Beat the Streak Report: Tuesday, May 3
The Ethier Express rolled into 28-game station last night, meaning that our hero is now halfway to matching Joe DiMaggio’s record 56-game streak. Twenty players have reached the midpoint since 1992, but none have come closer to the Yankee Clipper than Jimmy Rollins‘ 36-gamer in 2005.
Will Andre be the one? Possibly. Should you make him your BTS special someone every day until he lets you down? Judge Mills Lane will allow it.
Over 10 percent of you drank that Kool-Aid last night, as Ethier trailed only Matt Holliday (13.9 percent, 1-for-4) in our daily popularity contest. Bronze medalist Marlon Byrd also converted, sending another 6.7 percent of all Streakers home happy.
Bask in that glow for a few more hours, kids. We’re doin’ the dang thang again tonight at 6:35.
Tuesday’s picks
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Oh, hello there …
• Miguel Cabrera: .571 AVG (8-for-14) since ’06 vs. Yankees starter CC Sabathia
• Alexei Ramirez: .500 AVG (10-for-20) since ’06 vs. Twins starter Francisco Liriano
• Coco Crisp: .545 AVG (6-for-11) since ’06 vs. Indians starter Fausto Carmona
• Derek Jeter: .556 AVG (5-for-9) since ’06 vs. Tigers starter Brad Penny
• Alex Rodriguez: .571 AVG (4-for-7) since ’06 vs. Tigers starter Brad Penny
• Andre Ethier: .368 AVG (7-for-19) since ’06 vs. Cubs starter Ryan Dempster
Feeling kinda spicy?
• Hideki Matsui: .636 AVG (7-for-11) since ’06 vs. Indians starter Fausto Carmona
• Mark Reynolds: .450 AVG (9-for-20) since ’06 vs. Royals starter Jeff Francis
You’ll thank me later …
• Kevin Youkilis: .188 AVG (3-for-16) since ’06 vs. Angels starter Dan Haren
• Jose Bautista: .111 AVG (1-for-9) since ’06 vs. Rays starter Wade Davis
• Michael Young: .190 AVG (4-for-21) since ’06 vs. Mariners starter Erik Bedard
• Dustin Pedroia: .000 AVG (0-for-12) since ’06vs. Angels starter Dan Haren
• Rickie Weeks: .000 AVG (0-for-10) since ’06 vs. Braves starter Tommy Hanson
Leaderboard time!
MLB streak leader at 28 games, BTS leader at 27 games? More like leader-bored time! Amiright? Amiright? We’ll be here all week.
Top MLB streakers
Andre Ethier: 28 games
Placido Polanco: 11 games
Jacoby Ellsbury: 11 games
Brett Wallace: 10 games
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Beat the Streak Report 
93 streakers have a chance to get to or remain at 20+ streaks today. Don’t know about you all, but I find this number somewhat alarming. The inability of pitchers to get the good hitters out & the number of extra inning games this year have proven to be a feast unlike last year’s famine of the “year of the pitcher”.
Yes, those 20+ streakers are barely over a third of the way to the prize as of now. But I think that if we don’t see some mass resetting over then next 2-3 weeks, this could be the year!
Also those 93 today are just a snapshot. Looks like you can expect about 25 or more each day moving from 18 to 19 trying to get to 20 the following day. This simply means an average of 25+ resets daily needed from those in 19+ range just to keep zero population growth. We’re going to need some unexpected 0-fers to reduce this overcrowding or this game can possibly be over by the All-Star break. Here’s hoping history repeats itself & some normalization occurs before then…
Oh and I am giving this opinion based from a standpoint of a low streak. But for those in double digits and less than 20, feelings could be similar. If it is easy for you to increase your streak, those above you are increasing also (except maybe gottawheretheshades). Hard to overtake those above you if they are not being reset; kinda like chasing your tail.
Doom and gloom may be premature. I took a look at last year’s stats for 3 May. I don’t know how many 20+ gamers there were ’cause I wasn’t tracking streaks until July 4th, just rankings. May 3rd last year we did have 3 29-gamers, not so this year. On July 4th we had 36 20+ gamers. So I would think seeing 20+ gamers in the 40s/50s this early in season is no huge concern. But hopefully it won’t jump to the 70’s and beyond over the next few days.
BTW: May 13th last year we had a 36-gamer who reset the following day after picking Pujols (0-4). That little trip back in time brought to you by last year’s blog entries
That is crazy you can track all that. I mean it’s good news for us who don’t seem to be able to get a long streak going but at the same time I was getting a little worried myself. Thanks for sharing. Hopefully us bloggers members can jump up the standings pretty soon. I think this game can be won, but being realistic, I also have a hard time believing it can. It takes so much luck because there is never going to be a 100% pick on any given day. The day it happens will be pretty exciting no matter who does it.
Last year at this time, there were only a handful of people in the low 20’s.
You could get on the 1st page of the overall leaderboard with a streak in the high teens.
So many good picks today. But I’m on-board the Ethier train against a terrible Dempster with no weather concerns. I’ve picked him only twice before today. Maybe I’ll take down a bunch of leaders with me!
Good luck then 🙂
FYI: 4 days ago, we had 36 with streaks of 20+. Today 57 and another 36 at 19 trying to get to 20.
Morgan(mil) eligible off DL today and has historically hut Hanson very well. Will be up up there or is everyone and their dog just gonna go with Ethier?
I’m going with Jeter tonight. GL all.
Nyger Morgan is my sleeper.
Rotoinfo shows Gomez still in the lineup but I’ve also seen Morgan so not sure what’s up.
Yahoo showed Morgan batting 2nd
Guess it dont matter now as that game has been rained out.
Me & my dog are going with the “Black Cat”. I only opted from Ethier so I can practice my hexing techniques; though I fear they will not be good enough today
Of the 93 that are tring to get to or stay at 20+ game streaks…
A.Ethier 26x
L.Berkman 7x
B.Phillips, T.Tulowitski, P.Polanco 6x each
J.Votto. Mi.Cabrera, M.Kemp, M.Holliday 5x each
M.Young 3x
Al.Ramirex 4x
C.Granderson, I.Suzuki 2x each
Each of these picked 1 time
Ad.Gonzalez, A.Gordon, A.Soriano, B.Posey, B.Zobrist, C.McGehee, J.Kubel, M.Cuddyear, P.Konerko, R.Braun, A.Hill(DL)
I’m going with A-Rod to get to 9.
Highest no selection is on page 6 with a streak of 17, that streak will be back at 0.
A-Rod singled to lead off the 6th, onto 9! 🙂
Anyone having a problem getting on Gameday right now?
The main MLB.com webpage will barely load, with X’s everywhere.
The same is true for the Scoreboard page.
Just keep trying. I had similar issue about 15 mins ago & all seems well right now
LaV’s List
Tuesday’s Top Picks of the current Top2500,
126 Batters picked overall
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Andre Ethier 520 20.8
Lance Berkman 263 10.52
Placido Polanco 246 9.84
Brandon Philips 128 5.12
Joey Votto 111 4.44
Troy Tulowitzki 110 4.4
Matt Holliday 101 4.04
Miguel Cabrera 84 3.36
Robinson Cano 83 3.32
Alexei Ramirez 81 3.24
Matt Kemp 53 2.12
Ichiro Suzuki 46 1.84
Ryan Braun 39 1.56PPD TO RAIN
Aaron Hill 1 0.04DL (just for those curious)
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Highest “No Selection” 😛 pg# 6 with streak of 17 back to zero.
Yesterday’s Top2500 Reset rate was 14.37% with ADRIAN BELTRE reseting the most.
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Got Pinched OR 1 AB Wonders
TOP2500 saved or reset by PHA (going to include any pinch hitters and/or double switch, 1 AB or More)
No one got Pinched yesterday
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Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Rank, Pick
sclennin, 11, pg 73, 1291, RYAN BRAUN (PICKED 39X) PPD TO RAIN
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Bloggers Reset Yesterday
baseballgirlie13, 9 RESET by ADRIAN BELTRE
popi21, 9, RESET by ADRIAN BELTRE
GL to all
M
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Blanco21:
jngmz733—> GOES WITH ETHIER FOR 5TH STRAIGHT DAY
la34 —> GOES WITH ETHIER FOR 5TH STRAIGHT DAY
TheForce—> GOES WITH ETHIER FOR 5TH STRAIGHT DAY
No hitter alert. MIN needs 6 more outs for first no-no this season.
And there we go, first no-no of the season.
TOP2500 CULL alert. Polanco goes down taking 246 with him.
Not enough from the top dogs though; just 6. The no-hitter-to-be may take out another 6 CWS picks. Also Phillips if no more at bats removes 6 & Granderson already removed 2.
Berkman taken out for defensive reasons helps a bit: 0-1
Well, 50 or more 20+ gamers entering tomorrow & a new batch of 19 gamers trying to get to 20. Got exactly 50 that move on today with 15 more still waiting out the late games: M.Young(3), M.Kemp(5), T.Tulowitski(6), A.Soriano(1) picked by 2nd place leader.
If Dempster only ever has one more good start lets have it be tonight.
Promising start. Walks 1st 2 batters then gets Ethier to hit into double play
3 innings and no hits for LAD. Dempster will throw the 2nd no-hitter tonight. When pigs fly 😦 Go Cubs
Will Zambrano bet the streak buster? Maybe Maholm this weekend series? Who says baseball is boring?
Well we’re at 39% reset right now with another 10% still left on the board. Too bad Ethier got his hit today. Could’ve been a massive wipe.