MLB 2019

[Meacon Keaton]

Holy crap. What the hell. He was only 20-something.

[Draevyn]

27! And he just pitched on Saturday. Insane.

[The Buscher]

That’s fucking horrible  

[The Buscher]

Yankees sign the top international free agent, 16 year old OF Jasson Rodriguez.  He's been referred to as the Dominican Republic's version of Mike Trout.

[Meacon Keaton]

Ive been waiting for this day since February-ish. Glad it’s done though there was never much doubt he’d be ours. I love it. 

[Meacon Keaton]

Zach Wheeler has two bunt pop-up outs in foul territory tonight. Can someone tell me again why this is better than having a DH?

[RoHitman Reigns]

Just saw the final out for Mets Yankees and may I just say WOW that was a lucky bobble

[Lowerdeck]

12 hours ago, Meacon said:

Zach Wheeler has two bunt pop-up outs in foul territory tonight. Can someone tell me again why this is better than having a DH?

Michael Lorenzen?

[Mx. Canadian Destroyer]

Meacon, I think you're forgetting about that one time Bartolo Colon hit a home run. 

[GhostMachine]

13 hours ago, Meacon said:

Zach Wheeler has two bunt pop-up outs in foul territory tonight. Can someone tell me again why this is better than having a DH?

Because not everyone has a hard-on for the DH. If I had my druthers, MLB would get rid of the position entirely. Not add it to the NL eventually and ruin the sport by adding more no-talents to the game.

[Meacon Keaton]

Just now, GhostMachine said:

Because not everyone has a hard-on for the DH. If I had my druthers, MLB would get rid of the position entirely. Not add it to the NL eventually and ruin the sport by adding more no-talents to the game.

GM, I am curious: Did you ever play baseball? Like competitive baseball outside of Little League?

Because anyone who thinks that someone who can hit a 98-mph fastball, or a slider that breaks 18-inches has “no talent” leads me to believe you’re an oaf who knows not of which he speaks. 

Aaron Judge is a fantastic right fielder but we play him at DH once a week to prevent burn out. Like Voit? More than serviceable first baseman, but guess what? Once a week? He’s a DH. You’re so pumped up about Rob fucking Deer and Pete Goddamn Incaviglia like it’s the same game it was in 1991. It’s not. 

@Trent Buschetta how much would you like the chance to have Pete Alonso’s bat in the lineup on a scheduled day off? No fielding, he’d be able to swing for you though.

Srar, imagine Kris Bryant and Rizzo playing a dozen more games a year because they can hit and not have to field.

Also imagine all the rally’s you’ve seen killed because your pitcher came up and swung the bat like a child hoping to swat a fly.

[The Buscher]

Pitchers with Superwins this year (won a game whilst driving in more runs than they allowed)

3/31: Trevor Williams, Pirates
4/2: Zack Greinke, Diamondbacks
4/3: Jacob deGrom, Mets
4/23: Zack Wheeler, Mets (2)
5/2: Noah Syndergaard, Mets (3)
5/10: German Marquez, Rockies
5/14: Kyle Hendricks, Cubs
5/15: Kenta Maeda, Dodgers
5/16: Julio Teheran, Braves
5/21: German Marquez (2), Rockies (2)
5/26: Brandon Woodruff, Brewers
6/4: Pablo Lopez, Marlins
6/12: Jordan Yamamoto, Marlins (2)
6/12: Cole Hamels, Cubs (2)

#ScrewTheDH

[Meacon Keaton]

 savages 

[The Buscher]

1 hour ago, Meacon said:

 

@Trent Buschetta how much would you like the chance to have Pete Alonso’s bat in the lineup on a scheduled day off? No fielding, he’d be able to swing for you though.

Srar, imagine Kris Bryant and Rizzo playing a dozen more games a year because they can hit and not have to field.

I’m more of the mindset that guys shouldn’t need more than one scheduled day off a month.  Playing 155+ games a year was the norm for decades.

[Gabriel]

5 minutes ago, Trent Buschetta said:

I’m more of the mindset that guys shouldn’t need more than one scheduled day off a month.  Playing 155+ games a year was the norm for decades.

But it can be argued that the game is played at a much higher intensity now... plus, on the human side of things, just because something used to be done a certain way, doesn't mean that it still should be. We should want to protect these guys from destroying their bodies to the best of our abilities, and playing 155 games or more in a year probably isn't a good way to do that.

Look at pitching and how that's changed over the years. Now we have typically a five man rotation, and it's a feat when guys pitch more than 6 innings. It used to be the norm for guys to go out there every other day and throw 8 or 9 innings.

[Meacon Keaton]

16 minutes ago, Trent Buschetta said:

I’m more of the mindset that guys shouldn’t need more than one scheduled day off a month.  Playing 155+ games a year was the norm for decades.

After this year, where my team has had 22 players on the IL, I’ll agree to disagree. I’m absolutely fine letting Gary Sanchez DH two games a week instead of expecting him to catch 155 games a year. Or let gigantic human beings like Judge and Stanton protect their bones and joints from playing outfield every night.

[GhostMachine]

3 hours ago, Meacon said:

GM, I am curious: Did you ever play baseball? Like competitive baseball outside of Little League?

Because anyone who thinks that someone who can hit a 98-mph fastball, or a slider that breaks 18-inches has “no talent” leads me to believe you’re an oaf who knows not of which he speaks. 

Aaron Judge is a fantastic right fielder but we play him at DH once a week to prevent burn out. Like Voit? More than serviceable first baseman, but guess what? Once a week? He’s a DH. You’re so pumped up about Rob fucking Deer and Pete Goddamn Incaviglia like it’s the same game it was in 1991. It’s not. 

@Trent Buschetta how much would you like the chance to have Pete Alonso’s bat in the lineup on a scheduled day off? No fielding, he’d be able to swing for you though.

Srar, imagine Kris Bryant and Rizzo playing a dozen more games a year because they can hit and not have to field.

Also imagine all the rally’s you’ve seen killed because your pitcher came up and swung the bat like a child hoping to swat a fly.

Yes, I've played baseball. Mainly as an outfielder. And I should have clarified that I meant no talent on the field. 

 Like I've pointed out a few times, the position was created to extend careers of players who were either too injured or too old to field but could still hit. I have a huge, planet Mars sized problem when a DH is someone who has no actual talent except hitting to begin with. Hell, David Ortiz was one of my favorite players, heand spent most of his career at DH, but he started out as a First Baseman. And your argument is rubbish, since baseball was just fine for almost a hundred years without the DH position. And having the DH takes away some of the strategy. Next thing you'll be wanting Designated Runners, because some players get hurt running the bases.

 

 

[Meacon Keaton]

What strategy does the DH take away? The double switch? My eight year old knows how to do the double switch. That’s elementary school strategy. 

I like that “that’s how it’s been for 100 years” is the argument. That’s always the best stance to take with things. 

At the end of the day, this is all moot. In a few years time, it’s going to happen, and in a few years after that nobody will give a damn that pitchers don’t hit anymore.

[The Buscher]

For all the gripes about pitchers killing rallies at the plate, the manager could pinch hit for him if he was really that concerned about it.  You have a late lead in a one run game, do you sub out your terrible fielding LF for your defensive stud or do you keep him in to get insurance runs?  These are decisions you don't have to make in the AL because the pitcher never comes up to the bat and the LF rarely ever plays the field.  It's just not as interesting a brand of baseball, in my opinion.

To eliminate the DH, there would have to be a concession, and my concession would be to expand the rosters to 27 players.  So you create 60 new jobs and give teams the opportunity to work with an expanded bench, opening up opportunities to specialists with a variety of skillsets.  I'd go as far as to give teams a few years to prepare for this as well, so that teams currently paying a full-time DH aren't suddenly going to have a very expensive pinch hitter.

But the DH going leaguewide is an inevitabilty.  The union wants to keep the DH because of the earnings potential, and Manfred wants it because he has an endless hard-on for offense.

[Your Mom]

4 hours ago, Meacon said:

GM, I am curious: Did you ever play baseball? Like competitive baseball outside of Little League?

Because anyone who thinks that someone who can hit a 98-mph fastball, or a slider that breaks 18-inches has “no talent” leads me to believe you’re an oaf who knows not of which he speaks. 

Aaron Judge is a fantastic right fielder but we play him at DH once a week to prevent burn out. Like Voit? More than serviceable first baseman, but guess what? Once a week? He’s a DH. You’re so pumped up about Rob fucking Deer and Pete Goddamn Incaviglia like it’s the same game it was in 1991. It’s not. 

@Trent Buschetta how much would you like the chance to have Pete Alonso’s bat in the lineup on a scheduled day off? No fielding, he’d be able to swing for you though.

Srar, imagine Kris Bryant and Rizzo playing a dozen more games a year because they can hit and not have to field.

Also imagine all the rally’s you’ve seen killed because your pitcher came up and swung the bat like a child hoping to swat a fly.

I think you've sold me  .

 

Sorry GM