Looking at stats on a game-rate basis, let’s compare this season to 1986 (a similar run scoring environment: 4.45 per game this year vs. 4.41). Hits are down by about 0.3 per team per game while Ks are up by about 2.5 and BBs down slightly. Meanwhile 2Bs and HRs are up. So what has happened in the end is that you’ve…

*shot with a Big Baller Brand LPhone, straight from the streets of Vilnius*

We would also have accepted “drinking heavily”

Pedantically, that was no curveball. The spin was all wrong and he’s obviously not trying to snap anything off on the release.

I’m not sure but they seem to be garnering the interest of numerous bored, upper-class housewives. #pornhub

In honor of W.J. Bryan*, every run the Rockies’ bullpen gives up should be good for $1 off a Coors Silver Bullet or Extra Gold the rest of the game. #bimetallism

I’m Arrizaba-LA-ga and I’m here to say
The ‘keeper named Kepa’s gonna save the day
I’m terrific on corners and penalty kicks
But shut the fuck up if we don’t finish top-six.

The Official Scorer is giving him a Michael ꓘay on this one 

I believe you.

I’m in the Hall of Fame of People Who Don’t Ever Want to Spend Another Weekend In Ohio And Even The Dissolution Of My Marriage Can’t Dampen My Enthusiasm For Never Again Having To Drag Myself Across 300 Miles Of Pennsylvania Just To Endure Several Days In Satan’s Crudbucket. We have a small shrine off of I-80 near…

Sounds like Scioscia is angling for a gig shilling for America’s 57th-best selling snack food:

Would you settle for some argy bargy?

Also, solid work by The Onion here:

Fuck Ray Lewis forever.

Option B: something from Japandroids’ “Celebration Rock”

The Thermals “Pillar of Salt”

Mitski is great. This Big Star song may be the diametrical opposite:

To answer your original question, yes, it would be the lowest of any player who was inducted for their hitting. The lowest I see right now is Harmon Killebrew at .254 (Ray Schalk is at .253 but was put in by the Veteran’s Committee in 1955 presumably because he had compromising pictures of all them).