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The Chad Innings Eater. It was once a silly virgin vs chad meme I made on Twitter, but now it has come to life as an episode of Baseball Bits, a Foolish Baseball production. Innings Eater used to be be an insult, now it's a celebration of pitchers like Bobo Newsom, Joe Niekro, Livan Hernandez, Mike Leake, Rick Porcello, Cole Irvin and of course, Jordan Lyles.
This video is both about Jordan Lyles and not about Jordan Lyles, as Chad Innings Eater is a temporary status for most. Sure, I'll make sure to celebrate the Jordan Lyles Rangers, Jordan Lyles Orioles, and Jordan Lyles Royals years we've seen so far in the 2020s, but the Chad Innings Eater really isn't one pitcher -- it's a lifestyle.
There will also be a vocab review. Ace pitcher is different from workhorse pitcher and workhorse pitcher is different from innings eater pitcher. How much of a Gigachad you are about it is up to you. Most pitchers can throw a lot of innings when things are going well, but Chad Innings Eaters get outs even when it isn't easy. So hopefully we can answer the question: do innings pitched matter? Even if they're bad innings, the Third Time Through Order?
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Foolish went from beta stats nerd to omegachad old school baseball dad, and I am here for it
The greatest sabermetric of them all: the understanding that innings are outs and you need 27 outs to win a game
@@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
@@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.
To be fair, his big blowup was about a starter pitching in the 8th inning
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
The video metrics graph was fucking killer
My apologies to the 4% who are actually watching
@@FoolishBaseball who are we kidding, the 4% are just guys on their mom's account
@@FoolishBaseballHappy to contribute to that 4%! Great stuff. My favourite obscure stat is outs/BF. Seems so simple and intuitive.
@@morgenmills 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.
horseshoe theory
@@FoolishBaseballbased!
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 🤤
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.
@@FoolishBaseballsabrmetrics sticklers are the *real* fascists
Jolly Olive: James Shields will be remembered only for two bad moments
Bailey: CHAD INNINGS EATER
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.
@@zachwilkens7524fr like he was the ace for those great Royals teams in the mid 2010s
That JO video was pure trash.
He'll always be big game James to me ❤️
Haha yep
Jordan Lyles gets one win and Foolish Baseball reward him with his own video
He gets 1 video per win that was always the deal
@FoolishBaseball half a season remaining...you might be getting yourself into trouble here 😂
Foolish, Jordan got the another win. I’ll be expecting another vid
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.
Lmao Jordan "eating innings by the piles" Lyles is the actual best nickname, it better get one of those nickname cards in the show
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.
15 minute work break has been mandated by King Bailey, Bringer of Bits.
I'm calling for a 15-minute holiday
@@FoolishBaseballI love you, Bailey
As a woman watching your videos...there are literally dozens of us!
despite my earlier comments you are valid
Change "woman" to "A's fan" and the sentiment is the same
Tens of ones
at least tens of us
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+.
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.
We need more knuckleballers.
He’s one of the greatest knuckleballers of all time and a Red Sox legend!
Loved what Lyles did for us last year and happy to see him finally get his win this year
took a while!
@@FoolishBaseballLyles is a John Sherman deep state agent executing their plan to get a new stadium in downtown KC
@@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).
Kyle Gibson is basically Jordan Lyles but with a couple good seasons at some point in his career, which Lyles never really had
@@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
"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.
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.
I laughed way too loud at the “BIG MONEY, BIG CARS” reference 😂
GHETTO BOYZ
I sit alone in a four cornered room staring at baseball stats
@@VersaceJesus🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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.
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
But late at night, something ain't right
@@elijahengland6032 I feel im being tailed by the same suckas headlights
I think Bailey just delivered his comedic magnum opus with this one
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
"Just like my marriage" made zero sense but still somehow was perfectly executed at the same time. Wow.
Finally, a video for all of us Mike Leake-pilled Wade Miley-cels. Thank you
Holy shit I called it
I've always been Leake-pilled
What about us Alejandro De Aza pulled individuals
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.
This is exactly why I don’t understand the value of an innings eater. Like I legitimately do not get the concept.
@@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
@@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.
@@morimo11 There are 4 limiting factors in baseball - scarcity of talent, player stamina/roster slots and money. The Chad innings eater solves all of these. There are more players that can throw lots of innings than generational SPs. An innings eater is basically a SP and reliever in 1 slot. And they're cheaper. Bailey has always been big on baseball as the ultimate team game - because no matter your strategy your best SP only starts 20% of games and your best batter only 11% of at bats. Compare that to other sports where you can build a team to focus on one or two star talents so that 60-70% of plays go through them.
Think of the chad innings eater as a buffing character in a video game. If they give you 95% production, but make the other 4 starters 2% better because they get better relievers (because they're better rested), you're a 3% better team.
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.
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.
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!
Remembering the Mariners rotations that had Mike Leake and Marco Gonzales. Couple of quality start machines
former and future cardinals at those stages of their careers
A Geto Boys reference in a Baseball Bits. I approve of more of those.
Bailey always delivers just at the right time. Love me some new bits!
thank you very much!
@@FoolishBaseballh
7:26 I love the reference to Geto Boys haha 😂
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.
I want to send this video to every royals fan on Twitter.. People who don't understand his value drives me insane lol
@@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.
@@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
@@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.
@@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.
Foolish Baseball throwing that Geto Boys reference is just perfect
As a member of the Innings Eating Club back in high school, we appreciate the recognition Mr. Bailey.
I just want you to know I appreciate the Geto Boys reference. Well done.
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.
Thank you for the geto boys reference. A man of culture 🤌🏻
ah baseball, the only sport where being just ok makes you elite
8:02 that was a curveball I wasn’t expecting
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
I popped for the Geto Boys reference, thank you Foolish Baseball
Lyles can easily pass at least one of those pitchers on the quantity start leaderboard. I believe in him.
This has boosted my night. Thank you, Foolish Baseball. Bright spot in a tough work week.
*Mets staring at the table full of innings left unconsumed*.
They need to be HUNGRY
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
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.
@@MetFanMac I really hate he barely pitched 5 innings a start and won the award.
@@grumpyrock Actually untrue - 167 IP over 28 starts works out to 5.96 innings per start.
I think the funniest thing is that Bailey looks like the type of person he is mocking in the intro 😂
Your jokes really landed today Bailey! You had some excellent ones
a geto boys reference was about the last thing i expected from you, bailey
Known innings eater Domingo German throws up a perfect game his first start after the drop 👀
It’s weird when he zoomed in on Aaron Nola for ‘superhero’ because I have a poster in my room with with Aaron Nola being ‘the ace Nola’ for Star Wars. So my conclusion is, Lyles was spying on me thinking I was his crush, and saw the poster by luck…
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.
Baseball AF did a pretty good video of that
180 IP and a 90 ERA+ for the 2022 innings muncher award. The bullDAWG himself Marco Gonzales. That’s my inning eater GOAT
We knew this ep was coming since he's been proclaiming "innings are outs" for the past two years
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
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.
The first gulp from the sabermetrics cup will make you a statistics truther. At the bottom of the glass, innings pitched and outs made are waiting for you.
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.
4:28 are we not going to talk about the fact Jake Westbrook went 6 2/3 scoreless and got a LOSS
Must have had runners scoring on an error
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.
Give me 8.0 innings pitched with 4 ER and call it a feast
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.
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
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.
Haven’t even made it through the pre-roll ad, already know it’s a heater
The lockers at 0:34 is the hall from my old middle school 😂
time to do an OOTP run with exclusively chad innings eaters as my starting pitchers
your bullpen ERA will be excellent
@@FoolishBaseballwho needs a bullpen when your entire rotation pitches over 200 innings
@@1Polikina1that’s a lot of outs made my friend
what a refreshing and uplifting focus. we all just gotta do the most and best we can
I honestly have no idea what this video is about but I love it 😂
I barely know either and I'm the one who made it
Absolutely love the humor of this channel, the fact that it has interesting baseball only makes it better
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
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
Ian Hamilton
but then they have games where boone throws cause he feels he has to “save the bullpen” for another game
Honestly one of the best videos you have ever made Bailey. Thank you
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)
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.
iTalk put out a Jordan Lyles video a month ago asking why this man has hung around despite being just so painfully below average but not atrociously terrible and this video explains it perfectly.
The Swirvin Irvin name drop was unexpected but Im All here for it
A Geto Boys reference? Masterpiece
the virgin rate optimizer vs the chad innings accumulator
I’m so happy he’s back I couldn’t wait for another video!
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.
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.)
I GOT BIG MONEY, I DRIVE BIG CARS, EVERYBODY KNOW ME
-John Earl The Spinner Man
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.
Loved the geto boys reference 🎵
3:39 had to replay that a few times over💀💀😂😂😂😂
"women..don't watch these videos" BANGERRRR i lost it LMAO
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
uploaded the day of the first perfect game since felix
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
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
Wait a minute!!
Are you saying Jacob DeGrom has been injured before?
This is news to me!
was not ready for the Geto Boys reference
Its impossible for Bailey to create a bad stat for analyzing baseball. You cannot change my mind.
Starting pitchers who can pitch quality starts are worth more now than in the past because most teams run a 6 man starting rotation, meaning if your starters can't give 6+ innings consistently you will burn through your bullpen before the all star break.
Being an Orioles fan I knew exactly who this video is about
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.
this video praising jordan lyles makes me feel much better about handing him his first win
This is an incredible video, you make a fair point the Mets could use a chad innings eater like Lyles to save the pen. The game always tends to be cyclical
Came for the stats, stayed for the geto boy’s reference
Can we talk about how egregious that swing call was at 6:05 from the home plate ump?
“Innings eater” is the MLB equivalent of “game manager” in the NFL
RIP Ryan Mallett
bryan shaw, 2016 world series mvp, indians future hall of famer, chad innings eater, beloved husband and father
Foolish gonna mess around and get himself a Front Office job in the Big Leagues
This is all part of the long-term plan to get Truist Park renamed Patreon Field.
The reference to My Mind's Playin' Tricks on Me takes this channel to the next level. Well done, Son.
Unrelated but Domingo German just threw a perfect game
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.
I could throw 200 innings with a 19 ERA easily
UCLs are for chumps
your arm would fall off
@FoolishBaseball luckily I'm ambidextrous. I can give up double the runs of your "Jordan Lyles"
Hey, what do you call a shitty ambidextrous pitcher?
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_Scat_ Venditte!
(I'm so sorry, that was awful)