing in the outfield but was unable to throw anywhere near top speed. Manager Dave Roberts at the time said Glasnow was in a holding pattern, and now his throwing has been shut down.

“He’s not playing catch. It’s the back spasms, and obviously with the back he’s been limited,” Roberts said Saturday. “He wants to get cranking again, but the doctors aren’t allowing for it and the body’s not allowing for it right now.”

Procedurally, the earliest Glasnow could be activated is July 6, but there are several steps needed to even get to that point.

Glasnow to the 60-day injured list made room for right-hander Nick Frasso to be added to the 40-man roster. Frasso was on a minor league deal and exercised an upward mobility clause in his contract, per Fabian Ardaya at The Athletic and Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register, meaning had the Dodgers not added him to the roster Frasso could have become a free agent.

Frasso, 27, has a 4.85 in 11 relief appearances with Triple-A Oklahoma City, with 24 strikeouts (a 38.7-percent strikeout rate) and 10 walks in 13 innings.

Frasso was on the Dodgers’ 40-man roster in both 2024 and 2025, but was not called up. He missed the entire 2024 campaign after shoulder surgery and a hip procedure that spring training. Last year he switched to relief and had a 5.49 ERA with 68 strikeouts and 42 walks in 77 innings for Oklahoma City. He did amass two days of service time by getting recalled on the penultimate day of the season to be placed on the 60-day injured list, making roster room for Andrew Heaney.

The Dodgers non-tendered Frasso in November, then re-signed him to a minor league pact in December that included a non-roster invitation to spring training.

Frasso will remain with Oklahoma City, just now on the 40-man roster.

Another day, another convincing win for the Nationals in the desert. After the 14-1 demolition job last night, the Nats were firing on all cylinders again today, winning 6-1. This win gives them yet another road series win and improves their overall road record to 21-12. 

Today’s game started almost exactly the same way as last night’s contest. In both cases, the Nats were up 2-0 after two hitters. Last night it was Luis Garcia Jr. doing the damage, today Curtis Mead was the man to give the Nats an early lead via the two run homer. Mead has been a breakout sensation for this team, and his OPS sits at .845 after today.

Unlike last night, the runs did not keep on coming after that. Eduardo Rodriguez locked in and began to cruise after the homer. However, Zack Littell was deconstructing the D-Backs lineup and putting up zeroes of his own. After a brutal April, Littell has turned his season around in a big way. He has a 2.27 ERA in his last 7 outings. Littell has managed to avoid getting killed by the long ball. When he is not allowing homers, Littell does a good job commanding his deep arsenal.

Today the splitter was on point for the big right hander. He got three whiffs on five swings against the pitch. Littell made Ketel Marte and Corbin Carroll look silly at times with that offering. Over his last few starts, Littell has been getting more swing and miss. He will never be a massive strikeout artist, but it is nice to see the punchout become a bigger part of his game.

After Littell grinded through the fifth, Blake Butera decided to pull his righty after just 64 pitches. It felt like the D-Backs hitters were starting to get a beat on Littell, so the decision made some sense. However, it was a quick hook that would certainly be discussed if the Nats did not hold onto this game.

As you know, the Nats did wind up holding on to this one and added some big insurance runs. Dylan Crews was a huge part of that. To start the 7th, the former LSU star ambushed a first-pitch fastball that was at the top of the zone. He absolutely demolished that ball to left field.

This was easily Crews’ best swing since he has come back to the big leagues. Rodriguez was throwing him high fastballs all game, and in his third at bat Crews made him pay. Before the homer, Crews was really struggling to adjust to big league pitching. He was 1 for his last 19, looking overmatched at times. Crews got another hit after the homer, so hopefully that swing unlocked something for him.

Getting Crews going would only help bolster this offense. At this point, my expectations for Crews are not particularly high. Getting him to even be a league average hitter would be a strong achievement. However, we know he can make things happen in the field and on the bases. We just need some productivity from the bat. Being able to consistently tap into his power is a good place to start.

After getting two runs in the 7th, the Nats put up two more in the 9th to make it a comfortable 6-1 win. These Nats have truly been road warriors this season. They have won 8 of the 11 series they have played away from home. The boys also find themselves back above .500, bouncing back nicely from the Marlins debacle.

The Nats have had trouble finishing off sweeps this year. They only have had one sweep all season, and getting another would be a major statement. With Cade Cavalli on the mound, things line up nicely for them. The Nats will be facing old pal Michael Soroka, who is actually having a nice year in the desert. 

This team has shown resiliency all year long, and did a nice job putting that Marlins series behind them. The offense is back on track, and the Nats have stacked together two of the most complete performances of the season. Let’s keep the good times rolling with a sweep!

Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. But the South Siders’ 6-3 win today at Philadelphia being good helped, too.

The White Sox scored four runs in the first inning, thanks to a combination of the inability of Phils starter Andrew Painter to figure out where the ball was going and a wee tad of good fortune. Well, more than a wee tad.

Painter led off the game by hitting Sam Antonacci — Antonacci’s MLB-leading 14th time to get on base the hard way — then walked Miguel Vargas. First bit of luck was Andrew Benintendi’s 73 mph bloop RBI single, followed by a walk to Colson Montgomery to load the bases. Chase Meidroth then squibbed a 50 mph dribbler too slow to get the runner going home, and Jacob Gonzalez followed with a somewhat mightier 62 mph bouncer that was also too slow to make a play at the plate. Just so it wouldn’t all be ridiculous good fortune, Tristan Peters got the first legitimate RBI of the inning with a double slashed down the right field line to make it 4-0.

The White Sox went the opposite end of the hitting spectrum in the third, when Montgomery led off with his 16th homer of the season. It was just 97.2 mph, so not an absolute blast, but two batters later Gonzalez made his first career round-tripper a memorable one — well, even more memorable than any first career shot would be:

Gonzalez’ 107.5 mph, 428 footer made the score 6-zip in the third, and the Sox offense decided to call it a day.

The big lead was handy, because sorta-starter Sean Burke, who followed an excellent 1 1/3 innings by opener Brandon Eisert, ran into long ball problems of his own. First Alex Bohm led off fourth with a homer to make it 6-1, then Brandon Marsh made it 6-2 with his own shot to the seats in the sixth. Burke then issued a couple of walks and an RBI single to Adolis García, and it was 6-3 and time for Burke to hit the showers.

Never fear, Sean Newcomb got out of the jam and then pitched two more scoreless innings, and Grant Taylor struck out the side in the ninth. If the key to beating the Phillies is keeping Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper in check, Sox pitching was perfect — the two combined to go 0-for-8 with five strikeouts (Schwarber did manage a walk). In fact, Schwarbers’ only non-K was a foul pop that Drew Romo made a nifty play on:

Some other highlights:

• Meidroth singled twice to stretch his on-base streak to 18 games
• Old pal Tanner Banks kept the Phillies in the game with 2 1/3 innings of one-hit, no-walk, no-run ball
• Home plate ump Jim Wolf had a very generous strike zone. Unless the TV pitch box was way off, the Philly batters mysteriously didn’t challenge some crucial strike calls, from two on Schwarber to open the game (he may have thought was too early in the game to give it a try), to one for a K on Bryson Stott to end the more crucial eighth. The Sox seemed to pass up a couple of chances as well, so maybe it was a TV box problem.

The rubber match will be at 12:35 p.m. Central tomorrow, with David Sandlin making his third start for the Sox and veteran Aaron Nola making another try at getting back to the performances of his glory days for the Phillies.

The Yankees got a potential victory Saturday night without taking the field.

Their game against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium was postponed because of storms and rescheduled as part of a split-doubleheader on Aug. 29 — which gives them a chance to have Aaron Judge in the lineup if he is back from a stress fracture in his rib by then.

The skies opened up around the time first pitch was scheduled for Saturday night (7:35 p.m.) and Aaron Boone said the way the forecast looked, they likely would not have been able to start the game until at least 10:30 p.m.

Now, this will just be a two-game series, and the Yankees will stick with Cam Schlittler for Sunday’s finale and bump Will Warren (initially scheduled to pitch Saturday night) back to Monday’s game against the Guardians.

The Red Sox will start Ranger Suarez, who was scheduled to pitch Saturday night, instead of another lefty, Connelly Early.

Saturday's game between the Yankees and Boston Red Sox has been postponed due to inclement weather.

It will be made up as the first game of a split-admission doubleheader on Saturday, Aug. 29, starting at 1:05 p.m.

The originally scheduled 7:35 p.m. game was initially delayed because of thunderstorms in the area, but the plan was for the game to get underway once the thunderstorms passed. 

However, just over an hour after the delayed start announcement, the game was called.

Right-hander Will Warren, who was set to take the mound for New York before the postponement, will now pitch in the first game of the Cleveland Guardians series on Monday night. Meanwhile, righty Cam Schlittler will still make his scheduled start in Sunday's series finale.

After a promising start yesterday, things took a turn for the worse for the Colorado Rockies, as the Milwaukee Brewers jumped on Colorado’s bullpen late to take the game to extras and earn a decisive win.

Not to paint a picture of doom and gloom, but Game 2 of the series won’t get any easier since the Rockies have a date with Jacob Misiorowski, who is dominating the league in several categories.

The Rockies have already faced their fair share of top pitchers in 2026, and, sadly, the results in those matchups have not been great. Looking across this season’s pitching leaders and other big names, Colorado has already taken on the likes of Paul Skenes (3-1 loss), Shohei Ohtani (4-1 loss), Cristopher Sánchez (6-0 loss), Chris Sale (9-1 loss), and Chase Burns (7-2 loss).

Misiorowski, by the numbers, will be the toughest hurdle the Rockies hitters will have faced so far.

The Miz leads MLB in strikeouts (108), WHIP (0.79), and batting average against (.150). He’s second in the league in ERA (1.65) and has been stingy with hits (just 37) and home runs (four) allowed across 12 games. Conversely, the streaky Rockies offense is tied for fifth-worst in strikeouts, so Misiorowski could prove to be a tough nut to crack.

Misiorowski is currently on a streak of five straight quality starts. In his last, a 2-0 win over the Houston Astros, he went seven innings with three hits and eight strikeouts. He’s relied primarily on his utterly dominant four-seam fastball (63% usage, averaging a whopping 99.9 MPH), but has effectively mixed in a slider, curveball, cutter, and changeup.

Heading into this morning, there was some uncertainty around Colorado’s plans for the evening’s pitching. The probable starter for the Rockies, Tanner Gordon, has joined the army of players on the injured list. It has since been announced that Zach Agnos will get the start.

Agnos last started against the Arizona Diamondbacks on May 21st, pitching five scoreless innings and giving up just one hit with four strikeouts. Since then, however, he returned to the bullpen and has fared much worse. He’s given up 14 runs across his last two relief appearances, giving up seven runs on six hits in two innings to the Los Angeles Dodgers and another seven runs on seven hits in only one inning against the San Francisco Giants.

Runs may come at a premium for the Rockies offense against the flamethrower on the mound. Agnos will need to return to form and show the promise he flashed in his lone start that has been missing in his relief appearances for Colorado to stay in the game.

First Pitch: 7:10 pm MDT

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Not a good day at the park. The good guys fell this afternoon, falling to the division rival Houston Astros 13-2 in the middle game of the series.

More to come…

In a surprising move, the Yankees placed Austin Wells on the injured list just ahead of Saturday’s soon-to-be-postponed with the Boston Red Sox. To replace Wells, the choice to fill in as the backup catcher is J.C. Escarra, returning to the big league club one day after getting sent down in favor of righty-hitting Ali Sánchez, who now might well take the bulk of the workload behind the dish — or at least a platoon split with the lefty Escarra.

Wells hits the shelf with what’s diagnosed as cervical headaches, potentially an issue that he has been dealing with for a while in what’s been up to this point a terrible campaign for the 26-year-old. Normally a very serviceable hitter behind the plate, especially adjusting for his position, Wells hit the IL with a .533 OPS, the worst among Yankee regulars.

Due to the nature of this IL replacement, it’s difficult to put a specific timeline on Wells’ return, and almost regardless of it, catcher remains a place the Yankees might look to improve at the deadline, even if midseason catcher trades are generally rare these days. Although Escarra was (very) recently with the big league club, he had scuffled for much of the season as well, batting .177 in 62 at-bats.

Here’s hoping that Wells’ injury isn’t too scary and he can safely recover. It’s a painful diagnosis.

Earlier this week, the San Diego Padres’ lineup took a major twist as the club decided to designate Nick Castellanos for assignment and release him two days later.

Before Friday night’s 5-0 loss to the New York Mets, Manny Machado met with reporters and talked about how the clubhouse was disappointed with the departure of Castellanos.

“The news got everybody by surprise,” Machado said. “I don’t really try to put myself in a [General Manager’s] shoes and why they’re doing the decisions. Obviously, we just care about Nick and what he meant to us in the clubhouse.”

Over the offseason, Castellanos was released by the Philadelphia Phillies and quickly signed with the Padres on a 1-year deal of $780,000.

Because Castellanos was originally released by the Phillies in the offseason, his release will only cost San Diego $296,141 due to his prior deal of $20 million.

Castellanos’ release comes after a poor start to the 2026 season, where he had a .560 OPS, with 4 home runs, 20 RBIs, and 34 strikeouts.

His struggles at the plate were due to offspeed pitches and breaking balls.

Last year, he was hitting .283 against offspeed pitches but this year he declined to .063 average. Against breaking balls, he had another drop, hitting .220 last season and now hitting .171 this season.

The Padres’ lineup has struggled this year, ranking as one of the worst in baseball in almost every hitting category. The reality was that San Diego needed to find ways to get better, even if that meant cutting ties with favorites in the locker room.

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Machado said that Castellanos was a favorite in the clubhouse and was a teammate he will remember forever.

“He was awesome,” Machado said. “He had some really big at-bats for us, and I think those memories won’t go away. He did a lot of good things for us.”

While it’s been less than a week since Castellanos was released, Machado added that he hasn’t spoken to him yet but plans to in the future.

“I think [that’s] tough news when you hear it,” Machado said. “I kinda want to give him his time before we wanna talk and see where his head is at.”

On paper, we should have won this game. On paper, Eduardo Rodriguez is a vastly superior pitcher to Zack Littell, the well-traveled journeyman who took the mound for Washington this afternoon on Corbin Carroll Mystery Bobblehead Day. Of course, baseball game aren’t played on paper, and before he’d even recorded his first out of the game, everyone’s favorite hologram had already given the Nationals their margin of victory.

Hologram Eddie didn’t look sharp to start off—his pitches weren’t landing where he wanted them. Either he was missing badly or leaving pitches in bad places, and for the second game in a row the leadoff batter reached, and was driven in by a dinger that went over the fence. Today it was a James Wood bloop single to left, followed by a Curtis Mead homer over the wall in left center. He then walked old Diamondbacks farmhand Andres Chaparro on five pitches, before LuJames Groover bailed him out by starting a nice 3-6 double play off the bat of CJ Abrams, and then catching a Dylan Crews pop up in foul territory. 2-0 Washington

To be fair, ERod settled in after that, pitching around a leadoff single to start the second and recording outs to the next eleven he faced, and fourteen of the next fifteen. Not too shabby after the rocky start to the first inning.

Meanwhile, our offense was unable to do anything against Littell, who was perfect through 3 2/3 innings before plunking Gabriel Moreno with two outs in the bottom of the fourth. His no-hit bid ended when Pavin Smith singled to lead off the fifth, and the shutout bid ended two outs later when LuJames Groover, in his sixth plate appearance in a major league game, hit a blooper to shallow center that rolled past Nationals center fielder Jacob Young and went to the wall. Initially I hoped it would be a triple, but it was scored as a single and a two-base error on Young, but it gave the young man his first big league hit and his first RBI as well, as Pavin Smith came around to score:

Tommy Tory then walked, but Ketel Marte rolled over on a grounder to second on the first pitch he saw, so Groover didn’t get to score his first run in the bigs. Great job, Ketel. 2-1 Washington

And that was it for the offense. Entirely. Well, except for a Corbin Carroll walk to lead off the bottom of the sixth, but that was promptly erased by Moreno rolling over to second for a double play. Great job, Gabi. After that, we didn’t have another baserunner.

Meanwhile, ERod pitched a clean sixth, and with only (?!) 85 pitches thrown, Torey Lovullo sent him out to start the seventh. That was a mistake, as the first pitch he threw went over left field fence, and after recording an out, he gave up a triple to center. Great job, Torey. Juan Morillo came in from the bullpen, was greeted by a squeeze bunt for which his only play was to first, so two more runs were in. 4-1 Washington

Jonathan Loaisiga pitched a scoreless eighth, and Drey Jameson, just up from Reno, gave up two more in the top of the ninth, to bring us to our final score of 6-1 Washington, because, as noted above, the offense couldn’t produce even another baserunner. Boo. Hiss.

Loss Probability Added, courtesy of FanGraphs

Tiny Little Bright Spot: LuJames Groover (3 AB, 1 H, 1 RBI, +9% WPA)
Holographic Dimness: Eduardo Rodriguez (6 1/3 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 5 K, 1 HR, -10% WPA)
Total Eclipse: The Rest of the Offense (25 AB, 0 H, 1 BB, 5 K, -47% WPA)

The Gameday Thread Diamondbacks vs. Nationals Discussion was sparsely attended again today, and again it was probably just as well, given the product the team put on the field, with a less than whopping 146 comments at time of writing. Precious few went what now passes for Sedona Red, and I’m departing from “popular acclaim,” such as it was, to give this one to AZNailgal520 for shouting out one of our number who could not be with us today and also capturing pretty perfectly the vibe of the whole sad undertaking that was this ballgame:

So we will try to avoid the sweep tomorrow, and if you are willing to pay the Peacock streaming service for the privilege, you can watch the festivities starting at 12 noon AZ time, as Michael Soroka takes the ball for us and Curt Cavalli goes for Washington. We don’t have Peacock, so if I “watch” at all it will be with the MLB Gameday open in a browser tab. But I hope some of you can join us, if you dare, because otherwise it will be a sad and lonely Gameday Thread Diamondbacks vs. Nationals Discussion for whoever is doing the guest recap tomorrow.

As always, thanks for reading, and as always, go Diamondbacks!

The Yankees are in a bit of an odd state heading into play on Saturday against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. They already know that they’re going to be without Aaron Judge for at least the better part of two months (if not more) due to a stress fracture in his rib. They’ve lost four of their last six games, including a home series loss to the Guardians that saw the AL Central leaders rough up two previously unflustered aces in Cam Schlittler and Gerrit Cole. They lost the series opener against Boston last night thanks to some gopher-ball antics from Ryan Weathers and some defense and approaches at the plate that certainly left fans wanting.

The latest weirdness includes the catching situation. They’ve received very little production at the plate from the Austin Wells/J.C. Escarra tandem, and they decided to demote Escarra after last night’s game, seemingly with the desire to at least get a right-handed hitter in there in former big leaguer Ali Sánchez. He will start behind the plate on Saturday night. Then at 6:45pm ET — a little under an hour before first pitch — they reactivated Escarra because Wells needs to go on the IL with cervical headaches that sound downright painful, per the Cleveland Clinic. What a joy.

Oh, and the relish on top of this bizarre sandwich is that there are thunderstorms in the Tri-State Area and the game won’t begin on time. The Yankees announced this at about the same time as the Wells IL move, and they confirmed the rain delay at 7:17pm ET. Reports indicate that they expect to play before too long and that the storms will pass soon, but that’s where we are.

Hang in there and take care of yourself, especially if you’re dealing with neck pain like Wells.

Update

They banged it. The doubleheader won’t be until August though, they’ll just have a normal game tomorrow.

Manny Machado might think “Moneyball” is fool’s gold.

The seven-time All-Star third baseman is in the middle of what is — so far — his worst season in the major leagues.

And on Friday night, after a 1-for-4 game that included grounding into a double play in a 5-0 loss to the Mets, Machado took the opportunity to go off on the state of baseball and what he perceives as an over-reliance on analytics.

“The game’s evolving, man. It’s definitely getting harder to play. It’s definitely getting more strategic,” Machado told reporters after the Padres’ 10th loss in the last 11 games. “I just wish we can get the analytics out of the way. I think there’s too many stats out there. Too many stats, way too many numbers. I don’t even know half of the stuff that goes up there. I look at the board sometimes, and I even ask some of the guys, like, ‘What is WCCVBB, whatever it is? What are these names that are being created?’

“I mean, it’s just crazy to even keep up with.”

Machado, a three-time Silver Slugger winner, has seen his more traditional, back-of-the-baseball-card stats hit new lows.

Through 60 games, he’s hitting .175/.262/.355 with a 73 OPS+ — all of which would be career lows if the season ended today.

His advanced stats, whether or not he’s looked, have painted a slightly better picture (his hard rate still ranks in the 66th percentile), but his expected batting average an slugging are both below career norms.

The Padres, even at 32-30, have disappointed so far this season for a team that came in with high expectations.

On top of Machado’s struggles, Fernando Tatis Jr. only hit his first home run of the season on May 30 in what has been an inexplicable power outage.

Machado said baseball still boils down to one thing as the Padres look to get their season back on track.

“At the end of the day, it’s about competing,” he added, according to The Athletic.

“You got to go out there and compete and take away all those analytics, take everything you could possibly think of, and go out there and try to catch the ball and make more outs, right?

Let’s hope this one goes better