2018 MLB Thread

[Meacon Keaton]

6 hours ago, GhostMachine said:

Yeah, they're sending over one of the greatest teams in baseball.....the Yankees.

[SeanDMan]

3 minutes ago, Meacon said:

6 hours ago, GhostMachine said:

Yeah, they're sending over one of the teams in baseball..... and another.

 

[Mx. Canadian Destroyer]

Lots of silly stuff going on that represents why I love baseball.

Here's the Astros shift against Joey Gallo. He grounded out to Correa. 

Here is Gleybar Torres throwing the ball to Matt Olson, a player not on his team.

Also, a minor league game was delayed because there was a snake on the field.

[SeanDMan]

48 minutes ago, Ms. Canadian Destroyer said:

Lots of silly stuff going on that represents why I love baseball.

Also, a minor league game was delayed because there was a snake on the field.

Weird, I thought A-Rod had retired.

[The Buscher]

deGrom was activated off of the DL today and he had one of the strangest starts I've ever seen.

Walked the bases loaded in the first inning with no outs and 30 pitches thrown.  A million foul balls.  Force out at the plate, two strikeouts, and he escapes with 45 pitches thrown and no runs allowed.

Then he got pulled for precautionary reasons because that's a ridiculous number of pitches to throw with no break.

[The Buscher]

Robinson Cano slapped with an 80 game suspension for PEDs.

RIP to his HOF chances.

[gunnar hendershow]

4 hours ago, Buschoru Suzuki said:

Robinson Cano slapped with an 80 game suspension for PEDs.

RIP to his HOF chances.

In all likelihood he was going to wind up just at around 3000 hits and a .295/.300 career batting average. Added in with around 375 HRs he was very likely a HOFer. This basically does him in, but worth noting it was for a diuretic and not a PED. The assumption is the diuretic was used to mask PED usage.

People will qualify/unqualify guys all the time. But this just adds to murky waters of letting suspensions and suspicion fuel HOF voting.

[Draevyn]

I wish the Blue Jays would play as well against teams in our division as they did against the Mets today.

[gunnar hendershow]

So Gabe Kapler inexplicably took Edubray Ramos out after he struck out 2 Orioles in the bottom of the 9th and brought in Hector Neris to get the last batter. Nothing happened, the Phillies won, but what a weird managerial decision.

Neris of course doesn't get the save because coming in with 2 outs in the 9th and not inheriting any runners is not a save situation.

[Meacon Keaton]

It’s like he was playing The Show and didn’t realize his closer was warm and ready until it was almost too late.

[gunnar hendershow]

"Dammit, I failed to unlock that achievement!"

*Restarts game*

[The Buscher]

Just realized that Nick Markakis is on virtually the exact same pace Johnny Damon was as far as potentially getting 3,000 hits.  Damon seemed like he was a lock to play til 40 and get it, but his production dropped in a big way at 38 and that ended his career.  Markakis is having a nice season right now, but free agency has changed so much even in the past decade I'm just not sure he'll be able to find a full-time starting gig long enough to get the necessary ABs to reach 3,000.

It would be kinda hilarious if he did get there though, because it would really test how firm the HOF committee is on 3,000 hits being an automatic HOF lock for non-PED tainted players.

[Mx. Canadian Destroyer]

The Rays will start Sergio Romo this Saturday, then switch to their scheduled starter after the first few innings.

 

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[gunnar hendershow]

On 18/05/2018 at 12:49, Ms. Canadian Destroyer said:

The Rays will start Sergio Romo this Saturday, then switch to their scheduled starter after the first few innings.

 

I don't mind this idea. It's how some teams approach playoff games, trying it in the regular season as a way to give starters an extra day off is certainly more viable than "random AAA call-up" I think.

[Meacon Keaton]

13 minutes ago, damsher hatfield said:

I don't mind this idea. It's how some teams approach playoff games, trying it in the regular season as a way to give starters an extra day off is certainly more viable than "random AAA call-up" I think.

He's actually starting (started? I don't know when they play) today too. 

[Mx. Canadian Destroyer]

45 minutes ago, Meacon said:

He's actually starting (started? I don't know when they play) today too. 

This will be the first time in 38 years a pitcher has started consecutive games where he pitched at least 1 inning.

[The Buscher]

I thought it was a decent idea.  Especially since it exposed once again that so many baseball players have sticks up their ass about that dumbest things.

 

[MalaCloudy Black]

Baseball players are weird. 


I think too many of them have had that "baseball is SUPER SERIOUS" mentality pounded into them from a young age that having fun or trying new things is automatically BAD FOR BASEBALL, which is stupid.

[Gabriel]

The Atlanta Braves released Jose Bautista already. They said he's welcome to re-sign and play in AAA, but Joey probably thinks he can get on an MLB team still.