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  On 7/9/2018 at 1:45 AM, Goo Punch said:

those stats are over 120 major league innings, and he pitches in the NL West whose third place team last year won 87 games (the DBacks and Dodgers won 93 and 104 respectively). And this year it's the only division in baseball with 4 teams that are over .500. so, you're wrong.

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The Padres get blown out on a regular basis by those good teams so he doesn’t get save opportunities against them.  Last year he pitched in 72 games, 12 of them were against LA and Arizona and he got 4 saves.

So you’re wrong.

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Wow. we're just making stuff up now. alright. one time i saw brad hand perform a tracheotomy on an airplane with one of those little red plastic swords you get in your cocktail. saved a ugandan refugee's life. and it was a big plane, a very important plane, the type of plane that would never get blown out by the dodgers. and he performed the procedure with aplomb. and after six scotches no less. the man's a hero.

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just now home and catching up.  holy shit, snell is not an all star?

not only is he squarely in the conversation for al cy young, but he's put up his ridiculous numbers facing would-be playoff contenders (hou x2, sea x2, bos x2, nyy x2, oak, atl, wash) 11 times total.

he should be taking george springer's slot right now.

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  On 7/9/2018 at 2:04 AM, Fudge Nuggets said:

The Padres get blown out on a regular basis by those good teams so he doesn’t get save opportunities against them.  Last year he pitched in 72 games, 12 of them were against LA and Arizona and he got 4 saves.

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lol, no I'm not. you went from "well i've only seem him a few times and he underwhelmed me therefore he sucks", to looking up his stats after the fact and disingenuously posting them here. "he only got 4 saves in 12 appearances." gee, did he blow 8 save chances, or could it be that's because he wasn't even the Padres closer until the end of July last year?

You have no idea what you're talking about, you've admitted as much, and yet you're in here arguing about him like you're a Brad Hand expert. You're clueless. "He racks up stats against shit teams". Yeah, because that's a thing in baseball. 🙄 You took a relief pitcher who, while he's actually pretty damn good, isn't rated all that highly by anyone, and you called him "the most overrated reliever ever". You were wrong. Just drop it.

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  On 7/9/2018 at 6:24 AM, Goo Punch said:

lol, no I'm not. you went from "well i've only seem him a few times and he underwhelmed me therefore he sucks", to looking up his stats after the fact and disingenuously posting them here. "he only got 4 saves in 12 appearances." gee, did he blow 8 save chances, or could it be that's because he wasn't even the Padres closer until the end of July last year?

You have no idea what you're talking about, you've admitted as much, and yet you're in here arguing about him like you're a Brad Hand expert. You're clueless. "He racks up stats against shit teams". Yeah, because that's a thing in baseball. 🙄 You took a relief pitcher who, while he's actually pretty damn good, isn't rated all that highly by anyone, and you called him "the most overrated reliever ever". You were wrong. Just drop it.

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I didn't say he sucked, just that he's not the end-all-be-all closer that a lot in the media try to make him out to be (don't take it personal, I didn't say you were one of the fellators of Brad Hand cock).  

So again, you're wrong... and uhhh, fuck off.

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  On 7/9/2018 at 9:49 AM, Fudge Nuggets said:

I didn't say he sucked, just that he's not the end-all-be-all closer that a lot in the media try to make him out to be (don't take it personal, I didn't say you were one of the fellators of Brad Hand cock).  

So again, you're wrong... and uhhh, fuck off.

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You should do the world a favor and post less.

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  On 7/9/2018 at 1:45 AM, Goo Punch said:

those stats are over 120 major league innings, and he pitches in the NL West whose third place team last year won 87 games (the DBacks and Dodgers won 93 and 104 respectively). And this year it's the only division in baseball with 4 teams that are over .500. so, you're wrong.

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  On 7/9/2018 at 9:49 AM, Fudge Nuggets said:

I didn't say he sucked, just that he's not the end-all-be-all closer that a lot in the media try to make him out to be (don't take it personal, I didn't say you were one of the fellators of Brad Hand cock).  

So again, you're wrong... and uhhh, fuck off.

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Brad Hand is soooooooooo overrated right

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When the Baltimore Orioles signed first baseman Chris Davis to a seven-year, $161 million contract in 2016, they thought they were paying for one of baseball’s premier sluggers. What they have instead is, by some measures, a player on track to have the worst single season in the history of the sport.

Let’s start with something simple: batting average. After Sunday’s 1-for-4 effort, Davis is hitting .157. No player who qualified for the batting title since 1900 has ever hit below .179, an ignominious honor that belongs to Rob Deer with the 1991 Detroit Tigers and Dan Uggla of the 2013 Atlanta Braves.

As for Davis, despite appearing in 73 of the Orioles’ 89 contests, he has scored just 16 runs, which would put him on pace for 29, or .18 per team game. That puts him in the territory of Mario Guerrero, who scored 27 runs for the 1978 Oakland Athletics despite compiling 546 plate appearances.

Then there’s the matter of wins above replacement, or WAR, a popular metric in the analytics community designed to measure a player’s total value. By that measure, Davis is on pace to finish 2018 at around minus-4, or four wins worse than a typical Triple-A call-up, according to Baseball-Reference. That’s only happened once ever: Jerry Royster had a minus-4 WAR for the Atlanta Braves in 1977, hitting .216 in 445 at-bats and committing 28 errors between shortstop, second base and third base.

In reality, these records are difficult to break, because teams rarely allow players struggling this badly to stay on the field. But the Orioles have the worst record in the majors. When it comes to Davis, they really don’t have anything to lose.


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  On 7/9/2018 at 3:55 PM, henrygandorf said:
i think hand is overrated by aj preller/the top brass in sd.  for the second year in a row, he'll be one of the top bullpen lefties available, and they'll fail to move him because they'll ask for the sun and the moon and kyle tucker.


Why should they be antsy to move him? He’s on a team friendly contract through 2021.
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  On 7/9/2018 at 5:51 PM, DanRydell said:

 


Why should they be antsy to move him? He’s on a team friendly contract through 2021.

 

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they don't have to move anyone as far as i'm concerned.  i just remember hearing/reading about them engaging in trade talks only to have the other side walk out over ridiculous asking prices.  as a fan of a team that traded all their talent, stripped down to the bone, and rebuilt successfully, it's something absolutely necessary to accelerate the process, even though it stings to lose good players.

not to mention a closer (and a lefty) under a team friendly deal is worth a lot more to another team now than to the padres in 2019-2020.

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  On 7/9/2018 at 6:06 PM, henrygandorf said:
they don't have to move anyone as far as i'm concerned.  i just remember hearing/reading about them engaging in trade talks only to have the other side walk out over ridiculous asking prices.  as a fan of a team that traded all their talent, stripped down to the bone, and rebuilt successfully, it's something absolutely necessary to accelerate the process, even though it stings to lose good players. not to mention a closer (and a lefty) under a team friendly deal is worth a lot more to another team now than to the padres in 2019-2020.

 

 

Presumably they don’t sign Hosmer unless they believe they’re already on the other side of their rebuild. Their big prospects (Tatis, Urias, Gore, Baez) should all be up before Hand’s current deal expires.

 

Kyle Tucker also doesn’t seem a crazy demand for 3.5 years of Hand when three months of Chapman fetched Gleyber Torres.

 

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  On 7/9/2018 at 5:45 PM, Pato del Muerto said:
Rangers fans were glad to finally unload Davis to Baltimore. Then everyone laughed at the rangers for giving up on him too early. Now everyone is starting to laugh at Baltimore for giving him that contract. 
Maybe they should move him to the bullpen full time. 
Seems like forever ago that Baltimore was in the ALCS.
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  On 7/9/2018 at 8:51 PM, Vic Mackey said:
  On 7/9/2018 at 5:45 PM, Pato del Muerto said:
Rangers fans were glad to finally unload Davis to Baltimore. Then everyone laughed at the rangers for giving up on him too early. Now everyone is starting to laugh at Baltimore for giving him that contract. 
Maybe they should move him to the bullpen full time. 
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Seems like forever ago that Baltimore was in the ALCS.

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Baltimore-KC were in the ALCS 4 years ago. They are now on pace to be two of the worst teams in recent memory.

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We’ve got one HR Derby entrant. 

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Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Max Muncy says he will participate in the Home Run Derby next Monday at Nationals Park in Washington.

Muncy is also a candidate for the All-Star Final Vote with a roster spot on the National League All-Star team at stake.

The infielder, appearing Monday on AM 570 radio in Los Angeles, said Dodgers hitting coach Turner Ward will pitch to him during the Home Run Derby.

Muncy, 27, leads the Dodgers with 20 home runs. He has hit a home run every 10 at-bats this season, better than the career rates of the top-three home run hitters in major league history: Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth.

Muncy's resurgence has been one of the surprise stories in baseball this season. Released by the Oakland Athletics after two unimpressive seasons -- he batted .206 in 2015 and .186 in 2016 -- he was signed to a minor league contract by the Dodgers in 2017. He spent the season in the minors and was called up on April 17, 2018.

He reached 20 home runs on Wednesday in only his 183rd at-bat of 2018, making him the fastest to get there in Dodgers history, according to Elias Sports Bureau research. Muncy had managed only five home runs in his first 96 major league games.

The 27-year-old credited a restructured approach, which has him crouching lower into his batting stance and getting more upward trajectory with his swing.

"I've always felt the power was there," Muncy said last week. "It's just my swing wasn't built for hitting home runs before, whereas now, I feel like I get myself in a better position to use it."

New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge, who won last year's Home Run Derby, has said he will not participate this year.

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Passan’s first-half ballots. 

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And yet none of it matches up to what a 22-year-old named …

Gareth Morgan has done in the low reaches of the minor leagues this season. Morgan is a monster athlete, 6-foot-4, 220 pounds, rangy enough to play center field. He’s got big power, enough that the Seattle Mariners drafted him 74th overall in 2014.

What Morgan has done is so incredible it supersedes that of every major league accomplishment to earn the Most Amazing Number of the first half. Actually, it’s quite a few numbers. The first: Morgan has struck out in all 66 games he has played this season. The second, even better: In 235 at-bats this season, he has punched out 154 times. And actually, for those who care to include his final six games last season, the streak is at 72 games with 166 strikeouts in 260 at-bats.

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https://sports.yahoo.com/10-degrees-forget-star-snubs-first-half-baseball-awards-far-interesting-060643878.html

 

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  On 7/11/2018 at 3:47 AM, Beau Vine said:
And we have a Ken Giles meltdown.

It's hilarious that neither Giles or Allen get a blown save because they were pitching with such big leads, but the guys who relieved them do.

Tonight just gets more and more bizarre...not only with the Bregman walkoff, but Tito wanted Oliver Perez (O.P.) after Allen. He called down to the bullpen to get him up but the bullpen heard “O.T.”, nickname for righty Dan Otero...who came in for his 4th game in 5 days and promptly gave up a bases clearing double to Votto:

 

 

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